Territorial Bloggings

In order to get something other than realitytv/pop-culture posted, I’ll stoop to writing about rank politics. Eeew…

Living in Indiana, I didn’t think that our little primary would amount to much; however, it turns out that we’ll actually matter, given the fratricide that’s taking place in the Democratic Party these days. Yay! (both for our primary mattering and for the fratricide.)

I’m all for Hillary & Barack beating each other senseless all the way through to the convention. I want to see a nice, long, protracted & bloody fight. Let them each expose the other’s flaws (and make no mistake, they will, just as they have been - Hillary can’t help herself, and I actually kind of admire that willingness to fight…), because then it will just leave it for McCain to drive the obvious points home in the general election.

I started out fearing Hillary more than Obama. Lately, however, I’ve come to realize that Obama is, I think, actually more dangerous. They’re both leftist ideologues, to be sure, but Hillary is more along the lines of a party machine politician, ala the Chicago Daleys, or Boss Tweed’s Tammany Hall in NYC. IOW, she’s Old School - she wants the power & wants to run the machine, maybe making some changes along the way. Obama, is more leftist intelligentsia - he’s all about making academic-type, ideology-driven changes. Big changes. Systemic changes.

Obama is Lenin. Hillary is “merely” Stalin. (Think about it - in an historical sense, given the role that both played in the creation & life of the USSR, I think it makes a wonderful analogy…)

Anyhoo, what’s interesting, is that at Schloß TB, I would say that we’ve been getting more contact/sales-pitches from the Obama campaign (via phone & direct mail) than from the Clinton campaign. Whenever I answer the phone, I just tell them what they want to hear, so I’m probably not helping their internal polling data all that much. Oops… ;^)

It’ll be interesting to see what happens tomorrow, both here and in the last state we lived in (NC).

-ghp