I just saw a video of one of my favorite modern rock performers, and former American Idol contestant, Chris Daughtry performing the Foreigner classic "Feels Like the First Time" for the League of First Time Voters.

First Time Voters... wow , I would hate to be you. For YOU are deciding your own future and destiny and that of your nation.

I once thought that this would be the year we did something different as we did in 1992, the last time I started as passionate and remained so through an entire campaign.

I feel that way no longer.

Here in my area of Colorado, we are allowed to vote via a mail in ballot. I have had mine for three weeks, and have yet to open the envelope.

Where once I was so amped to get rid of yet another Bush, like I was in 1992, I'm just not comfortable with the candidates for the future of this country, my security and that of my friends.

Maybe it is time that I as a middle aged man... and I hate that term, always been so young at heart but realizing that I am getting older every day I crawl out of bed, that we turn this nation over to the youth.

I may be dead in ten years or less, but they must live in it and lead for the rest of thier lives.

I have recently abandoned a forey back into the decade of the 80's with an online radio station that was the age in which I grew up in.

We had Boris Yeltzsin, Michael Gorbachev, Perestroika, and Glasnost who were kept in check by the last Rebuplican I have had respect for, Ronald Reagan.

I mentioned in an e-mail last week with a friend that I didn't agree with her fears that the world was falling apart and an uprising was imminent.

I say here tonight, that I back down from that statement.

With the "new" Russia, acting a lot like the "old" Russia or the Soviet Union as we knew them then, and our troops still fighting the new Vietnam in the Middle East, how do we protect ourselves.

Ever see the movie "Red Dawn"? Some lessons to be learned there.

No matter who wins the election in November, this nation is no better off.

I wanted to believe in Obama, and think that health care, education and domestic issues were top priority. The only way to have a strong nation, is to make the people strong, which we have not done since 2001.

But he is not the answer, and if you wanna follow most people's racist fears that I do not subscribe to, he is the anti-christ.

But the fact is, our present system of government is flawed, controlled by big business and who can pay the most money to the lobbies.

This is no longer, a "government of the people, by the people, and for the people."

I won't tell you how to vote, if you even vote at all. But when you do, drop down to a knee and say a prayer that the choice you made protects your children and this world.