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On a Ligher Note:
This just in... Thursday 10:30 PM

On a lighter note, you've got to hear John McCain speaking at the Al Smith dinner tonight in Manhattan. Parts 1 and 2 follow:



Part 2: Notice the awkward look on Obama's face when McCain reminds the room filled primarily with Catholics that he is proud to be an ally with them in the protection of the unborn.


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Here is a review of some other laughs from this week:



Speaking of funny things, Edward Luce wrote a piece the day after this dinner called "Will a funny thing happen on the way to Washington?" In it he says,

“…conventional wisdom is often wrong. For a start, as any property analyst can attest, it tends to be self-affirming. The media has leapt on recent polls that show Mr Obama with double-digit margins. But until Friday, when the conservative Drudge Report led on the much narrower two-point lead that Gallup gave Mr Obama, those polls that have not hinted at a landslide have been downplayed. And there have been quite a few. The RealClear Politics website’s average of polls, which gives Mr Obama a lead of 6.8 per cent over Mr McCain, offers a better guide to the situation. It compares to John Kerry’s lead just a few weeks before he lost the 2004 election to Mr Bush. It is also slightly lower than Mr Obama’s lead over Hillary Clinton shortly before she bested him – and the media – in the New Hampshire primary at the start of the year.”

And with that poignant and amusing prelude to the remaining days of the race, I'll step aside from the subject of politics for a while and return to my "Unsettled" chapters.
Hope to post one this weekend.