Obama vs. Clinton

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/10/dems.campaign/index.html

Is there any way the Democratic nomination doesn't end in an absolute trainwreck? I mean, is there even the faintest possibility at this point that the Dems aren't headed for a disaster of epic proportions?

Between the Florida and Michigan debacle, the oligarchy that is the superdelegate system (you got to love the irony and abject hypocrisy of a political party who claims to champion the common people, yet bestows a select handful of their "elite" members with the power to override the collective will of those people), Bill and Hill willing to say or do anything it takes to win, the press having nothing better to talk about for the next 9 months, and a confusing, antiquated primary/caucus system, I don't see how the Dems come out of this without major egg on their face (or at least a black eye as big as the Straight Talk Express.)

Let me just say here that I am pulling for Obama. I expect Hill to win though. Not because it will be the will of the people or because she's the better candidate, but simply because the system isn't designed to comply with the will of the people or to choose the better candidate.

Which means by the time this whole fiasco is over with (should be sometime in August; please shoot me now) it will be Hillary vs. McCain. By that time all the independents and people who had hopes for the new type of politics embodied by Obama will be so disgusted with the system they will either go back to not caring about politics or vote for McCain. I plan on doing the latter.

So here's to Colonel Mustard/Veep Yet to be Named in 08!