I'm getting tired of politics

I'm getting tired of politics. In this election we have a Republican candidate for President who is basically a really decent guy with some ideas that don't come from NeoconsRUs, but he's turned the steering wheel hard right in order to appeal to the Bob Jones University wing of his party. If he had had the guts to avoid accepting the endorsement of the Current Occupant ... but he didn't.

And also in this election we have two Democratic candidates. One of them is fresh and brings a new balance to the Tennessee feudin' match we call the American political system; the other is being supported in the primaries by the Texas Republicans because if she runs, all the BJU wing will run out to vote against her, and a lot of moderates and independents will likely stay away. See the LA Times online poll results in the figure that show Clinton barely ahead of McCain but Obama hugely ahead. After her "3am phone call" ad, I might leave the top of the ballot blank too, because I cannot abide the running-on-fear campaign that Cheney-Rove-Bush used, McCain is adopting, and Clinton stooped to. What hypocrites -- to run on public safety and to oppose reasonable gun control, when uncontrolled guns kill thousands of people every year.

Yes, I'm pulling for Obama, and keeping my fingers crossed that voters will get tired of fearmongering and choose someone who can look at rebuilding the reputation of the country without trying to do that at the point of a gun/tank/aircraft carrier/nuke.