Holy Moly!

It’s been quite a while, my friends.  I think it’s time for some catch up!

Life has been a total rollercoaster for the past few months.  I made a little Lifestyle Change, stopped eating fast food and started eating fruits and veggies with a vengeance.  I’m officially down 30 pounds!  A few weeks before the election we lost a student to violence, then lost another.  I can’t say that I ever want to attend another teenager’s wake again in my life.  It was all pretty gut wrenching and disturbing.

By the time the elections came around, I figured I had cried enough to last a few lifetimes.  Needless to say, I spent election night drinking wine and sobbing tears of joy, for a change.  Let’s hope that’s what we get.

Smug.

That’s the only way I can describe what I just saw at the RNC.  Sarah Palin may THINK she can convince middle America that she’s cool, feisty, and whatever…  Sorry, Sarah, I’m not chancing voting for a ticket that includes a candidate who banned books from public libraries, advocates pro-life in ALL circumstances (including rape and incest), and pushes abstinence only programs in public schools despite the fact that THAT education clearly didn’t work for HER children.

I just reviewed the following video to remind me what I’m pushing for:

Right Wing, Left Wing, Buffalo Wing

I’m still transfixed with the current political drama.

Ya know, at first I was interested in learning more about Sarah Palin, up until I learned about her Pro-Life stance. From that point on, I decided that I would NOT be voting for McCain under any circumstances. And to be completely honest, prior to that, I couldn’t help but kind of like the guy. I agreed with his perspective on pulling out of Iraq and leaving our soldiers high and dry. I liked his biography (minus the whole cheating on his first wife, who waited for him for 5 years while he was in a cell in Vietnam thing). I liked his ability to cross the aisle…and though I wasn’t exactly a Lieberman fan, I liked that McCain wanted to make the ballsy move of choosing him for VP.

But now? Now? There’s no way in HELL that I’ll jump party lines to offer any kind of support to yet ANOTHER Right wing Christian. Didn’t we all already learn the hard way that a leader who governs with a Bible instead of the effin’ Constitution gets us into some pretty murky places??

Palin’s church video makes Reverend Wright’s debacles look like a walk in the park.

Obama and Jesse

(I think) there’s truth in what Jesse was saying. Obama code switches, depending on the audience he’s speaking to. When the news covers him speaking to predominantly black voters, he breaks into a southern drawl, throws in a few double negatives, and makes cheap attempts at evoking some kind of evangelical preacher spirit. If he was smart, he’d stop worrying about convincing black America that he’s black, and start perfecting his Spanish.<p>Make no mistake, I’m voting for him, but I’m certainly not as smitten as I was when he first hit the scene.