Day: September 21, 2008

10 Little Genevieves

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We were playing, I was singing, she was jumping.   And she understood the narrative, and acted upon it. I’ve heretofore found her to be somewhat selfish when playing.   Me Me Me its all about Me!   But today she was very aware of the inter-personal dynamics.

Me: “10 little Genevieves jumping on the bed, one fell down and bonked her head”

And she threw herself onto the bed.

Me: “Mommy called the docter and the doctor said”

G:: “No. Daddy!”

Ahem.

Me: “Daddy called the doctor and the doctor said”

G: “Faster!”

Repeat.

Palin and the Penis Vote

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Sarah Palin disgusts me.   She, herself, in her little podunk state of 670,000, is no big deal.   I’m sure she’s very nice, and there aren’t a lot of Rhodes scholars floating around The Last Frontier to compete with her.

No one will mention how she had a kid at an age that is terribly at risk for Downs syndrome, because that would be sexist.   No one mentions how she chose to do this while the governor of Alaska, or promptly withdrew from the kid to continue her career as an executive, or now has a 17-yr-old daughter living her own dysfunction.   What are your family values?   I won’t hold this against her, who among us will cast the first stone, I sacrifice my tinyHuman for my career too.

But the role she has agreed to play and her complicity in the dumbing down of American is pathetic, wontonly irresponsible; can a person embrace this and not hate themself?   I guess if you are not the reflcetive type, you could.   I don’t want the non-reflective type as President.   I would hope our country could produce better.

Her selection   by the Republicans goes beyond her capabilities, intelligence, or qualifications – of which she is painfully and obviously incredibly average.   Her inclusion on the ticket is about how she plays – cute! hot! spunky! energetic! She’s a pitbull hockey-mom! She’s a car salesman! She’s one of you! She’s a Fox News Anchor!

Intelligent people are revolted by this.   Say it with me: President Palin .   McCain will be the oldest elected President ever.   Odds are one in three that he will die in office.   Palin looks good in a suit, but do you want someone who has never really managed anything much bigger than Mesa, AZ (pop 447,541) to be one bad case of heart-attack-from-a-poledance away from being the most powerful person in the world?

Beckie was surprised how so many women are embracing her, embracing her aura and her persona.   She was surprised how many guys like her cause she’s doable.   Why does this surprise anyone?   This same idiocracy voted for Bush a 2nd time.   The problem with the Democrats is they catastrophically fail to realize how average most Americans are with their decision-making.   The Democrats blew the ’04 election with all of Kerry’s smart book-lernin’ and fancy talk, and they don’t strike me as having fundamentally embraced the lesson in that mistake.   I only hope peole will see in their dimness that things are not working, that they need to change, and that Obama is clearly smarter.