Ugh, Sarah Palin...

Look, I don't really want to get too much into the bullshit story that is Sarah Palin. I think it's funny how she could be getting such a free pass on certain things because no one wants to be called sexist. It's BS, she lied in her first speech as the VP nominee, and not a single media source called her on it. Hell, she says the same damn thing in every interview or speech? And why? Because no one has the balls to go at her on it. That's not the only thing that bothers me either.

SHE DID SUPPORT THE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE. It's on tape. Hell, it's in print. And it wasn't even like it was a long time ago. When she says she sold the plane on eBay, she didn't. She sold the plane, but it was at a loss. She took per diem pay when she stayed at her own home. Not exactly fiscally conservative, is it? Hell, when she was mayor of Wasilla, AK... she left the city 20 million dollars in debt. Let me say that shit again, she is a so-called fiscal conservative who left a town of less than 10,000 in a state with a population less than that of Charlotte, NC TWENTY million dollars in debt. And we expect her to help get rid of a trillion dollar plus debt at a national level?

That doesn't even mention the fact that she's not even that familiar with her job. Just a couple months ago, someone asked her if she would accept the VP spot. Her answer? She said she wasn't even sure what a VP does. Hell, Charlie Rose asked her about the Bush Doctrine, and she didn't even know what that meant. The issues in the U.S. prior to this recession revolved around foreign policy. John McCain couldn't tell you that Czechoslovakia wasn't a country. Sarah Palin probably couldn't spell it.

The experience issue is BS too. The conservative keep going on and on about her so-called executive experience. If executive experience mattered that much, why didn't they elect Rudy Giuliani? Hell, Giuliani was mayor of city that's got a LOT more people than the state of Alaska. Besides, just because someone can be manager of Wal-Mart doesn't mean that same someone can be the CEO of Wal-Mart.

The sexism claims from the right baffle me too. Shoot, the most sexist action by anyone in this election season has been from John McCain. McCain chose Palin because he thought that the Hillary voters would swing to him regardless of the fact that Palin is polar opposite of Palin on almost every issue. I'd like to think women aren't that dumb. I can't see a woman making an informed decision to vote for a woman that she disagreed with on every issue just because the candidate is a woman.

But I digress...

I guess it's called karma...

McCain's interesting attacks yesterday led to over 100,000 monetary contributions yesterday alone. One-third of which came from first-time donors... Interesting...

If you consider the average contribution to the Obama campaign hovers between fifty and one hundred bucks a piece, we could be talking huge numbers for a single day. In the interest of full disclosure, Obama is offering tickets or VIP passes for the convention to his donors right now. The minimum donation to qualify is just five dollars. However, he's had similar programs throughout the campaign, and the average donation stayed in that same range.

Obama didn't play the "race card"

Yesterday, the one of the worst campaign managers in recent history suggested that by Obama repeating the "They're gonna say that I don't look like all those presidents on the dollar bills" line was a way for Obama to accuse McCain of being racist. Give me a break. Obama's been saying that line since the very beginning. He generally starts with a litany of reasons why his detractors will say not to vote for him ending with "I gotta funny name" and the above line.

He's not going after McCain at all, I don't see how one could even say that considering those lines have been part of his campaign speeches for a LONG time. He's addressing the fact that there are a lot of people in this country advocating voting for McCain for the sole fact that McCain is white. Everybody knows this, most of us have at least one racist relative to begin with. If Obama mentions his race, it's not automatically taking potshots at McCain.

McCain is towing a very fine line right now though. He accuses Obama of playing the race card, but has stopped just short of calling Obama "uppity" for the last week...

Offshore drilling is a FAKE issue

I'm not gonna write a whole lot about this because it is beyond the point of frustrating. So what happens if the U.S. drills offshore? Companies, which have had access to thousands of other untapped areas for decades, try to go find oil elsewhere. Should they find oil, guess what? It goes on the market to the highest bidder, just like regular old foreign oil does. There's another part to that too, an oil we find offshore won't have a significant effect on the global market, because the amount we're looking for is pretty negligible on the whole.

Now here's the MOST OBVIOUS part that the news NEVER talks about. It's gonna be several years before people even get to see the results of offshore drilling. It might take a decade for us to even see the results of all that! Think about that. I wanna shove my head through a brick wall when people constantly talk about this. We're talking about oil that may or may not exist, or if it does exist, its effects will not be felt until Britney Spears's kid is getting ready for high school!

Obama is the presumptuous one?

I really don't like this whole story. I'll just say that Dana Milbank really screwed up, and came off like a total asshat. The argument over who is acting like he's already president is stupid. Looking presidential is part of the criteria to get elected, always has been, always will be. Either way, even though McCain comes off like an old guy at the bar yelling at the television, he sent out a pretty interesting e-mail earlier in his campaign...

Republican Senator John McCain was elected president last evening, defeating Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democratic nominee. McCain's victory came by winning the "red" states that supported President Bush in 2004, while also winning independents to capture the key battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota.

McCain ran a disciplined campaign that focused on the issues of reforming the culture of Washington and vigorously prosecuting the war on terror. Political experts expressed surprise that McCain was able to wrest the mantle of change away from Clinton, given that she represented the party out of power which normally lays claim to being the agent of change.

Yeah, so about that...