Exciting News!\u00c2\u00a0 John McCain has conceded the election, and will cease to campaign, taking his campaign commercials off the air and\u00c2\u00a0allow Obama to discuss the issues all by himself at what were once debates!\u00c2\u00a0 He has yet to announce his intent on lifting his name off the ballot, but I guess we will just have to wait for that one.<\/p>\n
Vive Le Presidente Barack Obama!<\/p>\n
Sigh.<\/p>\n
Okay.\u00c2\u00a0 Let me approach this another way.\u00c2\u00a0 You know.\u00c2\u00a0 When you have lost David Letterman, you have lost America, my friends<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I suppose this is a Jay Leno Nation, and it has been a Jay Leno Nation ever since Hugh Grant picked up a prostitute and happened to appear on Jay Leno\u00c2\u00a0first\u00c2\u00a0is his talk show circuit\u00c2\u00a0 — though, that probably only sped up the inevitable.\u00c2\u00a0 But McCain would have been far better dissing Leno, who’s broad popularity is the product of a certain toothlessness.\u00c2\u00a0 (The youtube clip of the hour distilled to its essential nine minutes and change\u00c2\u00a0is available, and probably on the front page in the “most watched” section.) It is a gambit and a half.\u00c2\u00a0 At the beginning of the day, and at the end of yesterday, new polls were released <\/a>which were described as “having a lot of eye candy for Democrats<\/a>.”\u00c2\u00a0 The McCain campaign was once again on a chart toward doom.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes.\u00c2\u00a0 Under those auspices, John McCain\u00c2\u00a0will now\u00c2\u00a0save the World.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Exciting News!\u00c2\u00a0 John McCain has conceded the election, and will cease to campaign, taking his campaign commercials off the air and\u00c2\u00a0allow Obama to discuss the issues all by himself at what were once debates!\u00c2\u00a0 He has yet to announce his intent on lifting his name off the ballot, but I guess we will just have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNote that the sidebar “McCain and Obama Debating Styles” section is rather moot at the moment.\u00c2\u00a0 We are on the verge of that old Political Theater of the “Empty Chair Debate”.\u00c2\u00a0 Too bad there isn’t a third candidate, as with Reagan’s debate with John Anderson, Carter opting out in protest of the inclusion of John Anderson… which was ninety or however many minutes of Anderson and Reagan effusive praise for each other.<\/p>\n