What I think is funny is, in all the past talk about what a genius Karl Rove is, no one has pointed out how the Iraq War is going to come back and bite the GOP in the butt in November.  Specifically the huge numbers of young people who are engaged now in politics.  Needless to say, seeing funerals everyday for people your own age who were killed in Iraq sort of puts Britney's latest troubles in perspective.  Nice going Karl.  And political leanings that are solidified in the formative years of early adulthood tend to stick.  Rove and President Idiot-Boy seem to have created an army of Democratic voters.  I say hooray.

I also think that the reluctance on the part of core conservatives to support McCain spells doom for him in November.  Not just because so many of them may stay home, but because of $$.  Those hard-core party loyalists are the ones most likely to open up their checkbook during a presidential campaign.  If they can't even bring themselves to vote for the guy they're sure not going to be sending him a big fat check.  The media touted how McCain raised $7 million in the month of January.  Obama and Clinton each raised $7 million between Tuesday night and Thursday night - 48 hours.  But I do hope we settle on a Democratic nominee soon so they can start spending that money on the general election rather than against each other. 

God I've been waiting so long for this worm to turn.  It's especially rich to see how impotent the talk radio bloviators have been in this election so far.  It was round the clock McCain bashing before Super Tuesday and McCain goes out and kills the competition.  Maybe no one is listening to those buffoons anymore and they just haven't realized it yet.

Here is a great article on personality assesment of the three leading candidates (Slate, by Emily Yoffe).  Some great insights, the trick is trying to decide on what personality traits we are looking for. 

Personality traits of the current president; "They are decisive and little bothered by second thoughts and self-doubt.  Since they do not reflect very much on their errors or analyze their mistakes to any great extent, it is difficult for them to learn from their errors, and so they can become caught in a loop, repeating their msitakes." 

Here is the link. 

http://www.slate.com/id/2184696/nav/tap3/

My take is we will not get a great president because the system we use to choose the candidates is so warped that the "best" people won't even run.  What it is very good at deciding, is who is the best politician. 

It seems that it is thiought that it is unusual for young people to be liberal. This has been a fact for as long as any of us have been here. The interesting fact about this year's election is we will have a president coming from the Senate. This hasn't happened since Ford, and he wasn't elected. I believe the last before that was Kennedy.  It is also possible we get either a black or a woman. I think McCann beat either of them, but it will depend on his running mate. He has to select someone to bring out the more conservative of the party. I don't like either of the three but will cetainly vote for McCann as the lesser of the three evils. I live in Md and if either Obama or Hilary get elected we will get more of what our Governor has done just at the national level. 

Yes, McCain is the lesser of the three evils. Thank-you for correcting my spelling. I hate when I do that.  If either Hillary or Obama get elected prepare to pay a ton more in taxes and I mean a ton. All the money everyone complains we are spending in Iraq will do diverted to more govt programs. I agree we are going in debt to fight the war but the other two want to continue spending that same amount just on different projects. If you are going to retreat from Iraq, then discontinue the money don't redirect it.

I had forgotten Ford was in the House, I was thinking he was in the Senate.  I'm not saying we aren't spending a lot of money in Iraq. I will even give you that we are spending money we don't have. Clinton technically balanced the budget one or two years but did nothing to lessen the national debt. However, I'm a firm believer that the President does nothing with the budget. They suggest and request, but they are ultimately in the hands of the Congress. This is why when Bush 1 said no new taxes and then relented was because Congress said he would agree to certain increases or they wouldn't even talk to him about the budget. Then beat him over the head with the fact he raised taxes.

My point about Clinton and Obama was they both have said they would use the money being spent in Iraq for domestic programs. That is simply not the thing to do. If we were to leave Iraq then that money needs to not be spent at all.