The race

It appears that in a few minutes --- or an hour or two at most --- the race for the Democratic Party's nomination for president will be over. As in really over. Unless something changes in the next couple of months.

And as our friend E said today (and she's an ardent feminist, professor, head of women's studies...) it would be truly wonderful to have a woman candidate. But she's willing to wait for the one who won't pander, for the one she can believe in.

Truth be told, I think that both Clinton and Obama are guilty of some serious pandering this election season: I think Clinton's has been worse, and of course, neither hold a candle to the true Pander Bear, Senator McCain. But they have all done it.

At least now the campaign can really start: and the focus can be on which of two extremely different plans are better for the country: facing environmental catastrophe scientifically mindset or an ideological mindset: a continuation of Bush-style appointments to the supreme court, or a return to reality: tax cuts for the uber-wealthy, or sharing the cost of providing services for the country: understanding that our place in the world is as one of many, or trying to push the rest of the world around: etc.


Yours, ready for round two,
N.