From some of the accounts of his military career, he was a chronic fuck-up, crashed three planes and was only redeemed by his P.O.W. story. And he has a famous temper. By contrast Obama is thought to have a first rate temperament and intellect. But non-the-less Obama is serenely sailing the country into the jaws of economic destruction, a course which may well yet result in the loss of even the semblance of popular democracy, and he either doesn't get it or doesn't care. What a choice!

But from the point of view of the rest of the world, Obama does look like a much better choice.  To me it turned out to be a choice of disasters. One was more obvious the other more insidious.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."