Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Eenie, meenie, miney, moe

It should be an exciting Presidential race. Hillary and Barack will continue to duke it out for months to come. This will give the American people a chance to examine some of their most deeply held prejudices, which is always a good thing. Barack is a man of color. He has family ties both to a turbulent area of East Africa and Islamic South Asia. He has political ties to Chicago, the most politically corrupt city in America. Hillary, while a fairly mundane lefty machine politician, is a lesbian, not very deeply in the closet and is trailing a philandering, not quite ex-husband. The more we examine our knee jerk reaction to differences in race, sex and religion, the more enlightened we become.

John McCain has problems of his own. He has to sell his vision of a kinder, gentler Middle Eastern War. He has to reconcile the electorate to a deteriorating economy. He has to bring together a winning coalition, in a rapidly polarizing political environment. I just saw him accepting the endorsement of the President, with the boy himself, on the White House lawn. That's going to be a big problem, as well. The President's support is going to be a two edged sword. McCain shares many of President Bushes weaknesses. He is not intellectually gifted and has only a rudimentary understanding of most important issues. He is deeply enamored of the power and money elite in this country. To his credit, he truly seeks to do the right thing, no matter how flawed a vessel he may be. One hopes that age and ill health have caused him to cease the boozing and serial philandering that have been his life long predilections.

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