Reply #18: Where's the damned fire?

[longship]

Why do we have to be in 365 days a year campaign mode? Year-in, year-out. It seems that we're letting the corporate media dictate our lives, our wishes, our politics, now the pace of our political campaigns.

Who cares who's running for president in 2008 now? It's totally meaningless. Hillary and Obama are both likely a mere bump in the road.


The campaign will not get into gear for a year. Until then we have much more important things to deal with. For instance, handling an out of control executive which is trying to get the US into yet another war, even before they're finished losing the first two wars they got us into. This 2008 campaign stuff is just a distraction.

Before this is all said and done we will find out just how stupid it is to declare oneself a target this far out. The only reasons I can think why one would do that is either to frame one's politics in a near hopeless presidential campaign or to feed ones unbridled self-importance. I can fully understand and support the former. I'll leave it to others to analyze the latter.

Relax about Clark, Gore, and the rest. They are the smart ones. I'll reserve judgement on the rest. One can imagine what I'm thinking, though.