I am completely ambivalent about the outcome. I know I shouldn't be, but I am. The Democrats still are nowhere near representing my values and, what's more, they have a four decades long record of not adequately representing working people. And their candidates? Well, I know a lot of people who are thrilled by Obama, but on many subjects (most, actually) he leaves me cold and, I guess, that charisma he undoubtedly has doesn't work on people like me, who prefer their rhetoric in the environment which is the US a bit more rough around the edges and polemical. Hell, I'd even settle for Gore's rhetoric in 2000. And Hillary? I guess I'd like it better if she'd use her Bill Clinton surrogate to better effect, like having the former President go out to crowds and instead of attacking Obama, apologizing for the misguided neo-liberal policies he himself pursued while in office. That might get my attention.

Soon to be coming into no small amount of liquid assets I will be needing to get situated back in the EU, I note that my New American Pesos are worth less and less, and therefore am also acutely aware of decades of misguided (and in a bi-partisan way I might add) US policies on my own financial well-being. Granted, it's only money, and not all that much of it either, so I don't really care...that much...but I have a feeling that McCain will fix that more effectively than the other two. It'll cause massive pain in the US to fix it (anyone remember Reagan's recession? Double it), and the working class will suffer most, and maybe then we might get a party that will actually start fighting for them, a party i haven't seen in my lifetime in the us.

The other two? Sounds like ineffectual drift, and neither are capable of doing what's needed, starting with re-instituting a comprehensively progressive income tax like the US had with Eisenhower, use the proceeds to not only balance the budget(s) but also smooth the tranistion to universal single-payer socialized medicine, and begin to dismantle the war machine amerika will soon no longer be able to afford.

The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet. Winston Churchill