I posted a letter to the above-mentioned person several hours ago. In the meantime, I went out canvassing for the Obama/Biden ticket. I'm in a swing state (minnesota which is traditionally Blue but never mind), and I gotta tell you the Obama phenom is real and it involves more than rock star persona and hope-mongering. People are really excited and for good reason. But they are also sickened by the phony culture wars promulgated by the operatives in the GOP and a whole bunch of people who benefit greatly from this foolish and destructive divide. They have actually convinced a lot of folks like the good teleologicus and his friend effetus acerbus that people who demand a certain level of um, intelligence from their elected officials are both dangerous and eletist and not to be trusted. It's a pretty good gambit overall not unlike the one where they essentially wreck the government and then tell you that it's no good at solving problems. Sorry all you Palin groupies but these are very disturbing times brought on by the election of your own wannabe frat boy king (sorry about the sarcasm all you tender-hearted Republicans- I can't hep myself. I am uh elleetist snob). We need someone gifted, intelligent and educated in both book smarts -the kind they teach in ivy league schools and state colleges- and what you'all might call native intelligence or in Ms Palin's case..."moxie". It's gonna take a good case of all of the above which means an exceptional person of good judgement and strong character. I don't see much of that in MCain and I see an absolute dearth of it in Ms Sarah. She Is appealing though, I'll give ya that. And she may be the most popular governor in Alaskan history. She just don't got the whole picture, dude and it's gonna take nore than alotta shuck n jive an winkin' to convince me otherwise. Just sayin...

P.S. I'm told that Minnesota is one of 3 states McCain has to win. As of this posting Obama is up 8 points. and climbin'. See Ya.

I'm not really certain what is supposed to be gained from attempting to engage in any kind of diologue with the lil' snipers club that seems to lurk within these threads but it is pretty obvious that they are very afraid of something. Barak "Hussien" (they LOVE that) Obama and his ties to terrorism indeed. Yes he's black so he's a terrorist. This is the kind of discussion they'd prefer, I guess because it's so elevating of the discourse in general. They prefer strained polemical arguments because the GOP has no platform to stand on any more.

They also seem to be impervious to the delicious irony of their inherent "superiority" BECAUSE of their psuedo-populist posturing while they lecture us about elitism because we dare nominate someone who we believe is a capable and talented and dare I say "decent" person?

Meanwhile they are corn-fed the most cynical of candidates who is a condescending caricature of middle american values who preens, winks and talks to them like children and they lap it up like love-starved puppies and drooling school boys. Go for it guys. She's the new figurehead of the coming fascist state. She's your "Mommie". Meanwhile Wall Street and Corporate America is asking you, "Whose your Daddy?

They also seem to forget that Good King George was elected with a similar appeal to the self-same yearning for a "regular Joe" as president. Are you folks happy with the last 8 years? really? You happy with expanded government and exploding debt? A trumped-up, badly handled war that has no clear objective and no end in sight? Really? A country whose economy is bottoming out as we speak because of lack of oversight and greed run amok?

Crumbling infrastructure and badly-run federal agencies filled with incompetant cronies? I could go on and on. All because of an uninvolved, incurious "regular guy" with no actual interest in governing.

You all fell for that one. Are you going to tell me that you think someone who says the word "maverick" over and over with admittedly no understanding of economics and changes his positions like some of us change our socks is the guy for the job? Really? Go for it. No one's stopping you from attending the next Palin rally.