Or, the US Presidential Election through the Looking Glass.It is now time, after two years of phoney war, for America to decide who gets to sit and weep on top of the smoking wreckage of the United States that Dubya leaves behind him.And what a choice it is! Will you go for TweedleDem, the charismatic young black man, or TweedleRep, the heroic old white man?Or will you, God forbid, actually decide who to vote for on the issues rather than on telegenics?Let's have one final look at the issues:If elected, Barack Obama will maintain the Federal Reserve.So will John McCain.If elected, Barack Obama will maintain the income tax levels and the commensurate level of federal spending, despite America's massive debt burden.So will John McCain.If elected, John McCain will continue the "War on...
Or maybe even for President in four years time?It seems that John McCain has decided to go with Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential candidate.It's a superlative choice that's really going to let the Democrats know they're in a fight for the Whitehouse.She is a dream candidate for the Republicans - she's extremely photogenic (even now, as opposed to her beauty queen heyday, right), married to an Inuit (there goes a slice of Obama's ethnic vote), the mother of a Downs' Syndrome kid, and has actual experience of governance (unlike Obama, Biden or McCain).She'll appeal to the ethnic vote, to the swing vote and to the still disgruntled Clintonista sisterhood vote.An election that ought on paper to have been a Democrat landslide is now blown wide open. They have the wrong...
From the inimitable Fred Reed comes the most succinct summary of the choice America faces in the forthcoming months about which leader to choose:We’ve got Obama, an empty suit with a good line of patter and a past few write about, and McCain, a pugnacious senile temper tantrum who can’t remember whether Al Qaeda is Sunni or Shiite.Not too promising.That leaves Clitler, a strange visitor from another planet probably and crooked as kite string in a ceiling fan, but neither stupid, ignorant, nor crazy.Needless to say, he's a Hilary supporter by default. Though given he resides in Mexico, she's unlikely to benefit from his vote.He's pretty good on current and former presidents too: Bill Clinton was said to be the first black president. W is the first kinky...