Posted by caraher on September 9, 2008, at 11:15:26
In reply to desultry consolations, posted by Sigismund on September 9, 2008, at 2:24:36
> Should Obama lose we might derive consolation from the fact that he represents Wilsonian utopian (?) interventionist (?) thinking just as much as McCain.
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> Or, we might derive consolation from the fact that we are beyond hope as a species.
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> Is there anybody out there?It might mean we can stop dreaming that America is any kind of democracy and get on with the business of figuring out how best to adapt to a world where it's an obvious sham.
(Seriously... I am in rural Indiana, a state that last voted for a Democrat when I was in diapers, and there's no visible McCain support. Yet I'm supposed to believe that McCain leads in nationwide polling? The stage is being set for yet another implausible election result...)
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