Landslide Predictions

Here is the predicted McCain Landslide. My guess 18 hours out? The election will end decisively by 11pm PST.  360 – 178. Obama clearly victorious taking out most Republican Congressional seats. Why? The party never atoned for Bush. Instead the Winking Wonderwoman from Wasilla grandstanded Bush values without apology.

Obama wins through superior organization, sensationally effective use of the Internet, the lack of Presidential support for McCain, a decisive end to the war in Iraq, and standing hard on Barack issues.  His superior finance was drawn from the electorate with a risk, but loud message – no lobbyist influence. Barack earned his war chest. McCain drained his from petro-donors and pharma-dollars. Barack thinks as we – enough is Enough!

Two good voting tools. The statistically correct 538 with background here. The interactive LATimes. Mine is 360 – 178. What’s yours?

Where is Republican Anger When you Need it?

Revolutions, ours beginning in 1775 and the French of 1789, showed how bloody an imperial revolt can be with guillotines, riots, and killing. Almost a prequel to a current Republican rally. Not to put to fine a point on it, but real patriotic anger aims at the Kings of a country’s injustice.

Is Obama really worth stirring up anger, as the “new” Republicans would like you to believe? Or is this a clever misdirection of anger most properly directed to AIG, the extraordinary wealthy, and a horrible executive branch? If Republicans really want to win this election big, they should not redirect, but tap into the clearly seething American anger against the actual symbols of the forces that have betrayed our economy. They could out-Obama Obama here.

All of this is encapsulated brilliantly by Maureen Dowd inciting us to look at the continuing bailout excesses, and to put our Anger where it belongs. A partridge hunt at Plumber Manor in England? She ends it well. Heads must roll.

Blow out that hate, brother:

Pales By Comparison

Wait, let’s see that VP debate transcript. Did Sarah Palin really say the Taliban are working with us in Iraq? No it was Maliki and Talabani, ok, no gaffe. But with the many slips in her speaking, you never knew if she knew what she was talking about, as was clear in the Couric interview. As Kathleen Parker puts it

“Before we relax into giddiness or cynicism, however, it’s important to consider that a debate differs from an interview in significant ways. A debate is a point-counterpoint exercise that allows little opportunity for probing or follow-up. An interview requires that a candidate explain an idea in depth and offer specifics.”

Amid the betcha’s and eye wink connectives, Palin largely followed Biden’s topical lead, even though she had many opportunities to coherently advance the subject or even once seize the first response to the moderator. When confronted or perhaps not understanding difficult questions, she took the conversation into oddly irrelevant areas to what the audience was focusing on and waiting for her counter punch. For example when Gwen asked about policy on mortgage and bankruptcy, Joe gave a perfectly fine answer. Sarah’s turn. “I want to talk about, again, my record on energy policy”. For the audience, an unsatisfying comeback and repeating herself again already.

144 Days to Bushdown. 67 Days to the notice.

Enclosed is the link for the Bush Countdown Timer for Macintosh. http://www.digitallantern.net/macosx/download.htm

And today Barack makes history becoming the Democratic party’s nominee signaling the end of the Bush/McCain era.

Impeachment and Confidence

I sometimes wonder if the parliamentary system is better with its vote of confidence in the executive compared to the American system. Having lost confidence in leadership of the entire executive branch,  the people suffer the entire remaining term to compound evils and therby lengthen the undoing. Impeachment of both Bush and Cheney would address the top. But the executive branch is rife with incompetent appointments. The whole branch needs to be reborn. Remedy can not come soon enough. Impeachment must take place now. Not just to correct endless war, but its cause. The origins of terrorism require global police coordination, not nationalized militias to correct. Impeachment will halt torture as a standard, immense corruption in bidding government contracts and the list we all know. It is that if we do nothing, something worse still will certainly happen. What further fearful conditions will the Cheney-Bush administration begin in the remaining 254 days to guarantee their continuity. I fear their future and commend any movement toward a series of impeachments now. Impeach now or forever lose your peace.

Endless War Blues

 Luis Sinco’s video document about an iconic marine, James Miller, tells his personal battle story. How to talk to returning troops? Private Miller tels us not to buy a returning soldier a patriotic beer, but to ask how they are doing. Are you all right?

Why are Barack and Hillary so Happy?

Let the hugfest begin. A photorevision of the John McCain swoon over George Bush. On the sides, Barack applauds and Hillary salutes the Bush-hugger. 

The Thinker, The Decider, The Doer

“Our enemies never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.” – said by “I’m a war president. I have war on my mind”. Looking truer than ever. IPOD poster material now. And a performance artist begs you to kick George in the Ass. Looking beyond the daily Huffpo headlines for a considered weekly dose of copyrighted truth - Le Show from Harry Shear.

The Democratic Value of Impeachment

I was thinking about the compelling speech on impeachment given by Sean Penn at his award ceremony. I have to agree that it is important for the silenced Americans to speak now, and make the case so that the rest of America knows what must be done. Indeed, the world needs to hear how true Democracy works. For a free people to sustain freedom, it must call its leadership to account, lest 4 years pass and the world suffers un-American values. A double impeachment would leave no doubt.

More Impeachment Political Cartoons

John Kerry – Control of the Press 2004 Revisited

Tom Tomorrow of yesterday (10.19.04), cartoons how the Republican schedule of controlled releases to the press erased John Kerry. Click on copyrighted pic above or go to the source .

Adding to this post, Thomas Friedman (11.03.06) writes hopefully how the same Kerry trick should be obvious for voters in next week’s election.  The Rove-RNC game plan now boils down to, “Remember that lie we told you? It’s true.”