Why McCain could well be the next Pres....

It saddens me deeply to write this.  But I have had a vision of the future and it is indeed frightening.  Others have echoed this both on the blogs and in the corporate media, but increasingly I sense the vision materializing, much as I did when I saw Reagan gaining traction in 1980.  Follow me below the jump for my thinking.

A fried of mine living in London said to me recently:

I have a feeling this whole election is going to have unpleasant surprises.  As someone told me the other day, this is a time when Rs are on the losing end and Ds should have an easy victory.  So, the Ds put forward the two most un-electable candidates as their front runners.  As much as I think B O is the most qualified of the two Ds and one R, and would like to see him in office, I have a feeling when its voting time, people's racism and phobias will overcome rationalism.  

The fact that Hillary has fanned the flames of racial animus and handed McCain the ammunition for the GE has not helped.  She truly has lived up to the characterization of her as willing to do anything to win.

And while I have my own reservations about where Obama is coming from on economic issues and how much of a leader he actually is vs how much a creature of hype, I think he would make a far better President than McSame.  

Make no mistake about it, McSame would be a disaster in so many ways...  Like Nero after Caligula.  And yet, the corporate world will rally around him.  The Bushites who will never acknowledge the wreckage they have created will rally around him.  And the folks who could not stomach Billary again or a black President ever will rally around him.  How many of these last are there in reality?  That is the question.

I still think back to how things were in 1999 and 2000, and I just can't believe how we have gone so very wrong since then.  And I watch Billary and Barack bleed each other and I can see the growing probability that we will fail again to capitalize on a historic opportunity.

And believe me, things can get worse. Much worse.  More war, more economic dislocation, more unraveling of our social compact that is the basis of a stable polity.  I sure hope all this is just a function of sleep deprivation and that I will be back to being chipper and upbeat tomorrow.