I said Texas votes on March 6th?

Really? That's just embarrassing. I am tempted to go right now and edit the previous post so that no one ever notices the error. But, owing to my policy of not editing unless I have to, even allowing blatant untruths to linger, I've decided to point it out and print a retraction. As though that makes sense on an internet blog. Eh.

So Barack Obama is looking pretty good. The leftish tilt always has been and always will be bothersome, and the clear lack of detail behind the message of hope is quite concerning. Nonetheless he has, and has had, my favor among all non-Bloomberg candidates for several months now (ever since I realized that robo-Romney had definitively abandoned the social liberalism that I admired and adopted a foreign policy that made me queasy). Indeed, even though I have no idea how Obama will deliver us unto prancing unicornland, the strength of purpose that he seems to possess is extremely encouraging, and he gives off a very reassuring feeling that he'll attempt to do everything in good conscience while toeing the pragmatist line.

And he seems to have an edge--for now--over Clinton in general election polling, which I would have tentatively predicted yet hardly believed months ago when I argued that Obama could overcome those who held racial prejudices by winning over people who were just straight-up impressed with the man.

But of course I still love my Bloomberg, and I've even put my name out there on Meetup.com in case someone's crazy enough to want to organize his Austin area supporters. So far we number three. Exciting.

Much as I hate to take this opportunity to hawk my candidate, it would be really cool if you guys checked him out and signed a completely non-binding petition (you're free to vote however you wish in any and all elections) that would encourage him to enter the presidential race, thus increasing our choices from two to three. Hurray!

Hope you enjoyed that excessively well-written schtick. Good night, folks.