Blog of Jeff

Well, McCain just went on his Latin America tour talking about how he’s going to make comprehensive immigration his top priority if he becomes president. Yipeee, he just went to the biggest source of our illegal immigration and broadcast his intent to give them amnesty. I guess 11 million illegal immigrants isn’t enough for McCain. His plan is to grow the illegal population until it is big enough to swallow the entire country.

Of course, this Boston Globe article shows that Obama is up to his eyeballs in corruption and land deals in Chicago. His plan to hand government money to private developers who build cheap, crappy buildings and then let them run down ended up doing just that. Poor people got screwed and many of the developers involved got cushy jobs in Obama’s campaign.

I’m leaning Obama at this point. UUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHH! But only because electing an African-American would probably be good for race relations in this country. Affirmative action at its finest; I may vote for him to be president because of his color. That’s all I’ve got at this point, because I can’t name one single policy of his that sounds good to me. Hopefully, he will be mediocre enough that he will fail to implement most of his ideas.

Of course, that idea of McCain winning now so that Hillary can save us in 2012 might not be so bad. But I don’t really like her either. I just thought she was better than these two COMPLETE AND TOTAL SELLOUTS that we have running. At least we know who owns the Clintons. Nader is starting to look better and better. And he was right about those NBA referees even though everyone laughed at him at the time …

Well, the primaries are over, I dislike both remaining candidates and I’m already wondering who will run in 2012 because I think the next 4 years will range from mediocre to horrible. Total inexperience versus total over experience. Hot temper versus, well, versus hotter temper. Guy who talks about being bipartisan versus guy who actually does do bipartisan stuff, even when he absolutely, positively, shouldn’t.

I’m also getting sick of the “best race ever” and how Hillary changed the world with her amazing campaign to the end and we had two of the best candidates of all time. I suppose that’s the “glass half full” view of it. How about this view? Hillary Clinton came into the race with a tremendous set of advantages. Name recognition, money, powerful friends, an established reputation as a party leader. But her campaign made horrible blunders and she failed to effectively campaign until it was too damned late.

And Obama is the guy that couldn’t win a major primary EVEN AFTER his nomination was a foregone conclusion. In fact, he did worse after people found out that he would probably be the presidential candidate. It was like people voted for him to make a statement and then suddenly realized that their statement might win. “Wait, we didn’t mean it. We just wanted to make her listen to us!”

It’s a lot like one of those exciting October races to the playoffs when one baseball times makes the playoffs by losing 9 out of their last 10 games but the rival team manages to lose all 10 games. Somebody had to not lose their way into the playoffs. But calling that team a winner is a little silly. And calling them one of the greatest winners of all time is really silly.

I’m not seing the glass half-full. I’m seeing loser and bigger loser.

Now, the only question is if Obama can blow the historical precedent that the challenging party has always beaten the incumbent party when there’s an unpopular war and a shitty economy. (And 8 years of complete incompetence, but I’m not sure how historically uncommon that is.) Oh, and the incumbent party’s candidate is freakin’ 90 years old. It would take a pretty big loser not to win it under these circumstances, but Obama has proven that he’s a pretty big time loser.