mayor -> 1 year governor -> VP -> President?

McCain picked the governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, as his running-mate. So much for his argument that Obama is too inexperienced to be President. McCain picked a VP who spent a few years as mayor of a small town in Alaska, has a bachelors degree in communications-journalism from the University of Idaho, and has been governor of Alaska for a year and a half. McCain is old. Is Sarah Palin really the best person to be president if he were to die?

He'll probably win Alaska's electoral votes, all 3 of them, which were going to go to him anyway. And he'll prolly get a some women who were on the fence. But really... her?

Again, this says a lot about his judgment and ability to make important, executive, decisions. I'm sure people with his campaign said McCain will win with a female VP because women are idiots and will vote for a woman no matter how qualified they are for the job.

just beautiful

Hillary Clinton did exactly what she needed to do. She swallowed her pride, accepted defeat and called to end the roll-call in the convention and nominate Barack Obama. It was such a moving show of unity, tears came to my eyes. Yay for Hillary Clinton. What a beautiful moment to witness, two strong women, Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton, leading the Democrat party to nominate an African American for their Presidential Candidate.

Hillary, if you run in 2016, after Barack's very successful 8 years in office, I will vote for you.

Musician Daddy Yankee Backs Sen. McCain

Puerto Rican performer Daddy Yankee endorsed John McCain at a highschool in Phoenix, with the nominee by his side. Apparently the McCain campaign was so thrilled to have someone under the age of 50 and not white endorse him, that they didn't bother doing any research whatsoever about this guy.

The Reggaeton superstar who endorsed Sen. John McCain yesterday, was accused in 2007 of assaulting a soccer player at his hotel... and took a bullet in his leg during an altercation.

Source: The Atlantic

Not only did they not look into his background, they didn't bother to look into his music before having Daddy Yankee perform live at the highschool.



In Puerto Rican slang, 'gasolina' refers to alcohol, drugs, or some, well, other, innuendos.

Incidentally, Daddy Yankee originally approached the Obama campaign to endore Obama, but they passed. Good call. Is this yet another example of McCain's lack of better judgement?

Anti-War Protesters Meance Intrepid Fox News Reporter!

According to this reporter, freedom of speech means talking to the media when you're asked to. If "leftist" protesters had tvs, they would've loved seeing Fox News broadcasting live the "leftists" flipping off the camera and chanting "Fuck Fox News"
ooops.

its getting ugly out there

Obama has a new commercial that shows McCain forgetting the number of houses he owns. Seems like McCain doesn't want attention drawn to the fact that he lives a multi-millionaire lifestyle. The McCain campaign fired back, accusing Obama of eating arugula (hey, i like arugula) and taking vacations to private beaches in Hawaii. Does McCain really think the public believes that he vacations in a rented house on a public beach in Sarasota? Theres no way the Secret Service would allow the Obama family to vacation in a public area, and why would they want to, they'd be hounded by the press non-stop. As for vacationing in Hawaii, he was born and raised there. Big suprise he'd choose to go back home for a trip, especially when 'home' means Hawaii.

I saw bravo to the Obama campaign. The Republicans have been running ads calling their opponents elitist in the past two presidential elections, its time Democrats remind the country that republicans live pretty cushy lives too.

the hobbit

Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro have decided to write the screenplay for The Hobbit with Fran Walsh (not frank as the article names her) and Philippa Boyens, who adapted LOTRs with Peter Jackson. Yay! This is very good news.

I really really really hope that they don't make as many changes to The Hobbit as they made to LOTRs. I love the movies, but I still can't help but watch them thinking "Why did they change that???" so many of the changes they made were unnecessary and completely opposite of what happened in the book. I understand making changes to make the story fit into a movie time-limit, but come on. Frodo did not need to send Sam away in ROTK. There was no need for them to go to Osgilith with Faramir. Faking Aragorn's death in Two Towers was just silly. I understand they needed a way to let Theoden know that the Uruk-hai army was coming to attack Helm's Deep, but a scout could have given them that news. Tolkien was a very deliberate writer, his Frodo would never have sent Sam away. His Faramir would not have been so easily swayed by his father's wishes to bring the ring back to Minas Tirith. Aragorn, while mortal, would not so easily be killed by a stupid orc on a warg.

ok, enough nerding out for today.

Obama/Biden 08?

it has a nice ring to it. Obamabiden. According to MSNBC, CNN, Salon, and some guy that called it back in January, Joe Biden is the clear front-runner. I signed up to receive email from the Obama campaign when the decision is reached, they're expected to announce the VP choice as early as tomorrow morning.

I think Biden is a great choice. He has the foreign relations experience that McCain has claimed Obama lacks. He's seasoned, respected, and has the backbone to take on the republicans.

Star Wars Alpacas

hehehe