Like most of the country I’ve been glued to CNN’s coverage of the 2008 presidential election. My political views have always been moderate to some degree, but it’s kind of hard not to get caught up in this whole democrat primary race. Anybody who knows me well expects the cynical side of me to jump up and defend or bash Sen. Obama or Sen. Clinton. And while it’s easy to do I’m more drawn to the two differences between how both of them have run their respective campaigns.

If you have half a pulse and have drunk Googled recently I’m sure you would have run into the trillion debates on the internet for or against either candidate. The insta-pundits have weighed the options, put forth the facts, and broken down the stats. If I had to chose one solely on how they RAN things so far I would have to go with Barack Obama. But this isn’t a love fest, there are things that he is doing, or has done that pisses me off. Hillary on the other hand will go down in history as the (18-1*) 2007 New England Patriots of politics .

How on Gods green lovely earth do you squander all that money, your HUGE I’m talking substantial lead in super delegates, and public support?!?!!? I remember listening to talk radio back in 2004 and they were hyping her up like she was the Babe Ruth of politics. It’s like watching an Olympic athlete run a 100 yard dash and trip on their shoe lace inches from the finish line, it is the wailing of the arms and rolling on the ground that I can’t get over. Everything was graceful until she realized she was f$#king losing to somebody named Obama. Make no mistake she will lose, and when she does I think she pretty much owes everybody an explanation starting with feminist and the lobbyist and just work her way down the line till she finally gets to little kittens.

This race has gotten ugly, no pun intended (well maybe a little pun) I know the news is loving this, “Sen. Obama is lucky to be here because of his race”. That is one of those statements that when it came out of Mrs. Ferraro mouth (multiple times) and went into my ear all I could think of is, are you out of your cotton picking mind?!?! Not only does it not make sense, but the irony is so delicious, but I’m not even going to go there. I’ve been waiting for the other shoe to drop the whole primary. You know what I’m talking about, Wolf Blitzer opening his eyes wide and saying “OH MY GOD a black guy has black people voting for him… and and and wait, I’ve gone over the numbers again and this can’t be right, women are voting for Hillary… and it gets more spooky republicans are voting for McCain… my head is going to explode news at 11”.

While anybody with eyeballs and their very own CNN analyst can tell you Sen. Obama has benefited greatly from black voters. Just as Sen. Clinton has benefited from women, and Sen. McCain has benefited from Moses and half of the Old Testament voters. I understand all the hoopla, but the amount of time spent trying to explain this phenomenon has made me wonder why I pay my cable bill.