It’s about time you finally delivered our free ice cream.
I was waiting, waiting, waiting.  But no free ice cream at all yesterday.

Don’t you know your blog is the only one I check on a daily basis now?

It’s been a rough week--I’ve had a ton of things I wanted to write about and not nearly enough time or energy to attack them. But I’m feeling better now.

I was planning to shift more to a “free sorbet” plan of world domination, though. Will ice cream lover still feel well served? (There’s probably a “soft served” joke in there somewhere, but I’ll leave the puns to you.)

I’m actually considering voting for Obama in both the primary and the general election. Seriously. The way that I see it we have two choices: a long, slow death spiral (McCain) or a quick and dirty death (Obama or Clinton). It is very clear to me that this country is headed in the wrong direction and we have much further to fall before the masses wake up and start clamoring for the right changes. Part of me believes that we are better served by falling more quickly rather than by dragging it out. Obama and Clinton will both get us there faster than McCain and Obama will get us there quicker than Clinton.

Here’s a new campaign slogan:

Obama: For All The Wrong Reasons

Than should fit neatly on a bumper sticker, shouldn’t it?

Great bumper sticker.

This would require so much more of a response than I can give while I’m here at work--so I think I’ll use it as a jumping point for something I’ve been meaning to write for a while. Hope you don’t mind.

Don’t mind at all - even if you disagree and take me to task.

Jerry, I basically agree with you.  But here’s the thing: remember how the economy gets handled by mainstream news media?  If a Republican is President, he’s responsible for any recession that starts a year before he takes office or starts anything up to a year after he leaves office.  And they continue a droning of negativity about the economy all through a Republican Presidency.  But when it’s a Democrat Presidency, anytime they talk about the economy, they show montages of cashiers handing back change, money rolling off of presses, etc.  Happy Days Are Here Again, if a Democrat is in the White House.
So I don’t really trust that if Obama or Clinton drive us into the ground, that there will be any awareness that we have it so bad because of the Democrats.  The fact that Jimmy Carter still largely has a good reputation pretty much demonstrates this.  Lousy grammar warning: The fact that Bush I was defeated by Clinton because of a recession that ended 6 months before the election...but wasn’t reported until the weeks following the inauguration, when it was promptly credited to Clinton’s wonderful leadership pretty much convinces me we can’t depend on blame being placed where deserved.
Thus, I’d rather vote for McCain in the general election, all while badmouthing him every second; with the hope that he’ll try to please the never-satisfied on the right in hopes of winning a second term.
The alternative theory being that him being so old, a vote for McCain is just about a vote for his Veep (assuming he *doesn’t* choose Huckabee).

I think I’m in pretty much exactly the same position that Nathan is.  With the addition that McCain is less likely to make a catastrophically bad decision in foreign policy that will haunt us for decades.  (Note:  I don’t say he won’t make such a decision, just that the probabilities are better.)