Change? What change? And screw the DNC while we’re at it…
I’m obviously biased, but I’m beginning to become quite infuriated that so many people are gobbling up Obama’s ridiculous notion of bringing change to Washington. Seriously folks, what is this man with no substantive policies going to do in DC? Hell, with all his “present” votes, he doesn’t even have substantive votes.
I wish people would seriously consider what is going on in the world instead of blindly embracing some free-love, dreamy notion that everything is going to be all better. Obama will kiss all our boo-boos goodbye and we will scamper off to the playground for another scrape and fall.
This is simply maddening.
And the whole Florida debacle, yet again, although in this case they’re the victim and not the culprit. The DNC has overstepped its grounds in its baseless, anachronistic punishment of FL voters by depriving them of their delegates at the convention. A message to Howard Dean: I like you and all, seriously, but get a fucking grip. The times of slowly coronating nominees is over. It’s time for a national primary and it’s time to realize that the red-necks in Iowa aren’t really “notoriously finicky and pensive about politics” but rather that they more accurately sport a convoluted and backwards caucus. Screw Iowa. There’s no reason why any of the four states “allowed” to break party rules and hold a primary before Super Tuesday. It is completely arbitrary.
Think about it… people want all this change. What if we did have a national primary? What if instead of people constantly being worried about electability, there was one feel swoop of voters voting and making a decision. A simple plurality of votes would do it. Instead, we ween “second-tier” candidates out of the process because they’re not “electable.”
I reject the notion that these four states provide a temperament of the country. They provide a temperament of their states, nothing more. It’s time for a national primary and in 2008 it’s time for a candidate that really will be able to change things from day one: Hillary Clinton.