What Has The Country Come To?

Last night's Iowa caucus results were devastating. The fact that a minister, who is so clearly biased towards Christianity and intolerant of other faiths and so clearly ignorant in the way only an evangelical minister could be, could so overwhelmingly take a state is extremely disconcerting, especially after seven years of Bush's religion-infused government. I know that's Iowa and that it's just one state, but it's significant momentum going into the other primaries, which follow so closely to one another it makes it difficult for other candidates to catch up. I hate nearly all of the Republican candidates, but for God's sake a minister! We might elect an intolerant minister to run the land of the free?

Although the Democrat race was much closer, Obama's 38% to Edwards' 30% is still a large margin of victory for a man who has the least experience and the most naivety of anyone in the Democrat field. I think the Democrat voters electing Obama are so overcome by their desire for change that they've been swept away by Obama's celebrity as the black outsider bent on solving all of the world's problems in just eight years. If it comes down to Obama versus Huckabee, I think the swing voters, of which there are a huge number, will disproportionately swing to Huckabee as the "safer", more practical choice. This is completely FUBAR.