Are you Serious?

This article by Jonathan Freedland is worth a look for election obsessed North Americans. Ugh, I can't shake the hype. I need to get off the computer and go into the woods for a while.

Essentially it makes the point that the the majority of the world wants Barack Obama elected president. No one outside America wants another four years of Republican delusion. That's a lot of hope in one man. Hard to live up to but he would be light years better than McCain, doubtless.

This passage sits heavily on me:

"For America to make a decision as grave as this one [electing McCain] - while the planet boils and with the US fighting two wars - on the trivial basis that a hockey mom is likable and seems down to earth, would be to convey a lack of seriousness, a fleeing from reality, that does indeed suggest a nation in, to quote Weisberg, 'historical decline'. Let's not forget, McCain's campaign manager boasts that this election is 'not about the issues.'"

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In other news, the Green Party has arrived. Well done Elizabeth May! Now if we only had proportional representation.