Crassly Political Post

No, it's not crap. It just looks like crap, smells like crap, and has the same color and all the qualities of crap. That's what I hear coming from the RNC. Romney called the Dems the party of big brother. Anyone who has been conscious for the last 8 years would see this as double-speak. He is trying to tell you yes we Republican-led Congresses passed all sorts of measures that intrude on privacy and degrade the ability of courts to oversee those processes but that's not big brother-ish it's really the Dems who are big brother. He is telling you "No, this is not crap even though it has all the qualities and properties of crap-don't believe your eyes."

Here is a great opinion piece by one of my favorite columnists, Leonard Pitts Jr., about Sarah Palin: http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/670090.html.

This jives perfectly with the last few days. Palin tells the media not to intrude on her family (note: I wholeheartedly agree, families should be off limits), only to have the campaign trot out her 7 year-old and then show McCain meeting the father of her daughter's kid. If you want them out of the media don't put them there in the first place. This is also the same McCain that stooped low and made off-color jokes about Chelsea Clinton being ugly when Bill Clinton was elected as president.

Also on the subject of Palin, the new line on here is she has experience, and not just any experience but "executive experience." Yeah, she has been a governor for 20 months and was a mayor of a tiny town. I'm not entirely sure how that translates into qualifications, after all, if you need executive experience to be president then where does that leave McCain (and Obama)? Moreover, Bush had 8 years of executive experience in Texas and that didn't translate to the national level very well.

The other great line on Palin is she is like the next door neighbor-I think by that they mean a normal person. Well two of my neighbors are off-the-wall strange and mildly creepy so if she's like my neighbors that's bad news since neither of them need to be VP. But the point is that she is normal and down to earth. Frankly, I want a person in the White House who not normal in that they are much smarter than I am and if they are down to earth and normal that's a bonus.

One reason I don't care for Palin: she has stated global warming is not related to human action. Thomas Friedman has a fantastic column (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/opinion/03friedman.html?_r=1&oref=slogin) about how McCain has avoided voting on measures that would help fund alternative fuels and Palin is just another step there. For a nature lover from Oregon there is nothing worse.

But when all else fails, Republicans can blame the media and avoid talking about the economy at all costs because if you just shift the focus then it all goes away...