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Sounds like some big wrasslin' slamfest doesn't it? Maybe a cage match...

I can't believe that anyone here is still rehashing Obama vs. Clinton, yesterday's news. If it is really time to move on then dare to be one of the first.

Others have been looking ahead to Obama vs. McCain. The following blog from Reality Based Community resonates with me. As the blogger points out, the political process suffers overall when one party allows a single faction predominate to the point of self-destruction. This is because we need both parties to keep one another in check. In that respect I have something in common with the steadily growing number of disillusioned Republicans.

Michael O'Hare apparently has confidence enough in the American people's powers of discernment to know the difference between a clear, rational candidate with hopeful rhetoric and one he characterizes as being given to:

On this assessment, O'Hare predicts that McCain's "press cocoon" will disintegrate.

He begins:

Read for yourself...

I am predicting a national day of celebration come November to party til dawn on election eve followed by a personal day of mischief emailing hate groups and other thinly veiled racist groups that the sweet sound of Fifty Cent and Kanye West are playing in the West Wing. Look who's using the good china and silverware, will ya?

Though it will not be payback in the sense that someone went out of their way for revenge, having an African-American in the White House will be cause enough for anger to many, almost as if it were a personal slight. And they will say so loudly. Talking heads and wingnuts with any hopes of general consumption will be somewhat more muted by finding a wide variety of improprieties of which they will disapprove. They will continue, as they have always done, to speak in code, translatable only by other wingnuts like themselves.

It's going to happen, you know?