Let me begin by apologizing, but I am done mincing words. Obama and Biden can continue calling McCain and Palin good, honorable folks. But from Racine-fucking-Wisconsin the man is a coward. He can't stand up to the crazies in his own audience, let alone Barack himself. Let alone the "evil" people in this world.

   John McCain is a Toadie. He preaches and defends what others believe in hopes that they will accept him as one of their own.
 
  You know who these people are? They're the people on the playground who neither ran shit nor took it. They are the ones who positioned themselves to pound on the small kid in hopes or earning the big kids' admiration.

   Only it don't work like that. They only like you in so much as you're useful. And Mr. McCain, as soon as you are no longer the nominee THEY won't give a fuck about you.

   Good luck.

  Like everybody else, I'm beat. Emotionally and physically exhausted by this two year nominating process. It wasn't until today, though, that I realized how thankful I am for it.

  In a contest as highly orchestrated and market-tested as a presidential campaign the only real insight comes from seeing through cracks in the facade, the short bursts of honesty before spokespeople clarify "what the Senator really meant."

   Slowly the things that started as one-off gaffes coalesce into characteristics, characteristics add up to character and eventually, given enough time the character actually replaces the candidate (or at least their own version of themselves).

  Last year, while the race was still between Rudy and Hillary, I liked this kid Barack Obama, but on pure policy preferred Dennis Kucinich. But after watching and listening and working for a year I am more confident than ever that we picked the right guy.

  At the same time the mirror image of this was occurring on the other side, how many among us last year would have would have, without a great deal of protest, resigned ourselves to a McCain presidency? I know that personally it wasn't until he reversed himself on torture and immigration that I realized he was not the candidate I found myself respecting in 2000.

  This grueling process has shown us how each man leads. How they make decisions. How they deal with adversity, if not out and out crisis. But mostly it shows, however unintentionally, the character that becomes the candidate and, God willing, the candidate that becomes the president.