Everybody Chill

Today I went to the Washington Post's website to check out the latest news about the campaign. The first story there:

"Does Obama's exchange with autograph seeker raise broader questions about candidacy?"

Next I checked the New York Times Politics section. The first article there:

"A Tirade from Bill Clinton."

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the two most respected newspapers in the country, at least in terms of their national political coverage.

If there is one nugget of truth and reason we can glean from the ridiculous last few weeks of the never-ending race for the Democratic nomination it is this: the political correspondents and commentators covering the campaign are starting to go a little crazy. Not that I'm judging, I'd be bouncing of the walls too if I had spent the last month learning the following groundbreaking facts:

Hilary Clinton, like everyone who has ever lived, sometimes exaggerates her past experiences.

Barack Obama, like everyone who has ever lived, has associates who he respects and admires who sometimes say things that many people disagree with.

The Democratic Party's Rules for electing presidential candidates should be conservatively described as ridiculously absurd.

So, in the words of our last Democratic President, let's "chill." Both Hilary and Barack support universal health care. Both want to start pulling American troops out of Iraq. Both want to use government money to help homeowners hurt by the sub prime mortgage crisis. Both want to increase government oversight and regulation of investment banks to ensure that brokers can't invent financial instruments with names like robots from Star Wars. Both are pro-choice, pro-gay rights, and pro gun-control. Both are raising truckloads of cash and signing up supporters and volunteers by the hundreds of thousands.

Whatever political pundits might claim about one or the other's appeal among different demographic groups, both of the Democrats are on the right side of almost every issue the American people care about. So let's just chill out until Pennsylvania votes in three weeks. Shoot some hoops, go bowling, watch some baseball...anything besides talking about the candidates as if they were characters in a youth melodrama. We'll still have six months to over-analyze everything before November.