Seriously, they live for the drama, the Sturm und Drang, the conflict.

It makes it easier for them not to pay attention to how their life would be even worse under McCain and his tripling of the US deficit and expansion of exporting US jobs to his comrades in Red China.

Short-sighted? Sure.

But nobody said they had grown up.

Look, fuck everything else. If ole man McCain wins, Bader-Ginsberg & Stevens won't be able to hold out any longer and then we're really fucked.

Two words: lifetime appointments.

That's how conventions and caucuses work. I don't see the obsessive need for fake unanimity during the first ballot; it just makes the convention seem even more contrived.

Then it's obvious.

And Barack is a fine man and has the character to be a good transitional president. To transform this country.

Transitional president? I thought McCain was supposed to be the "transitional" president, the single-term interregnum between the two Clinton epochs. So then McDermott refers to Obama's ability to "transform" the country, as if he realized he used with wrong word with "transitional."

But then what the hell is this?

And I think that unfortunately the Democratic party, we always try to do too many things at once. We try to break the racial barrier at the same time we’re breaking the gender barrier.

Do we really want to be presenting Obama and Hillary's candidacies as affirmative action projects?

I'd feel a lot more comfortable if, the next time Jim McDermott wants to open his mouth for public consumption, he thinks twice and decides instead just to smile and look good.