Presidential Election Fatigue
The new Democratic Congress has been in power and they should already be declared a Lame Duck one. It’s not Speaker Pelosi’s or Senate Majority Leader Reid’s fault. Blame the Presidential campaigns who decided to launch their runs a year early sucking media attention away from Congress’ efforts. And blame the media who decided a two-year Presidential marathon is better than a one-year horse race. Yes, the debate over non-binding Iraq War resolutions garnered media’s eyes and ears, but almost instantaeously the talk of the media elite and the political webloggers went back to the 2008 election.
The news of the day on memorandum is David Geffen, a Sen. Obama backer telling Maureen Dowd, “Everybody in politics lies, but [the Clintons] do it with such ease, it’s troubling.” Hillary’s campaign had to strike back with a response from the Obama camp.
Hello! We’re 11 months away from the first caucuses and primaries, but Clinton and Obama are dueling like the race will be decided next week. Not just Geffen will have Clinton fatigue. We’ll all have a case of Clinton fatigue, and McCain fatigue, and Giuliani fatigue, and Romney fatigue (but certainly not Kucinich fatigue because he’s so wacky he’s entertaining). Newt Gingrich was right. This endless campaign is an “absurdity.” Democrats are already beating each other up, and soon Republicans will do the same. Stuck in the middle will be an American public who wants to tune it out, change the channel, and just want their leaders to lead.
Dude, have you seen Kucinich’s wife?!?
Never underestimate the power of far-left politics.