Well, I was going to post about the McCain VP pick, BUT...

[thatcrazycajun]

...it seems most of my f-list beat me to the punch. (That's what I get for waiting until late in the evening to finally get on the net.) Most of you have covered anything I might have had to type about the choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. (For the one or two who might be going "Whuh?!", see any number of news websites.) Lessee now...

• She's the first woman ever on a Republican Prez/Veep ticket (we Dems beat 'em by a couple decades, of course...)
• She's not necessarily self-hating, stupid or venal; thank you, osewalrus. Frankly, I'm one of those you mention who tend to believe that, because I can't see how anyone's operating system can allow for both intelligence and education coupled with such selfishness and contempt for one's own identity group; but I'm willing to be proven wrong...and I must admit, you have far more direct experience with the breed.
• Thank you with cherries on top, Senator McCain, for torpedoing once and for all the "not enough experience" argument for your side. And for making this suddenly an even more historic and interesting election. And for making an Obama victory that much more likely (as Hal so eloquently put it, "God grant me stupid enemies!"). And props to you for showing class and congratulating Obama in an ad today.
• Thank you, redaxe , for pointing out that the PUMAs are "astroturf"—Blue Dog Dems at best, GOP moles at worst. The more I listen to them (check out David Shuster's evisceration of the two leaders on MSNBC's Hardball at the website), the harder I find it to buy the notion that Attilary was somehow unfairly screwed out of a legit victory by DNC leadership.
• Thank you, Sen. Obama, for reminding Americans—especially those on the right who like to paint us Dems and libs as soft on defense—that we are the party of FDR and JFK (not to mention Truman and LBJ). And thank you, Howard Dean, for finally getting rid of the DLC Clintonistas and giving our party back its principles and its passion.

Does that about cover everything?

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it. —Voltaire

Comments

[singingpatient.livejournal.com]

so... anyone else wonder why jimmy carter is always noticeably absent from the convention? he's a nobel prize winner for god's sake!

[singingpatient.livejournal.com]

oh and one more thing, because i'm from the South and I know the black vote is seriously motivated right now, and you know what that means? that means that white police officers all over the South are going to put up roadblocks so the blacks can't get to the polls, and white poll workers are going to tell black voters their names aren't on the roles, or that they need 3 forms of photo ID in order to vote. because that's exactly what they did in florida in 2000, and it worked. and the courts found that they had been disenfranchised, but no one was punished and nothing was changed.

so i want to know who is going to police the police and the poll workers in the panhandle of florida (a.k.a South South Georgia)?