For those who have access to an over-50 person who gets AARP magazine--Hubby joined when got a look at the discounts (he's much like my father, who was giddy at the idea of all the senior discounts he could get)--there's an interesting voter's guide. They put together position statements on various AARP issues and presented them to McCain and Obama with an option to mark Support/Do Not Support and to give a brief statement. I didn't read the statements, but McCain declined to mark Support/Do Not Support on anything, and Obama supported all of them except for one on which he didn't mark either. With Obama, you can think "Oh, he didn't want to say he doesn't support us," but at least you have to give him the benefit of the doubt that he must have thought about it rather than he forgot to check that one. McCain's dismissal of the Support/Do Not Support just smacks of "Here's my handout of doublespeak on these subjects."

We could probably rule by committee pretty well.

As long as we tabled all discussion of muffalettas, preferential voting, and serial commas upon taking office.

Talking how you hate your cow-orker the Vice President, wondering what Speaker Pelosi would look like in a corset, and complaining about how the White Chef chef puts cilantro in everything?

And that is funny because it is true.

muffalettas

yum..

We could probably rule by committee pretty well.

Um. Were you here for the first voting discussions?

"I've consulted with my Gang of Fourteen and we are in agreement: national F2F will be in Miami. Book early - rooms are going to be a bitch. Also: am not cowgirl. That is all."

I am actually picturing President Jesse speaking to Congress IN the cowgirl costume.

How quickly could President Jesse get Buffista academy up and running? This would be of national importance.

I am actually picturing President Jesse speaking to Congress IN the cowgirl costume.

Ditto

I am actually picturing President Jesse speaking to Congress IN the cowgirl costume.

It's because she's so real and folksy that the electorate connected with her. Who doesn't love a cowgirl?

I honestly don't think that Palin, when the votes are tallied, will have have garnered McCain any votes he didn't already have sewn up.

I agree in net terms. I do think there are, as my brother put it, agitated God-botherers who were sufficiently lukewarm on McCain to not vote for him, who will now vote for the ticket because he picked a cold-weather husky-whistle as his running mate; but as I understand it she's done at least as well in firing up lukewarm Democrats. And, frankly, the Dems were more lukewarm on Obama than the Repubs on McCain.

My natural tendency where it comes to the teams I support, both sports and politics, is pessimism. But gosh darn it, I'm daring to hope. Everything's pushing Obama's way. I expect McCain to decline slowly in the polls over the next month, and come election Day, I expect that the polls will have understated Obama's support. (Young people and minorities are harder to poll accurately).

I don't know that I would have done a better job than Bush, frankly, because I would have spent all my time avoiding work with you people!

Sir Humphrey Appleby calls it "Masterly inactivity".

Um. Were you here for the first voting discussions?

But we wouldn't have to work out voting rules for the U.S. Those are already in place. We'd just agree on how much they sucked, then cheerily go around subverting them.

President Jesse = ha ha ha!!

Um. Were you here for the first voting discussions?

Yeah, that was my initial reaction....

(Young people and minorities are harder to poll accurately).

I'm not that young, and many of my friends don't have landlines -- that's how they do polling, right?