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I watch this race with mixed feelings. It's not that I'd expect the top candidates to champion truly serious policy changes. But even just watching them, I get a creepy feeling.

The lady formerly keeping the name Rodham is so stage-managed as if she runs on remote control, and even if there is speculation that she'd show the now 0hidden face of a vengeful fury once elected, instead I dread the image of a President acting out a role 24/7/365.

There's some "I got you suckers!" in Obama's appearance, and all the empty bland words just increase my feeling that it's him whom I know least what to really expect from if elected.

Edwards should be my choice, expect his zeal and weaponised looks remind me of the young Tony Bliar, and what became of him.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Thu Jan 3rd, 2008 at 05:40:26 PM EST
BTW I am astoundingly late for the party, having semi-consciously avoided all US election diaries, but what diaries beyond Helen's would be worth reading back?

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Thu Jan 3rd, 2008 at 05:45:46 PM EST
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You might try theIowa Caucus -- More Than You Want to Know Diary.

Written by one of the towering intellects in current American intellectual life.

by ATinNM on Thu Jan 3rd, 2008 at 05:53:26 PM EST
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MY thoughts exactlium.  i have always thought waitresses (and waitreseurs) should have caucus power, because without that you would have Nebraska.  And that begs Texas.  Where i have trained my trained chickens to shoot on contact.

i love democracy, where i could be living in Germany, but on windpower work in Des Moines, Iowa, i could actually meet a candidate fur President of the United States of America.  Sitting two tables away, as was prophesized in the bibble, was a former Sec En named Richardson.  i spent twenty minutes with him.  He's the most renewable savvy candidate of all, yet he had more interest in the woman (leader of all community based energy policy in america) i was sitting with than in what i was saying.  His staff knew details on every issue i brought up, but he was only interested in "relaxing" from the campaign.

At the end of the night, i trust only those of us who are willing to put their reality, daily, warts and all, on the net, like us.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Thu Jan 3rd, 2008 at 06:17:49 PM EST
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