I’m back.
It got so crazy that I finally just left the country. But I’ve returned in time for ‘the final week’ of the 2008 presidential election. It seems like this campaign has been going on for a decade. I’m glad that it will soon be over.
As best as I can tell, here’s where we are with a week to go:
Barack Obama has a zillion dollars in campaign funds. As a result, he is right this minute on every other station on my cable network. A slick, 30 minutes campaign commercial is airing wall to wall.
Barack Obama has a lead in the polls that some say is large and others say is narrow. But he leads nonetheless. And in the end it will not be about national polls but about state by state electoral results. From that perspective, a person could win just 50 more votes across the nation that his rival and yet win every state. This is why the national polls are meaningless. It’s state results that count.
Obama is poised to win in an electoral landslide.
John McCain is, well, John McCain. Old. Moderate. Unpersuasive.
It’s true that he was war hero in the War of 1812. But how many remember? Or care?
The good news that the wipe-out loss that he is about to experience will spell the end of the John McCain-Lindsay Graham wing of the GOP. Perhaps true Republican conservatism will gain traction within the party once again.
The bad news is that Barack Obama is about to President of the United States with Joe Biden as Vice President. And Lord knows who as cabinet members and Supreme Court appointees.
I may be out of the country as much as possible.
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3 comments:
Where you indicate desparity - I feel energized and hopeful.
Time will tell.
Happy travels wherever you are going to be :)
I hope that you are right. I am no McCain fan as this blog has clearly indicated. But I am very uncertain of Obama. My choice was Ron Paul. After that, I have been for 'none of the above.' Hoping you are right.
The whole fact of the matter is that we simply have no guarantees, do we?
That isn't something that most people like to accept but they take it and keep moving.
I try to live in reality but sometimes I wonder what it would be like to be part of a nation filled with hope and self responsibility and optimism instead of feeling suppressed with all the BS that shoots at us from the media and people pushing their own greedy agendas.
Obama is no saint or messiah....but I can't deny the recent injection of "spirit and hope" that he has helped to usher forth. When the student is ready, the teach can appear and work the lessons.
People are ready for something...what that something shapes up to be will unfold as we go.
I try to keep focusing on what I can make happen and not what is happening to me and I am committed to modeling that for my children and the people I work with/meet every day.
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