Iowa speaks, America listens

After I finished watching Kansas beat Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl, I went online to see how the voting in Iowa turned out. According to the USA Today home page, Obama was the Iowa winner on the Dem side (38 percent), followed by Edwards (30 pct), and Clinton (29 pct). On the Repub side, Hucklebuck came in first (34 pct), followed by Mormon Mitt (25 pct), with Ferd and McCain tied for third place at 13 percent each.

One of the things that's most ridiculous about the American political system is the importance of Iowa in the nominating process. This is a state that's topheavy with farmers and evangelical Christians and white people. Most observers say that you can't find many states that are more atypical of the USA as a whole than Iowa. Yet somehow, every four years, we actually give a f- about how these hayseeds vote in their caucus.

I've been reading about the corn-based ethanol fraud that's been perpetrated on the American people. There's almost nothing worthwhile about corn-based ethanol as a substitute for gasoline, and in fact, you can easily make a case that ethanol creates more problems than it solves. Still, the corn-growers in Iowa make out like bandits turning corn into fuel additives, and it all seems to stem from the inflated importance of Iowa in presidential races. Ethanol is the biggest con job since someone thought up television evangelists; all in all, it's another thing that people should be outraged about but aren't.

Obama seems like a nice guy, and in another place and time would probably be a good president. In the 2008 unelectability sweepstakes, he's only a hair behind Hillary. If there are still a few American voters who don't know his middle name is Hussein, the Repubs will make sure that doesn't last long now that he looks like the Dem frontrunner.

There's not much more that I can say about Hucklebuck. His only purpose in life at the moment is to inflict a mortal wound upon Mormon Mitt. I can't convince myself this clown could actually get elected, but then I thought the same thing about W. Never underestimate the ability of Americans to waste their precious votes on assorted dipshits, scumbags, lowlifes, bottom-feeders, and morons.