I am a big fan of the movie Dave.  If you missed this story, it was about a political outsider that got the chance to make America better.  In the movie the lifetime politicians no longer understood the problems of the people they represent.   Many American feel this way when polled.  Lets talk about experience.  Bill Clinton was Governor of Arkansas and was a fine President.  Here is how 1987 Arkansas stacks against 2008 Alaska.

Arkansas 1987 Gross State Product was $32.1 Billion in 2008 Dollars

(7 Billion less than Alaska)

Population in Arkansas is 2,356,586 in 1990.

Arkansas is 53,179 sq mi

Arkansas has 105 State run Airports

Arkansas has 1 International Airports

Alaska 2008 Gross State Product was $39.9 Billion

Population of Alaska is 683,478 in 2008.

Alaska is 656,424 sq miles

Alaska has 386 State run Airports

Alaska has 2 International Airports

Maybe the United States could use a person that has children, started out with nothing, happily married her high school sweetheart, owns a business, worked hard and made something of themselves.  How about someone that is not a Washington insider that did not come from American royalty.  Do you not think she understands healthcare after 5 children?  How about our schools?  Which one of these fools took on big oil and made  them give money directly back to the people and not into the State General Fund?  Who in the group is not a multi-millionaire?  Who is not an attorney? She brings real world experience first hand to the problems we are facing as a country.  Before you talk to me about international experience, remember that our schools, healthcare, roads and economy are in trouble also because of our representatives have run wild.

Experience is important but experience has to be on the right topic to matter.  A great example is found in our Senate and House of Representatives.  You see they represent people from their state and that is why they are called Representatives.  Governor Palin is

responsible to govern the people of Alaska and is called the Governor and not the Representative.  One is leadership and the other is following orders from the respective political party which our Senators do at least 90% of the time.  Senators McCain, Biden, Obama and Clinton all represent other people.  They are not leaders, but followers.  They do not negotiate treaties, they do not work within any real budget.  They did not wield a veto or give pardons to people.  They do not command the State troops, police or any state level services and do not respond to emergencies.

Just ask yourself, who gave them so much time to go out and campaign for president for the last 12 months?  How many hours did they work for you?  They often don’t show up for votes either and do not read the laws they pass as Michael Moore proves.  Out of the 5 of them, who thinks Palin spent more hours working last year on her job and not on her next job.

So who has the experience that we need today?

If you want bad ethics, look no further then Ted, leave his sex buddy over night underwater, Kennedy.   In regards to the scandal surrounding her firing someone for not firing her ex-brother in-law.  Good for her.  Her brother-in-law was suspended as a State Trooper because he used his taser on his son, abused his wife (Palins sister) and is now in a custody battle with Governor Palins sister.  The same trooper also threatened Governor Palins father.  Go Aunt, Sister, Daughter Sarah!

Yukon Dave

Santa Monica, CA

by David Alsabery (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 2 comments) on Sunday, Aug 31, 2008 at 1:03:29 PM

  (0+)

... anyone can repeat the soundbites of a campaign.

by Steven Leser (255 articles, 58 quicklinks, 38 diaries, 2147 comments [63 recommended, 2 rejected]) on Sunday, Aug 31, 2008 at 1:39:35 PM

  (0+)

Dave is fiction in case you did not know.  I think Kevin Kline played the actor and if you check and see-has played other roles...so it is not real.

Let me clear that up.

I am not comparing Palin to anyone other than herself and why I dislike her.  Who was talking about the Kennedys? 

I think her choice to have a baby after the golden age is reprehensible. I think trying to curry favor with good ole boys by holding up that which you have killed to eat (and killed with a gun...so not really a fair fight) is a disgusting display of "look at me". 

Just because her brother in law or whomever abused his spouse does not mean his rights as a father should be negated.  Further, you don't know if that is true or an allegation nor do I.

OH..by the by...Bill Clinton.  What he lacked in experience -I do believe he made up for in intelligence.  One of the three highest IQs of the presidents.  In the company of Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon (so both parties are covered there).  Literally, rose up from a dirt floor hovel...etc. etc. 

I don't find it charming or cutesy that she married her highschool sweetheart and that they had 5 kids...and did not have the last one until she was PAST THE TIME OF SAFETY FOR A CHILD. 

Like I said...keep it in your pants, get your tubes tied, abstain or have your spouse get a vasectomy.

To me -she represents an ego-maniacal person who...even with her already small amounts of power-has abused it.

By the way, I don't give a whatever's arse who is more feminine.  I know that Chelsea Clinton is squared away and a good kid...and that the Bush girls were wild children....but this is irrelevant.  As a matter of fact-your whole response is irrelevant to everything I wroter.

As Mr. Steven Leser commented: Anyone can give little sound bites. 

When is Ms. Palin going to have time, as the VP, to tend to the needs of the Down's child she so selfishly got impregnated with??????? 

by Alexis Knapp (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 19 comments) on Sunday, Aug 31, 2008 at 2:24:28 PM

  (0+)

Oh..I forgot...she also was in beauty pageants.  I wonder if there is ever going to be a Ms. America with Down's syndrome.

This is another reason to dislike her- to me beauty pageants represent one of the things that is so wrong with America and so sad about the girls/women in America. 

And please, no rhetoric about the scholarship aspect, etc, etc....the stepping stone bs.  Beauty Pageants put an emphasis on looks which is one of the most destructive things to do to females that are finding their own.

Sure, if you win and continue to win-that is one thing-but what about all of the sufferers of BDD and anorexia and bulimia, etc? 

She is a poor representative to my gender.

And if Hilary and Farraro and any democrat had been in a beauty pageant I would say the same exact thing.

This is not a political party thing.  So, before you, as you did before, bring all this ancillary stuff such as Ted Kennedy's sex buddy into it...btw-was he a vp....I must have missed that part of history channel.  Silly brainless woman I must be. 

by Alexis Knapp (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 19 comments) on Sunday, Aug 31, 2008 at 3:07:30 PM

  (0+)

Not only did you fail to discuss the topic of this article, your nice little presentation of Arkansas 1990 vs. Alaska 2008 conveniently omits how Palin's "experience" yielded little success in her first year as governor.  In 2007, Alaska had one of the highest rates of violent crime (per the FBI), some of the highest rates of homelessness and infant mortality (per the U.S. Census Bureau), and ranked no better than 26th and as low as 42nd in K-12 education rankings, despite being 8th in expenditure per pupil and 13th in teacher salaries.  It seems to me, if her first year as governor is any indication, that Palin didn't have the experience for that job either.

Oh, but your airport comparison is rich.  The only way in or out of Alaska is by air or by sea.  Ditto much travel within the state.  One would think that Alaska would have far fewer unemployed folks if all those airports were actually important enough to be staffed.  You are correct on the number of state-run airports, but again remiss in your disclosure.  Of those airports, 221 had fewer than 10,000 enplanements in 2007 and 132 had no enplanements at all last year (per the FAA.)  I was unable to learn how many of those airports have been built during Palin's administration, yet I doubt few if any, since she has been governor for such a short time.

BTW, good article, Alexis.  Not only did Palin exercise poor judgement in planning for what she should have known was a high-risk pregnancy, she is showing poor judgement now by wanting to take on a job unlike any other, one which will make hands-on motherhood virtually impossible.

by TennMom (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 21 comments) on Sunday, Aug 31, 2008 at 11:04:25 PM

  (0+)

You ought to be a paid researcher. Really.

I guarantee you that someone would employ you. All that just for a comment?

Send a line to your local Congressmen and Senators.  Tell 'em you'd be hell on wheels at opposition research.

by JC Garrett (40 articles, 65 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 604 comments [10 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Aug 31, 2008 at 11:35:13 PM

  (0+)

Alexis:

If I see a lot of people reading your article who agree with your opinion on this matter, I think I'll write a rebuttal, but I hope most people are more clear-thinking than you.

This reeks of intellectual dishonesty...

by Armon Pacetti (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 21 comments) on Sunday, Aug 31, 2008 at 3:49:05 PM

  (0+)

Armon...looking forward to a rebuttal.  I am saying how I feel and think about a woman and that is my opinion.  You don't have to agree or disagree.

The biological facts -of having a child after age 36- speak for themselves.  I know that people are waiting longer, etc.; however that doesn't mean that evolution has caught up.

We still have wisdom teeth and we still have an appendix...and women are still starting their periods at-early...even earlier than my generation (so hmmm maybe going backwards) thus it is still a biological fact that the risks go up after age 36.  Some doctors would argue that the risks go up after 35. 

Yukon Dave made a point-that Palin was doing her job as Governor-while Obama, McCain, Biden and Hilary were working toward their other job. 

Did he mean her job as a governor or a parent.  I think it was the former and not the latter. 

So rebut on...let me know so I can go read it.

BTW...I really don't care if you think that I think clearly.  I know that I do.

by Alexis Knapp (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 19 comments) on Sunday, Aug 31, 2008 at 6:09:12 PM

  (0+)

Am looking for anything you may have written in the past but can't find it...can you give me a hint?

Just want to see what I am "in for" when you write your rebuttal about how intellectually dishonest I am being. 

Are you a male or a female.  I am curious because I hope you don't try to speak about female experiences with regard to beauty pageants, etc. if you are a male.  That would be intellectually dishonest.

I doubt that though.  I bet you are a Rhodes Scholar.

By the way...back to the guy that likes the movie Dave...I liked it, too, but we aren't talking about Hollywood.  I probably should not have been such a smart aleck with regard to it being fiction. 

I think ALL of the politicians have something dishonest about them.  For some it is insidious-for others...it is just crystal clear. 

I have written anti -Obama article on this site, too.

This is why one should not assume that if I take a stance about /against one person-it is simply because of my political affiliations. 

If only it were that easy.

by Alexis Knapp (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 19 comments) on Sunday, Aug 31, 2008 at 6:23:43 PM

  (0+)

The real problem is the beer!  Remember that idea of voting for someone you could have a beer with???  Well Ms. P would qualify with at least 40% of the population. 

Now that's a problem.

by sometimes blinded (4 articles, 106 quicklinks, 14 diaries, 615 comments [51 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Sunday, Aug 31, 2008 at 6:49:11 PM

  (0+)

I don't see enought support for your article to bother...

by Armon Pacetti (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 21 comments) on Sunday, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:43:25 PM

  (0+)

I am going to just say that you are a coward.  'Tis easy to criticize from the sidelines and not participate in the discourse. 

I was so waiting for your brilliant rebuttal. 

And actually, not to toot my own horn...but my little article was just promoted to main headline on the site...  Yawn...maybe...but it is getting read. 

That is normally what authors desire- people to read what they write.

by Alexis Knapp (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 19 comments) on Sunday, Aug 31, 2008 at 8:33:27 PM

  (0+)

A McCain Coup Barack Obama wants the American people to send him to the White House for on-the-job training as their next president. And there are those who will argue that his inexperience as a world leader will be supplanted by a myriad of advisors to guide him. I know that I do not want to do that. I know he will adhere to the worn out saying that "the buck stops here". In other words, he makes the call. There is no guarantee that it will be the right call despite all the advice, which he may just choose to ignore. Obama's running mate, Joe Biden, has far more expertise in all areas of government, and a political history, all of which Obama lacks. Yet Biden is considered as the lesser candidate of the two. It is obvious that Biden was chosen to offset all that Obama lacks and to pacify those who see through Obama's inadequacies. John McCain pulled off a great coup when he named Sarah Palin as his running mate. Certainly a lot more palatable choice in the long run not only because there are those who say that McCain is so old that he could die in office but because Palin is known as a goal setter, hard worker, activist, and achiever. In my opinion, I would rather have Sarah Palin receive further political maturation and training for the Presidency as a Vice President than to have Obama receive his presidential training on-the-job where mistakes on his part could reverberate across oceans. There is a very strong likelihood that Obama will last four years if elected, and small chance that he could be impeached for errors of judgment, as was proven by ex-president Clinton. On a set of scales it now looks like the McCain-Palin ticket far outweighs the Obama-Biden ticket. All of a sudden what was a race between an under achiever and a lack luster politician has become very interesting. Leo Alvarez

by Jane LeMond-Alvarez (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 8 comments) on Sunday, Aug 31, 2008 at 10:35:26 PM

  (0+)

I must say that I am heartened when I read your reasoning. Because if most right-wingers think the way you do, the race is already won for Obama.

First, your description of the contest as a "race between an under achiever and a lack luster politician" is ridiculous. Obama is anything but an under-achiever. In fact, he's got the most impressive scholastic and professional records of any presidential candidate in modern history.

And "the buck stops here," while definitely meaning that the final decision will rest with him (as it should with any president), after thorough and scrupulous consideration of all the information and learned opinions of experts, it also means that he is willing to take responsibility for those decisions, whether it results in praise and adulation, or criticism and ridicule. He won't be pawning off responsibility for his failings and taking credit for other folks' accomplishments like little boy George has for the last 7 years.

Palin has no experience and, from what I can see, little judgment. She's not presidential material, and therefore not VP material when the guy she's running with is likely to kick the bucket any day. Could you even imagine a President Palin?

All McCain has shown me is a willingness to change every position he's ever had to get elected. The guy only met Palin ONE TIME before he called her up and gave her the news. And he's exactly the kind of economically inept, completely out of touch, famously ill-tempered hot-head that we don't need to have access to the little red button.

He'll push it just to see what it does.

by JC Garrett (40 articles, 65 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 604 comments [10 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Monday, Sep 1, 2008 at 12:00:44 AM

  (0+)

This woman gives me the creeps. She exhibits no charisma, no substance that I can see and I am repulsed by any woman who needs to pose with dead animals-having a much higher opinion of animals in most cases than I ever will of humans.

I am very put off by her politics-such as they are. She is very much involved in trying to stop the listing of polar bears as endangered species, even while they are swimming 400 miles to find solid ground. She seems determined to go after animals in all cases. And, ugh, mooseburgers, please. So much ego and empty braggadacio.

 I'm not going to comment on the child-bearing thing-other than to say that I  am an animal right activists, not a Catholic but a Buddhist, and have had a child from rape.I believe in abortion. I did not abort my child but I believe in it as I believe every woman should have province over her own body and NO ONE AND NOTHING ELSE should have anything to say about it.

 I have cats. I have worked with big cats-lions, tigers and have had a cougar. I have also been around wolves and I daresay that any animal lover out there is going to be nauseated by this silly woman and her beauty pageants and poses as the great white huntress. She belongs in a Tarzan film. Egad! What a vacancy.

McCain needed something to shore himself up with that might sway the Clinton fall-out and perhaps pick up some of the PUMAS. He can't speak. He has played his hero song and dance as far as he can and he couldn't take a chance on taking a man because Biden would tear him apart. As it is Biden can still eviscerate her.

 I see Palin as a shield for him. He's over his head. Even the GOP themselves don't want him. Bush and Cheney hate him and vice versa. He's trying to dodge that bullet with his  juggling of the convention schedule. He can't come close to Obama and his speech and the audience that he had. He's lucky to hide behind Gustav so he can cut things short in St. Paul. The guy is like watching paint dry. 

Stephen Colbert has a great thing going on his show. He asks his viewers to send in videos filling in the green screen behind McCain. It's called "Make McCain Interesting." What a blank page.

 Between the two of them-McCain and Palin-there's nothing. It's all been done in desperation. She seems to have some confusion too in regard to what she has or hasn't done. She supported Alaska's Ted Steven's Bridge to Nowhere and then said she didn't. It seems to be according to convenience what she believes in, if anything.

As far as I'm concerned, she is the bridge to nowhere.

by Raffie Azariel (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 61 comments [4 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Monday, Sep 1, 2008 at 12:06:02 AM

  (0+)

This woman is creepy in more ways than one, and it saddens me that a country once led by bright intellects like Jefferson, JFK or Bill Clinton  could someday have this uncouth, ignorant, bigotted person as POTUS. A person who, a few weeks before she got the nomination, said herself that she did not have the slighest idea of what a VP does.

This ''dumbification'' of American leadership is the direct result of the growing influence of fundamentalist christianism on American politics--this influence is destroying the very basis of the country, and Palin is a good example of that.

From what I read, she is a dominionist; Dominionists want to reclaim America for God, abolish the separation of Church and State, basis of all modern Western democracies, and institute a Christian theocracy. With people like her at the helm, we will back to the level of Iran in no time.

Read about dominionists here:

htpp://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/7235393/the_crusaders/

by francine (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 385 comments) on Monday, Sep 1, 2008 at 5:58:11 AM

  (0+)

I am pleased to wake up this morning to some comments that actually address what I wrote and not just some random insults.

I said I was against abortion in my column; however this was just with regard to myself.  I have and will continue to fight for any PERSON"S right to choose what they do with their body as I am of the belief that A) everyone is not me and B) some situations (and I have seen them) have the women choose between having an abortion or death.  I don't mean just death from the physical trials of labor-but from her parents.  That is a long story that I care not to conjure back up...but remember...I was born in 1962- and it still was conidered a big "stigma" to have a baby out of wedlock...especially if you were Catholic...which I was...and had 3 beautiful sisters...Just close your eyes and imagine...

Anyway, having said that, I like the other comments that educate ME more on her talking out of two sides of her mouth. 

I don't know that much about her.  As soon as I heard her name...I googled her and started reading stuff...but had a visceral dislike about her almost immediately.

Why "ain't she content just being Mrs. Alaska.

To the animal lover Raffie- I am also really turned off by that Iditarod thing.  I used to own a husky.  I know that they run and love it...but to me that was sort of a torture thing....My Sable (husky) enjoyed her years eating omelets and liver and salmon that I made her when I made it for myself.  She was "spoiled" to some...but she was a rescue dog and anything that I could do to make up for past heinous treatment was never too much.

When I got her..she was distant.  She actually became such a loving and cuddly dog...which "isn't their nature" according to books...but as the Beatles said "all you need is love" maybe that is true. 

Course where the Republican party is concerned...I am not feeling the love...are y'all???? 

by Alexis Knapp (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 19 comments) on Monday, Sep 1, 2008 at 7:35:12 AM

  (0+)

Alexis, Francine,

Alexis-I have read many articles visa vie the net about her and there are many who are very repulsed by this woman. It's like we dropped into 1950. Suddenly, a woman has not the rights to her own body.

I have been very involved with the feminist movement-and under another name-wrote a great deal of poetry about women's rights and the province of their own bodies, minds and souls because I have had far too many experiences with misogynists (which I believe McCain to be-and he is becoming more blatant about it.)

I used my experience of rape to write with and vault into a very constructive life as a counselor for young girls who wanted to turn to abortion. I can tell you that was quite an experience. I counseled one 12 year old who was attacked by her father.

I  had the child that resulted from my assault and he was born around 1970 so I can certainly understand what you are talking about. I had the good fortune to have a wonderful, open-minded mother and my father who is Fall River Portuguese Catholic was a great comfort. My mother never allowed any priests in the house and eventually she completely erased the Catholic influence on our household.

My experience with religion was that it was a brutal, macho and monstrous mechanism for control and nothing else. Praying to a cruel, vengeful, jealous and sadistic male god never entered my mind. I seem to have rejected the idea from birth. I also worked with victims of the abuse by priests later on. I have been bombarded by many religious sects-including Seventh Day, Lutherans (my mother was Swedish Lutheran), Mormons-you name it and I repelled them all. I believe in no entity because how can I.

I have been involved in animal rights long before I really understood their impact on my life. My mother rescued everything. We had baby birds, opossums, squirrels, a houseful of cats and started the first spay-neuter clinic in Fort Lauderdale when the first cat show there was set up. They (the breeders-whom we would do battle with for years) put us in the yard outside the auditorium.

We took on the researchers, vivisectionists, kill shelters-you name it. Friends of ours had a big cat rescue in the country with lions, tigers, panthers, and I happened to have a half tabby/half Florida panther named Sabra (I lost him in 2000-it was devastating)  in addition to several more cats.

My mother started the largest world-wide network of shelters and rescues and educational programmes around the world-before the internet. She was involved in everything. She painstakingly hand-wrote all her correspondence-even to Sweden and Tasmania. Needless to say-we rattled a few cages when we took on the breeders for their throw away litters-and there were many.

Later I would become special events coordinator with Iams (and I know the Iditerod and think it a crime-I worked with all the Iams dogs teams when I set up the large pet shows in Miami and Fort Lauderdale. And they were wonderful.) From there I would become Florida Director for Science Diet . I had fifty wonderful people in the state doing marketing for the company while I concentrated on nutrition and animal feeding. It was the most rewarding and fulfilling thing I could ever have done. I also had the great pleasure of working with a team of wolves from Palm Beach. They were exquisite. And here she is involved, this creepy woman, with the aerial hunts of Alaskan wolves. What is this woman? She is a horror like some kind of demon who has vowed to destroy all animals.

I understand completely about Sable. Funny how the names are so similar. Sabra. Sable. We took in an Abyssinian male, Cagney. I spent six months feeding him on my hands and knees in the closet because he was so brutalized. Another, Uzi, was so feral that when we took her in the house she nearly hung herself in some wiring trying to get away. Both of those had happy endings. As I said, I have a far higher opinion of animals then I ever will of people. All of our cats were rescues and we amassed quite a few.

Now I am a member of the Snow Leopard Trust and "Born Free" and we are working on stopping trafficking around the world of wildlife parts for medicines and various other ignorant circumstances. I have seen too much and I know too much to believe in some god that was never there.

Francine, this Dominionist thing-it is something I am very familiar with. My organization was looking into these people-they are very radical and imagine themselves to be on a mission from god. Wow! that explains a lot. And she thinks too, obviously, that she has full dominion over the animals. Well, I'll tell you-she doesn't. Anyone familiar with karma will probably be in for a surprise. Both McCain and his lies and manipulations and Palin are going to be found out for what they are.. Empty, vacuous and for my part-lacking soul. There seems to be nothing living there-no passion or connection to life. I think that is why they (especially Palin) think they can do what they do-wantonly but you cannot fool the Universe and that matter will be taken up with it. Of this, I have no doubt.

by Raffie Azariel (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 61 comments [4 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Monday, Sep 1, 2008 at 12:38:08 PM

  (0+)

Comment from Ratings:   This is an excellent article pointing out the value of life, and you are so "right-on." Too, there is a feeling of distaste about "hunters", killing poor animals when they do not need to, just a show of macho imaging.

by Lornadune (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 10 comments) on Monday, Sep 1, 2008 at 3:54:52 PM

  (0+)

When two parties are supported, propped up even, by the same corporate and banking elitists in a world in which we're fooled into believing we have two choices so we actually believe we have two choices these personality and character discussions become fascinating to someone who doesn't watch television.

Really, I stopped by because I'm simply taking a short break from real life and needed some momentary fiction. Carry on... 

by jeff prager (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 188 comments) on Monday, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:53:33 PM

  (0+)

I am so honored to be in the company of thinking people..and am really not being patronizing...(like McCain is by giving us dumb lil ole women a woman choice for VP)..har har.

We need people that promote lower animal rights.  I make sure to emphasis the lower animal...cause lest anyone forget...weez all animals.

The last comment I read is true...our choices, this election, are really scary indeed.  They are always scary.

My decision...although being anti abortion for self...will always be for the candidate of choice.  I believe that to be a fundamental human right what one does with his/her own body. 

My mother and I had a discussion, today, about this very thing...and she was quite surprised that I so felt this strongly.  I told her that if they ever did that "artificial placenta thing" where they would take the fetus out of a woman...and let it grow in that...you would see me on the steps of the supreme court fighting against it tooth and nail. 

She did not understand as she knows I am for LIFE...but I explained that the artifical placenta would require that a woman have a surgery (i.e. something done to her body without her permission) and while that would save the life...it goes against the grain of her fundamental right /CHOICE.

Even a lot of pro-choicers said they would be okay with the artificial placenta...so I am in the minority even though I personally oppose abortion for myself.  Go figure.

Obama and Biden-Pro choice...they get my vote.

As for the economy stupid (not y'all lol)...that will probably take years to repair.

As for the Iraq war (which am not for) probably resolve itself by 2012...cause no one wants that albatross 'round their neck.

Only a few handfuls of days and we will know how the world turns....YIKES. 

by Steven Leser (255 articles, 58 quicklinks, 38 diaries, 2147 comments [63 recommended, 2 rejected]) on Wednesday, Sep 3, 2008 at 2:07:41 PM

  (0+)