President-elect Barack Obama.I like the sound of that.
What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?
"Executive experience?"
How about creating and operating a campaign organization from scratch that is now the Gold Standard, and riding it all the way to the White House?
"Community organizer?"
Barack Obama is Harvard-educated, but it was those days organizing on the South Side of Chicago that served as his finishing school.
Where's Rudy Giuliani with his smug, Chiclet-toothed smile tonight?Where's the wheezing, slow-witted Fred Thompson?
And, jeez, what will FOX News do with all that tape of Rev. Wright, anyway?
(I've got a suggestion, but it involves a spread-eagled Sean Hannity and a plunger, so I think I'll pass.)
Senator McCain, I'm sure you love your country; I do, too.
That's why I'm glad you lost.
Still, I'll tip my hat to you tonight in recognition of your long public life while also acknowledging that the low road you chose ended in a ditch arrived at through your own faulty map and bad driving.
And Governor Palin? To say you were an embarrassment is the nicest thing I can offer in polite company.
I would love to vote for a qualified woman for high office someday, but I highly doubt my ballot will ever bear a mark anywhere near your name.
Let's revisit your smarmy convention speech. You got kudos for it, and I still don't know why.
I didn't see it in positive terms, and thought you were quite amateurish.
Dumbin' down for the crowd, huh?
I thought for a moment that I had stumbled upon an alternate, experimental director's cut of "Fargo" that Joel Coen made while hallucinating on bad '60's acid he got from Bill Ayers.
You were wrong, of course, when you said at that coming-out ball in St. Paul, "I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities."
A small-town mayor like you builds a hockey rink that sends her puny Podunk into debt, but does nothing to address its meth labs. Then it's on to an ethically-challenged governorship of a sparsely-populated oil-welfare state before being plucked from obscurity to be a cynical sidekick, playing only to a dying party's redneck base.
You can leave the Lower 48 now, Sarah. Your work here is done.
That's because President-elect Barack Obama's is just beginning.
President-elect Barack Obama.
Is this a great country, or what?
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