That's about enough of that.

I told myself that I wasn't going to blog about politics for a least a few days, but this kind of bogus attack is starting to piss me off. The 'gotcha rhetoric' of Taylor Marsh's 'article' makes me want to break things.

My support for Barack Obama is emotional, yes. But that emotion is driven by a firmly rational look at his abilities, platforms and capacity to break - pragmatically - from the destructive political paradigms of recent years. The fact that he encompass the kinds of qualities I'm rationally looking for in candidate gets me a bit emotional. I'm not - nor do I consider myself to be - a member of a cult or mindless movement. It's not Lisztomania*, for crying out loud. I look at all his attributes as a man and a political force, and I get excited. It's as simple as that.

HRC had a chance to fill this emotional role, but she chose to run as the incumbent, pigeonholing herself as 'status quo' when people are asking for something different. So, yeah, I get a little emotional when people think that HRC is the better candidate for the U.S.A. and the world at this time. There so much that is wrong with a potential HRC presidency... Her tendency towards political expediency is the biggest problem. It lacks authenticity. And for my generation (and younger, I'd wager), nothing quite gets under our skins as someone who is inauthentic, be they politician or our next-door neighbor. In mincing her 2002 vote on the war, she's really missed the boat. Instead of coming out and saying “I did what I thought was needed at the time for this reason, but now I'm against the war” she engaged in double-speak and evasion.

I don't need my candidate to be perfect; in fact I really need my candidate to humanize himself by admitting that there might be problems and setbacks. That's authentic. Reality-based. So don't accuse me of going along with a crowd of delusional automatons. I've done my homework on this. I've even founded my decisions on logic.

On the other hand, this is really just an internecine net battle. Most of the people that are going to read Marsh's piece have done their homework.

*The term "Lisztomania" was coined by the German romantic literary figure Heinrich Heine to describe the massive public response to Liszt's virtuosic piano performances. There were screaming women and concerts were often standing room only. In short - temporary, batshit insanity.