Posted on Monday, 17th March 2008 by Keith Almli

By Nick@RIGHTMICHIGAN

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day, lads and lasses.  I guess.  Of all the holidays we celebrate this is one that’s always sorta been lost on me.  Back at Brookside Elementary I used to like getting a free green bagel but that’s about it.  Now, admittedly, that could be because I am not a drinker.  I’ve never so much as ingested a drop… it’s just not for me (which, sadly, makes me an anomaly in the Michigan political world where the social component of just about everything includes moderate to large amounts of hard liquor).  Now, my friends in Lansing?  Today’s a special day.  

I’ve actually got one friend (who shall remain nameless) who identifies St. Patrick’s day as the high holy day of the year and spends the entire three or four days surrounding the date on an extended pub crawl in a perpetual drunken stupor.  Every year (s)he goes out and the rest of us wonder, will (s)he survive and when will that liver shut down?  Got to be the luck of the Irish keeping him / her going.  OK, I’m through with the multiple pronouns.  Promise.

But not with talk of luck and miracles.  Because there are folks all across the Great Lakes State who could use a little (or a lot of) leprechaun’s luck today.  Hillary Clinton, for example.

That Michigan re-do election that late last week was starting to look so much like a certainty has suddenly flown straight off the tracks and it might take more than the luck of the Irish to get things moving again.  And, frankly, I’m surprised it took this long for things to come unglued.

Can anyone answer me, in a close delegate race like this where Barack Obama is hoping desperately to run out the clock with his lead in tact, what is his incentive for going into overtime?  Keeping Michigan off the books might disenfranchise a few million voters but it gives him his best chance of winning.  And who cares about Michigan issues if you can become the most powerful man in the world by only caring about 48 or 49 other states, right? 

Here’s the list of issues as they stand now:

 

Read on…..

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