I was never really pleased with McCain as the choice. I was personally thinking Fred Thompson would have been good but then again I’m a big L&O fan. Other than that, no one really stood out.

The conspiracy theorist in me skeptically looks at the last 8 years and sees the MSM and Dems slamming Bush no matter what he did and I think that 2000-04 then 2004-08 was all about smearing the party, not necessarily only Bush. They did a bang up job of making Bush seem like a useless tool when he had bigger, more serious problems to deal with than anyone since Reagan.

I remember one season of “24″, I think the first one, had a “black guy running for president” theme and a threat against him. Then in subsequent seasons the president WAS black and it was never brought up or made an issue. He was just a guy but his political affiliation and skin color is never mentioned… on a right wing network yet. Too bad Obama couldn’t fit into that fantasy world and race really wasn’t being used as a wedge/scare tactic.

I guess the biggest problem for me in this election is the media bias. Between the bias we saw here in Canada for the last few years under Harper and this in the US it’s wearing a little thin on me right now.

I think Obama would probably be no more damaging than Clinton was policy wise, and I think you’re right about McCain being a sacrificial lamb. Unfortunately I hope McCain wins because the biggest issues to deal with over the next few years will be foreign affairs and I think Obama would pull a Kennedy and lead us to the brink of war without realizing it.