The forecasts for the next election however, are not good.
It's actually a bit depressing, because all those dancing on the grave of New Labour are just building the coming majority for Cameron's Conservatives. And I struggle to believe they will be an improvement for those of us in the bottom 95%...
Is it just me, or is Brown in the running for "worst PM ever"? When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. — John M. Keynes
You guys sound like my dad: You worry far too much about a McCain presidency at this point. Believe me, no one hates the idea more than I do, but given that Obama has maintained a lead despite all the "-gates" (Pastorgate, Bittergate, FlagPingate, etc -- we've seen in the last two months, it's really not warranted. People don't seem to be stupid this year, and on the fundamentals -- Iraq, the economy, health care -- he's beating the snot out of McCain so badly that I'm tempted to think that already significant lead may well widen, despite the tendency for polling to bump up and down in summer (before people start paying attention).
If he were losing in September with this sort of stuff going on, I'd be worried. For now, he's pulling ahead, finally, in Ohio and Virginia. He was already ahead in Colorado and Iowa. New Mexico is tight (slightly leaning Obama), but it's going to do the right thing in the end, I think. He's now got Pennsylvania looking solid again. New Hampshire is swinging back, finally. And, with Edwards on the ticket, those poll numbers go from solid Obama wins to landslide Obama wins, according to the Jesus Polling Group, SurveyUSA. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
They might well bump back to a tie. It's still spring, so the public isn't paying incredibly close attention. But I think you're seeing the fundamentals flex their muscles a bit, and that should be reassuring. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Was not the discrediting of government as a social force for good one of the central ideas from the start?
And, viewed from this perspective, --is the Bush administration really a failure? Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.
That's not to say that Cameron and the Tories get a free pass, of course, as I understand them to have been no less pro-war. But, still, Labour has only itself to blame. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
