Today's the day kids! Tsunami Tuesday!
It's gonna be a close one between Democrats. What if it's a dead heat, so close that the so-called SuperDelegates get to make the selection? Hillary and Obama could get the same number of delegates, this year there's 4,049 (it changes with population) delegates that they earn through voting. Then there's this other 796 SuperDelegates, Congressmen, Senators, party officials, who have the privilege of changing their vote at the last minute. The last minute.
One thing I'd like to say--If Hillary Clinton does pull this thing off, she will have done so against 16 years of being the target of misogyny and hatred...and not always from the Righties either. I guess she didn't get the memo -- middle aged women are supposed to fade away, go home and be invisible.
There has also been a world of difference between the way the media cover Obama and Hillary. The language they use to talk about him--his charisma, his youth movement, his momentum and his star quality--all stand in sharp contrast to the way they pick apart every tiny detail about Clinton. They never once made fun of Obama's voice, his laugh, his hair, the way he dressed, or when he got a tear in his eye (which he did when the Kennedys endorsed him).
About Obama, I like what Bill Maher said: "...there's something there that we haven't seen in decades -- people getting involved who never got involved before. He's stirring something....he got like 14,000 people in Idaho or some place where there's only 12,000 Democrats....you know, it's something that's -- it's beyond politics.
And that's, I think, what a lot of this country has been looking for. In the last presidential election, I think, the figure is 79 million people who could have voted and did not. Those are the people, I think, who are getting involved."
Obama has also had to battle hatred. Who hasn't seen the hate email full of lies zooming around the country? I was so surprised that someone I admire actually said, "Wouldn't it be terrible if Obama was planted by the terrorists?" I gave her the snopes.com site.
So now...there's nothing else to do but:
1 -- Ignore the polls and the meedja spin
2 -- Think long and hard about what's important to you
3 -- Make up your mind who deserves your vote
4 -- Get out there and vote for him or her no matter the weather
5 -- Kick back with some popcorn and await the results
2 -- Think long and hard about what's important to you
3 -- Make up your mind who deserves your vote
4 -- Get out there and vote for him or her no matter the weather
5 -- Kick back with some popcorn and await the results
Then "Que sera, sera."
I don't care if my president is good looking, or black or white or male or female. I don't even care if my President is nice. I want a smart President, a strong President, a successful President who leads our country, who ruthlessly defends our constitution, and protects and promotes our civil rights. I'm not real concerned about the means to those ends...just that they be legal.
You know, I'm really going to miss the horse race aspect of the whole thing...and the haters and the lovers...laughing at the "impartial" partial opinion making clowns on TV...and the phone calls. Who's going to be messing with my beautiful mind next?
March is going to be sort of blah.....
