It’s been a long year but 2008 is nearly out the door and 2009 will present us with a brand new refreshing start.  With a complete revamp of Bush’s totally awesome, totally successful presidency, we will be welcoming a new look to this country’s government with Barack Obama and his  administration.  Will he be as popular and efficient in running this country as Bush was?  All we can do is wait and see.  But there are a few things coming next year whose success is all but certain. 

First we have the fourth installment of the ever so popular Fast and Furious franchise.   I personally thought that RICE ROCKETS died at least 3 years ago but leave it up to Vin Diesel and his close friend and lost in the rummage co-star Paul Walker to revive the hobby.  In the music category, we can go down a long list of things to come.  But my personal favorite and it’s been a long time coming: the BONE THUGS N HARMONY album.  When they’re first album came out over a decade ago, it single handedly created a monster within suburban communities nation wide.  Middle-class straight A students morphed into gangstas.  It was awesome.  

Finally for television, I don’t get a chance to watch much of the tube unless it’s a holiday marathon of my favorite series SMALL WONDER.  But those are far and few between.  Fortunately Rob Dyrdek’s up coming show, which takes place at his newly constructed “Fantasy Factory”, will be hitting the air next year.  If you haven’t seen the skate plaza yet, it’s like THE BERRICS on crack.  Sorry, that’s a bad analogy.  More like The Berrics on Prozac mixed with LSD.  It’s pretty fresh.  Check out the new video over at DC. 

Raise your hand if you’re going to miss George W. Bush when he steps down from office?  I see that 1 out of 4 of you still like him, or about 24%.  Well raise your hand if you love Sarah Palin and would like to see her run in 2012?  Yikes.  You supporters can stop reading now because you’re no longer okay in my book.  You must have missed my article on the PIG WITH LIPSTICK.  Don’t get me wrong I loved the woman.  I love how she kills wolves from helicopters and obliviously gives interviews while turkeys are beheaded in the background.  It’s when I found out she was anti-skater I hade a certain level of contempt for the PIG.  

Just a fun little fact:  Barack Obama’s Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner is a shredder!  Now we have someone in Washington we can look up to.  Just reported on today’s very left wing, and skewed online newspaper The HUFFINGTON POST (I prefer this GUY), Mr. Geithner is a, “Cursing, skateboarding hipster wonk”.  CHECK IT out yourself.  Maybe next Obama will choose SHECKLER as Secretary of Eyes. 

I think I’m really beginning to like this Obama fella.  At first I felt a little shocked that this country would hire as the leader of this country, someone who pals around with domestic terrorist or has an I.Q. higher than the average citizen.  But I think he may do just fine. 

Today is a landmark day for the country.  For the first time in eight years, we will see a new president take the highest office in the world.  In addition, it will be the first time in this nation’s short history we will either see an African American or the oldest man in his first term to take the Presidency.  Not to mention the possibility of having a woman as the Vice President.  For those of you not old enough to vote, you may not find much significance in what’s going on.  Go back to your video games and Pogs.  But for those of you old enough, you understand what we’re looking at here for the next four years.

We here at Lat34 respect all party affiliations and those involved with their parties.  We live in a diverse melting pot of a country and we feel that we must value everyone’s opinion.  So we find that it’s our duty to bring you a “fair and balanced” perspective from both party affiliations.  Luckily after scouring the Internet for countless hours, we’ve found two representatives representing each party who are good indicators of what each group looks like.

This video  represents Barack Obama and the Democratic Party.  You see a video clip of DJ Z-Trip touring the country with his “Party for Change” tour.  He made a stop in Boulder, CO and Snowboard TV caught up with him at the show.  Check out what he had to say about the election going on today.

Next we have a representative from the McCain camp.  There’s not much I can say here.  But she’s the epitome of a McCain supporter.