This Island America

You know what's great about this semester? All of the time I am forcing myself to kill. My visits to campus are made into all day trips since I moved into my apartment. I get to come into the library to snag computers away from students registered under the name "Old Man River" and watch them seethe at me. They've got lectures to cross reference and research to do. Me? I'm talking shit to everyone in my fantasy football league and looking up answers to the USA Today cross-word puzzle clues. Anyone want to tell me what they mean by Barcelona Bear? That's all they're giving me to work with.

I liked Obama's pick for VP in Joe Biden. It's about time he started fighting fire with fire. "Old white guy, meet my old white guy." I didn't quite expect McCain to be doing the same thing. He almost made his selection like it was some kind of dare. "Obama thinks he's young and experienced? I'll show him," then viola, meet Sarah Palin. Both of our VP candidates are representing the two most boring states in the country, Delaware and Alaska. What sort of issues has Palin been settling up there and I mean her politics not her at home junk. Her down syndrome son and unmarried, pregnant teenage daughter are surely enough as it is. I also enjoy how their using her daughter's pregnancy as a pro-life stance. Good going, strategist.

Don't take this as purely anti-McCain/Palin material. I just don't know that much about Biden. Which either makes him boring or riddled with a dark past. I hope its the latter. Him and Obama would then know how to go through even when you're low. America does end up voting for anyone open about his drug use. Marion Barry wasn't even about it but he still got re-elected and Bill CLinton liked a little weed every now and again. But maybe America is done with people with substance abuse problems. Obama did smoke a lot of crack and Bush did do a lot of drinking and driving. That kind of substance abuse will get a man elected and then re-elected.

The McCain campaign is now boosting his leadership credentials. You know, because service time means so much to us. What with John Kerry getting shot at on a river boat in Vietnam. That sprung him into the...oh, wait. We've been given the war hero thing already and we didn't like it. Hey, Obama has never been to war just like Bush. So zero service time and prior substance abuse means odds on favorite. I'm liking Obama's chances.

Well, I'm getting daggers stared at me all over this place. I'm also guessing that by Barcelona Bear they mean the Barcelona Teddy Bear who would be Ted for short. Anyway, if you need saving, look no further then your next door savior.