I'm so happy! (Until, of course, I go to the gas station...) Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination: Finally! A president who inspires Americans to do what they have never done before: Think. Hillary might have finally realized that her actions are hurting the best weapon we have against the corrupt Republican incumbents, and might concede to stop whining about "popular votes" and "going to the DN convention." Barack Obama may be young and have only four years' experience, but his sizable intelligence and accurate historical references (what other politician can get history right these days?) have won him my vote.
In their feeble, half-hearted and desperate attempt to save their collapsing party structure, which, since the Bush Fallout, has crumbled into disorganized factions (Militarism, Big Business, Neo-Conservatism, and Christian Conservatism) which are no longer cooperating with one another, the Reds have chosen John McCain, who is as feeble-minded as he is feeble-bodied, and he is certainly NOT the McCain we knew in 2000, who called out Jerry Falwell for what he was. No, the groupthink virus that spawned in the White House became a pandemic, and though McCain was one of the last to be pulled into it, he still was and still is.
John McCain is not a viable candidate. Bush has done the Democrats a huge service by exposing exactly what the ideals of the Republican Party as it stands now, and now none of the factions have a prayer to their false god to go on.
In his nomination speech, Barack Obama called every significant shot John McCain could make, and John McCain, could not defend himself. Only bigots and people with their heads in the sand could reasonably vote for McCain
But don't do anything cocky. It's basically in the bag as long as Billary doesn't say anything too loud or crass. And if McCain picks Hickabee, then Billary can say whatever it wants, because at that point, the Dems couldnt lose even if Jeremiah Wright publishes a book!
The Republicans have no real strategy. Before their nomination, they HATED John McCain, and when he was (OMIGOD!) nominated ("WTF!?" as surprising to them as ending up in Hell was to Lucifer in Paradise Lost), they jumped behind him in lockstep. He is their only hope now, and they know he isn't going to do it. Unlike the Democratic Party, they aren't given much to thinking and/or planning, and they simply scribbled on a piece of paper their various, impotent talking points (including 9/11), and handed it to John McCain.
Well, we know what those talking points are, and we know how to easily outsmart them. Bad News Bears for the Iraq issue: Congress just woke up! Now that Congress is awake to a fact we've known for years, how are you going to get yourself out of it? Do you know who the Sunnis, Shiites, and al-Queda are?
