Quote of the Day
“I felt so sorry for you when Bill had his affair,” the woman said. “I think the best way to overcome it is to become president.”
(source).
I’m fascinated by the “average voter”. It’s kind of like watching a slow motion train wreck… horrific, yet I can’t make myself turn away…
The Democratic primary fight
As only Monty Python can explain it:
3 AM Irony
Remember that infamous 3 AM red phone ad Clinton played right before the Texas primary?
It was wrong on a number of levels, not least of which because the person people want to answer that phone is McCain rather than Clinton. As it turns out, it’s also pretty ironic, because the girl sound asleep at 3 AM in that ad is actually an Obama supporter and precinct captain, and has shot her own ad for Obama:
Thus teaching the Clinton campaign an important lesson about the dangers of using stock footage.
This is the stuff history is made of
Obama’s speech yesterday, in full.
I didn’t have the chance to post this yesterday, because I’d wanted to say something more substantial than what was already being said about it. But since then I’ve come to the conclusion that I can’t say anything to either add or detract to it. I can only encourage others to listen to it - in its entirety - and show our fellow Americans that we really are as good, as mature, as intelligent as he believes us to be.