but this race is over. I can't envision an "October surprise" that at this point loses Obama the election. I think McCain has been fantastic in the debates, but the public has tuned him out. Obama is too intelligent and disciplined to make a major mistake anyway.

My complaint with McCain's campaign is that he never did enough to show himself as the only brake in the 3 branches of government to stop a democratic congress. As incompetent and unpopular as congress is, an easy target would have been "Obama-Pelosi-Reid", much like the dems have crafted the two headed Bush-McCain monster. He could slam the despised and bloated legislative branch without ever coming across as "mean" or attacking Obama personally. You want the agenda of a congress that blew the oversight on Fannie-Freddie, then took 800 billion in a pork loaded bill to salvage it? But McCain kept hammering on experience and foreign policy (which Obama would concede anyway), and missed this opportunity.

McCain has yet to suggest to the voters, why they should vote FOR him. I may not agree with it, but the "divided government" angle, should he have have decided to run with it, would've given him something to go on. My guess is that he figured it was sufficient that he run on his reputation and press-clippings.

Howdy

Well, we chose McCain. And he had not lost yet.

If this were just an election, we could shake it off, and hang in with an opposition party.

But it isn't.

We have dedicated socialists running congress, and a dedicated socialist headed, in all likelihood, to the White House.

I don't think we can blame McCain for any of that.

People who are opposed to liberty have been striving to reduce free people in America to comparative slaves since this country was founded.

In the 1930's, communists went underground and concentrated on subverting free society by taking over entertainment, journalism, education and bureaucratic institutions.

They used Vietnam in the 1960's to advance fascism in the USA, and they used Iraq in this decade to make a second big push.

I thought liberty would survive the boomers, but America's worst generation will be the last to enjoy freedom.

We can't blame McCain.

America did a lot of good stuff for the world in 232 years, as we look back after the end of the most successful experiment in governance in human history, I think we had a lot to be proud of.

It doesn't matter a lot in my case, I've been working near half a century, and took advantage of the American Dream, worked from dirt poor to doing alright, something precious few are able to accomplish anywhere else in the world, and if I have to endure european style slavery instead of American Liberty, I'll simply exit society, stage right.

In the end, nature abhors a vacuum, and nature abhors mountains. For 232 years, Americans have had more freedom than any people, anywhere, have ever enjoyed, and the fact that we have prospered out of all proportion, the fact that we alone were able to rescue the world from tyrrany time and again, might have educated the world to the value of free humanity. Everyone in the world may have chosen to join America in unfettered liberty.

Instead, the rest of the world made war against human liberation in every generation since we were founded, and finally rotted out the heart from the cause of truth, justice and the American Way.

But the world was not ready, something less than fully human, fully enabled, fully free, will simply have to do.

Barring an unforeseen renaissance for the cause of freedom, socialists will finally control both executive and legislative branches, and the light of human liberty will be snuffed out.

That is how the world works.

McCain had a chance to seperate himself when the bailout did not pass the first time.

He could have come out and said that he was not sastisfied that the taxpayer was going to be protected enough, and did not think we should be on the hook to bail out Wall Street.

He then could have voted no on the revised bill based on the added pork.

Then stated that whatever happens, happens. "Thats capitalism, My Friends."

It would have been a gamble, but a shrewd move. The bill passed and the market is tanking anyway. It could have been the perfect "I told ya so" moment.

I'm not convinced that McCain is really all that smart.

Howdy

You are arguing tactics, and your arguments might be sound.

But it doesn't matter.

europe has been second class real estate since America chose liberty, and dragging us back into the chains of a regulated society operated by hereditary elites has been the primary goal of european society since 1776.

232 years. That is the lesson of the American experience.

When one nation liberates their people, alone in the world, they can endure against the tides of primitive fascist norms in human governance for a couple of centuries.

Senator McCain is not to blame for a fascist planet hunting down human liberty and killing it like a dog.

Socialism is coming, liberty is ending, life goes on.

Perhaps someday, what ends here will be renewed, it only took a couple of thousand years since ancient Greece gave democracy a first, rough go.

Perhaps it will take fewer than 2000 years for someone, somewhere to try again.

I look at the it same way but this way,

Thy will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven. Amen.