Lots to catch up on. I haven't posted yet today because I did write this column for the print paper, which seems to be attracting lots of comments over at CIF and which has yielded the expected number of personal emails attacking me for having a man-crush on Obama and avowing that American will never elect a black terrorist president, etc etc.
For what it's worth, believe me or not as you wish, I have no man-crush. I think he's an unusually skilled politician who has shown impressive intelligence and judgment and thus has the potential to be a very good president. Maybe great under the right circumstances (which increasingly don't look like they'll obtain). However, if elected, he'll disappoint me too. He'll probably even anger me. There is no question about this. I quit putting politicians on pedestals a long time ago.
I'm about 80 percent driven by the conviction that my country literally (and not Joe Biden literally; I mean literally literally) may not survive eight more years of this. The US economy is on the edge of abyss. We're in massive debt to China. We have no moral standing in the world. None. So we're barely surviving this bunch of maniacs. Another eight years??
Lots to write about today. I'll get to it directly.
