The October Surprise Comes Late

We all remember how much of a circus the media kicked up just days before the presidential elections of the last two terms: both negative "surprise" stories reflected badly on George W. Bush.

There was the original one from 2000, just three days before the election, and all three networks broke, for the first time, that George Bush, running against Al Gore and Lieberman,indeed, had received a...*gulp*...DUI more than 20 years ago!

The one from 2004 was a little less disguised, and came a lot earlier than three days out. CBS and Dan Rather wanted to make sure that a proper beating of this man called Bush would have to start 3 months before. Out came the now-infamous MemoGate, where Dan and his producer had a fake Army document drawn up, citing George W. Bush as AWOL more than 25 years ago.

Well, it just came out that Obama's grandmother, the one he refered only a few months ago, as just another "typical white person", has died. The timing could not have been more dramatic, in my humble opinion.


Almost mythological in its symbolism. The death of the personification of Obama's conflict in his Black identity. The loss of the one who's opinion may have mattered the most, on the night before judgement day.