>If the turnout for primaries so far is any indication, there could be a lot more people than that voting this November.
What I find kind of interesting is the Democratic race. The GOP is doing about the sanest thing it can do given choices offered. If there were a good black or Hispanic woman for VP with tons of domestic or economic policy cred that would be ideal.
The Dems have a more intersting choice. Though on many issues I find Obama perhaps too far to the left for my taste I could pretty well live with him for all kinds of other reasons. I think nominating Hillary would put McCain in the Whitehouse for sure, and I could live with that too, for different reasons. I cannot imagine Hillary winning. Her nomination would galvanize the right and raise more money than we've ever seen in a Presidential race. She also has some of the highest negatives of any serious candidate in history. And there is the Richard Nixon factor.
My fear would be Obama court picks. I don't like judicial legislating even when I agree with them. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with whoever the right wing has waiting in the wings either, but I would rather inactivist over activist.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
