365 and Counting…
Inauguration Day is one year away as of today. One one year until the worst thing we have to fear is a McCain presidency. I strenuously think that won’t occur, but, with less than a year left in Bush’s term, I can say ‘McCain presidency’ with a smile on my face.
While we’re at it, let’s talk strategy for a minute. Presuming that McCain wins the nomination - which, for the sake of my Republican friend’s sanity, I hope he does - how important does it become for the Dems to select Obama?
McCain and Obama are both independent siphoners; does it begin to make more sense to select a nominee that can grab at least half (and hopefully more) of those coveted and necessary indies? Or do you trust that the tanking economy will deliver the election to the Dems - as economy-focused elections traditionally have - and vote for whomever you want?
She asked into the void.
Unless who you want is John Edwards because, wow, did he eat it today. I know he’s ‘hanging in there for the middle class,’ but that’s gonna be short-lived. I feel bad for Edwards, as he seems like a decent human. (Though his bit in the debate about how he regretted the bankruptcy bill and No Child Left Behind angered me. Coupled with Iraq, that’s three pretty key votes that I knew were dogs. And, as I’m sure you’ll agree, I’m just some relatively uninformed hack; if I were a Senatorial middle class warrior, I think I would have stuck to my guns on bankruptcy and NCLB, in particular.)
And that is my argument against John Edwards.
My argument against his campaign is that they’re too obsessed with their three main talking points, and have not done a good enough job of stressing what I believe to be Edwards’ real message: that he laments the decrease in opportunity for people of working-class origins to end up as successful as him. That’s not snark - I think that’s his message and it’s a good one.
[Ed note: Oh my god, possums are fighting outside my window.]
Also, Ron Paul hilariously won second place in Nevada. And he beat 9u11an1 in S. Carolina by nearly double today (3.7 to 2.1 percent). Guiliani’s head must literally be exploding as he watches his chances of becoming America’s President spin down the toilet of bad electoral strategy.
Hey! Would you believe that this post was originally just that first sentence at the top? No freakin’ lie. How these things spiral out of control is beyond me.
And in closing, will someone more mathy than me figure out if the title should be ‘366 and Counting’? Leap year, you know. And if it is 366, isn’t it still 365 since it’s always tomorrow where I am?
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