Letter from the Left Coast: The Fat Lady Finally Gets Off Her Backside

Ian Bowater, this blog's very own LA Correspondent, with some final thoughts on the presidential race
So here it is – the last ever Letter From The Left Coast. It’s been over a month since the last one but quite frankly nothing much has happened. Oh… there was some Black Guy who got made President of the United States. I never saw that one coming. The interregnum created a power vacuum, or rather a news hole, which any number of hopefuls, has-beens, nonentities, also rans, losers and the occasional Great White Hope tried to fill. Quite frankly, Bernie Madoff’s multi-billion dollar fraud wasn’t going to do it. Once we learned that Zsa Zsa Gabor had lost eight million there were no more tears left to shed.