Just good clean fun

Super Obama World

How To Embezzle Clothes and Throw My Pregnant Teenage Daughter to the Media and Other Things I Learned From the GOP

It has been widely reported that our favorite moose-shootin' Governor is getting a potential $7M book deal. Is anyone else upset about this?

She can't string a coherent sentence together, but she is getting millions to write a book? About what? Does anyone really think she is a viable candidate for anything -- other than a reality tv show? She wants money and fame -- that's it. She was in beauty pageants and aspired to be a tv sportscaster - give her a show. Let her tell us how to dress a moose and shoot wolves from a plane as sport on The Outdoor Living Network. Let her parade her entire family out and use them to increase her fame. Why not? The conservatives will eat it up and think she's the best thing since Lazarus.

Ok - rant done...for now.


Tick tock -- aren't her 15 minutes up yet?

21st Century Leader

We all know now that Obama is a big ol' nerd, but his use of technology to get his message across is unparalleled. Here is his version of FDR's weekly fireside chats/radio address:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd8f9Zqap6U

The Romney Rules

Don't get me wrong. I never would have voted for him and I'm still pissed at the Mormon Church for its part in Prop 8 passing, but Mitt's advice regarding the Big 3 Bailout is pretty good.

Here is his NYT op-ed from today:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/opinion/19romney.html?em

As for my non-political dreams...

Here is "The List" (with visuals and in no particular order...)

People's newly declared "Sexiest Man Alive" - Hugh Jackman
I love that he's a big ol' show tune queen too!

















James McElvoy - just dreamy and with an accent!
He kind of looks like my ex-boyfriend Kevin, but with a smaller nose (hope he's not a jerk like him).











My hero - Smallville's Clark Kent: Tom Welling
Yummilicious.








And Becks. 'Nuff said.

Fierce!

I heard that the guys on SNL and JT did a version of Beyonce's "Single Ladies", but it isn't available online anymore.

This one is great -- Thanks Markwa!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ifGHUfR5Ks

Bye Bye

Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens LOST his re-election bid! This means Slick Sarah can't appoint herself to the Senate to replace him. Miss Thing will have to find another way in...

AG

I was reading an article by Glenn Greenwald at Salon about Eric Holder (if reports are correct) our soon-to-be Attorney General under the new Obama Administration (that felt really good to type!). Holder has "condemned Guantanamo as an 'international embarassment'...and proclaimed that 'the next president must move immediately to reclaim America's standing in the world'".*

Wow. That's refreshing.

Here's the money quote: "We owe the American people a reckoning."



*quotes taken from a speech he gave to the American Constitution Society last June -- courtesy of Digby.

Cabinet and staff

Biden, Emmanuel, Holder, Daschle...Clinton?

Lookin' good so far.

Go here

frequently...

change.gov

Sign it

please...

http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/s/prop8pledge

Recommended Reading #2

"The Post-American World" - by Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International and host of Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN

The book talks about "the rise of the rest" and how one (The One?) should govern in such a "new" and evolving world. I'm only on chapter 3 and feel smarter already.

Check out his website here for more info on his other books and articles.

deep quote

"He not busy being born is busy dying."
~Bob Dylan

(hat tip: Josh Marshall from TPM)

Gigi da Bear

On a non-political note...yes, I do have them.

My little Urlacher.

Ratified

Cartoon by Tom Toles from the Washington Post:

Codename: Sunshine

Well, that's me. Here are the (not-so) Secret Service codenames for the First Family-elect:

Barack = Renegade

Michelle = Renaissance

Malia = Radiance

Sasha = Rosebud

Slideshow

Some pics of my fav Obama...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/06/sasha-obama-see-how-shes_n_141678.html

not funny

well...

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/obama_win_causes_obsessive

More quotes

"The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself."
~late NY Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Also from Pat Moynihan:
"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts."


"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
~from Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861.

In case you missed it

Here's the entire Grant Park Obama rally in 3 minutes c/o The Chicago Tribune.
(They also have some great pics on their site.)

http://www.chicagotribune.com/video/?slug=chi-obamatimelapse081105-wn

Everywhere are signs

Check out #14 in this slideshow...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rebecca-shapiro/signs-on-election-day-pho_b_141135.html

It's a beautiful day

That's the U2 song that was playing as we left Grant Park last night...and today sure is. Sunny and cool -- a perfect autumn day in Chicago. I think I'm still in shock. The reality started to sink in as I finally got home and watched the late night coverage on CNN and MSNBC. Wow. History.

I highly recommend not standing in virtually the same spot for eight hours (hey Mr. President Elect, next time, could you rent out Soldier Field so we can sit?), but being in that crowd the moment CNN declared he had won was...amazing.

Walking up Michigan Avenue for blocks and blocks, seeing strangers high-fiving and chanting "Yes We Can" and "Yes We Did" was pretty f-ing cool. People even cheered a garbage truck that honked to get through.

After starting with the 'Na-na-na, hey-hey-hey goodbye" song usually sung at high school basketball games to the loser, the Chicago crowd was surprisingly gracious during Senator McCain's concession speech offering polite applause at all the right places. There was no love lost on Palin -- and one big cheer came when Liddie Dole was defeated in her Senate race (can negative campaigning really be dying?).

Seeing the crowd on the tv coverage put it in to perspective. I can't believe I was there.

Speechless

And so it starts...

voting has already begun in Dixville Notch.

Here we go.

And CNN calls it -- for the first time since 1968, Dixville Notch goes to a Democrat!! Obama wins 15 - 6.

Nice start.

One more day

Madelyn Dunham didn't make it to election day - Barack's grandmother "Toot" passed away in Hawaii this morning.

So sad.

Later dude!