"Ten percent (10%) want both to leave."

There it is. The folks at home are getting fed up with the nitting and picking, a sure sign that neither Obama's nor Clinton's campaigns have anything further to say that's substantial. Couldn't we dedicate ourselves in the remaining months and days to meditation and good works, and let the voters speak when expected?

Over a year ago I pumped (and pumped and pumped, etc.) for a ticket of Feinstein and Obama. But did y'all listen?

But did you importune Feinstein?  What did she say to you?

I think they all should leave and I am in favor of one of the tic tac toe playing Chickens to fill the role, but instead of x's and o's replace it with yes, nos, and vetoes. As to the legality of having a chicken as President, we have just had a chimpanzee and a chickenhawk as President and Vice President.

I'm just as intrigued by the percentage who think Obama should drop out.  What sort of mental contortions do you have to go through to honestly think the guy who won the race ought to drop out?  Am I missing something here, or is this just the default answer of Hillary's hard-core, not really thinking about what they're saying?

The 10% of Americans who want both of them to drop out are a bunch of spoiled little sissies.  "Make them stop, Mommy!" they whine.  Well, listen up, America: you think you're suffering now? You don't know what suffering is.

I want the Democratic tertiary--er, primary, to keep going.

Then I want McCain, after having been nominated at the 'Pub convention, to drop out for some mysterious reason. Something involving Area 51 and/or a redhead would be ideal.

After which I want the 'Pubs to find somebody truly weak to replace him--Ben Stein, maybe.

Then I want the Democrats to nominate their "dream ticket" of Obama and Clinton, and then I want Obama and Clinton to totally self-destruct on the road to November. Clinton photographed in bed with a strange woman. Obama photographed in bed with a strange woman. Obama photographed in bed with Clinton. Frigid midgets with rigid digits.

Then I want three or four third-party candidates (in addition to Nader) to jump into the fray, pouring billions into the election in the process. Bloomberg. Tom Cruise. Bill O'Reilly. Charo. Non-stop, morning-to-night political ads in all media. CNN, FOX et al. ignoring everything else--recession, climate change, Iran nuking France, France nuking Iran, France nuking France--to focus exclusively on the U.S. Presidential race.

I want pundits. I want pundits talking about pundits. I want pundits talking about pundits talking about pundits. I want pundits talking about pundits talking about pundits talking about pundits.

At my age, I'm profoundly jaded by everything this side of artfully rendered fellatio. My pulse throbs with studied ambivalence, at best. To justify giving two and a third shits, I need some action.

This cycle needs to go fractal, and it needs to do it sooner rather than later.

Politicians of America, I'm counting on you.

I was going to post something, but no way am I following that...

<-- Charo!

"But did you importune Feinstein?  What did she say to you?"

Dianne knows how I feel. She smiled politely when I asked her for the umpteenth time if she wouldn't consider it, said something about liking the job she already has. Talk about diplomacy!

Seriously, I did see her on several occasions when I lived in San Francisco, in the company of a mutual friend. Too bad she lost to Pete Wilson for Governor. Had she won she might be President today, instead of Bush. Can you imagine?

;-)

The cynicism of the Clinton campaign is rather stunning when you really think about it. When they started out, and Hillary thought that she could wrap up the nomination after Super Tuesday, so that there would be no need for any of the other states to have their voices heard, Hillary always made a point to sound gracious about the Obama campaign:

Hillary was quick to point out that both she and Obama were able to run for president because of the freedom fighters for social justice from an earlier era. The Obama campaign, no less than the Clinton campaign, was the outgrowth of progress and equal opportunity for everyone so that race and gender would no longer be impediments to public service.

That was then. Today the Clinton campaign quietly (and not so quietly) goes around dropping the poison in any ear willing to listen that Democrats should not support Obama’s nomination because the country is just not yet ready for a black man to become president. Hillary Clinton, tell us what you really think….

A person who once tried to style herself as an advocate for social progress, when it was opportune to do so, now tries to stand in the way of that progress since this is what she thinks is necessary to promote her personal ambitions.

"Hey, it's Joe Biden. Did you see this Rasmussen thing? I could re-enter on Monday and have 10 percent starting out!"

I'm impressed by the 10 percent figure. There are enough crazy people that you can pretty much get 5 percent of any reasonably large polling pool to agree to anything. So after all that's gone on, only 5 percent of sane Democrats want to start the process over with a new candidate. That's pretty encouraging in its own way.