I agree with the feelings behind this post 100%. Now the backseat driving focus has shifted to whether or not the campaign should be focused on McCain's military experience instead of legitimate issues that are actually going to drive people to the polls to support Barack Obama in November. Issues where Senator Obama's positions are blatantly superior to Senator McCain's muddled thoughts. You know the ones I mean, right? Issues like whether or not the way to eliminate our dependence on petroleum includes sucking every last drop of petroleum out of the ground, our shores and parks and forests be damned. Issues like whether a President should commit us to a war in Iraq that isn't making us safer for no longer than the length of a Presidential term or for longer than that same President can ever hope to live. Issues like whether the solution to our economic troubles is putting more money in the hands of people who will actually spend it on goods and services, or whether we should continue the same shitty economic policies that got us in this mess in the first place. Issues like whether the President of the United States should be afraid to talk to other world leaders for fear of the "prestige" of the meeting rubbing off on the bad guys. (Is prestige like glitter makeup now?)

I don't know about you, but I trust Team Obama's track record when it comes to winning elections. I have confidence that they are laying the ground work toward getting our party out of the fetal position and into the fighting position. I respect the team that Senator Obama has assembled enough that I don't feel the need to sit in the back seat and second-guess their election '08 GPS, and question when and where and how their expenditures fit with conventional wisdom, which is so often one or the other these days, and so rarely both.

I think the most important part of the post, however, is the Hulkumania, "whatchagonnado Brother?" part... If the answer is "wringing my hands and being a candy-ass," I decline to join in the fun. I'll be too busy volunteering, phone banking, registering voters, and showing the visibility of my support for Barack Obama in trying to win Virginia and North Carolina. Maybe you don't live close enough to help with those particular states, but if you've got $30, you can join in the visibility effort wherever you are by following this link:

https://donate.barackobama.com/logotshirt

and making a donation. In exchange for your filthy (but non-lobbyist) lucre, you'll be sent an awesome Obama '08 T-shirt which you can wear while you're blogging about how Obama is selling us all out on FISA in a way that John McCain never would...