Every time I post a criticism of Barack Obama, Obamabots either spam my post with thousands of lines of nonsense, or call me a racist idiot, or both, so it isn't exactly easy to sympathize with those beasties. Nevertheless, a couple of days ago Billy Glad replied to one of my comments on TPMCafe with a link to his excellent blog (billyglad.blogspot.com), and I felt an unexpected twinge of sympathy for the Youth Vote that has aligned itself with Barack Obama, even though the next reply to my comment was yet another Obamabot not only accusing me of racism but also of conspiring to have him or her banned from TPMCafe.

So it goes.

Billy's blog-link describes a folkloric device for catching monkeys: Soak a rag in sugar and put it in a bottle, and if a monkey grabs the rag, his fist is too big to slip back out, and the rag is too delectable to let go.

"The TPM monkeys won't let go of the Obama rag, but how could they? There's no sugar rag for them in the McCain jar."

There's not only no sugar rag in the McCain bottle, there's not much sugar in the rest of the world that the Youth Vote is likely to inherit. This is a desperate generation, for some very good reasons, and if they let go of Obama's empty promises, what's left?

If you're 18 years old, there's an excellent chance you'll grind out your life in a wasteland with a low-wage job, and the promise of "affordable healthcare" at the end of it isn't exactly inspiring.

So the Obamabots rejected Hillary and embraced Barack, and their credulity annoys the heck out of me, but they still deserve a better choice of futures than the nightmare of Bush/McCain, the tedium of old-line Democrats, and the empty promises of Barack Obama.

On the fringe of this dismal picture, "Uncle Ralph" Nader is shuffling around in his bathrobe, while the freaky and unintelligent Cynthia McKinney rattles her tin-foil hat defiantly at the moon, and Bob Barr explains to his audience dim-witted hoodoos how they can build their own roads after he abolishes the government.

The Obamabots don't have much of a choice on the current political scene, and if they won't let go of Obama's empty promises, I can't really blame them.