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Thursday, November 6, 2008

Overconfidence

The day's conventional wisdom seems to be that giddy Democrats are overconfident.

So far, I think that is rubbish.

What I see is a great deal of overconfidence among the "opposition". Can you spot it also?

hint:

The National Health Service [in Britain was legislated in 1946]-1948 in a society weary but disciplined by war, and accustomed to austerity. There remained resilience, humour and a sense of fun. People who had become accustomed to little were content with simple things. Cinema, sport and radio, combined with “holidays at home” or the British seaside and Butlin’s camps, were the entertainment, there being little travel abroad. The genesis of the NHS stretched back into the 19th Century....