Only in America

Just when you start to worry that the country is being taken over by Ivy League lawyers and I-bankers, the son of two generations of admirals chooses a small-town beauty queen who once worked on a fishing boat and married an Eskimo snowmobile-racing champion, to run alongside him for the Presidency.

And of course, on the other side, we have Barack Obama, a deeply-flawed candidate whose loss I look forward to greatly, but whose rise nonetheless represents the promise of America at its very best.