Let's me put it out there from the start (so as to avoid any questions later on). I'm voting for Senator Obama, and I've been a decided voter since January of 2007. With that admission, though my bias is transparent, so should any supporter's bias receive a critical look so they can be certain of their own basis for giving that candidate their support.
See, I'm not blind. I know Barack's got his faults. After all, he's a politician. Every leader we elect is. We just have to accept that and move ahead with the debates and voting. Change and experience and doubt and hope are fine and dandy to talk about, and should be in rhetoric while the election's still young. Substance comes from the voter, not the elected.
So, there's little reason for me to argue the semantics between Clinton and Obama on things like who has better fashion sense or what their haircuts cost. That stuff's just "CNN Hot-Air time" as far as I'm concerned which only makes the bottom of the hour summaries because it's a slow Brittney day. Pissing over the candidates' prioritization skills based on "Coke or Pepsi"-level issues make for great fodder among the surrogate campaigners and phonebank masses, but it's just soda, damnit! Excessive quantities of high fructose corn syrup in any drink is a recipe for diabetes, and matters diddly-squat when compared to the Senate's extending of FISA while offering immunity to telecommunication companies that blatantly broke the 1st Amendment at the behest of President Bush.
No, it doesn't really matter to me any more, what differences or similarities the two of them have. What matters is how much more cash do the two of them need me to give them, just to stop the madness of this election? I mean, really! How much more do we voters need to shell out to end this thing? Just quote a price and we'll meet it. Then we can stop the money bombs and the tally-drives and the counters on the websites and get back to talking about education, foreign policy, Veteran's benefits, Social Security assurances, and pantsuits... wait a minute.
Today I got this in the mail from the Clinton campaign:
Heartfelt's nice and all, but you're looking for a handout and I don't play off sympathies like this. Darfur is getting decimated. That's heartfelt begging, and a much better cause. Combined, the Democrats have collected enough cash to keep the Iraq war (not including the Afghanistan theater) funded for one day. That's a crock, people.
Well, I'm done with the money handouts for this election. If you two can't get enough cash collected just so you can "outspend the other", then tough. I suggest you two start working out and go mano-y-mano in a UFC fight for the nomination. I'm sure Dr. Dean will referee it fairly enough. After all, I paid him off four years ago and look at what good that did me.