Joe Biden for Veep!

As a libertarian conservative Canadian who is a fan of Obama (not that I don't dislike McCain), I was hoping he'd choose Biden.

Biden is to the right of Obama, but left of McCain.

I think Biden is "biden" his words when he said that Obama was unfit in that debate and the McCain campaign did an excellent job in pointing that out with the TV ad. Perfect actually.

But I also think Biden's been mighty impressed with how well Obama's campaign is run. I'm not sure if Biden will fit into the dynamic campaign as much as a lesser known veep choice, but I think he can tow the line.

Overall, I think Americans aren't choosing the lesser of two evils here but could certainly live with either candidate as president.

The Iraq debate is pretty much over as it appears US troops, for the most part, will be out of there in a few years anyway.

Obama choice in Biden really comes down to who can best serve as president if need be, and Joe Biden has the foreign policy know-how and experience to step in better than most.

I watched Biden closely over his run for the candidacy and was impressed with his opinions on Iraq and the whole region how he recognizes that there are essentially three nations within Iraq, caused by the British drawing odd borders for countries like that, Jordan, and Syria.

Anyway, the issue now is similar to 1992... "It's the economy stupid" and McCain has admitted that he doesn't know much about economics.

With a 7 trillion dollar debt, rumours of defaulting on that, millions of lost jobs, housing credit crisis, and a bloated gov't, the Bush hangover has begun.

It still comes down to which economic ideology and plan will the American people buy into this time?

Soprano's Finale

I finally bought Season Six Part II of the Sopranos last week and watched it all in a week in great anticipation of the finale. I was lucky to avoid the spoils when many of my friends saw it. Earmuffs!

So my take on the last scene?

The guy who goes into the washroom simply goes into the washroom. Oh my, AJ, Carmella, and Tony all eat an onion ring whole. "Don't Stop Believin'" is playing instead of "Any Way You Want It". "Remember the good times," AJ remarks. Tony agrees. Meadow runs across the street and opens the diner front door, the door bells ring, Tony looks up at her, just as he did with everyone else who walked in except the African American guys, and the screen goes blank at "Don't Stop".

People have concluded many things:

• The guy in the washroom comes out and shoots Tony in the side of the head and so just before Tony looked up at Meadow in shock just as she came through the door and the bells rang. But we don't hear anything from AJ or Carmella.
• The trucker and guy who went into the washroom are FBI dudes and he gets arrested. Tony mentions that Carlo flipped and is going to testify, so this evidence could have been used against Tony to indite him.
  
• The African American guys were either the same ones that shot Bobby in the eye, that shot up the crack house, or that shot Tony.
  

My conclusion?

Nothing happens. In all the moments in the episode when you get that uneasy feeling that someone is going to get shot, i.e. Bobby at the hobby shop, Silvio and Patsy running out of the Bing, Phil saying bye bye to his grandkids, all had that suspense, it just doesn't happen with Tony in this scene.

And that's that. Fuggedaboudit.