I'm not really eager for either Clinton or Obama. In the extremely unlikely event that we go to a brokered convention, here's hoping the other two can't make it to 2025 on the first ballot and its a major fight for delegates. As long as we have to deal with the gnashing of teeth that having no nominee leading into the convention, we might as well play out the historical change. We can add it to the Clinton impeachment and the Supreme Court picking George Bush as bizarre political events in our lifetime.
Then I want every delegate to switch and pick Al Gore, and if not him then Edwards.
But that's not gonna happen, so it's just wishful thinking not only for the candidates I've supported for a while and a desire to be able to say in to my great grandchilddren, "Yeah, I remember the brokered convention of '08."
But all in all, this is turning out OK with me. I'm not terrifically excited about Obama as my nominee, but it's going to be very cool to have a black man as my President.
Yeah, I pretty much think that Obama's gonna be the next President, and I'm OK with that. Even though I endorsed her after Edwards dropped out, Hillary has been imploding every since February 5 with a lot of stuff that just pisses me off, playing petty silly politics in a desperate attempt to tarnish Obama. I'm pretty sure she'd make a better progressive President than Obama (and they will both be better than McCain), but I think Obama will have the same kind of people in his cabinet and bureaucracy so things will be fine.
But the polls of Ohio and Texas, added on to the Obama primary sweep since February 5, show that Clinton isn't really going to be in a commanding position on March 4. And the momentum and superdelegates are switching over to Obama in a consistent trickle that threatens to become a torrent.
Meanwhile the NY Times article about McCain and his friendship with a lobbyist appears to have some legs. McCain did the best thing he could for us when he tried to twist his way out of the facts, and is already being caught up in the lies mis-characterizations.
Once McCain loses the media-created aura of the last truth-teller, he's nothing but an old man who can't control temper. Obama has already been smeared and tested and, frankly, did his own oppo research in his books so there's not much more out there. He's also seen as inspirational, not as pure. As long as he continues to inspire, flaws and mistakes in the past really aren't going to hurt him.
So it looks like Obama will easily defeat Clinton, and that McCain is starting to tarnish under the real review that presidential nominees get.
I look forward eleven months from now to TiVoing the inauguration of President Barack Hussein Obama, the son of a racially and religiously mixed marriage between and American and a foreigner who was partially educated overseas and admits to doing drugs when he was younger but inspires hope and faith in people.
"Yes, kids," I'll say in 40 years to my progeny at my knees. "It was one hell of a time to be alive when Barack Obama won 50 states against that old many who couldn't control his temper. It was one hell of a time to be alive."