Aw crap; I am an undecided voter
Eventually we all become that which we despise.
Just a few hours to go and I still haven’t made up my mind I should not be surprised to find myself in this position. In the past I could rely on one party or the other to field a candidate that was immediately recognizable as a disaster in the making. As our national pathologies have deepened, the ability of the parties to field candidates that can even feign competence has disappeared. Still, I don’t know if it will be worse living in a country led by studied socialist Barack Obama or accidental socialist John McCain.
Will Sarah Palin jump the shark before or after the presidential election?
A poor job of preparation blunts Palin’s ability to save the McCain campaign
The job of preparing Sarah Palin to face the media was done poorly. The campaign held off the press for several weeks. This gave the Governor a chance to cram for her debut but it also let the press set an ambush. I don’t know what was done in the period between Sarah Palin’s introduction to the country at the Republican convention and her first interview but it was not effective. Mrs. Palin didn’t let her inner bulldog out. Instead, the press went on an offensive to prove she is not qualified for the office she is seeking.
The bad news is one of these guys is going to win
Reviewing the first presidential debate of 2008
Well the first debate of the 2008 presidential election is in the books. One thing that we can look at as a positive is the fact that informed citizens with sensible ideas are not possessed of the megalomania required to endure a presidential run. Both campaigns are claiming victory after the candidates spent almost two hours talking in circles. Your humble scribe scored this one a decisive defeat for both candidates. McCain seemed to employ a high risk strategy of giving his answers in hard to interpret generalities. Obama countered with the unconventional tactic of responding to McCain’s questionable ideas with eloquent, decisive, egg headed nonsense. One would think that a prudent strategy would be to offer ideas that have a better chance of succeeding than those offered by McCain but you have to hand it to the young Senator from Illinois for this bold strategy.