I am a bloody frickin genius…
I was dinking around on my pre 2009 blog because the link in the Dec 2008 page is gone…anyways I clicked on a random page from 2008 (August 16, 2008) and found this:

so I’m following this U.S. election with my usual aplomb…I love politics as soap opera, but don’t get emotionally involved except when I get pissed/annoyed at stupid people…
anyways…
IMO it would honestly be a huge upset if McCain actually won this year.
…Me always more viewing the big picture is much more interested in the long term repercussions for the US two party system etc.
Can you imagine the disarray of the republicans if McCain loses?
They accidentally nominated the most centrist, decent candidate they possibly realistically could have (jayssssus can you imagine Huckabee as the nominee right now?) and if McCain loses what will those dissatisfied religious voters do in 4 years? They got the centrist-ish candidate they didn’t want and he still lost…they won’t possibly compromise their ‘values’ even more in 4 years. will they backlash and get behind a ‘real’ conservative candidate in 4 years only to lose that election as well (you have to expect the economy will be better in 4 years, and after the democratically controlled house and senate actually pass things that will help middle class voters, those crazy fiscally responsible democrats won’t be so distasteful to the football mom skeptics who aren’t so sure this time)…?
anyways point is…If Obama wins this year he will win re-election…and my best case scenario is that people realize the two party system is crap…the religious wackos will vote their own party, the progressive wackos will vote their own party, and the reasonable dems, pubs will just merge…
anyways ultimate goal…proportional representation…so everyone gets a voice…

then I can complain about people having a voice that are stupid and don’t deserve to have a voice, but that argument can wait for 50 years…
…as I said…politics as soap opera much more interesting then politics as extension of my emotions…

So I claim correctness on my prediction. It was probably not original thought, but it was my own (meaning someone else probably wrote or realized the same thing well before I did, but I didn’t read anyone elses prediction before writing this)…but if two people have the same thoughts in a vacuum does that mean the second person who said it is just as smart as the first?

An article on Republicans and health care.

There is snow in the forecast next week. Uhhhhhh…..

Matt comes next weekend. Then I may head off to Rome the following week to catch up with another Frankfurt friend. It’s cheap enough and easy enough…but I’ll probably return before or on x-mas as spending time with someone elses family on a family holiday is more worse than spending it alone.