This is what you call the closing argument. I expect the big 30-minute show on Wednesday to be a more intricate version of the same. By all indications, Barry is pulling away, which is just great to see. Hopefully w/all the early voting, the big GOTV push can take it to the next level and we'll get a serious mandate to do all these things.

The reality is that it's going to take several years to turn around the Bush momentum. Four years is enough to start to see a shift and hopefully earn another term to bring it on home. The big gamble is whether or not Obama will be able to govern, and whether or not the House and Senate will start to act w/purpose, and just how far out into the wilderness the ultra-political end of the GOP rump will end up. Hopefully the infighting there will hamper their ability to foul up an Obama administration (for reference see Clinton, Bill, years 1992 - 1994), and hopefully also the signs that Obama is a much more capable leader than the old Clenis will bear out.

The proof is in the pudding. Economically speaking we're gonna have to spend money to make money, and there's a big trifecta out there with infrastructure renewal, rehabilitating existing housing stock to be energy efficient, and this notion of a "National Venture Fund" for renewable energy. Basically we need to build the physical foundations for a 21st Century economy which (suprise!) isn't entirely based on made-up financial derivatives and speculative sprawl-building in various deserts. We actually need some real shit.

If that starts to happen, and it starts to work, we could really actually honestly see something like a new New Deal.

Which would be sweet.

Bonus Links

• Best Obama-art I've seen yet, discovered at the Ashby market.
• Finding a lot of interesting video along the theme of dark futures, or the more general idea of looking back at a missed opportunity. It's the future vs. the past, baby.
• Poll porn.