I think I'm going to like my journalism class...

I walked into my 9 a.m journalism class (news media writing) yawning profusely with the crustiest eyes in the room. I'm talkin' pie crusty...

Our teacher exploded with a barrage of bad jokes and depressing stories about his misfortunes at a number of Chicago and Milwaukee newspapers. Apparently, he was fired so much, it made him become a teacher.

Putting those blarring red flags aside, he does have a true passion for journalism. He said so himself...heh. He's pretty nice. We had to write profiles about ourselves, and he even excused my incurable habit for not indenting and/or spacing my paragraphs. It's awful, I know. I'm not in the mood to upset my professors by making their eyes bleed trying to read through one of my papers.

Journalism wasn't really an interest of mine until my sophmore year in high school. It still isn't really a burning passion of mine. Film is my number one interest, but like I've been told over and over again, I should have something to fall back on. Journalism is just as iffy, and all that's left for me is...clerical work (*vomits all over keeeybroad@33rf).

But speaking of journalism, now that I'm taking a course in news media writing, I have to keep up with what's going on the world. I guess news is Barack Obama is pretty much confirmed to be running for prezzy ... yeah, I'm not looking to be taken seriously. I read this article and this article.

The first could be interpreted as an attack on Obama, but it was more on the double-standards in electing officials. Carol Moseley Braun tried to run for president in 2003 with far more experience and "firsts" under her belt than Obama, but she wasn't taken seriously and was unable to raise enough money to continue running. She endorsed Howard Dean instead. Great move there.

The second article is more positive with high hopes for Obama's run, even in the beginnings of his seat in the Senate. The author suggests that since there won't be a sitting president nor vice president running, it lowers the bar for the candidates. Hmm, that actually sounds more insulting reading back on it. There's also a mention of Obama's unfaltering popularity, which is almost transforming into superstardom.

That's something a friend of mine expressed a concern about. She said something along the lines of, "It's kind of frightening that so many people want him to run." It's not that she's againt Obama, it just all seems so superficial. I sincerely hope that if Obama gets elected that he does all the things he's promising like cleaning up the face of politics and shifting the focus more on national problems. However, I'd rather him be elected for his standing background and what he's promising instead of just the breakthrough of having the first African-American president. It would be a breakthrough having a non-White president of any background.

Even though I don't agree with him 100% about the war, and I'm most definitely pro-Life, I do think a win from Obama would at least make room for some much needed changes. Though, with his little knowledge on Foreign Policy, among other things, he'd have a harder time with me and securing the vote of those that aren't affected by his fame and new modeling contract.




I wonder if there's a cream for "burning passion."