Politics!

I'm amused by the whole Hillary Rodham Clinton/Barack Husein Obama thing. For some bizarre reason, Hillary consistently polls a few percent higher when her middle name is used. Obviously, her supporters try to say it as often as they can manage. Her opponents, on the other hoof, avoid saying it. That's politics.

Obama's middle name, for obvious reasons, is a liability. Now his guys are all whiny because Hillary's ads are using both their middle names. They're decrying this as dirty campaigning, yet they certainly haven't been going out of their way to use Hillary's middle name. They're kind of over a barrel here, since you can't really protest about it without calling attention to it.

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The best comment I heard about Hillary crying in New Hampshire was "If I'd stayed married to Bill Clinton all that time, and still wasn't going to get to be President, I'd cry too."

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McCain seems suddenly quite plausible. I'm still very unhappy over his support for Bush's amnesty bill. If it weren't for that, I'd be a supporter, and probably an enthusiastic one. I certainly liked him in 2000. I do at least admire that he sticks tight to his guns, and doesn't back down an inch on whether he was right or not.

I can vote for John McCain if it comes down to it, although I'd still rather have Giuliani. Ron Paul is toast, I'm afraid, and a vote for him would be pretty much wasted.

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You foreign people, which Republican would you vote for at this stage in the primaries, and why? Which Democrat?