Cum hoc, ergo propter hoc

MANIFESTO

The latest Gallup Poll

show[s] Obama with 45 percent support; McCain at 44 percentage points. With the margin of error on the poll +/- 2 percentage points, the two are in a statistical dead heat.

Obama led McCain by nine points on July 26th, when he returned from his much-hyped overseas trip.

Needless to say, this is a discouraging development not least because we can now expect to see more hideous campaign commercials from the twisted minds of Senator Sanctimony and his lackeys. If, in fact, Obama lost his big lead immediately after last week's spate of racist ads, the Republicans will be sure to believe it came about as a result of those ads.

My depression regarding this apparent inevitability knows no bounds.

And, somewhat related to the above, I'm currently listening to Lewis Black's, memoir, Nothing's Sacred. I'm finding that many of the sentiments he expresses are quite similar to mine—and, I assume, to many still-liberal-and-proud-of-it Americans who grew up in the 1960s. At any rate, if one wants to see what makes me tick more than forty years after I graduated from high school, one could do worse than peruse Black's book.