A lighter shade of Quayle

As I watch events unfold and flip back and forth between CNN and Fox news, I feel as though I am watching two different countries.

Fox bemoans the media for picking on poor poor pitiful Sara, and CNN accurately calls complete bullshit on her for her obvious lack of even a basic grasp of current events.

I have been personally fighting the urge to feel sorry for her, as I would of almost anyone who has obviously lost so much confidence in themselves in such a short time. But I got over that pretty quickly.

I haven't heard any comparisons to the first Bush's choice of VP, and it is surprising, because the intelligence level and more importantly, a disregard for intelligence, is eerily similar.

Sara Quaylin?

You heard it here first. My only hope is that the similarities end by Quayle being the only one of them to occupy the second highest office in the world.

And I sense that because of her recent interviews in which she comes off as more than mildly retarded and willfully ignorant, that this could never be possible, my next thought is:

That asshole Quayle did it! Holy fucking shit! Could it happen again?


For the brief moments that I can bear to watch the Bush Network, I fight the urge to go Elvis and take my pistol gripped shotgun and go to town on the 42" Visio for allowing this to happen.

As McCain takes off like a drooling madman back to Washington, and then darts wildly from allegedly urgent meeting to urgent meeting like an elderly John Wayne on crystal meth, I can't help but laugh at the spectacle of it all, and notice in contrast how cool,calm and goddamn presidential Obama comes off in comparison.

I know that those of us who have been smitten (yes, I said smitten) by Obama since he first arrived on the scene, have been accused by the old guard of having a blind hard on for the man, because of his charisma and charm.

Well, lordy, the man is filled with both of these things, but more importantly he maintains a firm intellectual grip on the important issues of the day, and an unavoidably obvious heavy dollop of soul and grace.

Some might find it a tad racist to label the first black candidate as soulful, but I couldn't disagree more. It is an unabashed compliment,and something that I only wished that this here white boy possessed more of. Soul is truly important and is something that should be strived for, and seldom seen in a political candidate.

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