Face it, the Democrats have sabotaged themselves and the Supreme Court is Republican, so we'd better resign ourselves to the idea that McCain will get in. Can you identify any silver linings?

For example...

- The US wil be spared some half-assed attempt to modify its health care system. It'll lurch on, unchanged, until things get so bad that the demand for real reform will be overwhelming.

- We'll be spared decades of whining that 'we were winning in Iraq until those liberals stabbed us in the back...'

- Those held pointlessly, illegally and indefinitely in isolation in Guantanamo will have the consolation that the President at least knows how they feel.

- (on a personal note) significant numbers of tourists and foreign students will continue to see the US as a strange and scary place, and opt to bring their business to Canada instead.

Depressing, but my bet a while back (though Obama was doing well), that Hillary would finally get the nomination but McCain would win, is beginning to look an investment and not the long odds chance that it was back then.

( For years now I've been trying to live down my winning bets on G W Bush . I try not to think about them. )

After the conventions are over then it will be show time. Be a whole new ball game up to November.

The one aspect that will be the same as we have right now, it will still be two Democrats running against each other

This is one election year I feel absolutely disenfranchised. I can't vote for any of the candidates. Anyone know if Ralph Nadir [sic] is running again? What about Lyndon LaDouche [sic]?