Candidates are tired:

I have said this before--this long season is bound to take its toll-physically and mentally!

click for photo of obama.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7036876.stm

......Yawns and wrinkles

We have another year and a month of this ordeal before we know who will inherit the White House from George W Bush.


Barack Obama (file picture)
Campaigning is taking its toll on almost all the 2008 contenders

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The most unpredictable and exciting election campaign in recent US history is beginning to feel like an extended, mosquito-infested Washington summer. And that's coming from a political junkie.

It's not just me. At recent campaign events I have noticed that the candidates, too, look and sound exhausted.

The 45-year-old Barack Obama appears visibly aged by the relentless campaign, even as his critics claim that his biggest problem is youth. How unfair is that?

As Charlie Cook, the veteran political pollster and pundit put it: "Barack's obstacle is not that he's black but that he's green."

Even John Edwards has betrayed a few microscopic wrinkles around his doe eyes.

suspiciously unaffected by the rigors of campaigning--I agree. Weird--they are both just tireless Energizer Bunnies. McCain is still kicking and screaming, too--pretty good for an old man, I must say.

it's a weak one.

The "wrinkles" are from the man holding his face with his hand. I defy anyone to do that and not see folds of skin:



I agree, that perhaps he could be nodding off. Then again, he could be looking down.

I will say that this whole early campaigning thing was a damned bad idea for all the candidates. In essence, by the time we get to Nov 2008, they will have been on the trail for two years. We'll be lucky if the people show up to vote at all - potential voters will be sick of it by then.

the public will be begging for this election to end, long before Nov. 2008.