Election 2008: Turban-gate

The Democrat race has been thrown into confusion and anger by this shocking photo:


I mean, seriously, Jesus, wow. Can I be the first to say... who fucking cares?

This is the very definition of a non-story, or a storm in a tea cup. The only people who are going to change their votes based on the above photo are the sort of inbred morons who, even if they can get their thick, webbed fingers around a pencil to vote, wouldn't put their shaky "x" in the Democrat's box anyway. This shouldn't matter.

And yet, it does.

Only yesterday I noted that the Democrats would have to work really hard to fuck up this election. But with the two Democrat candidates sniping at each other over this photo, I can't help but think that John McCain* is laughing himself silly over this story. The Democrats have their best chance of winning the White House since Bob Dole ran a campaign back in 1996 that consisted largely of resigning from the Senate and falling off a stage, and they are responding by tearing themselves apart.

If I was Democrat, I would be despairing. The Democratic contenders for the nomination have lost themselves in a trivial civil war, whilst the real enemy sleepwalks his way to his own party's nomination.

*Whose only real opponent is not taken seriously by anyone any more. Not even by Huckabee himself, I reckon.