Sorry to do this to you, but there’s just too much amazing political stuff whizzing around out there for me to let it all fade into my memory.
There’s the exceptional Don’t Vote video that Lulu forwarded me (which Sarah Silverman hopes will go viral, “rampant… like herpes— but for… positive”) and another that Lulu found at boingboing.net about Palin’s brain:
Here’s one my second exhusband scooped me on. Matt Groening just gets more brilliant, unless he’s like Martha Stewart and claims the brilliance of his minions as his own, but I don’t choose to believe that.
And here is some more political commentary, this from the hands of the bearlike, growly Mark Bulwinkle:
I am aflutter over the performance of the senator from my native state tonight.
I don’t know how he managed to keep his composure when debating (if you can call it that) that rabid airhead — though his mic did catch a couple of deep sighs when Palin waxed particularly inane. I mean, really: There is only one man in this race who has really ever fought for you, and that’s Senator John McCain.
A couple times I nearly leapt out of my seat in joy over what Biden said, and since then I’ve been strolling around my house humming a little song I just made up: I’m from DELA-ware. Neener neener neeeener!
Sure, Biden overdid and underdid it a few times, but his observations like this particularly impressed me:
Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we’ve had probably in American history… The primary role of the vice president of the United States of America is to support the president of the United States of America… The Constitution is explicit.
The only authority the vice president has from the legislative standpoint is the vote, only when there is a tie vote. He has no authority relative to the Congress. The idea he’s part of the Legislative Branch is a bizarre notion invented by Cheney to aggrandize the power of a unitary executive and look where it has gotten us. It has been very dangerous.
I’m from Delaware, lala lala laaaaa la.
That’s the chorus running through my brain. But underneath is a drone so sinister it stops my breathing: What if McCain wins.
Michael just sent me a link to the most amazing audio: a word of wisdom from Doctor Ralph. You must check it out. I’m still trying to reattach my jaw to the rest of my face. It gives me hope, which, as we all know if we listen to campaign slogans, is what it’s all about.
Thank you, Michael!
White House photo by Paul Morse; from http://drralphstanley.com
