Time In A Bottle

Our household's one and only weekly magazine subscription, currently, is to Time. I'd never read it before Vicki got the initial subscription a couple of years back, but it's now one of my favourite sources for catching up on things of general interest (as opposed to various websites, which are much better at catering to specific interests of mine, like comics, movies or sports).

Anyway, I'm always a bit behind in my Time reading, and sure enough, right now I'm perusing an issue from late in December of last year. That means that the first primaries and caucuses in the U.S. election season are just about to start, as far as my Time reading is concerned. What's interesting is that Giuliani was still the Republican frontrunner - he's already withdrawn from the race, I believe - and McCain was barely mentioned. The big question on the Republican side seemed to be whether Romney or Huckabee had any chance of catching Rudy and his 9/11 ticket-to-ride, and yet tonight John McCain will probably be all-but-annointed as the party's choice for November.

On the Democratic side, Time was already forecasting a tight race, although they saw it as more of a three-way: Clinton, Obama and Edwards (and since when has a Clinton ever been opposed to a three-way?) I had thought that, prior to Super-Tuesday back in Feb, all of the talk had been about Hillary being a shoo-in, but clearly that was not the case. So they called that one right, but got the Repubs completely wrong. Go figure.

Of course, if the American public - or the 45% of the eligible voters who actually go to the polls every four years - manage to elect yet another Republican president after the damage that Bush, Jr has done to their country, and the world, in the seven years since he stole the presidency from Al Gore, then all hope may be lost.