Furibundum

I was watching this video today, two young ladies from Alaska being interviewed about their thoughts on Sarah Palin. I'm not an idiot, I'm aware one can no doubt also find some big Palin fans out there explaining how much she rocks, but I thought a couple of the comments from these gals were mostly just entertaining for me. Because I'm admittedly biased, of course. Anyway, with all of the hype about Sarah being the country's "most popular governor" in forever apparently, and a main reason why she was selected by McCain in the first place (that and also that she has the boobies, of course) when asked about the reasons she was so popular the answer from young lady number one, " It's honestly because the governor before her, Murkowski, was a corrupt slimebag ... there's no reason to think that she's a good governor because she has high popularity. Alaskans have very low standards for their politicians ." I thought that was funny. And then ...

All right, I know I said I was sick of all the media veepstakes speculation and ramblings. But I did hear this evening that apparently Obama is on the verge of announcing his pick! Very excited about that for some reason. If nothing else, it should cut at least in half all the veep chatter, but mostly I just really need to know. From what I heard anyway, he arrived at his choice last week while getting leied in Hawaii. Apparently the chosen one is still oblivious, however, so I suppose I'll most likely have to wait to find out until after Barack's people have called whoever the other's people, but I do hope they make that connection sooner rather than later. I don't know why this pleases me so. I think mostly because I've been holding off on a bumper sticker until I can get one with both mates' names. I felt like such a loser driving around town with my John Kerry solo sticker back when, what with everyone else sporting the later Kerry-Edwards printing. I coul...