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It will be interesting to see how Obama matches up against McCain.

I do think McCain deserves credit for his military service and the years spent as a POW. But he was a very junior officer and the most useful thing he gained from getting beaten up in the camps was the ability to identify a bit with the prisoners in Abu Ghraib and Dick Cheney’s Gulag.

John Kerry did his bit in Vietnam too but that didn’t stop GW and his handlers from Swiftboating him… And the voters accepted that from a guy that turned National Guard service into a no-show job!

The Presidency of the United States is the most important job in the world and I am afraid the voters should be a bit ruthless in asking any candidate “What have you done for us lately?” and “What are you going to do for us in the future?”

I actually voted for McCain in the 2000 primary and I was appalled and disgusted by the dirty tricks that the GW folks used to defeat him. But I was even more disgusted when McCain then cozied up to GW for the 2004 election. McCain must despise GW… How could he stomach embracing him on stage?

I imagine the RNC must have whispered in his ear…. Gee, John, if you want support from us in 2008, you better get out there and put on a good show.

So what has McCain done for us lately?

He helped us get another 4 years of GW. He has failed to criticize the grotesquely mismanaged occupation of Iraq. He has said nothing about the rampant corruption and incompetence of the Halliburtons and Black Waters all of which has put US soldiers and marines at risk.

He has not criticized the creation of a bloated Homeland Stupidity department staffed by incompetent political cronies like FEMA’s “Helluva job Brownie.”

OK, he supported the troop surge which seems to have been having some positive effect.

But he never said a word about Rumsfeld firing General Shinseki for suggesting that we needed more troops in the first place.

He has, literally within the last week, discovered that we really are experiencing global warming and maybe we ought to do something about it. Even that sounds like a cobbled up attempt to differentiate himself from the most unpopular president in modern history.

It will be interesting to see who he picks as his running mate. Might I suggest…

McCain-Cheney ‘08

I am so relieved that Obama has won the primary.

Both Bill and Hillary are brilliant, determined, and relentless politicians but it is all about their own ambitions and ego. Bill was a mediocre president… It is only the contrast with his dreadful successor that casts him as anything else.

I have, for some time, felt that the 16 years of Bill and GW will be viewed as an awful watershed in US history. Eight years of Bill’s stagnation and eight years of GW’s corrupt, disasterous incompetence.

Sixteen years of lost opportunities and wasted time that could have been spent dealing with global warming, the energy crisis, and the economic changes brought on by globalization.

Eighty percent of Americans feel the country is going in the wrong direction.

Hillary was never going to be the candidate of change. She is the epitome of what we all despise about Washington DC. The schmoozing with lobbyists, the trading Presidential pardons for contributions to her Senatorial campaign, trading Senate bills for campaign contributions.

And God knows what Bill would get up to if we let him loose in the White House for another four or, I shudder, eight years.

What did he actually do to earn the $109 million dollars he has received since he was last in office? Who are the secret donors that paid for his Presidential library…

And Hillary’s latest performance… “I won’t concede and endorse you unless you offer me the VP slot?”

And all this crap about winning the popular vote if you count Michigan and Florida?

Bill and Hillary have been the two most powerful Democratic politicians for the last 20 years. If they didn’t like the way the primaries were structured or the rules by which the nomination was decided, they had lots of time and certainly the clout to have changes made. They had no problem with any of the rules or procedures… Until they found that Hillary was going to lose according to those rules and procedures. And then suddenly they are weeping over the disenfranchised voters of Florida and Michigan.

This isn’t Al Gore having the election stolen by a bunch of Bush Supreme Court appointees. This was rules and procedures that were created and interpreted by other Democrats.

Hillary is tough. Hillary is intelligent. Hillary is determined. But she is also totally self serving, lacks any integrity, and will do anything to win whatever contest she is in.

I am sorry for the many decent well meaning people who became so invested in her candidacy. Quite bluntly, she is, and always was, unworthy of their support. I can only hope that her churlish behavior of the last few days will make them realize that and that they will come to recognize that they will actually have a much better candidate in Obama come November.