Election 2008 - Stumbling Toward Adequacy

My bet, just for the record, is still the same. Obama and Clinton are battling it out for the honor of losing to John McCain. But that's not new or interesting.

Speaking of not new or interesting, Hillary Clinton.

No, seriously, Hillary Clinton. Predictably, the NYT and NOW have endorsed her. I suspect that we will see some other tried and true liberal losers endorse her as well. To my satisfaction, Uber Babe of Journalism Maureen Dowd has held out against the forces of sameness, writing a series of articles that highlight the fact that Clinton is not all things to all women.

And that is what's on my mind: sameness. Part of the reason I don't like Clinton is that she is, really, the same person as George Bush, just with a vagina. She's the same cold, calculating, political animal as ol' George is. She took the path of political expedience with her husband, a move to NY, supporting Bush's war, and now, in attacking Barak Obama. I suppose it's nice to see her playing the fake-empathizer as Bill once did, while he plays the hatchet woman she once did, but really, it's like Bush and Rove if they'd been gay.

Which is why she won't win, even if she beats Obama. If you're going to run for what's familiar, why not do it all the way? Elect a moderately conservative white guy that's been part of the establishment for... uhm, forever, I would guess. Heck, at least McCain paid his dues with years of Senate work, including some meaningful finance reform legislation.

That is, of course, the biggest knock on McCain. He is the tried and true good old boy. He gets along with everyone (well, everyone with a brain), he compromises just enough, but he never really drifts too far. He's not "conservative" enough for the ass clowns on the right, and he doesn't compromise enough to satisfy the ass clowns on the left. Everyone that works with him likes and respects him. He would, I am sure, stay the course, for better and worse.

And that leaves Barak Obama. He's a Disney movie candidate: the hip and smart high school kid that found the double-top-secret-hidden clause in the Constitution and ran for President, making everyone suddenly realize he has heart, and soul, and he might be just what the dark and cynical adult world needs.

Disney never makes the follow up movie where he gets hammered by the brilliant and pathological Putin, stonewalled by the immovable Chinese, or cheated in return for his honesty by everyone in the Middle East from Israel to Iran. They don't make the movie where he loses his temper, invades Pakistan, and touches off a civil war in a nuclear armed nation.

Of course, that might not happen. Hillary might stop acting like Ann Coulter's older, liberal sister; McCain might remember what he originally fought and suffered to protect; and Obama might prove that optimism isn't always married to naivety.

And monkeys might fly out of my butt...

McCain in a landslide over Clinton or in a smaller mudslide over Obama.