Beginning To Wonder

Cindy McCain is speaking at the RNC that night. Thank God for the Urban Dictionary. I had to look up "Tweaker".

What was Bush doing at a train station in Pakistan?

I want to say that I really, really don't care who Obama picks for his VP but I probably care more than I'd like to and my Don't-Care stance is most likely a protective stance against anticipated disappointment. Wesley Clark would have been a choice that pleased me, especially after the flap over his being-a-POW-doesn't-necessarily-qualify-one-to-be-President comments. I'd have been happy if Obama had announced him as VP the next day. But he didn't. It also looks like he won't be nominating Noam Chomsky or Jeremiah Wright either. Too bad. That would have spiced things up a bit for me! CW seems to be holding these days for Joe Biden. Yawn. TBogg puts the right words to how I feel about that. So, whatever. Just let it be November already.

Right. Sandy Underpants clarifies.

Above: Jeannette is in the midst of her final 6-month stint in the south of France and sent some pix of her latest work, which seems a fine way to start off a Monday post.

But, moving right along, how else to brighten up one's Monday than to make fun of John McTruthy and the wingnuts who love him. To begin with, I understand there was some kind of churchy thing over the weekend during which McPious told an adoring crowd this: To which my immediate response was: Too bad Republicans seem to think that such entitlement ends at birth. More on the event from Blue Texan in a deliciously-titled post ("McCain's Bushlike Moral Infantilism") here. Maha too of course. And Tbogg is in fine form with these two back-to-back posts on Senator McIntegrity. All in all, I'd say the old guy got a pretty right good and well-deserved thumping in the blogosphere (albeit not, of course, in the MSM) for his smarmy performance. As for Obama, what the heck. I sort of wish he didn't feel the need to pander to these folks but if he does, he does and he might as well do a decent job of it which, by most accounts he seems to have done. Whatever.

In other news, the rascals over at SadlyNo have been having a whale of a time making fun of one Amy Alkon and this post has to be the pinnacle of that effort, and the comment thread had me busting a gut this morning. I'm still recovering.

Does anyone find this statement surprising? Has he not been doing this all his life?

I was going to point to the hilarious spectacle that McCain is making of himself over the Georgia situation (I mean, really. Foreign policy is supposed to be his strong suit??) but Maha covered it for me.

Crooks and Liars points us to this hilzoy post over at Obsidian Wings that is very interesting indeed. Dear God, let SOMEBODY in this administration be held accountable for SOMETHING!