By Bill Gallagher

 The USS McCain is way off course, the captain is strategically scattered, tactically inept and his crew of misfits is desperately trying to keep the sinking campaign ship afloat. They’ll do anything to survive. 
Watching them drowning in these final days of the presidential campaign provides steady waves of mirth, pity and gratitude that the America people are rejecting these scurvy swabbies. 

 By Richard Sharp

Global opinion is overwhelmingly for Obama over McCain. According to the The Economist, from 88-91% in France, Italy and Germany. 86% in Mexico and India. 83% in China. 80% in Pakistan and, even in Israel, 74%. These are astounding numbers and Mr. Obama would be foolhardy not to take advantage.

  Bill Gallagher

 
“We declare this race well and truly over and congratulate all those who backed Obama.” 
Paddy Power, Ireland’s biggest bookmaker, Oct. 16th.

     While John McCain keeps rolling gutter balls and his Slime Talk Express derails any decency and honor his campaign once claimed to represent, the Irish, as they often demonstrate, are way ahead of the game.

Paddy Power, the Dublin- based bookmaker told Reuters news service he made the “unprecedented decision” to pay on the bets he’s taken so far on the U.S. presidential race.

     Power said he’s already taken more than 10,000 bets with the trend of “one-way-traffic” for Obama and the odds now shortened to 1-9, meaning a better must slap down 9 euros to make a 1 euro profit. Power made his pay out decision last Thursday after watching Obama’s performance in the debate at Hofstra University.

By Bill Gallagher

Detroit- John McCain does get it. The election is about judgment. On the defining issues for the presidential candidates- America’s role in the world, the economy and the selection of a vice presidential candidate, voters, particularity those previously undecided, are now concluding they don’t trust McCain’s judgment.