It somehow seems like by 2008 we ought to have a way of knowing whether someone is alive or not – some radical DNA world wide alert when any one of us departs for the next life – or perhaps the Gates of Hell. But maybe that’s for the 22nd century.

You know the better it looks for Obama the more worried I get. I think his staff might think the same since they touted the example of being 15 points ahead in New Hampshire and then losing the state.

@ Jerry– agreed on all fronts. : )

@ Brian– the investigations won’t be a matter of Obama’s choice. Congress will almost certainly weigh in in force, and, now that it’s “safe” to do so, journalists might finally start doing their job again too.

The real story here is that we are about to have our first non-white president, at last. Our nation needs the next couple of weeks, months, maybe years to deal with the very real emotion impact of our moment of national advancement. We can not remain colorblind. We must embrace a person’s cultural heritage if we are to benefit from the full breadth of their talent and experience. Just as in the natural world, so too are we strengthed by diversity. Oh, yeah, plus the long national nightmare of the Bush administration will be over. We’ve shared this thought many times before Dave, but it bears repeating: this is an incredible time to be on this earth.

I sometimes suspect Bush/Cheney et. al. have a deeper plan. It may be that the Republicans are more or less willing to let this one go, in the hope of coming back full blast in 2012. They never liked McCain anyway, and they aren’t stupid – they knew that this was never their election to win. They can make all the gestures in Pakistan they want – but the time to produce Bin Laden was six months ago, before the economy tanked. Would catching him tomorrow save the Dow?

Something I guess we will never know.