This is my first attempt at blogging properly. Or blooging, which is what i wrote before checking my spelling. Start as you mean to go on, as they say. Blooging sounds like it could be an illegal and perhaps even dangerous practice. Maybe best not to dwell on that.
I suppose i should make a comment about the US presidential race. I have read the various blogs and media sites and there seems to be a disconnect between what some of the media is reporting and both what i, and those surveyed by CNN and Fox, saw.
I thought Obama came across as calm, reassuring and presidential. McCain, however seemed erratic and angry. He again came across as arrogant and condescending. Which is a big disappointment for me. I used to like McCain, when he was a maverick. Like the fictional Arnie Vinnick, he seems to have sold his soul.
Obama seems to me to be the most impressive politician of his generation, much as Clinton and Reagan were. I realised that the old McCain was dead when he selected Palin. I find it insulting to the USA that she was held up as a “role model” by McCain last night. Americans deserve better, and McCain should have selected someone of competence, whether they were conservative or moderate. She may be conservative, but she is unfit for the office of the vice presidency. In my humble opinion, I grant you.
But, what do i know? I am not American, I do not live there and I have no vote. I can only call it as I see it however.
