$1.64. That’s the price of gas, when George W. Bush, an oil-man, took office. The question we need to be asking ourselves in terms of a McCain presidency is: how much are we willing to pay for beer?
I was, like most Americans, very confused by the choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be John McCain’s running mate. Liberal women weren’t going to vote for her both because her selection seemed like such a ham-handed grab for Hillary voters, and because of her anti-woman political positions. Conservative women would reject her because, as discussed while Hillary was in the running, they don’t think a woman should be president, and especially not one with young children. Doubly so for a woman with a special needs infant.
But then the news came out that her seventeen-year-old daughter is pregnant, and it all made sense. In fact, she will appeal to conservative women: if they too believe in abstinence-only education, they probably have pregnant teenage daughters of their own.
“On November 4th, we must stand up and say, ‘Eight is Enough.’”
Barrack Obama, deciding that his historic acceptance speech as the first African American presidential nominee for a major American party needed a reference to a thirty-year-old Dick Van Patten sitcom. I would have gone with something a teensy bit more current like, “…we must stand up and teach the Republicans the ‘Facts of Life.’”