I love this show. I cannot count how many times I've ended up in restaurants like that, usually when traveling to a city that I'm not familiar with. Tired, dated, mediocre food, disheartened staff. The kind of place where after the meal, you start thinking that you would have done better picking up a frozen pizza and nuking it in the hotel microwave.

When Ramsay walks in the front door on this show, you hear the same story over and over again. The restaurant isn't doing the business that it used to or has never really taken off in the first place. They aren't attracting new customers. They're on the verge of closing due to poor business or cannot compete with other restaurants in the area. Ramsay will look the place over from top to bottom and point out what is wrong and the things that will need changing in order to turn business around.

He's walked into some real horror shows. Like the kitchen with the severe roach infestation. And the one where the fryer hadn't been cleaned since they originally bought the thing. Boxes of instant potato flakes and pre-made sauce mixes. Frozen vegetables and meat and fish on the verge of spoiling. Dirty kitchens, unmotivated staff and owners who as a whole are completely resistant to change.

Ramsay tells them what they need to do to get the restaurant back on it's feet and the rest of the episode is of his coaxing, cajoling and arguing them into making those changes. He reminds chefs that their job is to cook and that they should be ashamed for sending out instant mashed potatoes to their guests. He re-teaches cooking basics. He shows the owners how to run a restaurant.

What I find amazing is how often owners know that they can't go on as they have been, but fight Ramsay on every single change he suggests every step of the way. They'll argue "that's not how we've ever done things" and Ramsay will retort that this is why their business is failing. I'll never forget the one who argued with Ramsay about the redecorating, hating the bright new colors and the fact that she no longer had a black counter top in her dining room. They know that they need help and have at their disposal a chef who runs numerous successful restaurants and they refuse to accept his help.

I am heartened to see so many younger voters who are normally absent from presidential politics working so hard to make their voices heard. Even though I am a Clinton supporter in the primaries, I believe strongly enough in the political causes that I have fought for that I will support the only other candidate which would benefit those causes.

Perhaps that is the difference between a lot of older voters (and by old I just mean 30+ like myself) who've been around the national election merry-go-round a few times and have learned the hard way that it's the issues that matter, not the actual candidate so much. My chief problem with so many of Obama's more hard-line supporters is that their support is for a man, not the issues that he has promised to fight for.

What happens if that man loses the general election? Nothing is written in stone and I am realistic to the very real weaknesses that Obama would have in the general election. Where will all of these Obama boys and girls who are voting for president the first time be if on November 5, McCain is declared the winner? I expect them to go into shock and deep mourning. What I don't know if i can expect is for them to keep in the fight.

Issues that the Democratic party has traditionally stood for - equal rights, freedom of choice, economic parity, protection of the environment - are all far more important than the political career of a single man. When Al Gore was declared to have lost the election against Bush, I went into shock and anger, but I was able to refocus my efforts on the causes that Gore would have supported as president. I stayed in the game and continued to fight for the issues that mattered to me.

The Obama supporters have to start seeing that this election is far more than a single man running for president. What matters are the issues and it's discouraging when you see them tearing down another candidate who has supported these very same issues during her political career (which dates all the way back to her work on the Nixon impeachment) because she dares to stand in the way of their chosen candidate.

So the question goes out to Obama's supporters who vow that he is the only candidate that they can support - what will you do if he loses. Will you hide in your bedrooms and post angry blogs bemoaning the injustice of his rightful place being snatched away, or will you redouble your efforts and actually get in the trenches for the causes that he'd supported? Some of us who had been hear a few years would be happy to have some fresh blood helping us out.