We are going to learn a lot in coming weeks, months, and years about the drivers that pushed John McCain in certain directions that undermined his presidential campaign. Sarah Palin is the biggest of these mysteries.
OK. The right team won. Barack Obama and Joe Biden will take this country in a new direction. Hopefully, they will pick a competent team and apply themselves the challenges that matter, not just the tasks that are easy.
[I will be live blogging at this link and at Huffington Post all day today.] BECAUSE I AM MOVING TO PARTY MODE AND HAVE TO LEAVE MY COMPUTER, I WILL BE POSTING ONGOING UPDATES AND REACTIONS ON A LIVE BLOG PORTAL BELOW.
Despite the pleas of a number of my favorite (and even not so favorite) readers, I have kept quiet until now about who I planned to vote for. My support for any candidate or party is something I tend to keep on hold until getting very close to voting.
This is so sad. Barack Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has died in Honolulu. The day before it is all about to happen. Sincere condolences to Senator Obama and the other members of Madelyn Dunham’s family.
It’s time for tolerance to break out in this country. I was the first blogger to put the disgusting Republican National Committee mailers from the 2004 race on line which suggested that Democrats would ban the Bible and turn their states into havens of homosexuality.
Apologies to some folks in Chicago last time who contacted me about meeting when I was in the city for a few days. I did have two meetings, but I lost email access for a day and a half and was handicapped in getting back to some who wanted to talk.
I am returning to DC today from New Haven, Connecticut — where I talked to a number of folks who have never before voted in an election and who planned now to vote for Barack Obama.
(Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin) In a candid statement meant to be heard only by those attending a weekly meeting of the Israeli Cabinet, Shin Bet spy chief Yuval Diskin has acknowledged serious concern about violent Jewish settler extremists trying to assassinate Israeli political leaders and willing “to use firearms in order to halt diplomatic…