The campaign knows for a fact that when Obama said those lines during the debate, it had the highest response of the entire debate from voters hooked up to dial groups.

And what gets me, over and over again, is that it's a sentiment that is conservative in the very?

However, the percentages were within a few points of the match to the two?

Chris and I were talking in the writer's room the other day, about the 30 minute ad buy that aired tonight. Chris was wondering what it was supposed to?

Republican President, unpopular, bumbling idiot or worse, financial world down toilet,deaths in foreign war, clutzy vicepresident hopeful etc etc

Democrates with new, young , powerfully charismatic hopeful with heaps of money for advertising

Result; apperently remarkably close, although surely it will?

Result; apperently remarkably close, although surely it will be a landslide

It will be a landslide... so what's your point? :-)

Honestly, they're like Black Cap supporters expecting another batting collapse.

Heh. Except they don't seem to have realised that Ponting is playing for our team this time. (Or should I say Laxman?).

This thing's in the bag, has been for weeks.

You do have to wonder at the US electorate

Republican President, unpopular, bumbling idiot or worse, financial world down toilet...

Democrat Congress, unpopular, bumbling idiots or worse, financial world down the toilet...

Obama will win because he is young enough and clean enough to be the least tainted particpant in?

For a campaign based around hope, there sure is a lot of despair in the air.

Yeah, I'm not convinced it is a done deal either. But I'm a born pessimist.

I also think there should be a good deal of lowering expectations as to what an Obama presidency would?

Democrat Congress, unpopular, bumbling idiots or worse, financial world down the toilet...

Heh. There was a great thing on the Daily Show a while back, which summarised goes like this:

Take 10+ years of GOP Congress dominance and 8 years of incompetent GOP president. Add 2 years of Democrat Congress?

Then, next, Greens and Labour were neck-n-neck at 73 + 71 and National was way down at 63%....

If we eliminate Winny as a no-go area (it certainly is for me),?

Honestly, they're like Black Cap supporters expecting another batting collapse.

I reckon a slightly better sporting analogy would be a Wellington rugby fan.

All season you?re following the best team in the competition, but you just know things will be different in the Final.

I'm not a great fan of Simon Jenkins, but this piece isn't bad.

Ehhh. You know what I find kind of irritating? This assumption that because people are excited that they are also totally unreasonable. I'm really quite thrilled (I keep reading these utterly poignant stories about elderly African-Americans voting?

I'm too old and far too cynical to think that there will be some sort of magic wand waved.

But assuming he gets in, there will be a generation of children growing up, who in 15-20 years time will be thinking 'we've had a black president. It's not?

I took that test... apparently NZ First is my party with their and my views in 78% alignment! AAARRGGHHH!!!!

apologies, but that did make me laugh.

I support or oppose either outlawing gangs or making membership of gangs an aggravating factor in sentencing

ARGH! I fucking hate questions like that. I'm strongly opposed to outlawing gangs, being something of an absolutist on the whole freedom of association thing, but quite like the idea of membership being?

This assumption that because people are excited that they are also totally unreasonable.

Nicely put. I am still a little frustrated by people who ignore the constraints of politics because they believe in an individual but not since Lange have I been as inspired by a politician as I am?

I took that test... apparently NZ First is my party with their and my views in 78% alignment! AAARRGGHHH!!!

I was a stinking communist hippy with 83% Green alignment, followed by Labour and the Progressives, but I *did* manage to get 68% NZF, which blew my mind a little. Other?

I feel like I'm living in history.

but I'm not an idiot: he's not likely to 'change everything', or even most things.

He's already changed campaigning quite a bit, and the things that should and shouldn't be said, that do and do not work, much as he was helped by the great bumbling clownshow that was the?

ARGH! I fucking hate questions like that.

The 1999 referendum question on law and order was similarly annoying. Apparently rewriting it in the ballot box and then ticking it, doesn't work.

The 1999 referendum question on law and order was similarly annoying

Ah yes,

When someone compiles a list of biggest ever wastes of taxpayer money, that?d be at the front of the queue.

The 1999 referendum question on law and order was similarly annoying.

Yes, I'm embarrassed to admit that I voted yes on that one. I'll put it down to being 20 and voting for the first time, and not quite so careful in analysing that kind of question. These days it'd?

The 1999 referendum question on law and order

Anybody remember, or have to hand, the specific wording of the question?

I remember it was a poorly thought out question, but not why.

without the bloody soundtrack

Oh Giovanni, what do you have against Snuffy Walden?

?Should there be a reform of the justice system placing greater emphasis on the needs of victims, providing restitution and
compensation for them and imposing minimum sentences and hard labour for all serious violent offences?"

Snuffy Walden

Ah, one of my favourite whimsical names in American TV credits. (I'm also pretty fond of 'Harley Tat', who worked on Blind Date.)

I love him.

Oh Giovanni, what do you have against Snuffy Walden?

Everything, other than the name. Since it's not even his real name, so he chose to be called Snuffy, and if you're in the business of composing music and conducting orchestras and still don't mind being referred to with a name?

Like watching the West Wing, but without the bloody soundtrack.

I'm surprised that no-one else has mentioned that the character of Matthew Santos in the West Wing – the junior senator from an ethnic minority who makes a bid for president – is based, explicitly, on a then-little known US?

So very much like The West Wing, then. Any chance they'll revive it, you reckon?

No?

Should there be a reform of the justice system placing greater emphasis on the needs of victims, providing restitution and compensation for them and imposing minimum sentences and hard labour for all serious violent offences?"

I didn't support hard labour so I voted "no". Was?

I didn't support hard labour so I voted "no". Was it that difficult?
=)

And yet National's policy might've been written by the same scribes – even including reviving Neeson's three degrees of murder!

I didn't support hard labour so I voted "no". Was it that difficult?

I wanted it broken into three different questions:

1. Should there be a reform of the justice system?
2. Should any reform place greater emphasis on the needs of victims, providing restitution and compensation for them?
3.?

I wanted it broken into three different questions:

Yes, the issue was how they smuggled hard labour in with something that one could get along with. It's a bit like asking "Are you in favour of peace on earth, and killing everyone named Alfred?"

Well, you're all Joe the plumber, so all of you stand up and say... I thank you

Boy, when it's all over the McCain/Palin '08 blooper reel is going to be feature-length.

I also think there should be a good deal of lowering expectations as to what an Obama presidency would actually do as opposed to what the rest of the world and maybe even the American public would like him to do.

Obama's been doing that himself. His 27.32 minutes ended?

So very much like The West Wing, then. Any chance they'll revive it, you reckon?

In animated form surely

"Are you in favour of peace on earth, and killing everyone named Alfred?"

Finally, a referendum question I can vote for wholeheartedly. The totalitarian tyranny of the Alfreds must end!

Has anyone else noticed the political compass for the US election – the 2nd graph shows a good representation of a map of New Zealand.

I made much the same observation months ago, when it was still just candidates for the Primaries. It's an uncanny likeness.

Note John McCain is in Wellington!! And Barack Obama is in Queenstown.

Ah, I had the scale wrong, placing Obama in Stoke and Nadar in Antarctica.

The McCain campaign has been throwing around so much mud and smears in recent weeks that it's easy to miss just how ugly and shameful their character assassination of Rashid Khalidi is. This is an entirely respectable, highly respected scholar. To go further into making a case?

Also on HuffPo is this piece about Senator Elizabeth Dole running an attack?

The totalitarian tyranny of the Alfreds must end!

Especially the ginga ones.

The totalitarian tyranny of the Alfreds must end!

Especially the ginga ones.

Hmm,

That?s a bit odd Sacha. I was about to say the same thing earlier (but pulled back because I didn?t want to upset HG).

So there?s obviously some subliminal Alfred = ginga thing going on.

Perhaps due?

Santos is based on barack obama

?
... Or was Obama based on Santos (santos came first...)?

Wondering what the viewing audience for that 30 min ad was...
it's already 1.1 million on you tube.

Obama's been doing that himself. His 27.32 minutes ended on the "imperfect man, imperfect president" theme, which if it hadn't been followed by the live Florida fiesta would have almost been un-American...

I'm glad that's the case Don. I take Danielle's point too, but having lived through all the hype?

Ah, one of my favourite whimsical names in American TV credits. (I'm also pretty fond of 'Harley Tat', who worked on Blind Date.)

Fabiomassimo Dell'Orco from Rome. Thuliso Dingwall from The Wire.

Yeah, but you can't beat this guy.

Yeah, but you can't beat this guy.

I heard he was going to change his name... to Fred.

(ah ah ah, I've been waiting 30 years for a chance to use this joke)

But seriously, at least it's his surname, not a lot his parents could have done about that.?

But although we may not have known about the strength of his pseudo-christianity, many of us did have quite a healthy degree of scepticism about Bliar, even before he was elected and rapidly proceed to implement policies that even Thatcher had shied away from.

but I'm not optimistic that they'll happen based on Obama's comments regarding ... the likely protectionist reaction in the US to the global recession.

Obama's a protectionist. That's not news. He's been one for the duration of his campaign, credit crunch or no. And beating some decency into the US?

Yeah, but you can't beat this guy.

I wonder if he's from anywhere around these parts:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking_austria

What's happeened to James Bremer? I'd have though he would have been on this thread setting us right by now?

You need the invocation:

Candyman, Candyman, Candyman.

There, that should do it.

81% Labour. But I was surprised to see the next cab was United bloody Future on 75%

We all love Obama.

Although: WTF, Macedonia?

Although: WTF, Macedonia?

Yes, may the Skopje 34 live in infamy!

"It's just not that far from Petting to Fucking."

Rofflenui! Bloody good form, Mr Wylie. :)

We all love Obama.

Also see the Economist's version, where McCain is currently enjoying support from Sudan, Algeria, Iraq, the Congo, and, er, the South-East Asian Country Formerly Known As Burma. Macedonia clocks in at fifty/fifty. I guess McCain looks better from a war zone.

the principled, maverick-ish Republican whom viewers were supposed to be reluctantly wooed into accepting as the next President in a final bipartisan fling for the show (a plan stymied by John Spencer's untimely passing)

How was that supposed to work? I'm asking because in the first episode of series seven,?

"And what gets me, over and over again, is that it's a sentiment that is conservative in the very best sense. And it's the 'socialist' in this race who sounds like he means it."

Funny thing is, that as a teacher and knowing that my fellow teachers are?

But that's only because I left all the authoritarian shit at +0 at the start. Labour and United aren't too bad at the things I think governments should be doing, it's just a shame they're such closet fascists the rest of the time.

Also,?

Obama? For a guy who's basically a Democrat, he sure does talk pretty.

Yup, a complete sentence expressing a grown-up idea gives me a woody every damn time.

Finally had a chance to do the quiz myself.

Interesting, but like polls I thought it was more entertaining than genuinely insightful.?

Palin told WMAL-AM that her criticism of Obama's associations, like those with 1960s radical Bill Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, should not be considered negative attacks. Rather, for reporters or columnists to suggest that it is going negative may constitute an attack that threatens a candidate's free speech?

And in the states they're positively crumbling. They're going to lose McCain's own state and it turns out that even Georgia is a real tossup, along with?

They're trying to rally the anti-media vote, in an effort to hang on to what – the low forties in the eletoral college?

What else have they got, really? This is the road McCain let his campaign go down — even before the Palin pick --, and it's far too?

Of course, hindsight is always 20/20. But from the beginning McCaiin could have decided that he was serious about running a campaign of "civility and respect".

He would have lost, but by a smaller margin. That's the nature of hail mary passes, though – he took a small chance of?

Obama volunteers taking Nov 4 off work to take people to the polls and stuff — it's socialism:

Just arrived in my inbox: The latest directive from Dear Leader?s National Field Director, Jon Carson, instructing?

And in the states they're positively crumbling. They're going to lose McCain's own state and it turns out that even Georgia is a real tossup, along with its 14 electoral votes in a state where Obama has never campaigned and is only putting ads up today.

I don't think Arizona?

I don't think Arizona will flip. McCain is still ahead by an average of 4 points there, but I'd love to see it and I guess anything is possible.

Wanna go double or nothing, Grigg? I ain't scared.

Well, okay, maybe I am, a little: it still looks McCain if?

Nor can this.

That's a great cover. Two words.

In this day and age, if there were to get well below 200 electoral college?

Yes, because we know how well Americans respond to the Brits telling them what president to vote for.

Point taken, Giovanni, but I think The Economist is a wee bit more respected and widely read in the United States than The Guardian. Also, I'd pay a little more attention to?

Simon, old stick! Don't tell me you're actually thinking our favourite Muslim Terrorist Socialist might... win?

Hell no....and that ethereal domain will need to freeze over before I concede. At least until 10pm EST on Tuesday (or thereabouts)

Wanna go double or nothing, Grigg? I ain't scared.

I've spent too?

Best reporting of the campaign for me thus far, head and shoulders<.quote>

Nate Silver is one of the stars of this campaign, EOS.

That's a great cover. Two words.

Ooooh, yes. Can't wait to get my hard copy.

Nate Silver is one of the stars of this campaign, EOS.

That was Sean Quinn, though, his roving reporter. And what a magnificent job he's done.

Wanna $5 Rolex?

Heh! That'd be great, but I'm not sure I'd be able to grow the requisite moustache.

No I'm not scared

Nice...

That was Sean Quinn, though, his roving reporter. And what a magnificent job he's done.

Yeah, I knew that, but without Nate.......

Heh! That'd be great, but I'm not sure I'd be able to grow the requisite moustache.

Nah...you just have to pretend you're Australian. They come here and buy armfuls of the things and take them back to Geelong and Ryde...apparently you just can't tell the difference

According to the CBS poll, for all likely voters (that includes those who've already voted plus likelies) it's?

America might get the landslide it needs

Its all over bar the counting, it's a landslide for McPalin

And here is your (late) October surprise:

Dr Peter Millican, a philosophy don at Hertford College, Oxford, has devised a computer software program that can detect when works are by the same?

Then there is the endorsement no-one wants

At least he's not threatening to attack America if Obama wins, as The Onion had him doing four years ago in the event of a Kerry victory:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30742

He was contacted last weekend and offered $10,000 (£6,200) to assess alleged similarities between Obama?s bestseller, Dreams from My Father, and Fugitive Days, a memoir by William Ayers.

Hey, give me around twenty grand NZ and I'll do it. They both written in English, and contain nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs,?

They just get crazier and crazier

Grigg, I'm taking your Bill-Ayers-somehow-secretly-wrote-Obama's-book and I'm raising you an Obama is the secret love child of Malcolm X.

No shit.

If you scroll down to the end of the hilariously detailed "proof", the comments are even crazier. It's hard to understand how people?

Russell do you have anyone from the lab working on this recent embedding failure? I really do want to see all the vids people are posting.

I think the issue might be Flash 10 breaking the embedding. It's working fine for me, but I'm still on Flash 9.

Can I?

No shit.

Shit. Makes Labour's new ad look positively sane — I just hope Concerned Mum who "just can't trust" John Key doesn't turn out to be an actor — who first met her Bubba at a casting call.

Can I ask everyone it's happening to confirm platform and version? (Right-click on a Flash movie to get the version.)

Flash 10.0.12.36 on Firefox 3.0.3

I just hope Concerned Mum who "just can't trust" John Key doesn't turn out to be an actor — who first met her Bubba at a casting call.

I'm waiting for the ad that asks if John Key is a secret muslim,
Or John McCains secret love child.

I'm waiting for the ad that asks if John Key is a secret muslim,
Or John McCains secret love child.

How do you know John Key's isn't a trannie Ruth Richardson? Have you ever seen them both in the same room?

Then there is the endorsement no-one wants

Obama: __I'd like to congratulate Senator McCain on this endorsement because he really earned it. That endorsement didn't come easy. Senator McCain had to vote 90 percent of the time with George Bush and Dick Cheney to get it. He served as Washington's?

How do you know John Key's isn't a trannie Ruth Richardson? Have you ever seen them both in the same room?

Imagery I did not need #25336

In answer, though, while I had no time for Richardson's incredibly selfish policy, I could at least understand how heartless they were. With?

Imagery I did not need #25336
In answer, though, while I had no time for Richardson's incredibly selfish policy, I could at least understand how heartless they were. With Key, I'm pushed to understand anything.

Imagery you do not need #25337(?):
Ruth shamelessly dry-humped Douglas at every chance. Key's rather?

Imagery you do not need #25337(?)

Purty much.
Ew

Works perfectly for me.

Ruth shamelessly dry-humped Douglas at every chance.

Ewwww.

I wonder if the next botheyesopen poster should feature a picture of Douglas and the line" Do *you* want to be Rogered?)

More thunderous poll news to ease your fears: WaPo and ABC polls basically replicating the CBS poll, and Gallup finishing its polling predicting an 11-point Obama win in the popular vote.

It is starting to look large.

Flash 10.0.12.36 on Firefox 3.03 on OSX 10.5

Now hold on Simon ... when did you come over from the dark side?

More thunderous poll news to ease your fears

But Karl Rove is going to unleash Satan, and someone is going to shoot Obama and there's a hell of a lot racist crackers out there who lie to pollsters and Shirley Manson really is a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Weaver#Television|Terminator-CEO who is going to destroy?

someone is going to shoot Obama

This above all things is what worries me, unlikely as it is. Not just his death but the damage to American civil society that would follow.

Gallup finishing its polling predicting an 11-point Obama win in the popular vote

In the Gallup graph the last day of polling coincides with the biggest Obama advantage of the whole campaign. Talk about peaking at the right time!

Now hold on Simon ... when did you come over from the dark side?

you mean OSX... a burglar dropped the Compaq as he was being chased by my dog and myself and cracked the motherboard so my wonderful wife bought me a Macbook Pro 17" in Hong Kong a?

In the Gallup graph the last day of polling coincides with the biggest Obama advantage of the whole campaign. Talk about peaking at the right time!

Yep...but I'm not gonna jinx this..McCain will win..McCain will win..McCain will win.

So, Giovanni since Obama may squeak through and you don't want a?

I got your thing the other day, but I really, really hope I'm going to get to keep?

I got your thing the other day, but I really, really hope I'm going to get to keep it.

You have, I'm afraid, rather lost me

You have, I'm afraid, rather lost me

Sorry, my English is, how do you say... inelegant.
What I meant to say is that I purchased something for you on Saturday, and that I'm really hoping I won't have to send it.

You have, I'm afraid, rather lost me

Can I take that back....consider this a PA edit function.

Like MYOB...who seem to think that a windows upgrade path is fine at $200 but a Mac one is $500...

Would this suit your purposes? I am considering it for myself . . .

Would this suit your purposes? I am considering it for myself

Sadly Indonesian 'broadband', being what it is, may preclude an online alternative

But how I'd love to change. MYOB is such a dated dog...hell it doesn't even support mouse wheels.

The likely victory of socialist Barack Obama in Tuesday's presidential election is an indictment of Airhead America, says SOLO Principal Lindsay Perigo.

"Thanks to the capture of the state education system long ago by Gramscian leftists, generations of Americans have grown up illiterate, not only unable properly to?

Obama bin Biden

Cocaine's a hell of a drug.

I am a ball of stress with all this election anticipatoriness (not a word, but roll with me here). I think I'm going to have some kind of freakout soon.

Thanks to the capture of the state education system long ago by Gramscian leftists, generations of Americans have grown up illiterate,

WHAT?! The American education system has been taken over by Gramscians and NOBODY told me? Kids, pack your bags. And Amy, Jolisa, James... I'll be there by noon tomorrow.?

. . . snap out of their addled airhead postmodern stupor and acquaint themselves with Ayn Rand.

If Enid Blyton wasn't so damned girly Perigo would be advocating the moral and economic rigour of the Magic Faraway Tree.

Amy, Jolisa, James... I'll be there by noon tomorrow. Bake a cake, do something.

Come on over. If Dumb and Dumberer win I'll leave the key under the mat and a cake on the counter before I flee.

If Dumb and Dumberer win I'll leave the key under the mat and a cake on the counter before I flee.

You stayed when Bomb and Bomberer were in charge... what'd be the rush now?

You stayed grudgingly and with a lot of bitching when Bomb and Bomberer were in charge... what'd be the rush now?

there, fixed that for you.

there, fixed that for you.

Heh... class.
I wish I was in the US right now, and that's not something I say very often. Tomorrow is going to be pretty special.

I wish I was in the US right now, and that's not something I say very often. Tomorrow is going to be pretty special.

Well, there really will be cake, if that makes any difference.

But, seriously? I thought it was going to be special after 2000, when they were?

Never underestimate the ability of the American electorate to break your heart.

Nah, I think this time I shall make an exception.

Never underestimate the ability of the American electorate to break your heart.

Amy, you're now actively angling for me to have a nervous breakdown, aren't you?

Amy, you're now actively angling for me to have a nervous breakdown, aren't you?

You could split my intention half and half, I guess. Half touching wood and chanting break a leg, the other half reflecting on my experiences here in the last few election cycles.

Do I have it?

"Bomb and Bomberer" – classic! :)

Well yes, thank you, and by the way it's copyrighted. I don't want any of those United Soviet Socialist Republic of the Creative Commons guys to get any strange ideas.

Do I have it in me to resist offering cake and grief counseling?...nope. Very sad.

Cake or death? Which is pretty much what's on the table. I am crossing fingers for cake, although my partner was wondering this morning if we should get a bigger Obama poster for the front?

(Is it?

WHAT?! The American education system has been taken over by Gramscians and NOBODY told me?

You got the memo from Pablo's prison notebooks in the other thread, right?

I'll be there by noon tomorrow. Bake a cake, do something.

Excellent. Cake stall @ Jepson school, you're on the noon shift.?

But, seriously? I thought it was going to be special after 2000, when they were surely and obviously going to reform their political system right in front of me.

Did anyone see Recount on Prime the other night?

Even with the understanding that it had a bit of fiction mixed?

And here I was enjoying a break from #$%# copyright. Did anyone get to Lessig last night?

Yup, and it was great.

I have tasked Matthew Poole with writing a review of the lecture.

So Amy, what kind of cake are you making?

Current thinking heavily favours indoor-s'mores:
– homemade biscuits
– homemade marshmallow
– dark couverture pistoles (from, yes, a 5kg box)
– butane torch

PRO: everyone gets to play with fire. CON: not symbolic.

The last time I made cupcakes it was?

You got the memo from Pablo's prison notebooks in the other thread, right?

Pricelessness.

Obama's grandmother just died

Sadness. I'm left hoping that the 109 year old daughter of a slave will make it.

Obama's grandmother just died
Sadness

Sadness indeed – and just when you thought the poignancy of the whole thing couldn't possibly get any greater...

I'm cheering myself up with these lovely pics.

I don't know why, but the first photo of him in the bumper car is reassuring.

There's a man who looks like he's not scared to just have some fun with his family. Looks like the sort of person you could meet?

I'm cheering myself up with these lovely pics.

It really helps that they're all so beautiful. Aesthetic appeal goes a long way in modern politics...

It really helps that they're all so beautiful. Aesthetic appeal goes a long way in modern politics...

That kinda disturbs me a bit, they look like the stock black family of American cinema from the 90s onwards: clean, beautiful, two or three young children, lots of sexual chemistry between the?

I think part of the attraction is that they're not quite central casting, more like those friends of yours who kind of look like movie stars when they dress up, y'know? Gorgeous, fit, elegant, incredibly photogenic 99% of the?

You're right Danielle – can we say Camelot? (Without jinxing ourselves).

Let's not say Camelot, shall we? Unless you want to start casting for the role of Marylin...

There's a man who looks like he's not scared to just have some fun with his family.

But would once in a while wouldn't mind doing it without the press corps.

It wasn't quite a Halloween nightmare on Obama street, but journalists on Friday drew a rare flash of anger?

I've embraced the impending win

Zip! Zip! Nay! Don't say it out loud! I've decided that this is like sports: you can jinx your team by being overly confident. Evil little spirits are hovering over us, gaining strength with every assumption about tomorrow we make!

(Yes, I am weird and?

Kick me tomorrow if it all goes wrong. But two dozen "Yes We Did" cupcakes say it won't...

Seriously, if this is Obama losing his shit he is the Final Cylon.

He's a Vulcan, I?

He's a Vulcan, I reckon. Check those ears. Mind you, there's always pon farr...

Oh, my brain...

Zip! Zip! Nay! Don't say it out loud!

It's OK, as long as we have a hand on Giovanni's proven remedy when we say it. Apparently.

Zip! Zip! Nay! Don't say it out loud! I've decided that this is like sports: you can jinx your team by being overly confident. Evil little spirits are hovering over us, gaining strength with every assumption about tomorrow we make!

Well, fuck it Ms. D. I am through jumping at?

Oh, my brain...

Just your brain? My dear.

(Yes, I am weird and superstitious and properly belong in a less scientifically enlightened past era. I know this.)

Come to Indonesia.......you will blend...

Just your brain? My dear.

I was being polite. We have company.

there's always pon farr...

He has to return to Hawaii and fight a rival to the death every time he wants to knock boots with Michelle? That could get costly on Air Force One.

Well, fuck it Ms. D. I am through jumping at shadows, and empowering the worse demons?

I may also utilise the Giovanni remedy, if necessary.

I feel (culturally) violated.

There's a man who looks like he's not scared to just have some fun with his family. Looks like the sort of person you could meet at a family bbq and not leave feeling like you're covered in political slime.

Just back in from interviewing Professor Lawrence Lessig.

He flies?

He flies straight back to the US today, and on return will go directly to a campaign office and join his wife, working the phones for Obama.

Amazing.

They are feeling the pull of history at FiveThirty Eight also.

Organizers of America,

H-Hour, D-Day is upon you.

That he which?

You're right Danielle – can we say Camelot? (Without jinxing ourselves).

Let's not say Camelot, shall we? Unless you want to start casting for the role of Marylin...

Or Lee Harvey Oswald ...