Political This 'n' That

1. Even though I'm a political junkie, I'll be ignoring Shrubby's final State of the Onion speech tonight. My one word SotU: FUBAR. The best thing I can say to him and his henchmen are the words Oliver Cromwell spoke to the Long Parliament:

You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go.

2. This is the level to which reporting on certain presidential campaigns has sunk. Sic transit gloria mundi.

3. On the Dem side, interesting shift in momentum toward Barack Obama from his rather big win in the South Carolina primary this weekend. The more I look at Barack Obama, the more I like him. Even more interesting is the sheer vote totals. More people voted there for Obama than for all the Rs combined.

Consider how significant this is to me as a political and history junkie: An African American candidate (not the first one, but the first to have such a high chance of winning a major-party nomination), a man of my generation (he's two years younger than I am . . . our first post-Viernam / late Boomer / ur-GenX candidate in a field full of Cold Warriors and Viernam era 60-something Boomers), won a resounding victory in a Democratic primary in a state notorious for neo-Confederate revanchism -- and the state where the American Civil War started with the shelling of Fort Sumter in 1861.

4. In other Obamania news: The Democratic side of the Kennedy clan has endorsed Obama. Senator Ted and neice Caroline Kennedy have issued ringing endorsements of Obama that invoke the memories of President John Jennedy and Senator Robert Kennedy.

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Listening to: The Elders - Turning Point
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