McCain would thus enter the White House as the 44th president.

A guy who says (after returning from Iraq):
“We’re succeeding. I don’t care what anybody says. I’ve seen the facts on the ground”

A presidential hopeful stating he doesn’t care what anybody say. In the process ignoring over 70% of his fellow Americans…

And claiming he has seen the facts? After 8 days?? Sounds like the all American tour: Europe in 5 days. Right. Yep, he’s seen it all…

If America elects McCain, it does get what it deserves. Another empirial maniac. Although with a couple of shades of grey between Good and Evil. A big improvement…

McCain would thus enter the White House as the 44th president.

A guy who says (after returning from Iraq):
“We’re succeeding. I don’t care what anybody says. I’ve seen the facts on the ground”

A presidential hopeful stating he doesn’t care what anybody say. In the process ignoring over 70% of his fellow Americans…

And claiming he has seen the facts? After 8 days?? Sounds like the all American tour: Europe in 5 days. Right. Yep, he’s seen it all…

If America elects McCain, it does get what it deserves. Another empirial maniac. Although with a couple of shades of grey between Good and Evil. A big improvement…

Crossover republican and independent voters will need to see that.

Hate to say it, but so far I haven’t. Thus he’ll be too easy to characterize as a tax & spend liberal. Which he is. Of course he’s much more than that, but that’s at one large base of his appeal.

Come November, it’ll be a boat anchor, no matter how much money he’s got.

I have reasons for saying that McCain is in trouble

Check out “Obama Winning Cash Contest” from today’s Boston Globe:
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/03/obama_winning_c.html

The internet is playing a huge role in fundraising for Obama.
He is currently outspending Senator Clinton by three to one and his online fundraising effort is setting records.

The DNC / Superdelegates must go with the fundraising winner if they want to get re-elected.

Obama has raised $193 million – mostly from online donations. McCain has raised $60 million.

McCain is going to have to tap Big Donors and Wall Street partisans. I hear they’re a little short right now.

McCain should have no trouble raising cash. The question is whether Obama can appeal to the broad middle that delivers elections. I still think that’s a long shot.

America is a land of peculiar populist voo doo.

Last week I noticed that when Governor Eliot Spitzer stood next to his humiliated wife and resigned for boinking a hooker he was wearing an American Flag lapel pin. He may be a cheat. He may be a sinner. He may be a first class poltroon. But by God he’s a patriot!

Doc, you might be right on your McCain prediction for the general election but I’m not ready to concede.

Former Gov. Bill Richardson is a Super Delegate. Which means that he comes with fries and a large Coke. He was also appointed to Clinton’s Cabinet as Secretary of Energy and he was Clinton’s ambassador to the UN. I’m sure the Clinton people reminded him that he OWES them.

Still in all, he looked sincerely happy to embrace Obama and audition for a new job today.

Will John Edwards will be next? I think he’s still waiting to see if his 46 delegates entitle him to a promise ring.

If Gov. Richardson is any indicator then the nomination is already lost to Hillary and John McCain had better figure out how to raise some cash if he wants to stay in it until November.

Regarding Iraq, we’re so lost in Orwellian double speak mixed with Lewis Carrol prose that we’re all through the looking glass.

Isn’t a surge temporary?

Why didn’t we win after we won?

What are the terms for victory?

What if perspective only shows us that the long dark tunnel we entered 5 years ago is longer and darker than we thought?

When the whole circus started, I expected the Democrats to make a slam dunk. But this ‘war’, for lack of a better word, between Clinton and Obama seems to have sunk the hope of a turn for the better.

But what surprises me, and probably a lot of Europeans, is that while one president was looking impeachment in the eye over nothing more but the creative use of a cigar, another president can get away with wasting billions to trillions of dollars, sinking the dollar to an all-time low, sending thousands to their death or live-long mutilitation and creating a global atmosphere of hatred and distrust that will take decennia to return back to normal again.

Pending the right choice made by Americans this year…

Back in 2000 I jokingly reminded my American friends that every country gets the government they deserve. But had I known what the future had in store I would never had such a stupid remark.

He also seems to think we used insufficient force in Vietnam.

The very notion of “force” must be re-thought. The U.S. is without equal in its many and varied high-tech weapons. Yet excessive faith in those is one reason Iraq turned into a quagmire hardly any less difficult than Vietnam.

What’s sad for many of us was that we saw how wasteful and bad this war would be, and could do nothing to stop it, while even the press marched stupidly along.