A new frontier ... sorta

President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration is a little less than a week away and his official presidential portrait has been released.

The kinda sorta cool thing here (I think, anyway) is that it's the first presidential portrait to be taken with a digital camera.

Huckabee's out ...

I feel like the country dodged a bullet now that Mike Huckabee has announced he's out of the race for the GOP nomination.

Now it's Hillary vs. Obama ... here's hoping this gets resolved quickly before the Democratic party gets even more torn apart.

Thinning the herd

So the fields of the Dems and the GOP candidates running for president thinned a bit recently when John Edwards announced he is ending his bid for the Oval Office and Rudy Giuliani announced he is dropping out on the GOP side.

Giuliani went on to endorse John McCain and Edwards has held off on endorsing anyone yet.

I am just waiting for a similar announcement to come from Mike Huckabee ... talk about someone giving me the heebies and the geebies. Friend of mine lives in Arkansas and has told me plenty of stories about Huckabee's tenure as that state's governor. That and frankly, Huckabee's background as a minister really makes me nervous about him being president. This country is already too conservative for my taste and, IMO, it'll only get worse if the Huck-ster is elected.

On the Democrat's side, I'm really disappointed at the nasty tone taken between Obama and the Clintons. Way to prioritize the ideals and platform of the Democratic party, people. We need James Carville to came back and say, "It's the Democratic party, stupid!"

Speaking of the Clintons, Bill really, really, really needs to pour himself a big cup of shut-the-hell-up and back off on his attacks on Obama. It makes Hillary look bad and does absolutely nothing positive for his legacy. If he's half as smart a politician as people say he is, he'll really listen to the beating he's taking in the press and back off.

Yup, it's the 2008 election season ... giddy up!