Campaign Seasoning

The true nature of the 2008 presidential election battle will be between two competing powers:

John McCain’s ability to be older than things

vs.

Barack Obama’s ability to transcend things.

Obama could be in trouble due to McCain’s familiarity with the Eldritch Powers of the Forgotten Age, from before the dawn of Mankind, but perhaps before the old man can get that kind of thing in gear, Obama will already have transcended, not just race and partisanship, but space and time.

John McCain is so old that he has actually, non-ironically, called his wife a “trollop”.

I’ve heard that in business and politics many issues are settled on the golf course. On the one hand, McCain may well be old enough to have witnessed the entirety of this sport’s modern age, but I’m pretty sure Barack Obama has 65 career PGA Tour wins. Even if I’m wrong, he can probably transcend the sand traps and perhaps even the putting green.