Cheese for Victory

Noted that this morning, the most likely outcome to the 2008 Presidential Election in the United States has become the election of one Sen. Barack Obama.*

Anything could happen of course. Obama could turn out to have a Nazi great-grandfather. Hillary Clinton could hire the mob to threaten superdelegates. John McCain could suddenly develop the ability to fly. But at the moment, the 47 year-old smart guy with the big ears is most likely to take the big enchilada.

There's always a moment when you know something has really changed. There was an NPR story last week in Rejected Credit Card, Virgina, and they interviewed some old goat who sounded like he was wearing a Lynryd Skynrd hat, who said he wasn't much for McCain, or Hillary, so he'd probably vote for "that black boy, Obama."

Wow. Obama's even pulling in the racists. (Kudos to the Laird for calling that possibility a while back.)

I just realized that the this may be the first time in my life that the most likely outcome in a Presidential contest is the guy I originally thought would be the overall best of the available candidates. Here he is, out-organizing, out-managing, out-campaigning - smacking down the Clintons. The Clintons! The Bill and Hillary Clintons. At politics!

And now for the John McCain O.O.J. (Original Old Jokes):

"McCain deserves a lot of credit for his heroism in tracking down John Wilkes Booth and bringing him to justice.

"A lot of historians have interesting insights into John McCain, but I think Herodotus nailed it."

"John McCain hasn't had such a tough race since he ran against that Triceratops."

"John McCain does believe in evolution. He watched it happen."

"Classic theoretical physics precludes the possibility that John McCain witnessed the creation of the universe. However, Hawking dissents."

* In the interest of avoiding any charges of plagiarism from the Clinton campaign, let me attribute this phrase to those who have been using it recently: People who write things about politics. Thank you for letting me use your phrase. Also, an an artist, I want to attribute my idea for using images of women in paintings to Jenny Saville, Richard Diebenkorn, Henri Matisse, Picasso, Manet, Monet, Man-Ray, Duchamp, Ingres, Titian, Da Vinci, Van Eyck, Giotto, Apollodorus of Athens, Kenemiodes of Minoa, and of course Omorgooo-gar, of Lascaux. Special thanks to the estate of Yves Klein for my use of a small dab of Klein blue in the upper right of my latest work.