Iowa: Obama, Huckabee win.
I'll give you my quick take on this.
Huckabee - enough said there, let's hope he falls away.
Obama. I've heard him speak, and I know a little of his views. My feeling is that I would be extatic if he won the Presidency... and lived.
I am under no illusions of the political forces in US and their ruthlessness. To be honest, and I hate to say it, but I can't see it happening. America may just be ready for a woman president, but a black man?
So the Democrats have basically dumped Hillery, and I know it's not over. But frankly, they are fools. In my remote view, she is the only one with a chance.
What does this mean (and I hope I'm wrong)? They, the Democrats, are off with the fairies. I can not see it working, and what's that mean - Republicans are delivered a huge boost, on a plate.
This outcome is for me extremely bad news. I so wish Obama would live to re-direct the US. But I am a realist, and after hearing what happened to Kennedy and his attempts to re-direct the US... it is depressing.
They are asking the whole of America to vote for a black man for President! For god's sake, I know things are not as bad as they were - or are they?
I will pray that the people of that land put behind them their hatreds. But more, that they see the reality in their own land.
Our success here in Aus with Kevin - he is extremely astute. He knew his enemy precisely, and he played it with such balance and skill. I am saying he knew the idiocy of Australians, and he geared his whole strategy to that idiocy. He won, because he presented himself within the stupidity of the voters, as just like Howard, but with a touch of newness. Obama is not a 'touch' of newness.
It will be a long year.