Just say no to political junk food

I have to set aside commenting on the ever fascinating theatre of politics for a while, as real life theatre responsibilities will be consuming all my time and attention for the next week or so. I'm not sure it is healthy to partake of a 24/7 non-stop diet of political junk food. It appears that the spinners of talking points and the pushers of partisan image over substance have succeeded in bringing the presidential race to yet another back and forth battle. I'm thinking it might be best to just ignore it all until the debates begin.

Who am I kidding? I'll be reading the blogs and the various news reports, but I am shutting down the cable news for awhile. I need to listen to some music and get some work done. Here's a little ditty by Green Day, going out to anybody considering voting for the McSame/Pale Person ticket:

Sarah Palin?

So how come the only female candidates we get are losers? Because I sure hope Palin helps sink the GOP ship this November. Even so, I still have to wonder how many cracks in the glass ceiling before we finally get a real break-through?

Palin sounds like my polar opposite (just check out the Vogue cover and it is made instantly clear) so I'm trying to figure out how McCain could possibly think she would attract women who voted for Hillary. Palin is anti-women's reproductive rights, doesn't believe in global warming, won't save polar bears, loves to shoot animals and eat them, is a former beauty queen, and looks like someone Tina Fey would have no problem playing on Saturday Night Live.

McCain tried to upstage Obama's brilliant speech from last night with this obvious pandering for ultra right votes while going after an aura daring forward thinking by putting up the first GOP VP candidate ever. However, the focus on McCain's choice of an inexperienced right wing zealot might get blown away by Hurricane Gustav come Monday, the first day of the GOP Convention. The talk will be all Gustav and Katrina and Republican inability to take care of this nation.

We hope the still suffering people of New Orleans are getting sufficient help to evacuate safely and in a timely manner. And that the repaired levees hold. And that no life is lost.