So I was really discouraged recently over the turn the campaign was taking.  I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who felt this way.

I made the mistake of staying glued to the news broadcasts and talking head shows as wave after wave of political dysentary washed out of the ether and into my little existence.

Being demoralized kinda sucks, however I tried to wash it away by donating my time and money to the Obama campaing this week and that helped a bit.

Some folks have epiphanies in the shower, others gain insight on a long walk, My bright moment cam while choosing oranges at the market near my house:

McCain has decided that to win he has to be an asshole.

I'm not referring to the freindly, lets go have a beer, but he's my kind of asshole.  Rather McCain has decided to be the sneering overcompensating dick that pretty much everyone tries to get away from as fast as possible.

To throw even more levity into my realization, he's also decided to throw petulant child into the mix as well.  My four-year old starts to act out when she's not getting enough attention also, it just took me a little while to recognize McCain's behavior for what it is.

The trifecta is that unlike the swift-boat saga from four years ago, McCain is taking the asshole role onto himself.  Bush for all his myriad faults was smart enough to let someone else be the asshole in the campaign.  McCain either couldn't find anyone else willing to embrace their inner dick, or just couldn't keep his contained anymore.  

Will it fail, who knows?  But I gotta believe that a majority of the populace will grow quickly tired of the Sneering Petulant Asshole persona that has possessed Grampy as of late.

Just my two cents.

Hey all.  I read an artice today that really sent me over the top.  Mike Falcone over at "The Caucus" wrote an article about how the criminal Karl Rove was attacking Obama on abortion.

No big deal so far.  The really aggravating part came with this segment here

"Though he helped derail Senator McCain's presidential bid during the 2000 Republican primary, Mr. Rove lavished praise on his party's presumptive nominee on Friday. He spoke glowingly of Mr. McCain and his wife's decision to adopt a child from an orphanage in Bangladesh."

No note of the irony of the fact that Rove derailed McCain's 2000 campaign by raising the spectre of McCain HAVING FATHERED A BLACK CHILD.  This he now goes on to praise.

So I realize that this is minor compared to the more egregious distortions going on with that Donut delivery service laughingly caled the Associated Press.  But hey different straws for different camel's backs.

The point is I am fed up and pissed off.  

I have a burning desire to fight back lest my head explode.

I am pretty new at this whole game so I could use some help.  In fact I'm yelling out for it here.  

For instance does anybody know of a reliable way to get the e-mails for these various authors?  I wanted to point out to Mr. Falcone the irony I noted above but couldn't find his e-mail address.  

How else do you fight back?  I looking for advice from some of you more experienced hands out there.  How does one raise an effective stink outside our little echo-chamber here.  

How do we at least make it uncomfortable for them when the media lies or allows themselves to pass on lies.  

I'm tired of screaming at my computer.

So oh great and wise MyDD community...what advice might you have?  

A lot of discussion has been going on about how many women identify with Sen. Clinton's struggle to break the glass ceiling.  I am told that they feel righteous anger at seeing yet another highly qualified and powerful woman taking second place to a charming but underqualified man. I also read that many of them will not vote for Obama and at best stay home in November should Sen. Clinton not be the nominee.  Couple that with polling that says that poorer whites won't vote for Sen. Obama and clearly the Superdelegates must make Clinton the nominee to avoid disaster.

Sadly if these things are true then the disaster is upon us already.  

Why, because the only way she wins is if the rules are changed late in the game.  All of the Democratic candidates agreed that Michigan and Florida would not count.  The popular vote is not how the party directly chooses it's nominee.  

If Sen Obama wins the majority of the pleged delegates under the agreed-to rules of the game but is then denied the nomination, it is a fair bet to predict that the party loses it's African American support.  At best it stays home, at worst it goes Republican big enough to produce a landslide. The defection doesn't have to be all that large to produce the effect.

Why would they do this against their own interest?  Because many would see the rules of the game yet again being changed midgame to benefit a white person. Why would this have traction?  Because it is perceived to happen to them all the time. Their righteous fury will most likely be even more intense than that felt by women now.

I honestly dont see how this ends well either way.  

Obama can't win with just the black vote. Clinton can't win without it, but likely can't get nominated without alienating it.