For the Ladies..

The Wrong Message

The way to sway young voters is NOT to mug them and carve letters in their face. I only say that because it's the truth and the freedom to vote for whoever you want to is perhaps the greatest perk this "greatest, best country God ever gave man" has left. Also, I live on an island of freewill and independent thought surrounded by a vast sea of W, McCain and Palin bumper stickers and I coulda been on the receiving end of this violent foolishness. A better tactic for trying to get a voter, especially a young one, to validate their decision or potentially change their mind is to ask them questions and to challenge them on what they THINK they know about their candidate.

Obama's Future VP???

Governor Bill Richardson will formally endorse Sen. Obama this morning. .e and I were discussing him as a possible VP for Obama the other day, and I think he might be the best guy out there for the job. He has more (and better) experience than anyone else that was in the race, including McCane. He has been an ambassador, a cabinet member, congressman, and a governor. He would balance the ticket by helping Obama with his two biggest weaknesses: Hispanics and those who do not think he has enough foreign policy experience. Furthermore, Obama balance's Richardson's greatest weakness, his lack of charisma.

As I sit and watch Sen. Clinton and Mark Penn and their master plan to elect the Republican nominee, and the temporary results of their behavior, I wonder how this can all end on a positive note? If Clinton really cared about the issues she claims to care about, she would have dropped out long ago. They care about power. Like any good student of Machiavelli, power is an end in of itself.

I do think that Democrats will come together and today's polls just reflect bitterness that occurs in the heat of battle, but this thing needs to end before we have irreconcilable differences.

"Why should I?"

An understated theme, or more to the point an under-addressed theme, during this campaign season has been on the subject of the accountability of our government... you know: "Of the people, by the people"... all that stuff.

Our government and our country have been crippled by the Bush administration's unwillingness to address questions posed by Congress, the press and, ultimately, by its own citizenry. Plainly, our press and our people have become accustomed to being bulldozed by a brutish mentality aimed at running our country as a business in which we are no longer considered stakeholders. This clip of McCain hits on the terrible truth of the continuity we will be supporting with the election of a McCain administration.

I have no idea what this guy is talking about....

....but he seems to not like McCane:

Quick...

....post on McCane lying about taxes, and Obama nailing him on it.

Like Hope... But Different