On writing. This is the half-way point in the effort for a 50,000 word in 30 days, and I am writing here instead of on my novel. That is because I am stuck, kind of, and the evening is young and wring after nine o'clock seems to go the best. Can't tell why.
On politics. It looks like Obama is taking some of his best Chicago way friends with him to Washington. Valerie Jarret, a Chicago lawyer and long time Obama friend will be his top advisor. He had wanted her to fill his senate seat. His chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel is another Chicago way product. If he takes as much of Chicago to Washington as it looks like he is going to, then watch out, we are in for corruption, secrecy, lying, and all manner of deviousness like we have never seen.
This is not a voodoo,mystical prediction; this is just based on the corruption--i.e. internet contributions,secrecy--he managed to control leaks better than anyone in recent memory, lying--flat out denying he said what he said when he wrote it in his book, and general deviousness--to cover all the other underhanded things that went on during the campaign like lost records of college, health, state legislature, Annenburg board, University of Chicago, and sealed records like his birth certificate.
Obama got were he is by being beholden to people who have agendas and who will stop at nothing to get what they want, and he is going to have to do their bidding, and I think he will because what they want is what he wants and none of it is good for this country. Just look at Chicago. Reason magazine named it the most government controlled city in America. The Chicago way is on its way to Washington.
And just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, McCain is meeting with Obama presumably to see how they can work together. I said during the race that there would not be a whole lot of difference between an Obama presidency and a McCain presidency and this is were it will undoubtedly begin.