Reports from our eastern seaboard Twiga a little south of where Hurricane Sandy is forecast to do its worst indicate that it's getting a bit breezy.
It is, he says, "pretty foxy of the Democrats to rustle up a megastorm to convince voters that eliminating all government spending and letting everyone fend for themselves is not a good idea. This will be particularly so if the storm produces a predicted $3.2 million catastrophe.
One more humorous effect may be that if there are widespread power losses, the Presidential campaigns will be hard pressed to spend the hundreds of millions of dollars they have amassed for the last week's advertising. They seem to brush aside the notion that the electors may have seen enough already and are unlikely to be swayed by more TV commercials at this stage. Up to now it has been spend, spend, spend, a policy which should at least have taken advertising agencies out of the financial downturn. This incontinent fruit machine behaviour may though be less attractive to those who want to see budget defecits reduced.
Meanwhile both Presidential hopefuls will be in front of their mirrors rehearsing expressions of relief, joy, anguish or despair, one or more of which to be wheeled out depending on what Sandy actually does. They might be a useful rehearsal for when the election results are announced too. There's an efficient use of time for you.
Once the storm and the election are over ,life in the US may seem rather flat and dull . After all the excitement that may be something to add to the things for which to give thanks at the forthcoming national turkeyfest.
