I second Bill Richardson

I love the choice of Bill Richardson for every reason mentioned in this Denver Post Editorial. I don't understand why he doesn't have more buzz - I guess because he's Latino. But I love the idea, and I think it would go really well with Sen. Obama's message.

My first thought when I read that Gov. Richardson was holding two fundraisers for Sen. Clinton was that they were trying to make Gov. Richardson more acceptable to her die hard supporters. Wouldn't it be the perfect place to announce him as VP? I mean, nothing says UNITY more! I don't hear him mentioned at all, but I would love an Obama/Richardson ticket just as much as an Obama/Schweitzer ticket.

T. Boon Pickens is going to the bad place

From the NYTimes interview of T. Boone Pickens:

Would you ever vote for a Democratic candidate? No. I wouldn’t. I’m a Republican. I don’t want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.

Also in the interview is the reason he isn't going to the good place:

You helped re-elect Bush in ’04 when you gave $3 million to the Swift Boat campaign to discredit John Kerry’s Vietnam service. Do you regret your involvement? Why would I?

Because it’s such an ugly chapter in American political history. Oh, I see. Well, it was true. Everything that went into those ads was the truth.

Really? I thought it was all invented. I never did anything dishonest.

This is the truth.

Wow

I just saw Roger Simon on Crossfire claiming that "respectable reporters" pounded John McCain on his false claim about Sen. Obama canceling his troop visit. Do tell what channel these reporters were on?

More Obamacans

Just watched this video from Elkhart, Indiana's Truth newspaper. My favorite part was the woman waiting in line for her ninety-year-old mother, a life-long Republican, who wanted to check out Sen. Obama. Again, this is what happens when Democrats actually show up and talk to Republicans - they listen.

Hillary Clinton losing does not equal rape

It disgusts me to hear things like this from Clinton supporters:

I will not crawl back into bed with a party that raped me. I will not stay in an abusive relationship because I have no where else to go.

Um, no, your candidate lost. That's a little different than someone forcibly holding you down and sticking their penis or another object into you. People like this clearly don't know anyone who was raped, or they wouldn't be so casual about using it as a metaphor. I volunteered in a battered woman's shelter in college, and if these people ever interacted with women who went through abusive relationships, they would know what it was like. These are sick individuals who are so egotistical that they lack all sense of moral balance.

It's like when Rush Limbaugh refers to feminists as Femi-Nazis. When did feminists ever commit genocide - that would be never. When did the super-delegates and voters choosing Sen. Obama over Sen. Clinton become a violent, forcible act that completely demeans another person - that would be never.

VP Cheney

Even if the Republicans can try to hide the VICE PRESIDENT of the US in a closet during their convention, I'm sure the American people won't forget whose actually in charge of this country right now.

Dick Cheney, putting the DICK in the White House since 2000.

UPDATE: While I'm angry, this also stands out:

McCain's focus being almost exclusively on attracting independents and women to the polls, it's not a surprise that engaging Cheney isn't on the top of his list.

I wonder why it would HURT McCain's chances to be associated with the FELLOW REPUBLICANS in his PARTY, you know THE PARTY THAT RAN OUR COUNTRY INTO THE GROUND!

Harry Connick , Jr.

It's funny, I go entire months without mentioning Harry Connick, Jr., but today we spend the whole lunch period discussing him and other famous New Orleanians, and then low and behold... he's singing Happy Birthday to Sen. Obama.

PS I hope those staffers find his present soon!