election hysteria

alright folks, here it is.

i voted today. for the united states democratic presidential candidate, among other things. you may have noticed that i did not disclose my preference before now. that being said, your jaw may hit the floor. fair warning.

i am pissed off at the democratic party. i am furious that they have pitted against each other the best two candidates we have ever had, and may ever have. and i am severely irritated that they coaxed obama into running for this term. if i had it my way, obama would be the vp on hillary's ticket for 2008 so that he could get his foot in the door in washington, and get some ground established onto which he would step in the next term as the president and actually make the changes he wants to make with some indisputable certainty. unfortunately for america, we have forced such disdain between the two dem candidates that neither one will likely be willing to run as the other's vp. we've turned them into all-or-noners. travesty. as it is now, obama's wanting to dive into washington with so many things he wants to completely about face. it's not that he's unproven or novice that concerns me, it's that i don't think god could pull off in eight years what obama wants to achieve in washington after the devastation that the bush administration has fostered. i'd rather have hillary do the initial cleaning up of bush's mess. she already knows everything about how washington works and who she's dealing with, and they know her. obama should take over for hillary later, and clean up after whatever mess she leaves over. that is what i would like to see.

there's so much hysteria on the democratic side of this election that people don't seem to be thinking about the complete picture. the democrats don't seem to be able to acknowledge that we have the opportunity to take back washington for sixteen years.

if obama takes washington this term, we might hold the white house for eight years. maybe. unless it turns out that the man is not superhuman, and fails to follow through on all of his ambitions as president. then people will lose faith in him and the pendulum could swing back the other direction. ergo, the democrats lose washington to the republicans again after four years. there's also the fact that she is sixty and he forty. obama can run for president again in eight years. hillary can't, and wont. if hillary wins now, democrats could hold the white house for up to sixteen years. sixteen fucking years. eight of hillary, and eight of obama because eight years from now he wont even be fifty, and he can run as strong a campaign as ever - stronger because he would run as former vp. that would be beautiful... since i don't forsee the appearance of any democratic candidates in the near future that will be anywhere near as amazing as either of these two. the longer democrats hold washington, the more likely it is that obama's change is really going to happen. if hillary gets in there first, she has the vigor and the direction to get the stones turning in the white house. the complete about face that is necessary in this government might actually occur in her hands. then obama will have the optimal place from which to take over.

there is not a single college student i know who looks at it this way. not a single one. every liberal college student is an obama maniac. which is understandable - the man is the real deal. but come on... i know evolutionarily humans are not built to deal with foresight, and long-term planning, but i also know that we have developed an insane level of intelligence and capacity for creative thinking which allows us to understand the importance of long-term foresight.

somebody explain to me why the hysteria of fulfilling the immediate needs and short-term satisfaction is winning this battle.

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so i voted for hillary. even though i like obama better. even though i know that he is going to win the democratic vote.