Too Absent Herald

At first I thought McCain would lose along the lines of Dole, or, yes, even Goldwater. He’d go down, fighting, but true to… well, some principles.
So that’s out.

Then I considered that he would lose in a self destructive way. this was amenable to me as well. Though I never thought of McCain as 90% Bush. I knew that I cannot actually storm the Executive mansion and run the hoodlums out. So McCain’s shitty lowbrow tactics would allow some sort of transference of my 8 year animosity.

Finally, we arrive at the third way. With the 30 minute program tonight, I know how McCain will lose.
He’s just gonna get beat. As Ta-Nehisi put it, moments ago: “McCain should call his family.”

Obama himself narrates the story of the Obama campaign.

On his best day, McCain couldn’t beat that.

I watch Obama giving his stump speech, for the, what, thousandth time? I mean, really, a THOUSAND TIMES. I joke about my lack of patience with the “undecided voter.” But this is the reason he is to be wondered at. To be able to say this, for the thousandth time, and not just scream (thank you, again, Dr. Dean) at people to let him get to work.

So I just think, in a few days, he won’t have to go through this circus any more.

That takes care of thinking for today. Now FEEL this. I could barely see my cheese fries through the tears.

Or, actually, four words.

Happy Dumb Evil Driven

AG reminded me, this morning, of our collegiate-era system for classifying behavior patterns. It was based on the Keirsey-Bates schema of

Introvert / Extrovert
Sensing / Feeling
Intuitive / Rational
Judging / Perceiving

To some extent, this system was useful for self examination. But that quickly lost it’s sheen. Our new system was an outwardly directed classification system, like the scrolling list of targets in the Terminator vision.
This new system was, itself, outwardly directed. “I don’t care about you or me. But what about that guy over there? What’s his deal?”

We came up with

Happy / Sad
Smart / Dumb
Good / Evil
Driven / Lazy.
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