Random election thoughts

With the election around the corner and a bleak outcome expected, an assemblage of random items:

--A positive either way the election turns out: no more whining about Bush.

--Whichever way you look at it, this is an historic election in the history of our country. So much is at stake . . . I'm actually quite fearful.

--It's a shame that the race issue is so prominent in this election. The fact that Barama is (half) black shouldn't make a difference either way: the bigots won't vote for him just because he's black and many on the other side are voting for him just because he's black. I saw a link last week in which an interviewer stopped a number of people on the street in Harlem and talked politics with them. Here was the twist: he attributed McCain's policies (and even choice of VP) to Barama. No one even caught it . . . they agreed with all his policies . . . even though they were McCain's policies. This happens on both sides, no doubt.

So what I wonder: where would BO be right now if he was white and was named "Joe Smith"? He probably wouldn't have made it out of the primary . . . reasons: "too liberal", "not enough experience", etc.

--Along those same lines: seriously, have we ever had a president with so few credentials as BO? I really wish McCain would have continued the "rhetoric vs. record" card he played during the second debate. Heck, I could stand up and talk about hope/change and promise to lower taxes, end world hunger, put people on Mars, etc., but if I had no history of actually doing any of that, shouldn't you cast some doubt on my qualifications? Not in this election it seems . . .

--A previous commenter in my "Electoral College" post said that he's in favor of as little direct democracy as possible. I'm starting to agree when you look at the ignorance of most voters. How about a little quiz before you get to enter a booth? "Name the three branches of government." "Who are your 2 senators?" "Who did we fight in the American Revolution?" Etc. You don't get a certain percentage right, you don't vote.

--A glimmer of hope with a BO presidency: one of my uncles and I had a discussion and I mentioned that I was a bit scared of what a man like that would do in the White House. And then I thought, "Well, he hasn't really done anything in a decade in office, maybe we'll luck out and he won't do anything of note in the White House." We can hope, I guess.

--A prediction: if Barama wins, I'll immediately start seeing fewer "End the War: Bring our Troops Home" signs in people's yards. The vociferous anti-war crowd will get a lot quieter with a democrat in the Oval Office.

--You know how you always see those commercials with a politician talking with a farmer in the middle of a cornfield, sleeves rolled up, in the crouch position? Or him in a hard hat in a factory, supposedly talking about union issues? They may really do this stuff, I don't know . . . is it safe to say that no politician has visited a Planned Parenthood and watched a late-term abortion? Have they ever watched them pull the infant out of the birth canal by the leg and jam the scissors into the back of their skull? Doubtful.

--I'm praying for a miracle.