A relatively slow day today — or, perhaps, I just spent less tie obsessively riffling through sites.
It’s always fun to start with Gov. Palin, who is shaping up more and more to be a worthy successor to the Naval Observatory, starting off by playing the same “I’ll be part of whichever branch of government provides me the greater advantage at the moment” game as VP “I’m legislative, so I don’t have to turn over my notes; I’m executive, so you have to do what I say” Dick Cheney.
But for all of that, Palin’s not moving away from her roots — she started this campaign claiming to have killed the “Bridge to Nowhere,” and no matter how many times its demonstrated that’s a lie, she just keeps on saying it. Gotta admire that kind of spunk. And she remains focused on stuff that was taking up her time before her appearance on the national stage — like continuing to deny that she booted the head of the state troopers for not firing her sister’s ex, all the while arguing repeatedly how reasonable it was to have wanted said ex fired.
On the McCain side of the ticket, the Senator has finally realized (now that he’s got his story straight on why he muffed the question of who’s the Prime Minister of Spain) that claiming the economy is really strong-strong-strong wasn’t playing all that well, so he’s managed (over the course of a couple of hours) to turn a complete 180 and now claims that the economy is weak-threatened-hurting. Doubtless he’s getting advice on this from campaign co-chair Phil Gramm, who knows all about how to regulate the collapsing banking industry, due to his having masterminded much of said industry’s deregulation as head of the Senate Banking Committee. Good to have inside advice!
Speaking of staying inside, still-President Bush’s press secretary indicated that Dubya is laying low largely because he doesn’t want to “distract” from the presidential campaign going on. Of course, some think it’s because he realizes that every time he opens his mouth, it hurts McCain. Which might have been fun eight years ago, but is now Officially Frowned Upon.
I don’t have much to say re Obama today, aside from noting my disappointment on his weak, go-slow attitude on gays in the military and the Defense of Marriage Act. Yeah, it’s probably the politically pragmatic thing to do, but it still disappointing.
On the other hand, he’s got a nifty bumper sticker collection.
So it goes.