As Election Day grows closer and the debates coming up I couldn’t help but think of that old Saturday Night Live sketch where Dana Carvy was playing Bush Sr. debating Michael Dukakis being played by John Lovitz.  Bush had very little to say in his closing statement and every time he finished, the moderator would say that he had one more minute or thirty more seconds and so on.  He would keep repeating, “a thousand points of light, stay the course, no new taxes” and other catch phrases that he used during the 1988 campaign.  When he did finish, the moderator asked Dukakis if he had a rebuttal.  All he answered was, “I can’t believe I’m losing to this guy”.  I sort of feel the same way now even though this race is essentially tied.  How is McCain even close?  Let’s forget for a second that his campaign has been called one of the most dishonest in history and that his commercials are oozing with sleaze.  We will also forget that even Karl Rove says that McCain has gone too far.   As our economy sinks into what Alan Greenspan just called a “once in a century crisis”, John McCain yesterday said that the fundamentals of our economy are strong.  This same quote was supposedly also said by President Herbert Hoover right before The Great Depression.  We all know how that went.  Later in the day McCain said he by fundamentals, he meant people; thus meaning the American workers are strong and insisted that the United States is in an economic crisis.  He also said that when Obama said the fundamentals of the economy are not strong, he was talking about the American workers, which of course is complete bullshit.  I can give McCain the benefit of the doubt.  He may have just misspoke, or got confused or flat out goofed when he was talking about the economic fundamentals but that’s not what I believe.  I believe that it’s not his area of expertise and it’s a good thing that he has an economic advisor.  Well, it would be a good thing if his advisor was someone other than Phil Gramm who said that our recession was merely mental, and the US is a nation of whiners.  It’s just going to get more interesting from here folks.  We’ll see if he can clean up the mess he made yesterday, but so far it doesn’t sound like McCain is doing any better today.

One more thing about that “I can’t believe that I am losing to this guy” line.  I thought the same thing in 2000 and 2004.  I feel more confident now than I did then, but just in case we should all take the time to help out at https://donate.barackobama.com.  That is if he is the candidate you are voting for.  It kind of makes me laugh, with any donation of $15.00 or more, they send you an Obama car magnet.  Act now and get a Hillary Clinton toaster!