Stop thinking you know about politics ?

I am seriously doubting your communist credentials if you think that McCain, at any point in his life, could have made a decent president. I would not call myself a communist, but I am certainly to the left of Obama and cannot countenance the idea of thinking that McCain could turn out a decent administration. We have to work towards the goal. Marching away from it sucks pretty bad. Hopefully we will get something done during this Democratic period (the next 40 years or so, ~40 year cycles, the Republicans' just ran out). Something like widespread worker ownership is possible, if some Democratic politicians were capable of risking offending their more conservative constituents.