Dems Debate

Yeah, I guess I fancy myself a bigtime commentator. Just finished watching the South Carolina debate and am satisfied AND disgusted. With myself, I mean... these debates are such bullshit, I'm alternately fired up and wanting to take a shower to wash the grime away...

Pre Super Tuesday Thoughts

Like way before Super Tuesday, but I can't stop thinking about all the political crap and have even CONSIDERED tuning into Air America here or there... which I have to say, I find ultimately as distasteful as neo-con radio, but I think its fitting and fair that both sides have their little radio stations... ...but think it interesting that liberals are busier doing life-enriching things, too busy to listen to political radio. And the neo-cons, I guess they really love those airwaves!

I'm pretty torn up about Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both running in THIS election. I like them both. I went through a brief period where I was pissed at Barack for running this soon-- I figured Clinton would be in this round, Obama the next... what a weird place to be in, where I have to make a pretty significant pick. Symbolically, who do you go with? Either candidate, if elected, would be revolutionary, ground-breaking, history-making. It is, as I read in Newsweek, a good problem to have...

Looking forward to South Carolina this weekend, should iron things out with Obama-- since he will probably win it and since he hasn't won a state since the opening scenes of Iowa. Many more scenes to go...

MEDIA for President, '08!

Watching CNN on the eve of the New Hampshire primary... my thoughts:

1. If all states can't do their caucauses and primaries on the same day, we should at least do them regionally or by time zone. The amount of media coverage and SPIN that goes on in between states' votes fucks with everything. The founding fathers could never have predicted how this would turn out. In the interest of fairness, I think they'd support having a tighter timetable -- we no longer NEED 5 months of primaries and caucauses, except to give reporters something to constantly report about.

What we need are facts.

2. Fact: I like Obama. Fact: When he talks, I feel all fuzzy and warm, like I'm in a dream-- like the opposite kind of dream than the one I've been living in for the last 8 years. Fact: When he stops talking, I realize-- its a different dream, but a dream nonetheless...

3. Dreams... can.. come..true! Like the dream of a Clinton/Obama ticket...

4. I'm pretty sure I'm not clever enough to keep a blog going.

5. Which is good news, since I'm not sure I even want to read it!