Looking forward

Well, for good or ill the vote looms upon us.  In two days, we can return to answering our damned phone . . .

The downside . . .

Of course, the other side of that election coin is that the 2012 campaign starts next Monday . . .

Thoughts inspired by a discussion elsewhere

"States' Rights" may have been a code-phrase for institutionalized racism and repression, but the concept was part of the Constitution of this land.  Repressing the right of the individual states to make laws suited to their citizens has, as a direct descendant, the push to ban abortion and gay marriage on a national level. 

Likewise, national laws on voter registration parallel the Federal meddling in Maine's right to issue a driver's license based strictly on a person's ability to operate a motor vehicle in a safe and legal manner . . .

Strange omission

With the robocalls accusing Sen. Obama of this or that atrocity*, I'm surprised that none of them have called into question his education in Cook County Democratic politics....

*Full disclosure -- I may have met Bill Ayers while Obama was in kindergarten.  That was the kind of guy who used to hang around Ann Arbor's lunatic fringe back in the Dark Ages when I was in college.