Hillary is bad.

It’s late.

I have been on Work trips this week.

Accept it, don’t accept it. See if I give a fuck. I just learned how to make an F-111 do a dump and burn.

In the contest to select who will be the most powerful man (or indeed, she-elephant) in the world, only 2/3 of the people eligible to vote will turn up. The US had that turnout figure for the 2004 election and polling booths couldn’t handle it. People were waiting in long lines. Booths had to stay open until 11pm.

At unprecedented levels of people giving a shit, the yanks only got a 65% voter turnout. This is on a par with the turnout for the 2005 Iraqi election, where death threats were imposed on anybody who showed up.

Why is this happening? There are more foreigners than you can shake a stick at who are on the edge of their seats anticipating the result. For the record, I hope Obama beats Hillary Clinton in the primaries. If he doesn’t, then I hope McCain beats her in the election.

It’s not easy to explain why I’m not a fan of Hillary. Perhaps it’s too much riding on Bill’s coat tails. It’s too much believing that being the president’s missus counts as Whitehouse experience.
OK so Hillary knows the idiosyncrasies of the thermostat. Good for Hillary.

If Hillary gets the Whitehouse, we can expect to see more of the same sleaze and corruption that we’ve come to expect from Bush. I believe that Hillary Clinton is capable of perpetrating electoral fraud. What Hillary lacks in Whitehouse experience, she makes up for in experience at being a right piece of work.

I can see plenty Democratic Party hacks saying “So what, let’s give the Republicans a taste of their own medicine” Nice, only John McCain has already tasted George Bush’s medicine.

Having a Democrat in the Whitehouse pretty much thwarts the return of The West Wing, or any other show like it to our TV screens. That show was a fantasy, a depiction of an ideal leader that educated, progressive people all over the world could admire. People wanted a president like Jed Bartlett, they wanted his team running the show. They believed that if they could just get a Democrat’s arse in the chair then fantasy would turn into reality and the whole world could breathe again. Obama would probably bring this ream back to reality

I see Obama as more of the golden boy dream candidate. There are similarities between him and Howard Dean in that sense. He is a powerful orator, but unlike Dean, he has the booming voice that you expect from a brother. Unlike Dean, he runs a reasonably tight ship. That won’t matter if he’s not petty enough and full enough of shit to beat Hillary at her own game.

John McCain has the only combination of political experience mixed with a degree of human decency. He has the maximum amount of decency that can be expected from a politician.
McCain is up against it. If the results of the 2006 congressional election are anything to go by, something like half of America suddenly exclaimed ”Do you mean to say that young men die when we go to war? Fuck!” The outcome of this particular penny dropping has been that Republicans are now about as desirable as herpes, but probably easier to get rid of.

We face the inevitability of McCain losing. The only variable is the margin, and whether or not that margin is small enough that Hillary’s dirty tricks will have to come into play.
Hillary Clinton is the George W Bush of progressive politics.

The most likely outcome is that we’ll see more of the same sleaze. It’ll be pandering to different special interest groups, such as unions, feminists and the environment, but this really doesn’t matter. Lust for power is the same all over.

A person’s perception of entitlement to that power is that same all over

The world is guaranteed at least four more years of disgraceful horror.