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The idea behind Robert's Random is for me to write about whatever I'm thinking about whenever I'm thinking it. I try to write 3-5 times a week, but sometimes real work gets in the way of that. Sometimes I'll share whatever random thought I might have that day but most of the time, I like to write about things going on in the news. I'm a total news junkie, I spend a lot of time online at various news sites. If I find a story where someone does something totally stupid or I wonder "what were they thinking?" I don't mind pointing it out incase others missed it or taking my best guess at what they were thinking. I like to laugh, I like to make others laugh. There's so much serious and wrong stuff going on in the news that when I find an unusual or light story, I like to use it. And while real life news events might be the focus of many of my blogs, I'm just trying to entertain you, make you laugh and maybe even think about something you didn't know before reading. I'm not trying to break any serious news or deliver any hard-hitting coverage. You'll have to read a paper or watch one of the network shows for that.
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Thoughts of the first time on day nine
Everyone is well aware that history will be made when either Obama swears in as the first African American president or Sarah Palin swears in as the first female vice president.
However, this election offers candidates in this election the chance to make history in more ways than one.
Consider the following:
*It is the first time in U.S. history that two sitting senators will run against each other for president.
*It is the first time both major candidates were born outside the continental United States--Hawaii for Obama and the Panama Canal Zone for McCain.
*McCain would be the oldest first-term president
* Joe Biden, would be the first Roman Catholic vice president
*The 2008 election marks the first time since the 1928 election in which neither an incumbent President nor an incumbent Vice President ran for their party's nomination in the presidential election, and the first time since the 1952 election that neither the incumbent President nor incumbent Vice President is a candidate in the general election
*The new president elected will be the first president in 184 years to take office after multiple consecutive two-term presidential administrations.
*If Obama is elected president, Biden, having been a senator since January 1973 and having served for the past 36 years, would become the longest serving Senator in history to become a first-term vice president.
*McCain would become the first prisoner of war since Andrew Jackson to become President as well as the first to become president while winning at least four senate terms
*McCain would be the first president from Arizona
*Obama would become the first president from Hawaii, his home state by birth
*McCain would be the oldest U.S. president upon ascension to the presidency at age 72 years and 144 days
*Obama and McCain are 24 years and 340 days apart in age, the largest age disparity between the two major party presidential candidates
Also:
*On December 16, 2007, Ron Paul collected more money on a single day through Internet donations than any presidential candidate in US history with over $6 million
*Palin is Alaska's youngest and first female gov.
I found most of this stuff by accident searching the Internet when I should have been doing homework.
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