Grown-ups in charge

Barack Obama is not playing at being President. He actually has the capacity to handle the job - from the economy to health care to garden variety natural disasters like floods in the high plains. All at once.

If the people in charge believe in government, government can get things done. I just hope voters will remember the contrast between the unrelieved incompetence of Bushism and the cool can-do of Obama and the Democrats.

2000-year-old voter guide

Evangelical preacher Loran Livingston tells his congregation, nudge-nudge-wink-wink, that gay marriage is more important than their silly threadbare pocketbooks and that they should vote for President accordingly.

The younger ones get quiet and don't commit to hurting themselves on his say-so about what God thinks.

The older ones keen about where morals have gone during their lifetimes, and that means sexual mores to them, but they are still going to vote for the ticket with the adulterer who ran around on his first wife and the pre-marital fornicator who eloped and delivered a baby eight magic months later.

I have no problem with people making mistakes in marriage or in birth control and learning from them. What I don't like is for people to cut themselves all the slack they need while offering the rest of us nothing but condemnation.

Obama must be an elitist

Foie gras is back in Chicago, and y'know he's from there.