So let's see, in the past two weeks Obama went overseas to find that everybody loves him, the Iraqis back his withdrawl plan, the Bush administration is now doing what Obama said he'd do and talk to the Iranians, and John McCain sorta begrudgingly said he kinda agrees with Obama's plan. In that week, McCain rode around on a golf cart with Papa Bush, showed up at a bunch of sausage houses, and had part of his cheek removed.

This week, McCain released a series of incredibly juvenile commercials which said a whole bunch of things that were so wrong even the press called him out on it and a reporter for the Washington Post got a quote wrong and despite the fact that everybody said he got the quote wrong, the quote is now considered fact. End result, of course, is that despite everything-- and I mean everything-- McCain and Obama are now tired.

So what have we learned from these past couple of weeks

-The Republicans excel at really nasty, awful, dispiriting campaigns
-Which work
-Because the American people are idiots
-And I need to stop paying attention to politics as much as I do.

Still....all of this makes me want to cry. Not to mention drink heavily til november.