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So here we go - Election Day. I've rolled out of bed much, much, much earlier than normal in an effort to get to the polls before they open. I am a poll-watcher today. Exciting!

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I've sipped the Kool-Aid. Not the Obama brand, or the McCain for that matter. It was labeled true democracy — flavored red, white and blue. I didn't drink it all mind you, just a sip. The first time I was able to vote was as an undergraduate in school in Atlanta — Clinton vs. Bush 41 in 1992. It was simple enough. I rolled out of bed, probably went to a class or two and strolled to the poll set up in Archer Hall, our auditorium at Morehouse College. No big deal, but a big deal — people died for me to vote, so it was my responsibility to show up. It was the same with Clinton vs. Dole in 1996. This time I was in graduate school in Washington, D.C. Clinton won, again. Whatever. And it was downhill from there.

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Eight days before the election, New York Times editor Marcus Mabry talks with The Takeaway about how far we've come since the primaries, and what to expect in the last week of campaigning.

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By this week, the U.S. military in Iraq should have largely transferred responsibility for paying members of "the Sons of Iraq," Sunni Arab groups fighting al-Qaida to the Iraqi government. And, senior Iraqi politicians are warning that, after eight months of talks, a major deal between Baghdad and Washington that directs the presence of American troops in Iraq is doomed.

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It is pedestrian in scope, takes for granted the complexity of black people, our multiple political agendas and is oh-so-typical of mainstream, pop thinking — you know, that almost analysis that substitutes rich reporting and thought for simplicity and personality profiles that are supposed to be deep.

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The thing I remember most vividly about beginning my internship at TransAfrica Forum, the foreign policy lobbyist group founded in 1977 to pressure the U.S. Government to do right by Africa and the African Diaspora, was that I didn't want to be there.

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And why is there still a quarter-mile line zigzagging around the mall? A telephone? Right, right... GPS... music... really fast Internet. Sexy. But plans don't come with a great mortgage rate. They don’t come with free gas either. So maybe my homeboy Phil Gramm was on to something with his "mental recession" assessment.

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Smooth. Clever. Measured. Black — well, half black — not quite as scary as all black. He’s different but similar, and all the groovy cats want to be down with him — John Hope Franklin, Jay-Z, ScarJo, The Kennedys, Oprah, Brad Pitt, even Abdul-Jabbar.

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