Sanity check: what the election should be about...

"If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things." - Barack Obama

After a week of Palin, polls and pundity sometimes even I step back from the horserace to think about that which truly matters:

• The unemployment rate jumps to 6.1%.
• That which LBJ privatised George W. Bush will nationalise: the Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Federal Government bailout.
  
• Iraq and Afghanistan coalition casualties.
• Poverty and the share of Americans lacking health insurance increases dramatically.
• "We're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change." - Al Gore

But remember, as McCain campaign chief Rick Davis told us this week: "this election is not about the issues." See you on November 4th Rick.