Take a day off

I see where Obama The Charma is doing some community organizing.  He has asked that his followers take off on Election Day (to honor him, I suppose).  At least it would not result in a big loss of productivity, since approximately 40%* of his Kool-aid drinkers don't have a job, and another 42%* can't think for themselves well enough to be productive, anyway.

*Based on approximations provided by all the professional pollsters. 

Ted Stevens gives Alaska a Chance

It seems to me that the good people of Alaska can do us all a service.  To keep the Dimocrats from cashing in on this old creep's conviction, they should write in Sarah Palin to fill that seat.  If she wins that race and carries McCain to victory in the Presidential race, she could then appoint an appropriate person to fill the Senate seat.  If The Chosen One manages to buy/cheat/lie his way into the White House (will that now be considered a racist term?) she would go on to serve in the Senate.

Update:  Well, upon further digging, it seems that Alaska's laws do not allow what I suggested. They do have a process that could result in her getting elected, though!

A manufactured crisis?

When Vornado-mouth Biden made his brag/guarantee that a president Obama-the-One would be tested on the world stage within six months of his inauguration, every one assumed that it was just another of his self-defining gaffes.  Note that he also asserted that it would look as if they had made an incorrect response but that everyone should be cool and it would be revealed to us that the all-knowing, all-seeing, chosen one would have everything under control.

One has to wonder if there have already been meetings (without pre-conditions, one assumes) with one or two of their socialist friends to generate plans for a little bit of a "crisis" in order to establish the foreign policy bona-fides of the new administration.

Why do I think this is not only possible, but probable?  A couple of things lead me to it:

1. This was a compound-thought "gaffe" from a man who, although highly developed in the gaffe tradition, is not seemingly capable of stringing thoughts together without at least one of them being a fabrication.
2. These assertions did not sound like the usual Biden exaggeration.  They sounded more like a message to the base (see "bin Laden" for the approach and style).
3. How could he know what their response would be to a supposedly undefined "crisis" that, even assuming he is correct in his estimate of the timing, is six to nine months in the future?
   

 I may very well be wrong about this, but, frankly, it fits so well with the Obama philosophy and background that I just can't shake free of the nagging thought.