Really: this is simply what happens when you're put on bed rest, people. You have nothing to do except watch TV (avoiding FOX News at all costs), read what angry Democrats have to say on Huffingtonpost.com (which seems to be getting more and more frantic as Nov. 4 gets closer...to the point where I can really only visit one time a day--they're starting to give me an upset stomach), then go balance that out by reading what the angry Republican mommies have to say about it on the "Election 2008: What's best for our kids?" forum over at Parents.com (is it bad if I admit to giggling out loud, and with great irony, at the incredibly misspelled, poorly punctuated, and bad grammar posts by the mommies who think it should be "Palin * McCain 2008" and go on and on about how giftedly smart Sarah is? Seriously? Have they SEEN the Charlie Gibson/Katie Couric interviews. Not to mention Sarah's "Yay! I was cleared of all wrong doing!" comments about the report which...found...she behaved...unethically. While governing Alaska.).
Bed rest is also a great time to really wonder how very smart you actually are when you can't even complete the crossword puzzle in this week's People magazine. I mean, obviously, we all have our Achilles heels: Sarah's is forming coherent, logical sentences...Amy's is figuring out which actor who has 7 letters in her last name co-starred with actress Jolie in 1999's GIRL INTERRUPTED.
See? Bed rest just SOUNDS glamorous.
Attacks and smear political campaigns. Factcheck.org says both Obama and McCain do it, and it's sad but true: this has been a major problem facing American politics for centuries now. See below:
Also, am I going to hell if I find most of what's written in Dickipedia funny?
Like this entry about Sarah Palin? And, just to be fair and balanced, this entry about Joe Biden.
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Wow, Amy. I linked off of your blog to read some Dikipedia, and I got LOST there!! I'd seen it before, but hadn't seen the Palin piece. Golden.
And yes, Ray is a bit hot. I had already seen the video w/ Damien Rice (also fond of his music). This new cd is quite good.
:-)
I love these old political ads! Thanks for posting them. It's simultaneously sad and reassuring to remember that the mudslinging is not new, but I love to see how it's been done in the past. Poor Marilyn...
One thing we agree on- Sarah. Oh sarah. Have you seen this book?
http://www.amazon.com/THINGS-McCain-DIDNT-ABOUT-SARAH/dp/B001GIWLDE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224181944&sr=8-1
Anyway-- I laughed and laughed at dickipedia.
Did you know your mom is waivering on who to vote for now? See- she does listen to you.
Erin: I got lost for a couple of hours in that place too! My favorite part of Sarah's entry goes:
"On August 29, 2008, Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain performed perhaps the greatest political mindfuck in American history by announcing that he had chosen Sarah Palin as his running mate. Palin celebrated by ovulating."
Politics can be annoying...but not if you have a sense o' humour (as the Irish would say).
Fun!
Sara: those posters are from one of my other bed rest distractions: www.236.com. They're politics, only funnier. They make me laugh and LAUGH. Sometimes, right out loud.
My favorite one of the posters is the Thomas Jefferson one. It's my bathroom/sophomoric humor coming out.
Michele: I have not seen that book--I'd buy it, but I'm not supposed to spend aaaanymore $$ at amazon.com (or Barnes and Noble) until the end of the month. (But nobody said ANYTHING about Borders!) :-P
In Sarah's next life, she'll come back as a wolf, in Alaska. I just know it.
I sent my mom over to snopes.com and factcheck.org to calm her fears about the Muslim, Kenya connection. And then my secret boyfriend Barack added to his economic plan that he'd give tax breaks to businesses that create jobs in the USA and not overseas. I bet that's why she's reconsidering now...dang furuners, stealing jobs from Amerkins. Can't even speak English right.
Now I'll write him and suggest he say something about how all illegal immigrants stealing from senior citizens will be rounded up and THROWN back over the border, quite forcibly.
She'll vote Obama/Biden on Nov. 4.
:-)
If the path to hell is paved with Dickipedia entries, I'm all in. HI-larious.
don't feel bad about the crossword. I though it was Winona, untill I learned to count about 5.
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