Well, after 15 months of blah blah blah, it all comes down to me! Well, it all comes down to them, really...
So, after that horrible debate the other night, what's a young primary voter to do? Maybe i should just call up my good friend Larry Farnese and ask him what i should do?
Well, lets try to summarize these bloated candidacies into one distinct message...here goes...
Barack Obama: Change we can believe in!
HRC: Ready for change on day one! And fuck you john mccain.
Barack's message (and google, is Barack really not in your spell check dictionary yet?) has remained fairly consistent When some headwind has tried to knock him off course, he has mostly just resorted to ignoring it, saying that the politics of the future is to stay on message, a message of hope and progress, not only despite politics, but because of it.
Now Hil-dog has had to make some adjustments. Her experience argument didn't quite do it (see: Iowa). But really all along she's been selling herself as a candidate, not only on policy but also on resume. Why is she prob gonna win PA? Is it because all those fat cheesesteak loving union blokes just can't deny a chick in a pantsuit? Is it because women will vote for her no matter what? Or is it because people in a state that has been disproportionately burdened by George W's failed economic and national security strategies, voters are genuinely timid to bet all the marbles on a guy who lacks the mettle to change the world (read: defeat John McCain)?
So Hilary's message seems to be two-pronged on this primary eve: first, that she is READY for CHANGE! and second, that she can beat mccain through coalition building (less attractive then grass, er I mean net, roots, but nonetheless effective) and can weather the storm that is the GOP attack machine.
Now, I think, when all is said and done, there will be a dream ticket, and I think, no matter what, Hil's career is far from over. But change is in the air, no matter what the reservations held by ed rendell. I don't think mccain has made gains these past weeks though, and the dems continue to party-build, so until the convention, I see nothing wrong with playing this thing out (which includes letting superdelegates vote counter to the popular vote, if they see fit).
In the end, I think dem primary voters will ultimately have voted for a personality, as the policy held by all the candidates have been fairly similar. And Barack and HIl do have remarkable stories. I see nothing wrong with selling and buying this bio-politics. I think if we'd considered the fight in the dog of candidates a little more we would've avoided some costly errors in the past. W was never hungry, not one day in his entire life. Barack and Hilary, on the other hand, have been starving since they knew how to talk, a hunger that was born of all the things in this country that can, and should, be better, and I think that makes them better candidates, and will make them better presidents.
As for me, I look forward to exercising my American right to a secret ballot, so while I can't tell you whose lever I will pull (thats what she said), I can tell you this: I expect April 22, 2008 to go down as one of the best days of my life, fo sure.
Blogs and kisses, jordan
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