I Was Wrong...

... & am very glad to have been. Back in post #3, 24 October 2007, I predicted a Cheney-ordered attack on Iran by this time. Instead, I woke up this morning to find Barack Obama to have become the winner of this ugly presidential election. Now it remains to be seen if he will be allowed to take office let alone the sheer magnitude of problems he will find once he takes power and what range of solutions he will find available, that is still in the future. But as of today I am quite relieved to find there is no attacks on Iran at present and that this endless election is finally over.

Not sure where I'm going with this weblog. Originally it was an experiment to see if I had the discipline to maintain a weblog and a year later I see that I do. The problem now is that I do not feel compelled to coment on most items I first see elsewhere, most of the time those that see them first have better or at least more insightful comments than mine and I feel no urge to "join the crowd" as it were. Furthermore I find that I'm either burnt out on or just do not care about all that many political items these days. Yes, Obama won and for that I am grateful, of the two presidential candidates we ended up with he was by far the better person and a leader I could be inspired by. But what am I to make of (AK) Senator Ted Stevens winning re-election despite his recent 7 felony convictions for corruption? As cynical as I am these days, I simply cannot muster enough cynicism to explain that little item, let alone comment on it or on the multitudes of other head-slappers in the results many as 'WTF-worthy'.

Ah well, time will tell...

20 January 2009 - corrected some stupid spelling errors...