At Least We Have Sarah Palin

Another day, another 360 points down the poop shoot. At least there's Tina Fey and her impression of that Ice Road gremlin to keep up smiling. PS, I just heard a guy on CNN say, not playing the stock market is pretty sound advice.

Viral Video Of The Week

Duh, Homer Simpson Tries To Vote For Obama.

Below is a rant. And not even a good one. So if that doesn't float your boat, just watch the Simpsons video and move on.

I've been an absent leader this week. I just recently discovered that I have a day job. So I'm gonna make up for it by just saying a bunch of random shit right now.

Firstly, everyone is insane.

I love that Sarah Palin won last night's debate simply because she survived. I'm sick and tired of feminists bitching about glass ceilings, but god forbid Joe Biden raise his voice to a girl.

Anyone who can even pretend that Palin is ready for DC or adds something to the ticket is entirely delusional. It's not even a discussion. It's simple physics. There's not an industry in the world that would hire someone this unprepared to be their CEO's backup. Arguing otherwise is like saying you can flap your arms and fly to the moon.

By the way, if I ever found myself having a conversation with someone that speaks and gestures and behaves the way she does, I'd probably blow my brains out. Could you imagine asking someone questions that consistently either answers different questions or doesn't answer at all? If she's VP, there might be heads of state slitting their wrists in meetings.

Maybe I'm an asshole because I'm from a big city, but it seriously blows my mind that anyone of this personality type can tie their shoes, yet alone make it into the public spotlight. I've only seen people like this in the movie FARGO and on the show Ice Road Truckers. God help these people.

I could just keep on posting links to the Katie Couric interview etc, but PETA says I can no longer beat dead horses.

Senator McCain: Congratulations, you blew it. And I wait with baited breath for you to "make famous" those responsible for the billions of dollars in pork attached to this bailout bill that you voted for. At least you were neither "absent" nor "present" this time.

I could go into our downward spiral towards socialism and rip into Obama and talk about how Schwarzenegger threw us Californians under the bus, but this has been exhausting. I'll save all that for another time.

Joe Biden To Add Comedy To Obama Campaign

Senator Joe Biden, (frequently referred to as the "Norm Macdonald of D.C." (and when I say frequently, I mean I just made that up)) has been chosen to lighten up the Barack Obama campaign with his particular brand of humor as the Democratic vice presidential nominee. The comic styling of Joe Biden will no doubt reel in the stoner vote. See below.

YouTube Spotlight: Joe Biden Gives Lousy YouTube

Joe Biden has a way in debates, interviews and speeches of coming across as sort of the too smart, too angry, charismatic yet arrogant type. He's usually well spoken and somewhat of a wise-ass. But in his YouTube YouChoose Spotlight video, he more closely resembles a Bush 3.0. He comes across as entirely out of sync with technology and he constantly restates the obvious. In the end, he asks us what we are willing to do to free our dependence on oil. Well, there it is. So instead of being redundant and showing you the video, let's take a look at some of the most interesting responses (Ya, there's only two. Go figure. (p.s. The second one I really agree with. Deal with the hand that we're dealt. Fact: We drive. So in the meantime, incentivize driving all light cars (like my 2000 Civic which gets 32mpg and had virtually undetectable emissions at my smog check), not just hybrids because the mileage is in fact comparable)):

Video: Joe Biden Not So Nice On Bush

We're going to shove it down his throat," says Biden on the topic of the Iraq funding/withdrawal bill. The "his" being George W. Bush. More transcript of the video at Politico.com

Democratic Debate in South Carolina for 2008

In what looks to be the longest campaigning season ever recorded, today the Democrats’s took one step closer toward their siege of the White House. At South Carolina State University, Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls convened for a debate that turned out less to be platform on distinguishing themselves from the rest of the pack and more about their shared bashing of the lame-duck-to-be, current President of the United States of America, George Walker Bush. The debate, which pre-dates the kickoff Iowa caucuses by about nine months, was 90 minutes long and without an opening or closing statement.

Debaters were limited to 60 second answers and the quick fire structure led to a rather fast paced, sound bite friendly affair. The questions ranged from topics such as -‘what would you do the first day in office?’ to ‘By a show of hands, how many of you have had a gun in your household as an adult’ to ‘Name one memorable mistake you have made in office.’ At times it felt more like a dating show than a political platform, as personalities and pre-recorded speeches came out - and each candidate attempted to leave their impression on we the people. Heck, they even touched on grooming, with John Edwards and his questionable hair cuts!

The overriding theme of the debate remained the deep running opposition to the war in Iraq. Questions about international policy in other regions in the world were peppered at the panel of contestants, but the focus and interest was primarily on the quagmire at hand, our exit plan or lack there of. With GOP out of the picture (for one night) all thought process was on the shared ideas of troop withdrawal.

Barack Obama stated, “I am proud that I opposed this war from the start.” (a thinly veiled jab at his peers on stage that did vote to authorize the invasion)

Hillary Clinton pledged, “If this president does not get us out of Iraq, when I am president, I will.” (Clinton = recipient of Obama’s thinly veiled jab)

John Edwards also joined the verbal bar fight as he told Clinton that she and everyone else that voted to authorize the war should “search their conscience.” (Oddly enough, Edwards also did vote for the invasion, but he has since apologized…so, um…I guess that means he’s absolved of the issue?)

“The president has a fundamentally flawed policy” said Joe Biden and according to Chris Dodd, Bush was pursuing a “failed policy”

Dennis Kucinich also threw a left hook out there as he pontificated that it made no sense to oppose the war then turn around and vote for more money as many of them did.

Alas, the debate ended with as much flare as it began. Which is to say…not much flare. Noticeable absent from the hour and a half of positioning and posturing was conflict, as most candidates were extremely respectful and articulate in their points of view. Inherently and obviously, there was much parity to the many opinions of the group relative to the Dem’s Right leaning opponents. And overall, the evening was mostly entertaining – in a pseudo, quasi kind of way. The kind of entertainment you get from watching a ‘high speed’ police car chase in Los Angeles – time consuming, semi-interesting with the potential of mayhem…yet, the car usually just cruises down the street going 30 mph until the drive finally decides he’s wasted enough time, and gives up out of futility – pulling over to merely get cuffed in an obscenely anticlimactic fashion.

So, ultimately, this was the OJ-chase-scene of debates, but in the end, that’s okay. We were hooked in by the speeches and will remain generally excited by all the contestants, I mean candidates. No fireworks today. But fear not, we may be many moons away from the caucuses but its draws near and will be here before we know it. Sit tight, stay tuned…this race will be as entertaining as can be…or at the very least it will be memorable - in our inaugural new-media-youtube-age-election. And WE THE (2.0) PEOPLE will be watching, judging and eventually...voting.

McCain Sees No Plan B for Iraq

McCain, who has long argued for an increase in troops, is now stating, “I am not guaranteeing that this succeeds,”...“I am just saying that I think it can. I believe it has a good shot.” A bold statement indeed! Um..not really...how non-committal to a stance can one get, geez.

In the past, he's methodically dismissed as unrealistic every other plan that has been proposed by Democrats as a substitute for Mr. Bush’s strategy - including those from Senators Clinton, Biden and Obama - yet hasn't quite figured out HIS solution. Read more on his non-promises and general unsuredness here:
New York Times

MySpace Demographics

As the presidential primaries near, there has been exceeding media buzz about how 85% of MySpace users are of voting age. Specifically, students are key targets for presidential candidates. Below are some recent links to articles discussing these numbers in greater detail. After that are the numbers of MySpace friends held by select contenders.

MySpace Politics Target Students (The Northerner)

Presidential hopefuls create MySpace pages, larger student bases (The Daily Texan)

More than Half of MySpace Visitors are Now Age 35 or Older, as the Site’s Demographic Composition Continues to Shift (ComScore)

MYSPACE FRIENDS OF CANDIDATES
Barack Obama: 100000+
John Edwards: 18000+
Hillary Clinton: 10000+
Mitt Romney: 5000+
Ron Paul: 3000+
John McCain: 3000+
Dennis Kucinich: 2000+
Joe Biden: 1500+