In seventy-five days Barack Obama will be my president. If he governs as he has voted in the Senate, I will criticize his policies, but will understand he puts those policies forward in the national interest.
No fascist would let a man who criticized him so harshly succeed him.
Hey gang! My sincere thanks for the hearty posting that Dan has done for most of the pre-Election period.
Just so that clears up any misunderstanding among my readers.
And yes, I did waver toward the end, but took the image of my friends Leesa and Jane into the voting booth with me.
It has heartened me over the past few days as a number of Republican and conservative friends and blog-readers have reported their “good feeling” about this election, with a number expressing optimism about the outcome.
Not long ago, a critical reader observed that most of my posts that week had focused on media bias. He was right.
As Barack Obama emerged as the frontrunner in the Democratic primary this past February, I imagined a different Election Day than years past.
Favoring the so-called Fairness Doctrine which would limit access to the airwaves, the New York Senator opines:
Should the Democrats wins today and attempt to impose this antiquated doctrine, watch for it to galvanize the right.
Today is a day that relatively few people in the history of humankind have had — the opportunity to choose, if indirectly, their own leaders.
Frantic scribbler that I am, I have pages and pages of notes on all variety of subjects, including countless ideas for blog posts.
While candidates in the past election years have announced their White House bids in the months immediately after the preceding mid-term elections, no campaign has seen the flurry of electoral activity so far in advance of the general election.
Too late perhaps to save her public image? Will it be lost in the welter of stories about the arrival of the much anticipated Election Day concluding (we hope) this interminable campaign?
Perhaps.
Both John Hinderaker and Glenn Reynolds remind me of a story I’d heard many times before, a story which defines the man who should be the next President of the United States.
Just returned from Trader Joe’s. As I was putting my groceries into the car, I chanced on a McCain sticker in the windshield of the car next to mine.
When John McCain suspended his candidacy last September to respond to the financial crisis, my gut feeling was that it was foolhardy.
Over at The Campaign Spot, Jim Geraghty observes that all Barack Obama’s promises have an expiration date: “Consumers should be aware that promises, pledged, and soul-healing rhetoric are only effective for a limited time; upon expiration they become ‘just words.
In making his case for John McCain, Dale Carpenter notes some of the Republican’s flaws, but gets at the essence of his appeal to gay conservatives, offering that “As the practical differences on gay issues get smaller, non-gay issues grow in salience:”
You wouldn’t know it by listening to gay pundits and organizations, but McCain is [.
Last month in Reno, Nevada, Sarah Palin quipped, “The most looming crisis that threatens Obama’s campaign right now is Joe Biden’s next speaking engagement.
In their blind hatred of the GOP, many gay activists have missed one of the biggest stories impacting gay and lesbian Americans in this election.
With the financial crisis hitting seven weeks before the general election, it is amazing John McCain, the presidential nominee of the party in power, is still standing.