Confession time.
I supported McCain, as recently as this summer. Had this been the McCain-Clinton race that everyone expected, and had McCain not chosen a ditzy fact-challenged provincial moose-hunting Alaskan hicktard as his running mate, I probably would have chosen him over Hillary. The Clinton years had their place in American history, but […]
Obama 52%, McCain 46%. The widest victory margin of any Democratic nonincumbent presidential race winner since FDR trounced Hoover in 1932. (We’ve had several comparable victories since then - Clinton, LBJ, FDR, etc. - but they always had an incumbent advantage.)
It wasn’t even close. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida: Obama. Indiana and North […]
Interesting piece over on Five Thirty Eight today about a bit of recent ugliness at a McCain rally in Miami.
After the rally, we witnessed a near-street riot involving the exiting McCain crowd and two Cuban-American Obama supporters. Tony Garcia, 63, and Raul Sorando, 31, were suddenly surrounded by an angry mob. There is […]
Well, last night’s final presidential debate was entertaining. I’ll give it that. McCain started off strong, held his own for about a half hour and then just gradually fell apart. By the end of the debate, he was reduced to talking up Palin’s sympathy for parents of autistic children (um, John.. her […]
Watching the debate the other night, my wife found the following on the Intertubes. In light of the gradually escalating meltdown of the global financial network, it seemed relevant:
We had a bad banking situation. Some of our bankers had shown themselves either incompetent or dishonest in their handling of the people’s funds. They had […]
