In an effort to continue its award-winning political coverage, this blog is once again bringing you hard-hitting insight into the 2008 presidential campaign. You’re probably saying to yourself, "Campaign? You mean we haven’t elected a new president yet?”
As shocking as it sounds, not only has the election not taken place, it’s still 2.5 years away. Hold on. I’m getting a message from the studio. Sorry, it’s six months away. Still, that’s a long ways off.
When it’s all said and done, the one defining theme of the 2008 campaign will be that, from start to finish, there were at least a dozen defining themes. First it was defined simply by the massive number of people running for president. Then it was the massive number of debates that this massive group held on a weekly basis. Next it was the massive number of times during the massive number of debates that this massive group said the word “change.”
Now the race is being defined by the massive number of primaries that have taken and will continue to take place for years to come. And if that’s not bad enough, this will all occur across the backdrop of a desperately dissipated sports landscape that involves only the professional teams from Boston playing each other in every round of playoffs ever invented to decide who should be declared the most obnoxious and over-exposed team of the 21st century.
At least the field of political contenders has finally whittled down. We now know that the next president will be John McCain, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton or some kind of perverse amalgam of both Democratic candidates that sounds like a degenerative eye disease called Barillary Clintama.
That is, if we ever get around to electing one of them. The eventual winner will have spent more time campaigning than actually holding the office. And during all this time, none of them have been able to decide on a vice-presidential nominee? We’re not going to have to hold primaries for that too, are we?
Well, if we do, you can bet that all the really pertinent details can be found right here. Stay tuned.
If you can gut it out that long.
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I think the speculation on who will be Vice President is more interesting than the Presidential race. I'm bored with the Obama vs Hilary story and tired of looking at McCaine's old face. Let's make the vice president hopefuls battle on American Gladiators. That would be entertainment.
Thanks for writing this.
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