On my mind

Commenting on this entire political cycle just feels beside the point somehow. I'm sick and tired of it, I just want it to be over, but it's still got three months to go and I completely fail in my desire to look away. At least unti the Democratic convention, what is the point? Obama's going to continue to take his "victory lap", McCain is going to continue to toss any insane accusation at him that crosses his campaign's mind, the polls are going to hover in the "close but in Obama's favor" range, everyone's going to argue about why Obama just isn't doing better, one outlier poll will indicate a runaway victory for McCain, the tensions will mount, the tempers will flare, the pundits will declare one or the other the obvious choice, while other pundits talk about how until the conventions none of this matters. Lather rinse repeat. And yet I STILL CAN'T LOOK AWAY. As if the minute I stop looking some fundamental campaign-changing event will suddenly take place and suddenly McCain's new found momentum will vault him and his scary smile into the White House for another four years of a president that is wholly ineffective, that no one likes all that much not even the Republicans, and that everyone crings and tunes out whenever he speaks.

And part of me - beaten down by eight long years of the mind-numbingly relentless constitutional debauchery of the Bush Administration - simply can't let me believe that it's actually possible Obama could win. Everyone blissfully forgets who's making our voting machines, among other things. And Ohio - Diebold land - still seems to have the power of being a decisive state yet again. Oy. It's going to be a long 98 more days...