On the Eve of the Whimper
So, here we go:
The amazing thing is, that although reporting has been overwhelmingly favorable for Obama, although even comics are profoundly pro-O and anti-America, although Obama has enormously outspent McCain, the polling is still running neck and neck.
That means two things:
First, a huge chunk of the American people are not buying the hype, and are deeply suspicious of The One, because many of the folks who will be voting for McCain regard him as a left-wing Democrat. They (we) long for a real small-government Republican. I mean, our rallying cry has been “McCain -08: because I love my Country more than I hate John McCain.” If there were a real SGR candidate, and a real open press, Obama would have already conceded.
Second, the other huge chunk of the American people are, in Stalin’s immortal phrase, “useful idiots”. The worst thing is, the very worst thing, is that many of them are well educated, well-meaning people whom I deeply respect and even count as friends in other ways.
I’m sorry, folks, but even if McCain wins, this last indicates that the American body politic is rotten. There is no way, no way in hell, that Obama should ever have made it to the national stage. One of Daley’s Congresspuppets, yes. Beyond that — The American people have shown, conclusively, that they bloody well deserve whatever happens next.