Just rambling on at the end of a bad day on Wall Street

5 comments September 15th, 2008

The campaign will change drastically this week, as we forget about lipstick-on-pig remarks and start concentrating on the one, overriding issue: the financial meltdown.

Either way, we’re going to get more regulation; not quite so much with McCain/Palin as with Obama. Note that I use McCain/Palin but not Obama/Biden. But any notion that we are a free market economy should be dispensed with. We are a socialist nation except for 50 percent of our health care.

I  believe the intense interest in Sarah Palin reflects an intrinsic feeling the American people have about McCain. He’s 72, but he’s an old 72. He may  not survive a first term. I observed him up close in Osh Kosh last March and was taken aback at how very old he seemed to act.  This feeling was captured brilliantly by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler in their opening SNL sketch — we are examining Gov. Palin not as the next vice president, but as the first woman president.