These arresting days of late 2008 may be some of America’s best.
Unless we learn, in the next 18 days, that in fact John McCain spearheaded a white slavery operation in Southeast Asia during the six years he was supposed to have been a prisoner of the North Vietnamese, I will vote for McCain to be my next president. My vote will be cast with many reservations and–for the first time in my life–for a Republican presidential candidate.
Try not to demonize me–or any one else who is trying hard to get it right this election year. Barack Obama, as talented as he is, struck me again and again as the new Jimmy Carter: smart, good and yes a great man–and likely an ineffective leader once in office. Carter, at least, was not untested. In Obama’s case, I listened but couldn’t buy the Kennedy-lite “change now” noises from a gifted young guy who has never managed anything except for his brilliant and historical
Chris Buckley: Vote pairing with Dan Hull?