Obama vs. McCain

At last

I haven't really had a lot to say about this recently.  I don't know entirely why, since what I would have had to say would have been spiteful, unhelpful and bilious - and apparently, that's why many of you come here.  Basically, it was because I wouldn't have been saying anything new.  Anything I had to say about the Barack vs. Hillary contest I have said to friends and family (again, much, if not all, of my readership) and because lately, I found myself agreeing with what others were saying, like when Daniel Pinkwater posited that many people favored Obama over Clinton because his speaking style sounded less forced or fake when he addressed large crowds.  This does not mean to imply that she's faking it, merely that she seems like she might be.  For me, at least, being the liberal that I am, this was never about race, or age, or experience, or gender, or any one factor - it was about flat not trusting Clintons being completely in charge; about knowing every crack in every bone of those skeletons in the closet behind Hillary's campaign boots.  Obama: New Skeletons for a New Tomorrow.

And now the mud can really start flying.  As the Dems struggle not to repeat the sins of 1972, John McCain puts on his war face and squares off on Obama, knowing that he has to pander to the far right of his party, he has to appear dynamic and useful, and that he has to distance himself from the retarded lame Dubya, thrashing currently in the shitpool of Scott McClellan's making.  What a song and dance this will require, for the "Maverick" to become the multi-faced candidate of everything Republicans like,  but not the really virulent strain that's being in charge lately.

We are impatient as a culture.  Someone's already lighting fuses on this thing; you can smell it.