jude folly

With a number of contenders sniping for visibility and sound bites, the presidential primaries proved far more interesting than the two-candidate race we now witness in the months leading to the November election.  I admit the change we seek from that last seven years of Bush administration incompetence, nepotism and deception - may not amount to the dramatic policy sweep our country merits.

Yet, the choice between Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain strikes me as overwhelmingly obvious.

Who seriously cares? The Huffington Post seems to be mining this story to unearth acrimony between McCain and Bush that errupted around the 2000 Republican primary in South Carolina. At the time a push-poll of mysterious origins queried voters whether or not they’d vote for John McCain knowing that he had fathered a black child out of wed-lock.

What has troubled me to this day about Sen. McCain is that he hasn’t had the self-respect to publicly tell the Bush organization to screw off; the South Carolina dirty tricks he swallowed clean so he could one day earn the Republican presidential nomination.