Last night why news was exploding about this…I kept waiting for them to switch to something else.  I haven’t really decided who I would vote for.  Yup, hard to believe as it might be for some?  I think all our candidates (Obama, Clinton and McCain) are pretty much equal evils…just in different ways.  I think they are all gonna massively screw it up.  Yeah, I have that much faith in our choices.  But truth be told, last night’s announcement by John Edwards just didn’t do Barack Obama any favors for me.  In 2004, Edwards was my choice for the Democratic nomination…but no, the Democrats took a bunch of drugs and chose Kerry.  And it tarnished Edwards.  And for some reason, he seemed far less impressive this time around.  It’s the same thing as 2000.  In 2000, I wanted McCain to be the nominee.  And I think if McCain had been our president, we would not be in Iraq.  But McCain eight years later?  Not so inspiring.  He has bent and acquiesced to Bush and the Evangelical Right so much that it is depressing.

And so it is the same with Edwards…he just seemed less inspiring and hopeful this time around.  I was not impressed, he seemed more slick politico than “man fighting for the people.”  So, his long winded endorsement of Obama doesn’t help Obama for me…I am as unsure about him today as I was yesterday.  And I kept waiting for them to exit his overblown speech and after awhile I just gave up and tossed a DVD into the player.  The Puppet Masters starring Donald Sutherland.  Alien parasites come and take over peoples’ bodies in an effort to overrun the world.  Interesting parallel.