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Clinton seems to have secured the win in a 55%-45% lead in today's Pennsylvania Primary. what does this mean for the democrats? well, it means another three grueling months of backstabbing, false flattery, false humility, and tearing apart the party. for a good while now i've been in the camp that believed that it would be the best thing for the party if would Clinton to drop out of the race. it seemed like the majority of democrats and people in general found Obama to be the more inspiring candidate and it may be the case that this is still true. however, the Clinton machine has just recieved enough of red bull to keep this train moving. If the kind of politics that we have seen from the dems continues through August (effectively leaving two months for the nominee to campaigne against McCain) it will be yet another deathly piece of evidence to show that the democrats don't have their act together.

In this democrat year it seem like no matter who the dems picked, that person would be a shoe in for the white house. and then with a dem congress, and a dem executive branch, they could be unstoppable. but alas if they keep this stuff up they're going to f*** up a presidency that was handed to them.

In last wednesday's debate Hillary appeared to be the stronger candidate. she spent less time making up for her plethora of falsehoods and more time regailing her days playing hid and seek in the oval office. Obama stammered and danced around a few direct questions. Stephonopolis asked him flat out (when i'm "quoting" i'm actually "paraphrasing" to the best of my rememberance) "it's in your plans to raise the captial gains tax. history demonstrates that when you lower the capital gains tax, federal revenue increases" Obama responded with a convincing set of half words until responding, "maybe . . . that could happen, it depends on the big shots on wallstreet". i was dissappointed by that answer. his economic rhetoric was very persuasive until capital gains tax came into the equation.

i'm still pulling for Obama in the long run. and i've maintained my position that if it is a Hillary/McCain battle that i will seriously consider not voting. i hope the democrats can pull it together. if they can't, they won't receive any sympathy from me and we'll just have to get bored watching McCain be Li'l Bush.