They're OFF

Yes the political race for Presidrent has begun with the image of a horse race...they are off and running; many polls show a lead f0r McCain some say that they polled landlines and cell phones for their results.... the one poll I have found useful is the Washington Post poll this date...suggests 47%Obama/Biden- 46% for McCain and what's her name... Now this is a useful poll because it was conducted after the conventions annnnnnnddddd Only landline phones were called. Now this is where Obama should be far behind, if there really were a preference for McCain this is the poll technique that should show it ...and it does not show well for McCain. The post convention surge often goes away, and the votes don't matter anyway, it is the electoral votes (remember Florida... poor President Gore got Bushwhacked) and electoral votes favor Obama narrowly ... enough to win (270 is the real magic number). Now both have an opportunity, because neither has a real lead or one that can be maintained without considerable effort and effective advertising.

I thought Obama should have picked a woman to be VP, if not Hilary for a dream ticket[my personal preference was Michigan Gov. Grandholm] ...we will see how much it hurts that he did not, wheter Biden can help hold a solid Northeast.

Biden Our Time

Senator Biden has always seemed many things to me, as a politician, he emerged as a leader willing to stand for things that money- interests opposed...the hallmark of leadership in the Unites States now and historically... and he has learned to withstand the harsh winds that blow in Washington politics, the ones that tend to put into one's face...you are not worthy... until the people with money say that you are worthy....

Obama -Biden is not a dream ticket, it has no woman, no southern white man, no one with executive experience, not enough experience to convince anyone that they could handle a crisis. Well too bad.. we are already in a crisis [ oil, a contrived war to create another oil power, an economy that does not value the American dream, American worker, the American family] and this ...Obama-Biden is the team that will win.

Now, there will be someone to answer the phone at Three AM more inportant someone to try to use government between Nine and Five to analyze and solve public problems...

the Bush people were leaderless and engaged in sham government...alternately blaming the people, hiding the truth, hiding their own inability...but ALWAYS USING GOVERNMENT TO CHANNEL PROFITS TO PRIVATE SECTOR FRIENDS AND POLITICAL ALLIES by peace or war made no differance...at this they have excelled.

And it is this narrow partisan drive to arrange government so as to funnel monies that will be lost. Lost in transition to a more open government; this will be missed for the next four years, and hopefully...much...much longer.