In a really good essay (3 pages) Walcott expalins the frustrations behind the fervour of the Democratic Primary war
Once Edwards dropped out of the race, however, the buffer zone was removed, direct contact replaced triangulation, and the Obama and Hillary supporters faced off like the Jets and the Sharks. The rancor was disproportionate in intensity and extravagant in invective, a fervor worthy of ancestral foes. Months-old grievances seethed and erupted as if they had been bubbling for centuries in a lake of bad blood. On the most egoistic plane, it seemed like a clash of entitlements, the messianics versus the menopausals. .............. Such fratricidal skirmishing may sound silly and minor-league, like a feud between high-school cliques where the two sides sit on opposite ends of the bleachers, texting each other inappropriate messages full of misspellings and nonperforming grammar. But there is a deeper frustration at work, a more unappeasable, unaddressed anger. And that is the failure of Democrats and activists to bring the Bush-Cheney administration to account for any of its destructive and disastrous misdeeds over the last seven years (even raising the possibility of impeachment was treated as poor etiquette by the queasy Democratic leadership), the impotent fury over the knowledge that the masters of disaster will leave the White House unscathed, unaccountable, their smirks intact. There will be no day of reckoning, nothing to stop their clean getaway.
you are the media you consume.
Nobody credits Pelosi for standing strong, everybody just sees democrats carrying water for the repugnican evisceration of the Constitution. keep to the Fen Causeway
On the up side, Bush seems to have become the President no one cares about. The 9/11 wrrrr on trrrr has run out of rhetorical steam, and no matter how much he bobs and smirks and flaps his arms around, no one is paying attention any more.
I don't expect he'll stand trial for anything much, even though people are still dying pointlessly. But if Obama wins there may be some constitutional changes which will make an outbreak of Chimp 2.0 a little less likely.
I suppose Bush could still try to do the Iran thing as a final parting fuck you, but I think he'd run into a solid wall of WTF from pretty much everyone if he tried that. Cheney will still be masturbating over pictures of fall-out patterns, but the chances of the happy explosion he's so desperate for are looking increasingly remote.
We may have to console ourselves with the thought that when Cheney leaves he'll very likely be thinking of himself as a failure - because he didn't make the president emperor of everything, and because Iran will still have people living in it who aren't radioactive and dead.
Which is going to be small beer, but better than nothing.
Chimpy will go back to his usual lettuce-like level of sentience on the speaking circuit. He'll be invited to events where no one is going to care what he has to say, so he'll finally have the uncritical adoring audiences he's always wanted - and would have had much earlier, if it hadn't been for those pesky Democratics.
I mean the factions of the party backing each one, not the actual candidates themselves. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
But Cheney can't win this - because if someone else does it, it just won't feel the same.
