In Case You Were Wondering...
This blog was started for one reason and one reason only -- to help take down John McCain and prevent him from becoming President. I never had any delusions of grandeur here -- a no-name startup blog won't change many minds, if any. But I did something, I did my small part, and it was because of millions of people doing something that Barack Obama was elected by such a wide margin.
I began to blog less frequently in September and October, as Obama took a polling lead and the outcome of the election became more certain. At that point, the election was really out of the hands of small fry like myself anyway. It was up to Obama to perform in the debates, up to McCain to continue his dishonorable implosion, and up to Palin to continue dooming the ticket with her epic unpreparedness and meanspirited idiocy.
I mean really -- other than point at the McCain/Palin ticket and laugh, what was there to say?
So now the election is over, the election was won, and a blog titled "OldManMcCain" really has no use anymore. So this is probably my last post. I would like to conclude with a bit of analysis on the current state of politics and the state of the world.
The economy fucking sucks right now. And yes, it's gonna get much worse as layoffs continue and more businesses and banks go bust. At some point the government will have to stop bailing out failed businesses and insolvent homeowners and instead focus on creating new jobs, new industries, a new economy. Thank god we've got Obama in there, I can't imagine McCain doing anything but making the whole mess worse. He'd have been Hoover II, with a penchant for international conflict. Obama, if he is smart, will stop throwing money towards Wall Street and will instead throw money towards mass transit, renewable energy, infrastructure repair, SUPERTRAINS, and universal health care.
Obama's team is decidedly centrist, with about as many Republicans as progressives. Overall, however, it's chock-full of first rate minds and people with experience in their fields. Steven Chu at the Energy department is incredibly exciting, and I'm hopeful that Eric Holder will be a tough Attorney General who refuses to look the other way when it comes to Bush's war crimes. The Republicans will try to grill him in confirmation hearings, try to paint him as a partisan, and then dare him to actually do something as partisan as enforce the law. Hopefully Holder just bites his tongue and then appoints Patrick Fitzgerald as special prosecutor and lets him do his thing. The Republicans should realize that Bush will be issuing a boatload of pardons in the next month or so, and there's no clearer evidence of a need to investigate than a shitload of pardons to Karl Rove and Alberto Gonzales and Rumsfeld and the gang.
Bush's approval will stay in the toilet until the last day, and January will be filled with countdown clocks waiting for his nightmarish reign to end. After Jan. 20th, the whole Republican party can just kiss my ass as far as I'm concerned. They've ruined the country, and I'll be damned if we let them stand in our way as we try to get things back on track.
Anyway, farewell dear blogosphere. I'll still be contributing elsewhere, and I may start a new political blog at some point. Currently I have other projects to finish up first. To John McCain, I'm sorry for calling you an old coot despite your youthful energy and spirit, and to Sarah Palin I just have to say I'm sorry for your children to grow up in such a corrupt, anti-intellectual household.
And to Obama and Biden and their whole campaign team, thanks for making history.
On to 2009 and the start of a new day.



