A year later, and we're hovering

The last time I posted, this blog had a different name, I was still in school, and Barack Obama had just announced his candidacy for the presidency.

My, how things have changed.

Tonight's Iowa shocker is another example of that old political truism: "a year is an eternity in politics." As recently as a month ago, Obama seemed to be little more than a footnote on Hillary's historical march towards the nomination. Then he took Iowa by storm, and for a moment--sadly, just a moment--looked like he was going to be the movement candidate whose victories finally matched the enthusiasm.

Another truism: just as you should never start a land war in Asia, you should never underestimate the Clintons.

I wish I had something terribly insightful to say, but it's going to take some time (read: days) for me to recover. Barack Obama is a once-in-a-generation candidate who has the potential to transform American politics in a way that hasn't been done since 1932. The prospect of losing that chance to the machinations of the entrenched, bloated Clinton machine is a bit depressing to say the least.

In the meantime, I'm going to watch Sweeney Todd.