In an old Woody Allen movie (I think it's "Annie Hall," but it's been awhile, so I'm not 100% on that), Woody suggests that life is like the old joke of the elderly couple at a restaurant going on and on about how awful the food is, the worst they've ever eaten, and then one of them says: "And you know what else is bad- the portions are so small."
I'm beginning to feel that way, except in reverse, about the 2008 Democratic Presidential primary. It's been great in so many ways- history making, energizing, turnout has been through the roof, it's mean the votes of people in most of the country has mattered unlike most years, vigorous debate on big issues and how best to make change. It's been really fun, and really good for the party. But I'm beginning to hope it doesn't last much longer.
I feel like we've reached the point where the debate is getting stale and yet also meaner and more damaging all the time, and where if it keeps going on much longer, we'll start having the arguments seem pettier and pettier, about rules and credentials and small-minded attacks about stupid stuff. And we've reached that juncture where it seems better for us to turn our attention to defining McCain rather than carving up each other.
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