President Obama - get used to it.

I rarely make predictions, even though I'm more than competent to do so. There's a fairly safe one I can make right now: assuming Obama gets the Democrat nomination he'll be the next president of the USA.

"But H.K.," you ask, "how can someone who has so little experience, few accomplishments, and who clearly doesn't know the first thing about our Constitution become president?" Well, it all starts with McCain, and hinges around him. He is obviously going to be the Republican nominee. Now, if you put Hillary up against him she would make him look statesmanlike and seasoned, and he would make her look like a bitter, socialist shrew.

But, if you put Obama up against him, McCain will look like a withered, angry white guy, and he'll make Obama look like a vibrant, young everyman.

The other factor is the mainstream (i.e. liberal) media. Even though many on the left like McCain for pissing off fellow Republicans, they won't support him. They'll be behind Obama 100%, and they'll do everything in their power to cover up his deficiencies and make his empty populist rhetoric seem substantive.

Is the country ready to elect a black man to the nation's highest post? I think so. Plenty of white people feel we continue to owe the black community...something. I can't imagine what anyone owes them at this point, but plenty of people will feel like they've put the check in the mail by voting for Obama. Done and done.

Plus after eight years of Bush people want "change". What, exactly, do they want to change? They don't fucking know. They hear the media tell them that millions of people don't have healthcare, or that we're torturing people, or that the economy is in the tank. Great, let's elect someone who will give us Canada's healthcare system, which is so great Canadians come down here to get treated. Let's just ask captured terrorists nicely to tell us their plans. Maybe a little ice cream will loosen those tongues? And let's take more money out of the pockets of people that actually earn it, and give it to bums that don't. That will surely help the economy.

Wait, I get it. You're pissed about Iraq? You want to "bring the troops" home. You do realize Obama refuses to pledge he'll immediately start a troop withdrawal if elected?

Anyway, McCain won't stand a snowball's chance in Hell against Obama. The media will make sure you think he is JFK with a tan, and that McCain is old and crazy. I hope to God my prediction is wrong, but I doubt it will be. We'll have at least four years of liberal judge appointees, empty talk about universal health care, a relaxing of our fight against muslim extremists, pillaging evil corporations, etc.

There's a small chance that McCain and Company will do an effective enough job of making Obama look like the ultra-liberal neophyte that he is. They might do an effective enough job of making McCain look like a comfortable grandfather we can trust in. But I doubt it.

President Obama. I don't like the sound of that, but at this point I might as well get used to it.