January 05, 2008

Get Real

Humpday, 10 Premise 2008

I've just been wading through some of the incredible torrent of posts about the recent Iowa caucus (just along the little corridor on the Fashionable Left Bank of Blogtopia (y!sctw!), and I must say thanks to you all for keeping me so infotainally occupied of late.

It seems to me that there's some points that haven't really been focused on enough:

- all of the inter-party sniping that goes on does nothing to help, and a lot to hinder, the party as a whole;

- that is the meat and drink of the supposedly liberal media, who are now in early feeding frenzy mode;

- eventually, hopefully, if a Democratic* candidate becomes president, most (if not all) of those running for president will be included in some measure or form in the next administration. Maybe you should all focus on the ineptitude, divisiveness, and elitist Republican't candidates, and tie them to the Anchor In Chief this season, and look towards working together to bring this country back from the brink of oblivion once one of you get the nomination. A nice helping of media scorn and/or pointing out the media's obvious biases wouldn't hurt, either**.

- the Iowa caucus results seem to indicate that any of the big three can take any of the Republicant's in the general election. And that turnout will be higher than usual. Which could turn this November into a completely different ballgame - or more of the same old same old. I'm personally hoping that america will be able to show the world that it is a participatory democracy once more, and that turnout in November 2008 will top 70%. But I've always been a dreamer...

And so once more we go into the fray, ladies and germs. Hang on - it's going to be a wild ride in ought eight.

* - by the way, has anyone else noticed that suddenly increasing numbers of the MSM have remembered how to use Democrat and Democratic properly and appropriately again?

** - like, for example, publicly banning Faux Snooze and Oh!Really? from Democratic press fluffers until they learn some manners...

Posted by (: Tom :) at January 5, 2008 08:24 PM