After 30 columns and one snarky letter to the editor, I'm proud to announce that I haven't run out of things to say, but regrettably I've run out of time to speak.

With my graduation fast approaching I've begun to ponder the biased political education I've received at Geneseo. How has my understanding of the world been skewed by this liberal echo chamber over the last four years?

Absent from the circus-like atmosphere surrounding President Barack Obama's attempts to appoint a commerce secretary was any sense of urgency, despite the position's importance.

Right now, Democrats need to take a deep breath and remember the cautionary phrase, "There but for the grace of God go I."

Oh, the ire of the masses. If tapped correctly, like a keg, it will yield a sweet bounty. But be forewarned, as the angry mob is fickle in nature and quick to turn on those who would try to champion it.

The Conservative Political Action Conference was a bunch of fun: the right wing reveled in the sun. George Bush received piss-poor reviews. President Obama really drew the boos. The last eight years, they said, were bad. The Republican Party was hopping mad. Because it was the Democrats you see, who made conservatism flee.

The American Constitution is by no means a perfect document. The result was revolutionary for its time, as to that point such a government had only been theorized and debated, but within this framework were inconsistencies and hypocrisy that ran counter to the ideals of America's founding.

President Obama's recent press conference was as engaging as it was informative. Though at points he stumbled, most egregiously when he hemmed and hawed in response to a question before finally admitting his ignorance, Obama answered most of the questions in a knowledgeable and thoughtful manner.

Sen. Harry Reid: I would like to call the roll so we can establish a quorum.

In the United Kingdom, the political party not in control of the parliament is called "Her Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition," a phrase implying that while this party may have a different vision for the U.K., they do in fact have the interest of their citizens at heart.

When then President-elect Barack Obama announced Sen. Hillary Clinton as his choice to head the State Department, Gov. David Paterson was left the heady task of choosing her replacement. Though Paterson as had since November, he waited until Friday to declare that the new Batwoman to Sen. Charles Schumer's Batman will be Democratic Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand.

With President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration on Jan. 20 seeming years away, I've been trying to figure out how to speed up the change that he promised. For a while I became excited by the prospects of the sort of switcheroo The New York Times has been championing, but then I remembered that The Times operates in a fictional world where everyone is to the left of Dennis Kucinich.

President Lincoln composed a cabinet of big personalities with contrasting ideas and perspectives - a tactic crudely articulated 100 years later by President Johnson's preference for having his enemies "inside the tent peeing out, [rather] than outside the tent peeing in."

President-elect Barack Obama's detractors have envisioned his presidency as one in which he will grant Bill Ayers a cabinet post, be utterly befuddled by a phone call at 3 a.m., and be revealed as a secret terrorist during the State of the Union.

Late Tuesday night, I passed out after catching Obama fever and Biden foot-in-mouth disease. When I awoke, the year was 2012 and the ghost of Spiro Agnew was my guide to the future.

The 2008 Presidential Election isn't over and Sen. Barack Obama is wise to caution his supporters with two words: "New Hampshire," the state where Sen. Hillary Clinton upset him in the primaries and where Sen. John McCain was reborn as the Republican nominee.

In the U.S. Senate, a 60-seat majority is called a "filibuster-proof" majority because it is the number necessary to invoke cloture and overcome a filibuster. This number is essential in an era of timid senators who give up on a bill when they smell a filibuster.

Before this summer most Americans probably couldn't have named the secretary of the treasury unless they opened their wallet and read who it was that signed all their money. Now they can not only name the man responsible for the bailout plan, but they can also probably identify the intimidating combination of Frankenstein and Colonel Klink that is Henry Paulson.

Unless you've been in an alcohol-induced coma for the last two weeks, you are aware of the dire state of our economy and the potential $700 billion bailout of Wall Street the House voted against on Monday.

We join the presidential debate already in progress…