Wait - What Year Is This?
Hillary tests the waters in Iowa. Obama wows 'em in New Hampshire. And Biden shoots himself in the foot.
And then there's this: In GOP presidential race, McCain slips; Giuliani gains luster.
Is the presidential election still in 2008, or did I miss the memo?
Running a two-year campaign is damn expensive. No wonder presidents end up deep in the hip pockets of the wealthy and powerful.
And no wonder so few people vote in presidential elections. By the time they actually roll around, twenty-one long months from now, everyone is pretty damn sick of it.
Comments
Damn! And I told Barrak to keep his head down and powder dry!
Posted by: cartledge | February 7, 2007 11:54 PM
All election-cycle all the time and a price tag of nearly a billion dollars for the whole process.
But anybody can grow up to be president of the United States, right?
Posted by: reality-based educator | February 8, 2007 07:11 AM
Amen! I'm still trying to recover from the long gubernatorial race we had in Michigan last year.
Just a thought, do you think us news junkies who blog and leave comments encourage their behavior? We're feeding their egos with all the attention!
Posted by: Kathy | February 8, 2007 02:28 PM
Those are two things politicians never do, Cartledge, along with getting tired of talking about themselves.
rbe, you have to play the money game to be qualified for president. Whoring for dollars...
Kathy, I don't think it's bloggers that drive this ridiculously long election season. It's more what rbe alluded to - all election-cycle all the time. Politics as entertainment. It's big business, and it cheapens the process and skews the outcome.
Posted by: abi | February 8, 2007 07:14 PM