So I really wanted to respond to Brenda Elfgirl's response that we should all listen to the RNC so we'd be able to "debate" with Republicans and to not live in our bubble, blueish world, but all I can say is whatever (sorry, Brenda). I know what they're going to say and I know it's all lies and I know the press isn't going to do a damn thing to call them on anything ("hey, we're compassionate, except if you're gay and we love the military unless you run against us!"). Once again, the problem we Dems have is that we want to "debate" the issues, the Republicans just want to kick our ass.

Once again I flipped onto the RNC just long enough to get that icky, queesy feeling. Everyone's favorite drunken twins (as opposed to everyone's favorite coke-whored anexoric twins) came out to introduce their Stepford Wife of a mother. First of all, Jenna's not looking so hot these days. It's like part of her head's expanded and flattened while part of her head's gotten skinnier. She's looking like cartoon Ken Griffey on "the Simpsons." Anyways, so they come out, like a bunch of dumb-ass teens at TRL Live (I'm liking the Kerry daughters much more) and give a speech. First they make a bunch of jokes about how unhip their Grandmother, the drag queen of an ex-First Lady, Barbara Bush is. 'Cause you know, Republicans are just so hip. And to prove it, they make some joke about their Grandmother not knowing what "Sex in the City" is all about. All this in a convention mainly filled with born-again Evangelicals who'd probably give half of their pension funds to Pat Robertson in horror if they ever stumbled upon reruns of that show. God only knows what would happen if, say, Vanessa Kerry made the same crack at the DNC. But remember, folks, the Republicans think we're all idiots.

Anyways, I'm just ranting all-political wise because Slate had a great column today about the GOP story-line that Smirkboy showed real strength and courage after 9/11. And how did he show such strength and courage? Basically just by showing up (which, as Woody Allen said, is 90%) of life. Okay, yes, Bush gave a great speech to congress after 9/11 and he did good up there in the rubble with the bullhorn (truth is Kerry would have said something like "the whole world hears you if they watch the news or have a TV and are paying attention to what's going on here"). But isn't that what the President has to do? Are we basically just praising him for not freaking out? Or at least, not freaking out when the cameras weren't on and he wasn't in front of school kids? And all this going on while his cronies are slamming somebody who actually did fight in a war.

Wake up, white people, wake up.