We have seen it before.  Obama, about a year ago, makes a pronouncement that goes largely ignored until it comes true.  We saw it with the subprime issue (Obama Letter).  On March 22, 2007, Obama sent a letter to Bernanke and Paulson, which said, in part:

There is grave concern in low-income communities about a potential coming wave of foreclosures. Because regulators are partly responsible for creating the environment that is leading to rising rates of home foreclosure in the subprime mortgage market, I urge you immediately to convene a homeownership preservation summit with leading mortgage lenders, investors, loan servicing organizations, consumer advocates, federal regulators and housing-related agencies to assess options for private sector responses to the challenge.

While this got some attention during the subprime crisis, it did not get as much as I would have expected.  Here is someone who could actually have the foresight to see problems before they became crises.  But how far would this actually go for the election?  The economy is important, but McCain is going to try to keep this on foreign policy experience the best he can.  

I enjoy watching animals of all kinds, because I feel I can glean a bit of knowledge about myself from doing so (and because I just enjoy it). I was watching a jumping spider today, and a mud-dauber wasp was near it. I expected the little spider to jump the wasp, but he made off as quickly as possible and hid. That type wasp paralyses spiders and uses them to feed their young, and the spider seemed to know that. I've also seen other spiders kill other versions of wasps (a yellow-jacket).

Oh, dear, Nancy. And some of us had such high hopes for you.

As The Termite has reminded us, though, perhaps we shouldn’t have:

"The assumption I made was that the Republicans would soon see the light," she said. Instead, the minority stuck to the president’s war policy . . .

"That was a revelation to me, because I felt the American peoples’ voices were so strong and still are in this regard that I hoped that with some compromise and reaching out there might be some change in direction," Pelosi said. "But they are sticking with the president on this."

My father ran a medium-sized insurance company in Kansas City in my youth and, when we were driving around town, he would point out accidents waiting to happen—say, leaving one’s bicycle sprawled across a path for someone to trip over in the dark. A more subtle form of foresight is playing the percentages—and some improving percentages lead to my suggestion, "Don’t Sleep Alone!"

Young adults mostly die, or become permanently disabled, from accidents. Later in life, heart attacks, cancer, and stroke become more common than accidents. Cancers are insidious but the three others strike without warning. They often require fast treatment to prevent permanent disability or death. How fast is fast?