Tina Fey is just getting better and better as Sarah Palin. She actually chucks out Palin’s wordiness and gets to the point. So if you didn’t watch the debate, let’s Fey sums it up for you what Palin was trying to say in her circling-around-the-bush answers. Queen Latifah would have been a better moderator as well.
Simplexpression.com will be an online jewelry store, a project Dana and I are collaborating on. She’ll design the jewels and I’ll design the site. She came up with the name. I got the domain and the web space. Now we’re just waiting for her to come up with some fine designs. Being a perfectionist that she is as well as other priorities, I am not sure when we will get the store up and running. For now, you can check out the teaser page I have created.
New Yorker‘s “The Choice” is a thoughtful article on why Obama is its choice. The piece points out how desperate McCain wants to win the election for himself and his cynical choice of VP pick:
Echoing Obama, McCain has made “change” one of his campaign mantras. But the change he has actually provided has been in himself, and it is not just a matter of altering his positions. A willingness to pander and even lie has come to define his Presidential campaign and its televised advertisements. A contemptuous duplicity, a meanness, has entered his talk on the stump—so much so that it seems obvious that, in the drive for victory, he is willing to replicate some of the same underhanded methods that defeated him eight years ago in South Carolina.
Perhaps nothing revealed McCain’s cynicism more than his choice of Sarah Palin, the former mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, who had been governor of that state for twenty-one months, as the Republican nominee for Vice-President.
Here is a legitimate reason why we should elect Obama:
A Presidential election is not the awarding of a Pulitzer Prize: we elect a politician and, we hope, a statesman, not an author. But Obama’s first book is valuable in the way that it reveals his fundamental attitudes of mind and spirit. “Dreams from My Father” is an illuminating memoir not only in the substance of Obama’s own peculiarly American story but also in the qualities he brings to the telling: a formidable intelligence, emotional empathy, self-reflection, balance, and a remarkable ability to see life and the world through the eyes of people very different from himself. In common with nearly all other senators and governors of his generation, Obama does not count military service as part of his biography. But his life has been full of tests—personal, spiritual, racial, political—that bear on his preparation for great responsibility.
Thanks New Yorker.
McCain says that Obama’s lead is growing because “life isn’t fair.” Is he trying to say that life would be fair if he leads or is he wanting to call affirmative action now?
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In a meeting with the editorial board of the Des Moines Register, McCain was “strongly” and “fundamentally” disagreed with everything the board had to say. When asked about his lies on sex education, lipstick on a pig and his pick of Palin, here is what he really meant in his respond: “That’s your opinion. Fuck you. I don’t give a fuck what you think because I know I am right about everything.” We need a leader who would listen to what they people have to say too and not just a hot-headed dweeb.
McCain told NPR: “I’ve turned to her advice many times in the past. I can’t imagine turning to Sen. Obama or Sen. Biden, because they’ve been wrong.”
Many times in the past? Wait a second, didn’t McCain picked Palin after he met her once, which was a about a month ago. Lie, lie and more lie.
A vice presidential nominee can’t even name a newspaper or a magazine she reads, and she was majoring in journalism. I guess she establishes her world view by looking out her window.
Exactly two weeks ago, when McCain said the fundamentals of our economy are strong, banks filed for bankruptcy and Dow Jones dropped 500 points. Today, right after McCain claimed the credit for passage of the bailout bill, it collapsed and the Dow plummeted 777 points, the worse loss ever. I am not blaming him for the Wall Street crash, I am just saying how dead wrong he is on the economy. Shouldn’t he suspend his entire campaign for this?