"Begin the Begin" - REM with Eddie Vedder
(This is from the "Vote for Change" concert in DC in October 2004, which I was fortunate enough to be at. Michael Stipe blew me away, although I think he still took a back seat to Bruce who put on a great show as the closing act. Pearl Jam wasn't too shabby either.)
Sorry for the silence -- a series of day long meetings, travel to Palm Springs, CA, a balky internet connection that ate an earlier post, and finally a nasty computer virus, have all thwarted me in my attempts to communicate. I'll be winging my way east tomorrow morning, so will probably not be very available then either.
I am feeling pretty happy about Tuesday's election results, especially the Ohio referendum vote, which strikes me as a pretty remarkable result in this day and age. It also seems to me to lay out a path to victory in that state for Barack Obama and strongly suggests that there is a populist path to victory available for him. I am fairly confident that there is no Republican route to the White House that does not include winning Ohio.
I find myself unable to imagine another Republican nominee other than Romney at this point, despite his lack of appeal to much of the base. Cain is a bad joke and despite my admonition of the other day, I have pretty much concluded that he is a lying sack of shit with respect to these sexual harassment charges. As for Rick Perry, I'd call him dumb as a box of rocks, but fear that the rocks may sue me for defamation. Holy shit -- does the man have to get a memo each morning reminding him to breathe? I guess the Gingrich boomlet is the next logical thing. After all, I hear he is a great man for ideas, a veritable visionary. (I wonder how badly Obama would beat Gingrich? It would be pretty epic beatdown I am guessing.)
I feel completely isolated and out of touch -- tell me what I've been missing.
