As a former Clinton die hard, well, actually, I am still, but I am over that, I was ready to go ahead, let bygones be bygones, vote for Obama.

My family wore me down, as well, and I always knew I could never vote for McCain and his dogged persistence in following bad policies to their illogical end.

But, lets be honest, the light has not been lit up with soaring rhetoric here lately, more reposturing in the middle for the general election, lots of fluff and nonsense and little memorable in the way of driving specific issues or proposals.

i certainly do not want to over tout polling so early in the election in november, but given the obama foreign trip & his clearly efficient campaign staff & machinery, tons of money, is it legitimate to wonder why some polls now show a very close race?

the conventions, unless somebody does something egregioous, will be a wash, in my humble opinion, the events have devolved from smoke filled rooms of real excitement, to drowsy affairs where pomp and circumstance get equal billing with policy, party, country, families, all that stuff.

but, wait, president bush is as popular as a radioactive used condom, the american people clearly know change is needed, democrats seem poised to grow in the senate and house, but why is mccain so close?

the fall is not yet here, the leaves have yet to have a chance to begin to change color...

the political season is so early yet, too early it seems, but nonetheless, we once again get to enjoy the quasi=regular national race baiting with jesse jackson

jesse has made many crude comments in the course of his life, he has made mistakes, as have we all, he has done some good things with his life

i had stopped visiting sullivans site some time back, i found the daily two feet of sewage on the clintons just uncomfortable to view, and smell.

since hillary endorsed obama, since they had their unity rally yesterday, i thought, why not check it out

I see the comments of Ralph Nader. He has been a thorn in the side of many for so long.

I can remember it now, how sarcastic he was back in 2000. He assailed Al Gore and made the difference between Gore and then Governor Bush seem nonexistent.

He convinced many sour, frustrated with politics as usual, whiny people. The people were tired of the Clinton drama at the end, and with apparent peace and prosperity they could entertain such notions as Gore governing the same as an almost blank slate son of a former President.

now we castigate the pumas....party unity my ass

now we see calls for unity, for giving bill clinton some love

now i see speaker pelosi allow that yes, perhaps hillary may have faced some gender bias, but still and all, it was no biggie anyway

the new york times even deigned to recognize the slimy drivel emmanating from maureen dowd when it was on any subject that might involve a clinton, even in an obscure way.

vero possumus?

is that what i see before me, with the candidate obama appearing over the...what do you call that thing...oh, his seal

i see, his own seal, web address, that is good, more money all the time.

The idea that we, as a nation, engaged in torture, and that this could make our leaders potential war criminals for their decisions to abrogate the Geneva Conventions, set up after the depracations of the Nazis, this presents us with some confounding choices to make.

We can, and will, and have, bashed the Bush Admininstration for it's excesses. The reporting on the run up to and during the past 7 years has been pretty clear.

So, now we can truly, righteously go on decrying the actions of these Others...