"Cheat to Win"
--An old friend
This reminds me of a book I once read.
The superdelegates factor, coupled with the Democratic party's oddball screwup of Florida and Michigan - two notorious swing states that have been the center of America's frightening political battleground - means we may be in for a serious brawl come summer.
The Dem convention itself shows potential as an old-school 20th century affair. Shysty hucksters will prowl around and both candidates will pursue any back door cut to sneak into a nom.
As in the past, this may mark occasion for true lines to be drawn. The badminton net is being cast, the poles shoved in the ground. Pundits will say that peepants scaredycats line up behind their mother figure on one side while the fresher types give a chance to a darker shade of idealizm. Thing is, the pundits might for once turn out to be right.
2000 and 2004 emphatically displayed to everyone the imperfections (to be delicate) of the U.S. general electoral system. 2008 may blast us back to an era when there were evident and frightening moral chasms to conquer in the mere primaries.
Unlike in olympiads past, though, it's starting to look like the kids might have something to say this time.
"They were wasting those longhairs / I just happened to be there."
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