Lets Talk Politics

Hello readers,

My name is Richard Stutsman and I was born and raised in the state of California and spent the last ten years living in Ukiah, a small town in northern California. Ukiah is approximately a two-hour drive north of San Francisco. I am currently a freshmen at the University of Oregon and I have started this blog as a requirement for my mass media and society class. While some of my blog posts will be required to earn credit for that class, I do intend to use this blog to discuss issues that I feel are important. In this historical election season my posts will often be about important political issues. While I am a man of strong opinions and beliefs, I feel that it is important for people in the public eye, specifically members of the media, to remain as unbiased as possible, and that is my goal. So, while one week I may post a blog criticizing Barack Obama, my very next post may be criticizing John McCain.  I have strong opinions and I will express them on these blog posts, and some comments may be controversial, but I mean no offense to anybody. 

I am also an avid sports fan, specifically a big baseball fan, therefore there may be times when I post blogs that express my opinion and analysis on certain sporting events as well, especially since the World Series is just around the corner and football season is heating up. Having grown up in northern California, I was raised a die hard Giants and Forty Niners fan, and I tend to root for the Warriors and Sharks as well.  Unlike when I cover politics, I will be less careful to remain unbiased, because I have my likes and dislikes when it comes to sports teams.  

I look forward to getting my opinions out on the web for the first time.  I also look forward to reading the comments that my readers post on my blog, because I feel that knowing everybody’s opinion will help strengthen, or shape, my argument.  I hope that my blog posts are of interest and excitement to my readers because the issues are important and exciting to me. Thank you, and I look forward to reading the comments that people post!