One of the Best Things Democrats Have Going for Them Between Now and November 2016

And all they have to do is let it sit there.

Thoughts on a holiday

So many things going on.

First, unfortunately, the timing of this Hurricane Gustav worked against both the Gulf Coast and the Democrats--and everyone against John McCain, George Bush and the Republican Party. Instead of having our peerless leader speak at the "Dark Side" convention opener tonight, he gets a pass because of that same storm.

Dang.

Hearing and seeing that boob speak of the last 7 years was going to be something I cherished. Trying to put lipstick on that pig would be a big hoot--if not infuriating.

Then, did you see this? Right out of the shoot, Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin said she was against the "bridge to nowhere" for $223 million dollars from Anchorage to a small town of a few dozen people. Uh-huh. Well, we're used to Republicans rewriting history but that one just isn't going to fly. She was all for it and was on the record as such. I guess Alaskans are--rightly--upset about this about-face and slap in theirs.

Great. She's already shown her true, shallow colors.

I think the one debate between her and Sen. Biden and the three between Senators "McSame" and Obama should be a real hoot. Intelligence and experience vs. short-term goals and experience with the Veeps while the old white guy with no new ideas--who supported wrong, horrible ones--goes against a young, energetic, eloquent guy with ideas and inspiration. I hope they're as good for us as I think they can be.

Then, yesterday, Sen. McCain, in a really feeble attempt to distance himself from President Know-nothing, Greedhead Bush, went on "Marshmallow News" Fox Network with Rightist Chris Wallace and said waterboarding is torture, that we did it, apparently, (really? no kidding) and that it's wrong.

Well, Senator--far too little and far too late.

For the last 7 years, you've largely supported George W. Bush and his administration and look where it's gotten us:

A wrong war, for the wrong reasons, full of deceipt and deception, if not out and out lies; the largest debt in the history of the nation and more ways for our government to reach into our private lives than ever before. (WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT WAS EVER CONSERVATIVE ABOUT GEORGE W. BUSH??)

Too late, Senator McCain.

You're more of the same and you're the wrong man for the wrong time, period.

Anyway, it's been an insane, wild, completely unpredictable and new election and these last 60 days should be more of the same ride.

Let's hope it has the conclusion to it we want--and need.

It should be.

Unmitigated gall

I can hardly believe the unmitigated gall--nerve, whatever--that this President shows to the country, other national leaders and nations--the world, really.

Did you see this? Apparently, W is going to talk to Hu Jintao, the leader of China, about his country's human rights violations.

Are you kidding me?

Sure, China is horrible on human rights, in spite of what they want us to think and believe. And I'm not saying we're as bad as they are, even though W's government got us into waterboarding and other tortures, rendition and various other obscenities. But for this guy--W--of all people, who has virtually trashed our Constitution in so many and varied ways, to be telling other leaders of the world how and what to do to run their country's and treat their people right, it's just beyond the pale. It's just too much.

And yet that's supposedly, apparently going to do today.

What nerve. If I were another leader, I'd just put his own country's newspapers and magazines in his lap, tell him to read them, and either change the subject to a lighter one, or walk out.

It's what he'd deserve.