Thursday, April 03, 2008

But I want to know now!

Dear Democracy,

Thanks for making an appearance this year, it has been great to see you. It has really been a lovely primary season. It was very thoughtful of you to make me feel like my vote counts for something this time around.

The in-depth debate of the issues has been fun and I have appreciated getting to have a choice of candidates instead of just feeling stuck with one of them.

The thing is, I'm afraid you have started to overstay your welcome. I know I've always said I wanted my vote to count, but I didn't really expect it to be quite so messy. I heard someone talking about how you might stick around until the Democratic National Convention...in August! Sorry but that is just not going to work for me.

I know that we designed the system to work this way and all, but we really never believed you would last this long. Let just say that you do actually stay until August and we go into the Convention without a nominee. If you have the candidates up front giving serious issue speeches on the economy and war, when will we get to drop the balloons?

Please don't be offended, maybe we can work something out. I heard someone kicking a Super Delegate Primary idea around for June. Perhaps you could come back for a weekend visit then. Now granted, the idea seems a little odd since that is kind of what the Convention in August is for but while we may call it a convention, we really just go to party. We didn't plan to do any real work there.

Besides, if you stick around all Summer we won't have any room for a last minute media obsession about whether China should be hosting the Olympics. You wouldn't want to spoil our fun would you?

Thanks for understanding,

America


P.S. What's that? You really aren't leaving? Crap.

Who do you think you are demanding our attention for months on end? Britney Spears?!