About the 4-year Presidential Campaign is that it gives us plenty of time to see what the candidates are like. In most cases, that familiarity hasn't done much but breed contempt - Obama's looking like a bigoted jackass, and now Hillary's being exposed as someone who has 'stretched the truth' a little in her Bosnia stories. CBS, oddly enough, is going after her now.
This does not bode well for the Democrats. As I've asked before - are these two the best the Democratic Party has to offer?
I suppose I shouldn't be excessively worried - after all, we DO have a few months yet before the Dems finally select their candidate. There's even been some speculation that AlGore is going to get tapped at the convention, with both Obama and Hil bowing out. (Don't see that one, myself - Hillary's not going to 'give up her position' to anyone. I don't thing we've seen the real dirt on Obama yet - there's still more stuff to come. And for someone like AlGore to step in? No, you'd see a hell of a lot of people REALLY ticked off in that case.) The convention may very well be the last one for the Democrats, if they can't get together on a candidate.
The big problem, I think, is that Hil's practicing scorched-earth politicing inside the Democratic party. It's nominally okay to do that to Republicans - but when Democrats start doing it to each other, there's a serious problem in the party. Fratricide doesn't lend itself to building coalitions afterwards, and if there's one thing that's been proved very clearly by the Dems over the last 8 years, they know how to hold a grudge until the proper time to act on it. Bitter internal rivalries have brought the Democrats to this point - and now we're seeing the results.
Pretty, ain't it?
J.