Bill's Notes

I've given up trying to predict this thing. Obama has been able to skate Hillary without offering many details about what he plans to do. My concerns about his fuzziness don't yet out weigh my desire to not see the Clintons in the White House again. So, if I had to vote in the NC primary today, I'd still vote for Obama.

McCain is the only candidate that has any history trying to actually deal with the deficit. That isn't going to happen by spending cuts alone, so a bit of realism on taxes is called for (without excessive hysteria about any tax increase being the death knell of freedom -- we're going to have to pay for all of the Bush drug benefits some how).

If Obama's policies look like welfare statism and don't address the deficit, it would be very hard for me to vote for Obama. NC will go for McCain regardless of how I vote --- it it goes for Obama, we'll be talking about a national landslide.

Anyway, relax, it can't be any more unenjoyable for you than it has been for me to sit through 8 years of the Bush/Cheney virtual waterboard treatment. May be if you don't fight it, you'll learn to enjoy it.

PS A hidden benefit will be that you'll have plenty of stuff to write about in the blog. We're not really expecting you to not criticize Hillary or Obama when they do stuff you don't agree with.

Bill - If you can make it to a happy place with politics your a better man than I am.

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I'm working on the happy place ... Like you, I try to keep it in perspective. Politics ain't life.