When I first looked at Obama and listened to him talk, I thought well, this kid's alright but they're going to grind him into a powder once this election season gets underway for keeps.

Politics in this country is a blood sport and he doesn't look like he's been touched, let alone had the shit punched out of him in a presidential primary.

Thinking back, though - I do remember thinking Bill too soft for the Presidential race, but he turned out to be hard as nails. Hillary did, too.

The night Bill got the nomination I told my wife I felt like we were getting our country back.

When Hillary began her run we were thrilled - we were going to get our country back again after eight years of living like refugees under the NEOCON heel.

We were thrilled when we realized the Clinton political machine was kicking back into gear. Hillary had lived through all this TWICE, so we were confident the entire family were bringing their 'A' game.

Hillary is already a force to contend with and with Bill protecting her flanks she was going to be unstoppable. She was going to be poetic justice to the complete failures of all three terms of the Bush family "dynasty".

As a bonus we were going to elect a woman to be President of the United States of America.

We were thrilled.


I don't recognize Hillary anymore. Somewhere she lost the thread, something essential to her being the Hillary my wife and I respected and would have voted for. Maybe it's as simple as someone telling her to act softer, or more sensitively. Maybe she just got tired, or scared. I don't know what changed, but something did.

I used to make a living as an actor, see. She makes EVERY single mistake a beginner makes - purposeless hand gestures, straining to add emotion to words she doesn't feel, not understanding how and when to phrase for effect to words that mean nothing to her. Flop sweat evident in clumsy arcs of speech, eyes glazed over and straining to squeeze a genuine emotion out of nothing.

I've heard her speak extraneously and she is a fine orator. When she is in her comfort zone she's as good as you get in terms of the flow, logic and delivery.

But this 'more sensitive' Hillary has led to the uncomfortable, disingenuous amateur telling of the Bosnia lies, the Hospital story, the book bag crap, the garbage truck "Cascade of Garbage" speech....

While her fucking operatives gave us Obama in Muslim garb, Wright-gate, 'I have no reason to doubt him', He's too inexperienced, He's unelectable in the general, he's blah blah blah.

Since when are the Clintons desperate? Bad choices? Bad choices like Mark Penn?

The Clinton machine in ruins. Defeated by sexism, bad press, favoritism, any and all fantasy ills, stealing what both Clintons feel is their - rightful place - in this world, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

On the other hand...

Obama hasn't unraveled. He's weathered every attack covered ad nauseum in the MSM. He hasn't lost a step, hasn't flinched, hasn't stuttered even when he was 20 points down. He hasn't even broken a sweat.

If Bundini were still alive he'd say 'Rumble young man, Rumble'

He HAS weathered the blood sport of American Presidential politics and looks to be thriving.

If the measure of a presidential candidate is defined within the kind of campaign they run and the people they chose to help run that campaign, he'll be a great President

The votes say so, The polls say so, the massive grassroots campaign says so, the youth vote coming out in earnest says so. The delegates say so, and lately the stupordelegates say so.

I'll bet the future of my country that he will thrive as the democratic candidate for the office of the President of the United States of America.

Rumble, young man, rumble.