Friday, October 31, 2008

Obama for a change

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Whatever else you can say about the infectiously energetic Obama, he does offer hope and change—and given the increasingly dismal state of the economy here (and elsewhere), I think that counts for a lot, because when people give up hope, their country really is done for.

Also, I think it's a very legitimate concern that voting for an already rather tired-looking and sounding 71-year-old McCain for president is in essence voting for the hopelessly clueless and shallow Sarah Palin for president, since it's certainly conceivable that McCain could die, or at least suffer some sort of debilitating medical problem, during his first term in office. (I still remember vividly how a quickly exhausted Jimmy Carter seemed to age 15 years during his very tumultuous one term in office—a period of history not unlike the current one).

I'm also increasingly curious to see if Democrats in the House and Senate stupidly and arrogantly squander the same sort of sizable political collateral once Obama is elected that Republicans did after Bush was elected (when they managed to draft and pass virtually no legislation at all—despite having a majority in Congress, and Bush enjoying very high public approval—and instead basically just genuflected in front of a myriad of PAC groups that helped get them elected in the first place!).

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John Pluntze

Ketchum