What next?

Good Lord. Is that Clint Eastwood? Time certainly has caught up with him.

Mildly jet lagged, I'm sitting here blogging in the early a.m. I'm in Seattle, and it is quite lovely and pleasant, overcast but mild. I like this kind of weather. And getting away from the worries of the economic situation on the Big Island and the possible worsening of our quality of life due to the vog is also pleasant.

My grandchildren are wonderful. I shop for food and cook. And cook. And cook. What a hungry mob they are.

Well, Hillary Clinton is still in the race to the extent that Obama backers in the Huff Post find it necessary to continue to vilify her. My 70+ years old friend is now grousing, "I'm waiting for more than a lot of vague statements. What does he plan to do?" A couple we know are great Obama enthusiasts of the type who really annoy non-yuppies. They say things like, "I am a social liberal and a fiscal conservative." They look down their noses at ordinary people, the kind who have kids and mortgages and whose lives lack glamor.

Now I'm one person with a very limited point of view who never presumes to speak for anyone but herself, but honestly among most of the people I know what I'm hearing is that we have got to get a Democrat in the White House, not that we have got to get Obama in the White House. And our diehard neighbors across the street will vote for McCain, even though they don't really mind Obama, because they can't see voting for a Democrat. Of course they are very old, but their four kids are also going to vote Republican, because it is their family tradition.

In any case, it is not going to be a cakewalk for Obama.

Comments

[nandita]

The, "I am a social liberal and a fiscal conservative," comment made me burst out laughing and reminded my of an old law prof. who used to regularly say, "I'm conservative but I support liberal policies."