Peg Kerr's Journal

YAAAAAYYYYYY!!!

(Okay, now, California? C'mon, c'mon!)

Still waiting for them to call the Minnesota Senate race, but it'll probably be an all-nighter, and I won't stay up for it because OMG Fiona has a 7:30 a.m. orthodontist appointment tomorrow.

It's all going to be my fault.

Ok, cross gamers with the 2008 presidential race, and this is what you get. blpurdom is right, Kucinich's lines were particularly hysterical. Vastly amusing.

It is just jaw-dropping. A devastating, detailed synopsis of McCain's career. Wow. I learned a LOT. And am even more convinced that this man should never be President.

This is the story of the real John McCain, the one who has been hiding in plain sight. It is the story of a man who has consistently put his own advancement above all else, a man willing to say and do anything to achieve his ultimate ambition: to become commander in chief, ascending to the one position that would finally enable him to outrank his four-star father and grandfather.

In its broad strokes, McCain's life story is oddly similar to that of the current occupant of the White House. John Sidney McCain III and George Walker Bush both represent the third generation of American dynasties. Both were born into positions of privilege against which they rebelled into mediocrity. Both developed an uncanny social intelligence that allowed them to skate by with a minimum of mental exertion. Both struggled with booze and loutish behavior. At each step, with the aid of their fathers' powerful friends, both failed upward. And both shed their skins as Episcopalian members of the Washington elite to build political careers as self-styled, ranch-inhabiting Westerners who pray to Jesus in their wives' evangelical churches.

In one vital respect, however, the comparison is deeply unfair to the current president: George W. Bush was a much better pilot.

Read the rest at the link above. Well worth your time.

marcgunn has information about a song called "The Ex-Beauty Queen's Got a Gun" written by Julie Brown in parody of her own song "The Beauty Queen's Got a Gun"> You can watch a video of the original song and read the lyrics for the new version here at Marc's blog. Julie Brown's website, where you can get the new .mp3, is here.

SO not politically correct.

So . . . have you actually read it? If you haven't, here it is. Get ready to be furious when you get a load of Section 8.

( The Proposal )

heidi8 points to this Very Important Email from Nigerian royalty from Secretary of the Treasury Paulson.

As for John McCain's noble and self-less offer to suspend his campaign and postpone the debate so that he can go to Washington to deal with the crisis? If I were Obama, I would say something like this:

"Senator McCain has said that he is suspending his campaign and wishes to postpone our Friday night debate, so that he can go back to Washington to deal with the financial crisis. Well, if he is going back to Washington to step back into his role as a Senator, I might remind him that there are 98 other senators besides him and myself.

But as our parties' respective nominees, the two of us have a greater responsibility right now. It is my job and Senator McCain's job to stand before the American people and answer their questions about how, if elected President, each of us would lead America forward in the face of these difficult challenges. That is why I plan to be at the debate on Friday, to answer questions and lay my solutions out before the American people. I hope that Senator McCain will be there, too."

norabombay notes:

Make a donation to Planned Parenthood in Sarah Palin's name. And here's the good part: when you make a donation to PP in her name, they'll send her a card telling her that the donation has been made in her honor! You can make a donation for as little as $5.00!

Here's the link to the Planned Parenthood website: https://secure.ga0.org/02/pp10000_inhonor

You'll need to fill in the address to let PP know where to send the "in Sarah Palin's honor" card.

McCain/Palin for President
1235 S. Clark Street
1st Floor
Arlington, VA 22202

Feel free to pass this on.

I was pretty busy over the weekend (buying a water heater, helping girls get ready for school, hpalternity) and just checked the news for the first time last night.

Gustav
RNC Convention here in the twin cities
Palin news followup re: her daughter's pregnancy and Obama's reaction

*sigh* Man, as someone who 1) desperately wants Bush and all others of his ilk out of the White House, 2) is the mother of teenaged daughters, and 3) is a feminist who hopes to see a woman elected into the White House sometime in my lifetime, I don't even want to go near that last story. I liked Obama's statement, but alas, that probably won't be the last said on this subject.

*considers saying more*

naahh.

Just--it'll be interesting to see how this political season plays out.

What the hell kind of point is the john McCain site trying to make with this stupidity? As Daily Kos put it:

Gawd. So they're really going with this, eh? Their attack is going to be that the elitist Barack Obama is using... ETHNIC ARCHITECTURE?

What the h... I mean, how does... with the... and half of D.C... the White House... aaaargh.

Holy F@*(%ing Thundercats, I can't even find words for the stupid. Nobody can be this stupid. Nobody. Not even in politics. Not even among Republicans...

I just can't take it anymore. I knew that Republicans were going to be engaged in an all-out, no-holds-barred festival of attempted outrage, throughout this whole thing, but... I have no words. This is what McCain is running with? This is what Fox News has farted onto American television screens, in an attempt to fairly and balancelyed find a new way being offended at the uppityness or foreignness of this scary, scary ethnic candidate? It's not that Hillary Clinton said "I" too many times, or that Bill Clinton did not smile sufficiently, or that Barack's kids were insufficiently something-or-other -- now the architecture is uppity?

Make. It. Stop. We're electing the leader of the free world, not having a national staring contest with the dog. Just. Make. It. Stop.

Also see Daily Kos' comparative photos of other uppity architecture around Washington D.C. Like the White House. And the Lincoln Memorial. And the Capitol Building.

This is the first time I've looked at the McCain site. When I first clicked on the link, I couldn't believe it; I thought I'd somehow landed on a parody site. If this is what John McCain have to offer to a nation that is in real trouble and looking to him for leadership, I guess I'm not missing much.

Oh, fer cryin' out loud. You'd think after (Bill) Clinton, politicians would learn.