It’s finally official, I’m forty-seven today. It’s my birthday, and I get to talk about anything I want!

There’s a lot in the news right now about the Democratic superdelegates and their commitments to Clinton or Obama. I’m an Obama supporter - you can see it there in the sidebar - and I’m a proud liberal. To be honest with you, I don’t see a lot of differences in the two candidates’ policies. Neither is liberal enough for me and I don’t like the choices either have made in pandering to big business.

Here’s the major reason I am supporting Obama: he can beat the GOP. The polls show it. If Hilary wins the nomination, it will be John Kerry all over again. She will bring the division with which this country has been cursed with her to the race, and we’ll be doomed to another four years with a Republican president. If by some miracle Clinton does win, do you want to relive another four years of that kind of nastiness and mudslinging? I don’t.

One of my friends, a big Clinton fan, says that she hopes that McCain does win, because she thinks that the next president will be blamed not being able to repair the destruction that the Bush administration has wrought. I see her point, but I don’t like that kind of negative thinking.

Of all the GOP candidates, I can stomach McCain the easiest. At least he has some common sense about the environment and isn’t in denial most of the time about other issues. It has always stuck in my craw that he kissed GWB’s ass after the way he was treated in the 2000 election though. It didn’t jive with the honest perception I had of his character.

Yeah, Obama. He has the momentum to take this election, and he will be a uniter. I find it refreshing that so many Republicans and independents are supporting him. He will do fine as president - I’m not concerned about his experience. That’s what you have good advisors for. We need someone to bring this country together.

All that being said, I hope that the superdelegates will support the people’s choice. If that means that the citizens in their district or state support Clinton, that’s the way they should vote, and vice versa. This is the first time that I’ve been aware of the superdelegates, not knowing much about the political process, and it would be a damned shame to thwart the will of the people again after the debacle of Gore’s “loss” in 2000. Don’t do it, y’all. Don’t be power brokers. Support the citizens.

Not that I expect politicians to change. I’m probably going to change to independent after this election because I don’t want to be associated with either party. Of course, I’ve threatened that for years.