our long national nightmare is finally over

obama is the democratic nominee! he won a clear majority of pledged delegates, and thanks to an outpouring of support from superdelegates, he now has a clear majority of overall delegates! and michigan and florida were settled once and for all on saturday... and obama finally won the race officially on tuesday, just a few hours ago. now we democrats can come together as a party behind our nominee... and those bitter voters who no longer wish to vote for democrats can either not vote, vote republican, or vote for third-party candidates (after all, it’s a free country). here is an example of one of those ex-democrats who is bitter:



if you watch the whole video you will see her pledge her support to john mccain at the end. hopefully, hillary clinton will be able to reign in the vast majority of her supporters from such insanity, and get them to vote for barack obama in the fall election. currently, the debate centers around whether barack obama should choose hillary clinton as his running mate, and whether he will do so. i personally do not care. he can select whomever he wants, as long as they are a democrat and are not conservative or anything (al gore picking joe lieberman in 2000: big mistake). but mainly the focus should be on someone who is qualified to be president, is a loyal democrat and staunch liberal, and is young and charismatic enough to run for president in 2016 and win after 8 years of president obama (but not too young, i.e. a bit older than obama).

and as someone who lives in new york state, i can tell you there is no way in hell john mccain is winning this state in november, even with people like that crazy lady voting for john mccain. i was in pennsylvania a few days ago and it looks like obama will probably win there too, judging by the number of yard signs i saw for each of the candidates. things are looking good, since after all, john mccain has the same policies as george w. bush, policies that have failed our country utterly and are quite unpopular. once people learn the truth about john mccain and what he would do as president, there is no way he can win. do we really want neverending war, more tax cuts for the rich that put us even deeper into debt, supreme court justices that take away our freedoms and overturn roe v. wade, no diplomacy, and basically a continuation of the policies that have made the u.s. dollar worthless and petroleum and food get much more expensive while people keep losing their homes and the stock market tumbles? do we really want a government made up of people who don’t believe in government, the type who mismanaged the response to hurricane katrina? do we really want regulatory agencies run by people from the industries they are supposed to regulate who do not believe in regulation? do we really want large corporations and the religious right calling all the shots? if so, john mccain ought to be our pick. but if we want something different, something better, maybe we should think about barack obama as a healthier alternative. and we won’t have the clintons to kick around anymore. things are looking good.