Wednesday, November 5, 2008

On Obama winning presidency...

By now, just about every other guy is conducting their own postmortem on what went wrong with McCain's campaign, and what Obama did right, after Obama won presidency yesterday.

But if you ask me, it's more a stroke of luck for Obama that the economy is in such bad shape, that GOP can't deny any responsibility. Don't be fooled though, since Obama has no experience in economy whatsoever. No matter, the fact that George W Bush and his neo-con squandered away eight long years to top off the decline of GOP and any of its residual credential (if any is left) in handling economy, foreign policy, and the military. Not that anyone would dislike tax cut, but the fact that GOP has only that one magical pill in its medicinal box for the economy, and that its insistence (as much as McCain's) in deregulation, have all contributed to the financial mess (first in subprime mortgage market, then credit market, courtesy of Greenspan). And then, there is the Iraq war that we all know full well that Bush and GOP blundered so badly.

But those are (Bush) guilt by association to McCain. I very much doubt that the choice of Sarah Palin adds to his fallacy. Having said that, the relative smear-clean (almost honorable) campaign from McCain had not served him well. It almost points to an impotent campaign, in line with McCain's senior age. That's just too bad.

Still, I dislike Obama. Just about the only thing I checked this morning was the result of the election. I have switched off all the radio and ignored all the news headlines. I can't stand his flash of teeth. It's so freaking annoying.

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