I'm Sick of Obama vs. Clinton

I truly am bored to tears with Obama and Clinton. I appreciate that the political landscape in the US affects anything and everything both political and economical in the rest of the world. I know therefore that we perhaps should have an interest in what happens to their candidates and everything but I feel like this fight for nomination to stand for presidential office on behalf of the Democrats is dragging on and on and on and on.

Imagine if our leadership campaigns were conducted like they are in the US. For a start, all political parties would go broke because they simply couldn't afford a campaign lasting anywhere near as long as Clinton's & Obama's let alone for more than one candidate. Imagine if this was how the conservative party decided on its priministerial candidates since it lost power. It would've been a perpetual campaign. Imagine having to have put up with all four successive leaders of the conservatives and their rivals travelling up and down the country kissing babies and falling over themselves to be seen with celebrities and all the right people visiting Britain.

It would have been grotesque. I can't imagine anything worse. I cannot then understand why we are following the contest in the US so closely. I rather fancy that the actual reason is because we don't have enough news without it to justify 24/7 news on TV. I also appreciate that there is a little bit of carnivalesque side-showism because the candidates are female and black. I don't understand why we cannot simply tune in when it actually matters though. This in my opinion would be the point when they have actually decided who is going to stand for their party and not before. This would be the point when the two parties start to do war.

Apart from anything else they both come across like a couple of vindictive school children telling lies and spreading rumours about each other so they can be the most popular kid in class. I don't think that they are actually doing anything to enhance their reputations or reassure the world or America that they are going to be mature enough to run the country and set a positive example to the rest of the world. As far as I am aware, we have already been tortured with the wranglings of these two individuals for 15 months now and the presidential elections are not even until November. Personally, whatever happens as a result of this contest, I firmly hope that John McCain wins the big one for no other reason than I am not already sick to death of him.