Musings From The Road...

Writing from the Gatwick Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse as I return from United Arab Emirates and South Africa... Looking at a 36 hour transit time given 3 flight legs and what looks to be at least a 4 hour mechanical delay on my final leg from London... Gotta love modern air travel!

First comment is how much more glib and useless the CNN International commentators are than their US counterparts! Campbell Brown and Wolf Blitzer seem almost like credible, hard-hitting journalists compared to this cheesy bunch who are simply agog at Obama's ability to purchase himself the US presidency...

Which brings me to my next thought: What will happen when Barry is able to buy himself the White House? Well, I guess he isn't really buying it with his own money, is he? So then can we assume that his campaign budget that exceeds McCain's by 2X or 3X has some strings attached?

Here are the top donors to the Obama campaign:

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638

If you don't have time to click the link, then let me tell you the list includes organizations such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase & Co., Time Warner, UBS, Morgan Stanley, etc.

What? Wasn't this campaign funded by a record number of $10 donations from the high school cafeteria ladies and college kids digging into their Popov Vodka budgets? Hmmmn...

So, okay, not a huge shocker... But makes you wonder when the euphoric hysteria wears off a few weeks from now when the corruption will resume... I'm guessing shortly after the inauguration in January.

Allow me to make this one prediction: The 44th president will be one of the worst in history. How can the next president be worse than Geo Bush? Easy... With a couple of giddy years of falsely inflated public opinion polls and deeper ties into corporate and PAC money than ever before, we will experience ineptitude and corruption like never before. Worse yet, if the House and Senate go Demo, they will run roughshod over this Harvard dilettante... Oh, the Joy!

More to come...

Best,

Mike