Fuck

Well, fuck. Tonight turned out to decide exactly nothing. Obama was unable to put away Clinton and the struggle continues. The only thing that is a definite outcome from tonight is that the next few months will be bad for the democratic party.

I didn't believe for a second that if Hillary didn't win both Ohio and Texas that she would drop out. Even though her husband said in a speech that she needed to win both states to continue, her campaign made no hints that they were even considering dropping out in any scenario. In fact, they had been floating the idea of staying in the race in the face of an overwhelming pledged delegate deficit to try and win super delegates. But I thought that if Obama could win Texas, the rumblings inside the party leadership would grow louder for Hillary to drop out of the race for the sake of the party.

Now though the race will go past Pennsylvania in April. Obama will win Wyoming and Mississippi and the Clinton campaign will label the results as meaningless as the eleven in a row Obama won before tonight. And if Obama wins Pennsylvania, what precedent would make one think that Hillary would drop even then? What will likely happen is this race won't be decided until the temperatures are in the 80's throughout the beltway. It won't come to a contested convention because Obama will win more delegates than she will in the rest of the contests combined and she's already facing a pledged delegate deficit that it would be near impossible mathematically to make up. But Hillary will go through the spring making asinine comments like these sabotaging Obama in the general election. She'll keep running ads like the infamous "red phone ad" that play upon peoples fears to drive voters away from Obama. And in the end, when she loses, she'll have accomplished nothing more than damaging Obama's chances in the general election and wiling away valuable time that could be spent convincing her supporters that what is more important than having her in office is having a democrat in office.

It sounds like a strange argument I'm making doesn't it? I'm a huge Obama supporter and here I am talking about how voting for Hillary is damaging to the party instead of arguing why Obama is the better candidate, which is the only thing I like to believe people should vote based on. I guess you could call it a defense mechanism though to her making the same types of claims against Obama. It's come to the point in the campaign where what's best for the country now seems to take a back seat to winning the current step in the process. The fact remains after tonight that Clinton is almost assuredly not going to become the nominee. From now until the race is decided John McCain can parade around the country shoring up his conservative support while attacking the democrats. He's free to lunch with president dumbass tomorrow without having to respond to criticism that his policies follow almost verbatim the course of the last seven disastrous years.

This whole thing makes me sick.

Also, John McCain was born in Panama. That's right, Panama.