It’s truly a pleasure to get to choose between Clinton and Obama. My worry is that with McCain solidifying his lock, he may coast to a nomination while Clinton and Obama fight and spend massively through August. I don’t look forward to fielding a bruised, broke, tired candidate.

So Hillary, Barack: think about it. You are both very popular. You’re bringing people to the polls in droves. Your policy differences are witheringly small. And neither of you need a white male from the South or Midwest to “balance the ticket.”

Make a pact, now. Whoever gets to Denver with the most delegates gets to be the candidate, and the runner up is the veep. Done. Sure, you both want to win, but it’s more important to win in November. Somebody gets to make speeches and sign bills; the other gets to run the government and set policy. Cheney, bless his black little heart, has made the VP job relevant, and either of you will make history in holding it.

Let’s skip the catfight and the brokered convention and the disillusioned supporters of the runner-up and having to sign our “Stimulus Rebates” over to the DNCC. We love you both. We’ll take you both, in either order.

Think about it.

This slip-up is forgivable. Frankly, I go to Digby to read Digby. DDay is an excellent writer (hence your mistake), but I’m a bit of a grumpy old man when it comes to these things.

I think these ‘not Obama’ rationalizations are about race.

That’s my conclusion. My friend is very nice and very funny and quite knowledgeable on a number of things. She majored in Women’s Studies and Italian. But her Dad is a hick from Arkansas and, though he can see through Repug bullshit and is quite perceptive on non-race related issues, he has some less enlightened opinions on race. She kind of makes fun of him some of the time, but some of her comments make it clear she hasn’t rolled far from the tree.

She frequently goes off on minority women’s-studies students. In her mind, they are all hatin’ on the white women for not doing enough for black and/or Latino women. (I know just enough about the women’s movement to find these discussions quite fascinating.)

I have little doubt that there were a few hardcore students in her classes that WERE hatin’ on the white women. But my friend gets real bent out of shape about it, generalizes about minority students in women’s studies and – back when she was taking those classes – she would talk about it all the time.

I’m avoiding all talk of the election with her until the candidate is chosen. That is not a distraction I need.

Personally, I think these ‘not Obama’ rationalizations are about race. We are all instinctively xenophobic. Her reaction is so clearly lacking in logic that it must be rooted way back in the fear center. Of course I also think she is typically, like the man in the street, almost completely ignorant of either man’s real positions and records, so maybe by November she’ll come around.

Yup. Idiots.

I advocate the voting booths be placed at the end of a maze. The sort of thing your average lab rat can navigate in about 30 seconds. Anyone who can’t find their way through it, can stay there till the next election.

Isn’t there supposed to be a concern troll scheduled to swoop in and call me a sexist and say all liberals are sexist?

Must have been delayed by a flat tire on the clown car on the way back from the 7-11.

There’s a chick lady I’d have a beer with.

Now you mention it, she does seem to get more cribs after I’ve had a few shots. She certainly can hold her liquor. Swears like a sailor, though.

Or, on the republican side.. Three stooges who want the war to carry on forever, and are planning on an even MORE disastrous war.

If you don’t vote for the Democrat on the grounds of the war, you are a fucking idiot incapable of basic logic. When they ask you “cake or death?” you don’t fucking say “oh, im on a diet, I suppose I’l have to take the death.”

And how many people who DO go and vote will vote for the one who you’d want to have a beer with?

(McCain beats both Hillary and Obama in this category. Doesn’t mean I’d trust him to watch my cactus for a few days.)

God knows what talking points the SCLM will drone into our heads by November.

And Rove knows what dirty tricks will be needed for the Repugs to STEAL the election again.

Who still hasn’t voted AGAINST a war?

It’s easy to talk, but he’s a gutless coward based on his Senate voting record.