Sunny California
What can I say? I lived there for quite some time; I love the place. I have some very happy memories there. And now they have elected a serial sexual predator with some very disturbing personality traits to run the state.
A few years back I had attended an e-commerce presentation by a dour banker from Minnesota. He was wearing a pinstriped suit during summer in San Jose. He started off with the announcement, “Yes, Jesse Ventura is the governor of Minnesota. Yes, I know that he was a WWF wrestler. And no, unlike what you may think, not all of us voted for him. And I would not like to discuss this during the Q&A session”. I wonder what would my Californian friends who now do ….
Gray Davis was no one's idea of a brilliant statesman. He was an uninspiring, run off the mill politician who had hidden the gigantic budget deficit from the electorate; Kind of what Gov. Pataki did in New York. But The Terminator is not an improvement. Schwarzenegger had spent the last two months studiously avoiding answering any policy questions. I suspect that he would be like Bush, hostage to a trusted coterie of advisers.
John Scalzi has a wonderful diatribe on his weblog.
NYT’s skeptical editorial was also good.