I’ve been avoiding politics lately, it’s just gotten too ridiculous.
I never really followed primaries that closely until the Bush upset over McCain in 2000, and after that I payed close attention to the 2004 primary.
This primary season has got to be the wonkiest yet.
Enough stand-alone sentences. The meat and potatoes is that it looks like Obama is going to win, by the skin of his pearly whites. While I am perfectly happy with a McCain vs. Obama run-off in November, I can’t say that this looks good for Obama’s chances. Hillary Rodham-Clinton has been one of the most blatant bald-faced liars to ever campaign for president, she has been caught time and time again in one falsehood after another. She is the epitomy of a narcissist, often shedding tears while talking about herself. On top of that she has reversed positions on programs her husband endorsed, and I supported no less, she continues to push a healthcare plan that no one wanted in the 90’s, that no one wants today, and would prove to be a huge burden on the poor if implemented. Furthermore she has descended into muckraking the likes of which even most presidential hopefuls wouldn’t dare, her attitude towards the electorate is condescending, and she carries herself with an aura of arrogance and entitlement that would be expected of British nobility but is ghastly out of place in a country where we elect our own officials.
Obama is just barely beating that.
The problem is that in 2008, the Democratic party picked its rockstar and it’s celebrity as their frontrunners. Obama wasn’t chosen for his qualifications, those were determined after the fact. I don’t want to make it sound like the Republicans ran the best primary either, they had many candidates that had no business running who stayed long past their welcome as well. The Democrats ran their primary like they were electing their candidate for a High School Student Council President. In other words, this became a popularity contest. A popularity contest between, as I said, a rockstar and a celebrity. While what has happened is possibly one of the worst possible outcomes for them, it’s not entirely surprising either.
Unfortunately, if Obama wins that means they’ll learn nothing from it. For the Democratic party as a whole, they would be better off losing this election so they would have a chance to learn from it for 2012. Then again, I don’t think it would ultimately serve any purpose as the majority of our contemporary politicians, on both sides of the aisles, seem to be stubbornly refusing to learn anything. Thus I make the not so bold prediction that the 2010 election will once again boil down to which party has done the least amount of damage to itself. Gentlemen and ladies (I use those terms in the loosest sense), you can go ahead and start taking aim at your feet now.