Palin Backlash?

If McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin was intended to peel Hillary supporters away from Obama it may well backfire. If the Clintons weren’t fully on board with Obama they sure are now. There is no way that either Bill or Hillary wants an unknown like Palin (should McCain win) to be in the woman best positioned to be our first female President. The Clintons will fight like hell to preserve Hillary’s place as the #1 female contender. If there is a Democrat who knows how to beat a Republican, it’s Bill Clinton.

McCain’s Gamble

I know that conservatives are probably thrilled about McCain’s choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, but I honestly think the decision will lose McCain the election.

The best argument that McCain has against Obama is that he is too inexperienced to be President. Frankly, the only way McCain can win is to create enough doubt in voters’ minds about Obama. That strategy might have worked, but now it’s severely undercut by the selection of Sarah Palin.

McCain isn’t going to be able to use the inexperience argument very effectively when his running mate’s only experience is a stint as mayor and 1.5 years as Alaska Governor. If that wasn’t bad enough, she has no foreign policy credentials at all.

For a 72 year old hopeful President who has had cancer a couple of times, Sarah Palin in the “heartbeat away” seat is going to be a tough sell. Yes, a lousy pick didn’t cost George H.W. Bush the election in ‘88, but this is not the ‘88 election.

If McCain hopes to attract disaffected Hillary supporters with a woman he’s going to be sorely disappointed. If he just wanted to shake things up by nominating a woman, someone more credible and experienced like Kay Bailey Hutchison or Elizaeth Dole would have been a far better choice.

Proof of Bigfoot?

Ever since I saw a Bigfoot documentary as a kid way back in the ’70’s, I have wanted to be a believer in the creature. There’s too much circumstantial evidence, too many sightings for all of it to be a hoaxes, lies or cases of mistaken identity.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hhwCB7TKbWTNMtXT8I9EfKkgbgYQD92J605G0

Granted, there are plenty of pranksters out there, a lot of wackos in the Bigfoot community. The guys who recently claimed to have found a bigfoot corpse probably fit into that category. They don’t seem convincing at all. Maybe they’re after the $1,000,000 reward being offered by Field & Stream magazine. If so they have to be the dumbest people on the planet. Why would they attempt to pull off a hoax in this day and age when it would be so easy to disprove?

“Tax Trickery”

The GAO has just released a report indicating that a majority of corprations doing business in the U.S. pay no federal income taxes.

It’s fundamentally unfair that corporations are permitted to line their pockets at our expense and then not asked to pay their fair share. If they benefit from the infrastructure we put in place to serve the public good, then corporations ought to pay to support it.

To me this is just further evidence that we live in a plutocracy. Corporations, through their lobbyists fund our political campaigns. In return for this “investment” they receive preferential treatment from the government.

This is the kind of stuff that brings out the seething, wild-eyed leftist in me.

Washington’s Biggest Celebrity

I just saw Obama’s response to McCain’s stupid “celebrity” line of attack. Obama’s reply is much more effective than McCain’s clumsy smear ad because it employs actual footage of McCain the hypocrite enjoying his fame rather than using images of vacuous airheads who have nothing to do with his campaign.

I’m so glad to see a Democrat on the attack for once. Keep up the good work!