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On the weekends I try my best not to indulge in my inner political junkie.  Even though I work in politics, I do my best to stay away from the computer and the cable news (two things I frequent during the week) on Saturday and Sunday.  But yesterday following my nephews’ little league basketball games I came home and turned on the TV hoping to catch the end of Barack Obama’s announcement speech.

Unfortunately I didn’t see it live (I DVRed it and watched it after the rest of the family went to bed), but I did catch the tail end of msNBC’s coverage of the event (while I despise Chris Matthews - the Democrats might as well equip him with a short skirt and pom poms so that he and Keith Olbermann can lead the faithful in a round of “Bush, you suck!”, but I digress… it was the only network devoting significant resources to the speech). 

I’ll leave it to someone else to dissect Obama’s recitation of humble beginnings and his vision for a better future - besides by the time I tuned in, the collective group of talking heads assembled with Matthews had finished talking about the speech and moved into handicapping how it would play with Obama’s assumed demographic target of voters under 40.

With that in mind, what I really want to say is “VOTE NAKED!”…

because it seems that a lack of clothing is what Chris Matthews believes is holding back

Generation X from having an impact on election day.  To quote Matthews when discussing the lack of majoritive significance folks under the age of 40 have had in recent election cycles:

“…put some clothes on and go vote.”

Apparently Matthews (like many of his fellow mainstream pundits) think that Gen-Xers spend all of their time sitting in front of the computer blogging and playing computer games - naked.

Moreover when discussing if the block of younger voters would have any level of influence in 2008, one of the group - the Chicago Sun Times’ Lynn Sweet offered, “it’s hard for college students and people in that generation to figure out how to go home and get registered and request an absentee ballot.”

Wow, not only are these kids naked, they’re dumb too!  Boy how times have changed… before I turned 40 I was seldom naked - even in the privacy of my own home and as for registering to vote and requesting an absentee ballot, it seemed pretty straight-forward.  I really do doubt that much has changed since I crossed the threshold into 40+ maturity.

It’s too bad that the MSM hasn’t figured out why younger voters have yet to make a significant impact.  As I see it, it’s pretty simple.  The young people of today have an incredibly tuned BS meter.  They can smell it a mile away and when it comes to politicians, the odor is so bad they plug their noses before they are even close enough to get a whiff.