DEMOCRATS POISED TO TAKE IT ALL

This week I will be casting my vote for John McCain. I will be casting my vote for the loosing candidate. If you've been reading my blogs, you know why I am strongly opposed to an Obama presidency. But unless something miraculous happens before the end of this month, our next president will be Barack Obama.

Yesterday, McCain told a campaign rally: "I love being the underdog. We've got them (the Democrats) just where we want them." There must have been a lot of funny tobacco smokers in the crowd, and McCain must have inhaled too much of the smoke floating around if he believes he can still mount one of his famous comebacks. John, snap out of it, it's not going to happen.

If things were not bad enough already, today McCain suffered two eleventh-hour blows. Colin Powell announced that he will vote for Obama and the Obama campaign revealed that it had raised an astounding $150 million dollars in September alone.

Obama, who borke his word that he would depend only on public financing, has already outspent McCain 3-1 and 4-1 in key battleground states. So far, Obama has raised over half a billion dollars. He has unlimited funds to outspend McCain by even greater margins. McCain, who is strapped for cash with only $84 million on hand, has had to pull his campaign ads out of several states.

Colin Powell endorsed Obama despite a 25-year friendship with McCain. He said he was deeply disappointed in his friend's campaign. Powell took McCain to task for his erratic responses to the nation's economic crisis, for his choice of Sarah Palin as his running mate, and for linking Obama to 1960's terrorist Bill Ayers.

I have several friends who initially were determined to vote for McCain, but who have since changed their minds. While they have expressed disappointment in McCain's response to the economic crisis, the reason they are now going to vote for Obama is that they are pissed off by the selection of Sarah Palin.

While the selection of Palin has pleased the social conservative crowd, it has angered many other Republicans. The war in Iraq seems to have faded into the background. Fairly or not, the economic crisis has been tied to the Bush administration and the Denicrats have successfully tied McCain to President Bush. Obama is likely to win by a landslide and the Democrats are poised to solidify their control of Congress. Bad as all that may be, our country will survive as it always has in the past.