"A Fateful Election" by Russell Baker
The bush years: Nation deceived by official lies into endless Middle Eastern Warfare.
Loss of America's good reputation around the world.
Erosion of the middle class.
Astounding budget deficits.
Growing financial dependance on China.
Collapse of Wall Street. Famous masters of the universe forced to endure humiliation of asking government for handouts.
"Worst calamity since Great Depression."
Calamity: an event causing sudden change, distress, disaster.
Two men competing to reverse decline.
Obama: 47
McCain: 72
Young people don't vote in impressive numbers. Assumed that youth is on Obama's side.
McCain has young chess player's weakness of making an impulsive move just to see what will happen.
Obama is young candidate speaking for new generation, like Jack Kennedy in 1960, pressing the old out of the way and saying it's time to let the earth turn. He speaks, "Four more years of Bush." Obama appears to be running Hillary Clinton's primary campaign in the general election. Hillary messed up by pushing her situation to the center and running a general election campaign in the primaries.
Obama: "The US must begin to withdraw responsibility from Iraq. The War on Terror: The larger war we are in.
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