Now is it over?

The 2008 Presidential Election feels like it's been going on for five years, rather than 5 months.  I suppose 8 years of the disastrous Bush administration would make any sane person want to get new leadership as soon as possible.  I can't imagine very many people, Democrat or Republican, can admit with a straight face that the Bush administration has been good for the country in any way except to make the very wealthy even wealthier. I hope that Hillary Clinton drops out before the Democratic Party convention in Denver.  She cannot get more pledged delegates than Barack Obama even if Michigan and Florida were to count. Her argument for the nomination now turns to "electability," a more-or-less coded way of saying that poor white people won't vote for Obama no matter what.

From now until November, my only hope for change is that Barack Obama gets elected.  John McCain has proven in his candidacy that he will lie about his record to make him look more conservative than he purports to be.  His campaign, on the other hand, will try to make it look like he is still the "maverick" he used to be so that independents and some Democrats will vote for him.  His gas tax holiday proposal shows that he (and Hillary) will pander to the American public to get elected.  The United States needs real change in order to turn things around.  We have a sinkhole of a war going on and an economy that's getting worse.  Obama is not as experienced as John McCain, no dispute.  But at least Obama has the judgment and the will to take principled stands to solve the problems, not give people a temporary solution to make them feel better.  I may not have supported Obama from the beginning, but it is clear to me that he is the better candidate between him and John McCain.