mccain...

well, he made it the eight years, anyways. if that was your major argument, it turned out to be flawed.

i've stated repeatedly that, on the issues as they were articulated, clinton really barely swayed me; it was like a 51-49 split. you could even argue that i got triangulated, and i was on the very furthest fringe of anybody willing to actually vote for her. that is, you could argue that this is what the clinton brand is all about: you give liberals a millimetre, then stand back and watch while they work it out and eventually take it. and, i wasn't happy about it at all.

obama beat mccain in my mind by a bigger margin, but it was more like obama was mccain-lite. by being mccain-lite (he wasn't even romney lite....he was a mirror reflection of romney....), he managed to dominate him. but, the thing is that that also meant that he lacked mccain's broader insight.

i don't want to be confusing, so i'll state it clearly: mccain is unstable. he's constantly lying. and, the beach boys are overrated. but, he understands what's going on around him better than pretty much anybody else, right now. obama probably stopped some of mccain's excesses from spiralling out of control, but he also made some mistakes that mccain wouldn't have made.

if trump does in the end start world war three, you almost want him to run as a churchillian candidate.

they say history repeats as farce...