re: #732 TradeBait

You know, I don’t know why, but I really didn’t think McCain would lose. Don’t get me wrong, I’m proud as hell that this country elected an African-American to the presidency in my lifetime. I just wish it was someone who wasn’t so intent on bankrupting us for a generation to come.

People forget how close the race actually was. McCain was actually leading until the ecenomy collapsed, and still only lost 54-46. In other words, if 1/25 more of the electorate had voted for McCain instead of Obama, it would have been dead even. Had the economy held strong through election day, I still believe he would have been our president. He WAS the right candidate against Obama; things beyond anyone’s control just went wrong, and, as a member of the party that was in power when it all went pear-shaped, he got unjustifiably, and lethally, penalized at the polls.