But now she is just boring. And the letters couldn't get any worse.

After four years and dropping approval rates, GWB determined that if every instinct of Dick Cheney was wrong, then the opposite must be correct.

Maybe it was the set up by Joan, but I didn't find it all that funny. Kinda boring, in fact. It amazes me that Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert can do outrageously funny political commentary night after night and SNL, after having a week to prepare, can't even do it for one night.

And it will cost as much as it will cost. But, just for the sake of contrasts, here's an interesting Salon.com article from 2005:

http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/01/20/media_on_inauguration

Really.

Joe Biden can step in it, every now and then. That was one of the crtiticisms I heard and read when he was selected as VP. It should be great fodder for the Press. The problem is, if the one side is keeping the VP candidate incommunicado, the other side's VP candidate gets more of a free pass. That's at least how it appears.

He doesn't want his name out there, as he is connected. But, if you don't believe me, that's OK. His words are still true, regardless of his affiliation.

I want to share with you these words. They are the words of a a former US Supreme Court law clerk, a partner of one of the largest law firms in the world and started, ran and sold his own internet company. He is also a lifelong Republican. With his permission, I am posting this here and elsewhere. Here goes:

"The more I think about the Palin "narrative" versus the Obama "elitism" the more depressed I get about what it implies about our country.

"On the one hand, we have a guy who is the equivalent of military nobility. His father was a four star admiral; his grandfather was a four star admiral. He did poorly in every school he ever attended, but moved along in his career as far as he did in no small part due to elite connections. He is anything but an entrepreneur, but he did marry a rich woman who keeps him up so well that he can't even remember how many houses they own.

"On the other hand, we have a guy whose grandfather on one side was a third world goatherder, and on the other side an American heartland farmer. He grew up in modest circumstances with no elite connections, but worked hard, got into some of the finest schools in the country, and used the springboard that gave him to make it to a nice standard of living on his own.

"Of the two, the one with the goatherder grandfather is somehow the elitist.

"But it's not "somehow." There is a how here. The how is that he attended and did well at demanding institutions.

"He is an achiever, and in today's Republican party those who achieve on their own are not "Horatio Alger stories;" they are "elitists." In today's populism, it's not elite birth or membership in the plutocracy that makes you an elitist. It is nothing other than competence and achievement.

"Selected to lead the attack on him is a woman who attended five mediocre colleges over six years, compiling a forgettable record even there. She has continued that same mediocrity in every facet of her life. That she is so flawed is precisely her appeal.

"We have always had mediocrities in public life; you just can't keep them out. We also have always had a Jacksonian strain that celebrates people from common origins who rise above early disadvantages and perform in a superlative manner.

"This is different. So far as I know, this is the first time that, in this country, being competent and good at what you do is considered a detriment. This is the first time that mediocrities are selected not despite being mediocre, but because they are mediocre.

"What all this tells me is that the problems of the past eight years run deeper than George W Bush. I no longer think he was an unfortunate accident. There is a narrative here, a narrative that penalizes being thoughtful and accomplished, and rewards those who do poorly.

"How we will compete in the world, against an ascending China and a resurgent Russia, when we pick people specifically because they are dopes escapes me."

I'm sure the telecoms would be only to happy to chip in and make up whatever amount I was going to pay going forward. It's too bad I can't ask for a refund.

In it, the deride GOP lawmakers for standing up to congratulation President Bush on his accomplishments as President. My response:

Yeah, it looks like the Democrats lined up to pay tribute, too. You guys are gutless wonders. Please don't contact me again for money until you grow a pair:

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll437.xml

soixante60, what purpose does your post serve? Not the Democratic Party's, most certainly. It's time to move on and focus on the task at hand, defeating McCain. We could go back and forth, like so many other threads on Salon about what the votes mean, who won what, etc., but the fact remains as the rules were set out, Obama won and Hillary lost, albeit in a very hotly contested primary season.

She found her perfect voice with that email. I hope this is the beginning of putting to rest all this useless squabbling.