Obamney Wins!

That's right, the think tank here at Falling Downs has called it for Obamney tomorrow.

And you know what that means.

Wall Street wins.

You don't.

I've not been able to fathom the minds of those regular folks who are voting Romney tomorrow. The nurses and school teachers and cab drivers and welders and carpenters and cops.

I mean Mitt is right when he says those folks are fucked with Obama.

But they're even more fucked with Mitt!

I listened to Mitt for a bit on one of the news channels. Live from Cincinnati. Or maybe it was Cleveland.

Here's a guy who hides hundreds of millions off shore to avoid paying taxes in the country that he loves so much he wants to be president of it...

Nah.

But he did make a reference to a 60 year old welder in his speech.

Fuck, I don't even remember talking to him.

But then he said the guy he talked to had been welding 60 years, and I didn't start till I was six, so obviously he was talking about someone else.

The reason anybody at all wants to talk about 60 year old welders is that we're a total aberration.

We used to work in "closed shops." I know people think that means you had to be a union member to work there, but what it really meant was the shop was closed. Yes, we had the big truck doors at each end, but generally they were kept closed, especially in the winter months, September to May.

So when you were working in those closed shops you were inhaling a bouquet of every alloy they put into a 7018 rod. Tungsten, molybdenum, lead, iron, etc, etc, oh, nickel of course, and even more etc.

Now you weren't inhaling a bouquet per se; YOU BURNED THAT POI POURI AND INHALED THE FUMES!!!

For eight or ten or twelve hours a day.

Which is why 60 year old welders are such a novelty.

But Mitt found one and talked to him and wants to do what's right for him, which is a bit of a shift for Mitt since the days when his company screwed over all those steel-workers in Kansas.

And welders are obviously steel-workers.

But Mitt's a shifty guy, and who is to say that his shifts are anything other than heartfelt and sincere?

Besides, Obamney wins either way!