Feeling back to normal! :)

I am suffering from political overload, however. How on earth am I going to make it until November? I can hardly stand watching the news anymore.

I'm very upset to hear that McCain has picked Karl Rove as an adviser for his campaign. Yes, the same Karl Rove that ran smear campaign after smear campaign for the Bush administration. He was engineered the Swift Boat smear against Kerry in 2004 and he heavily smeared McCain in 2000, even going so far as to be responsible for phone messages outright lying that McCain had an illegitimate black daughter (she was actually adopted from Bangladesh). How sad that McCain is willing to take money and advice from a guy who's said such awful things about him in the past. And I was hoping that he'd be trying to distance himself more from those involved in the Bush administration. :(

Also, what was with Hillary and Bill talking last week about how they'd love to have Obama on their VP ticket? Guys, maybe it's not such a good idea to come across like you've already won? Because last time I checked you were LOSING to Obama in number of delegates.

I don't want to talk too much about Ferraro's comments, since I think that the media directly blames the candidates way too much for what the people who support them or are on their campaign say. However, since she inferred Obama has only come as far as he has because he's black then the ideal counter is to say that Hillary is only where she is because a) she's a woman (which may have some merit) or, more obviously, b) her last name is CLINTON (which absolutely has merit).

The Clinton/Obama thing is really getting nasty, huh? Bummer.

Saul Tigh wins the GOP nomination!



Heeheehee. ^_^

Oh thank goodness, Giuliani has dropped out of the Republican nominee race. You mean you can't run an entire presidential campaign around "OMG911IWASTHERE!!11!!" and expect it to succeed? Shocking!

So we're down to Hillary and Obama on the Dem side and McCain and Romney on the Rep side. Still leaning toward a Obama/McCain matchup, though I think a Hillary/McCain matchup may be more likely. We'll know on Feb 5th, anyway.

And I'm so tired of the Hillary/Obama snit-fest perpetuated by the media. I can't find a story about either candidate now without some mention of an attack or slander or counterattack or rebuttal. Blech.

The results for the Iowa Caucus were posted last night. On the Democratic side, Obama beat out Clinton and Edwards, though the three split relatively evenly 30%/30%/30%. Huckabee easily dominated on the Republican side, with Romney coming in second and Thompson and McCain tied for third.

I'm still figuring out where I stand on both the Democratic and Republican sides. On the Dem side, Obama is very likable and extremely charismatic (his winner speech last night was stunning compared to everyone else on either side). But will he hold up? Can he win on drive, inspiration, and change even though he's lacking in experience compared to the rest? And try as I might, I have reservations about Hillary. Maybe it's because I was irked at how she inserted herself into NY to get the senator position. Maybe it's because she's very polarizing. Maybe it's because I'd rather see the first woman president get in with zero credit going to her ex-pres husband. And Edwards? Well he's always been rather meh to me, even back when he was campaigning with Kerry.

I'm disheartened to read so many comments on CNN about how Obama and Hillary are bad choices for the Dems because America won't elect a black man/woman and therefore the Dems should go with the safer Edwards choice. Does racism and sexism still exist in America? You betcha. But warning against and trying to downplay anyone who isn't a white male does absolutely nothing to correct this problem, it only panders to it.

On the Republican side I admit I've heard very little about Huckabee. Hell, every time I see his name I think "I *heart* Huckabees!!!" Heh. No immediate problems with Romney but I do take issue with Mormonism itself (thanks to its subtle and not so subtle anti-women, anti-minority stances). I've always been fond of McCain, but I don't know if he has it in him to get through elections again. Ron Paul, while big over on Slashdot, is too libertarian to have a chance. The only one I'd really have a problem with winning would be Giuliani. A doink when it comes to funding the arts (only "noncontroversial" art is worthy of funding, apparently), running almost entirely on a platform of "I ran NY during 9/11!", and an all around creepy looking guy. Yikes.


So I really don't have a strong stance regarding the candidates, outside of a few that I don't care for. Maybe NH on Tuesday will help narrow things down.