O'boy....

Obama's camp didn't even vet Hillary for the Vice Presidential candidate's spot on the ticket. My guess is that his desire not to have her considered was matched in magnitude only be her desire not to be considered. I don't understand why everyone is so surprised. There's no WAY that Hillary would ever be content to take the back seat, especially not to a demagogue like Obama.

Here's what's going to happen: Hillary will cause a huge ruckus at the convention. She's still on the ballot for becoming the Presidential candidate, remember? She doesn't have the votes, but she and her supporters will make a statement.

They will then set out to make sure that Obama loses the election. Four years from now, she'll be perfectly poised to say "Look what happened when you morons didn't support me."

Was anyone reading the NYT during primary season; did anyone noticed how strongly Clintonian the publication is? Has anyone noticed how anti-Obama the paper (that bastion of liberal ideals) has remained? This is going to be a disgusting campaign, because we're going to have so much mud on both sides, and the Hillary camp is going to be running around in the background adding some buckets for the Republicans to throw when nobody's looking. How's that for party loyalty and ideals?

I don't like Obama that much; I don't believe he can inspire the sort of change that he thinks he can. However, I do think that Joe Biden was a good move on his part; I can see myself becoming comfortable with the guy. I'd kind of like to see the Democrats quit self-destructing as a party, though. If they lose this election, though, I feel like it'll be a number of years before the party can take itself seriously again and before it can re-congeal back into a consistent, non-self-hating, party with a platform more defined than "take potshots at the Republicans."

Ah. I love election season. If only real life were this exciting...

Oh, and also. How many rabid Obama supporters of the "anti-government-invasion-of-privacy" persuasion signed up to get the text message about his running mate? Hello? Way to identify yourself with arms wide open to the guy that is trying to become the new Man, who isn't even campaigning on public funds! Ho ho ho, I wonder how much all of that personal data is going to sell for some day?

Seriously, though. What's going to happen to all of those numbers, email addresses, etc? How much other personal data are they collecting from supporters, who are all handing it over in droves just because they have a "good feeling" about this guy? Seriously. Stupid. (The privacy policy on the page says they have the right to disseminate personal information to their "agents" and others that will help them further their political objectives. How 1984 does that sound? I don't think that the campaign has any sort of sinister intent, but it blows my mind that people seem to be really selective about the situations in which they object to that sort of behavior.)