I’m going to save the screen capture I took of the Democratic Party’s home page a few minutes ago.
And the next time I read some columnist pontificating about how the outcome of an election is a foregone conclusion…or hear a talking head pronouncing someone’s victory to be “inevitable”…or talk to a campaign operative who tells me their candidate is absolutely assured of winning, and I’d better be on the victorious side…
…I’m going to pull this up on my screen, and laugh, and laugh, and laugh.
Nobody in politics has a crystal ball. And the people who prognosticate with the highest confidence, at the highest volume, are the biggest bluffers in the business.
Hurray for unpredictability. It’s a key ingredient of hope.
What an odd system they have. They haven’t even had their convention and they still act as if the nominee is selected. I mean, if the primaries are that critical (and clearly they are, as Obama is now being called the Democratic nominee) why not save the money and don’t have the convention. Hell, even the Republicans haven’t formally given the prize to McCain.
I mean, it’s almost as silly as if your federal election didn’t actually count for anything, and the final decision, in fact, is made in ANOTHER country by some elderly woman so first has to invite the winning party to form government. Or not.
Now THAT would be f**ked up.
;-)
One more reason to greet our alien overlords with open arms!