Obama by a landslide

You read it here first...Barack Obama will win the U.S. Presidential election next month in a landslide. John McCain and his handlers are going to try to do anything and everything possible to attack Obama personally, but it's not going to work. Everywhere I go, every news program I watch or listen to, and every newspaper I read, I hear the same thing: People are angry. Their living standards are poorer than they were eight, or even four, years ago. Their retirement savings are in jeopardy. Their homes are worth much less than they paid for them. The student loans that they arranged for their children are being withdrawn, leaving them scrambling to find new lenders.  Businesses can't get financing, so they're laying off workers, cutting back on orders and, in the worst cases, going out of business.

The worst mistake that the Republican party made in decades was when it decided to put all its chips on George W. Bush, even though John McCain was winning primaries and gaining momentum. Had McCain been in the White House in 2000, we almost certainly wouldn't have gone into Iraq, and we might not be in this financial mess. Unfortunately, the John McCain of 2000 isn't running in this election. The John McCain of 2008 is a political opportunist who seems to make critically important decisions on a whim, the most devastating of which, in my opinion, was appointing Sarah Palin to be his Vice-Presidential candidate. Eight years ago, he might have been able to get away with that; given that he would have a 1 in 6 chance of dying in office were he to be elected now, his decision has to be seen as grossly irresponsible, especially given that there were many other female Republicans with far more experience and qualifications to be President.

Given the many problems that this country has, I would much rather have Obama and his team, rather than McCain and his "ready, fire, aim" approach, in charge. I think that the bulk of American voters are coming to the same conclusion.