The Sunshine Empire

Day three of the Pacific conference has begun. After an evening of drinking absinthe and long discussions late into the night, we are ready for the morning climb of Mount Hood. Reviewing the news this morning it seems that Senator Joseph Biden is traveling to Georgia at the request of the Georgian President. I think this is more proof of Biden’s impending Veep running mate selection. I could be wrong but it seems that this may be a trip to brandish foreign policy street cred before the announcement. I’m sure Saakshvili requested that he come, but the American educated Georgian President is a bit of a public preener and appeared on CNN’s Late Edition yet again. If he gets deposed I fully expect him to become some kind of CNN contributor.

On the home front Tropical Storm Fay is following the same path that Hurricane Charley did when it hit the Sunshine Empire years ago, but it is much weaker and we expect just the same heavy rain that has been hitting the empire for the past month.

The Republicans nationally poll on the opposite side of the majority view of the American people on almost every subject except the prospect of increased domestic drilling, and they have wisely used the issue to paint the Democrats into a corner. TSE’s chief political adviser has wondered why they did not just say they were for some form of it to diffuse the issue and take it away from the Republicans. Now it seems they are, and the clear political implications do not bode well for the GOP. The Democrats have also pulled even with the Republicans in terms of fundraising for the general election. But McCain’s need to use public funding and the rules that apply means that in our view, the commercials on television nationally in the last month of the campaign could be up to three-to-one in Obama’s favor. That will not necessarily win the election for Senator Obama, but it will make it much more difficult for McCain in states that Bush took for granted.

It should be cooler here today on the mountain, so the Portland heat wave should not affect us, The good Lord willing and the creek don’t rise.

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