Daily Archives: January 4, 2008

I wish I had something interesting to say about the Iowa caucuses. The only thing that comes to mind for me is that I thought Obama’s victory speech was excellent political theater. I might consider voting for him if he becomes the Democratic nominee, which would make him the only major party candidate for President I’ve ever considered voting for since I started voting back in 1980.

But that’s a long way off. Machine politics on both sides of the aisle infuriate me often and bore me to tears even more often. This sausage grinder period of caucuses and primaries isn’t my thing, as I traditionally vote third party (usually Green) on principle because the Democratic Party doesn’t represent my values very well and the Republicans are, frankly, Satanic. Watching the run up to the conventions is only interesting to me as a piece of theater; I’ve got no skin in that game.

So…we’ll see. We’ll see.