I’m sorry, I just can’t deal with Obama being preznit. I want to like him, really I do. I’d love to see this country elect a black guy whose middle name is Hussein to the presidency. Not only would it maybe – just maybe – give the families of all the Iraqis we’ve butchered the hope that the Bush years were just a horrible abomination and we want to do the right thing, but it would really piss off all the racists and Kristofascists out there. It might even make Michael Wiener Savage’s head explode, and how could that be a bad thing?

I’d love to love Hillary, for that matter, but I just can’t. It would be great for this country to have a woman president – and way past due time. We should’ve elected a woman a long time ago (but then, women weren’t even able to vote not that long ago, let alone run for office).

And I’d also very much be happy to be totally opposed to the good looking (hell, I’m a straight guy, and even I can tell he’s good-lookin’), rich, white lawyer.

But, I’ll tell ya, Obama just seems like another Republican to me. For him to evoke the name of Reagan during a Democratic Presidential Primary campaign – equating Reagan with the “great presidents” who evoked fundamental change in this country – well, it just really seals the deal against him for me. For chrissakes, Reagan all but destroyed unions – between disbanding the Air Traffic Controllers and loading the NLRB up with anti-union cronies, he set the labor movement back 80 years – ignored AIDS, allowing tens – even hundreds – of thousands of Americans to die without so much of a thought, supported Apartheid while denouncing Nelson Mandela, illegally sold weapons to the “terror” state of Iran in order to finance the Contras, took Jimmy Carter’s solar panels off the White House, and, well, I gotta go to work, and can’t possible list all of Reagan’s sins in so short a time, but the point is, praising Reagan is a kick in the teeth to anybody that cares about what’s right for the average person, or the world.

And, I don’t mind that Obama was dissing Bill Clinton, either. There’s a hell of a lot of things I didn’t like about the Clinton Administration. But, for a Republican, Bill was a pretty good president. And whether or not it was because of anything he did, you gotta admit, the Clinton years were pretty goddamn good (at least compared to the last seven or so).

If Bush is the guy you want to have a beer with, it’s not because you like him. It’s because his old man’s rich, and he’ll pay. For the price of that beer, you have to put up with his arrogant bullshit, and his annoyingly stupid “humor.” Bill is more like that crude guy who constantly boasts of his conquests in great, vulgar detail, even if they aren’t exactly good looking – giggity, giggity, giggity (that was for you, Andy) – but that you can’t help but like, in spite of yourself.

But, let’s face it. The Democrats aint had but two wins since 1980, and both of those were Bill Clinton. And you bring up Reagan as one of the greats? Kiss my ass, Barack! Talk FDR or Truman or Kennedy. But Reagan?

Save Reagan for when you pander to the GOP in the General Election, if you must.

Personally, I prefer Edwards. But, while I don’t trust Hillary, I feel like I know her, and I think I know what moves her (cold political calculation; I think she can be forced to do the right thing, but you gotta keep a close eye on her). Obama? I think he’s a slightly darker shade of Joe Lieberman. I don’t trust him one bit.

There’s an old saying: An honest politician is one who stays bought.

I don’t trust Obama to stay bought.