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Bob Taft, former governor of Ohio and a miserable failure, basically guaranteed a Democratic landslide for the governor’s race in Ohio in 2006. He had at one point a 17 percent approval rating.  His successor, Ted Strickland, beat the Republican Ken Blackwell by a solid 20 points or more if I recall correctly.  Besides, Ohio barely went for Bush in 2004. You do the math. Ohio slips into a budget deficit and recession under Taft’s stewardship (haha) of the state, and the Republicans get swatted in 2006 with the set up for a Democrat victory in 2008.  To make matters worse for Republicans, not one of them who has run …

It looks like McCain could win a lot of support if he promised to nominate Ron Paul to Secretary of the Treasury. Would it be enough to beat a Democrat contender this election? At this stage, probably not. But if the Obama v Hillary battle continues on much longer it will hurt the Democrats a lot.

Obama can beat McCain, Hillary would have a harder time.

My congressional district, the Ohio 3rd district, is currently occupied by Republican Mike Turner. Mr. Turner is a bandwagon politician. He does nothing notable but bring pork to Dayton. That’s not useful. He supported the war on Iraq, he has supported every Bush policy that I can think of, and it is time for him to retire and move back to Dayton where he has to live like the rest of us. That said, I am endorsing David Esrati for Congress in the Ohio 3rd District. Now, you might be asking yourself why would a Ron Paul supporter and a former Republican ever endorse a Democrat of all things? Well …

Of late, not much has happened to pique my interest or get me writing again. Perhaps that will change in time. Meanwhile, enjoy this brief and somewhat incomplete list of films that I’ve seen so far in 2008. This includes films new and old, the only requirement for the list is that I had never seen them before:

Kind Hearts and Coronets (brilliant)

The Kingdom (well made but that’s about it)

Doomsday (utterly terrible)

Borat (a few cheap laughs was not worth it)

City Hunter (not worth explaining why I watched this)

Juno (vastly overrated in my opinion)

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (solidly unfunny and too long)

Breathless (early, classic Jean Luc Godard, worth watching at least once since he …

My friend Chris Brown and I made a video to the song “Mush Room” done by my friends in Grizzzzy Bear (myspace profile, artist page), a local Dayton band on the Squid’s Eye Record Label. The song is released on their self titled album. Check it out!