I completely agree with your first paragraph. I've been leaning toward Obama from the beginning, since I was in Illinois when he ran for Senate and got to see his campaigning then. But like you said, any Democrat would be the best choice for the country at this time. I'm just afraid with all the in-fighting and the dragged-on nomination process is going to turn off the ever-growing crowd of independents. I feel like both of them should form a united front, and let the voters decide on the actual issues instead of what Obama's old minister or Clinton's former advisor said.

I had a huge rant here about the Michigan Primary, but I deleted it because I was getting too aggravated. Basically, I think it's ridiculous that the National Party said they wouldn't count the votes, no one campaigned here because of it, and therefore most of the voters just didn't show up. Why would they? No one addressed their specific concerns, and they knew it didn't matter. And then they just decide to count those votes anyway? Without a revote? I really don't agree with that.

I know plenty of people personally (like me, and pretty much all my friends in Ann Arbor) who didn't go vote for that reason. And I know we should have, if only to get a representation of the voter's opinions, but I assumed (correctly) that most people wouldn't go out and vote either and the representation would be off anyway. I don't know, it's all just really messed up. The party's eating itself.

Oh, looks like I kind of ranted anyway :/ Sorry.