A race that really matters
After all the ballyhoo and hype of the Olympics comes the only race of any real significance this year: it’s time for Americans to choose the next guy they want to entrust with the launch codes. Without claiming any expertise in the field of US politics, it seems like a no-brainer.
From today’s Independent:
Maybe it wasn’t quite his greatest speech ever. Barack Obama has long since set the bar so high that even he on occasion falls short of the summit. Convention acceptance speeches moreover - even one in a football stadium with a firework show to rival the Beijing Olympics - rarely linger in the memory, such is the gathering flood of the political season. But on Thursday evening, the candidate did what every Democrat craved. He set out what he planned to do, laid into John McCain, and looked like a President.
Read the entire article here.
More good sense about Obama’s credentials.
In the name of everything holy, let’s hope he still looks like a president in January.