I've never laughed so hard

On MSNBC, Joe Watkins, a GOP strategist, explained the perils of letting "one of the most gifted speakers that the world has ever seen" speak to impressionable children.

What if next time, he asked, the president made a strong argument to kids [on a controversial topic]. . .
(from Maureen Dowd's editorial, "Less Spocky, more Rocky")

Good grief. Who comes up with this crap? Why is it the Dems and the GOP are so violently opposed to each other that they can't even pretend to get along? Why would anyone in their right mind oppose the President giving a back-to-school speech to schoolkids?

Would a president really be DUMB enough to think he could get away with injecting political malarkey in the middle of such a speech? Okay, maybe g-dub would've allowed such a thing, but most presidents have been smarter than that.

Of course, another outrageous Republican faux pas happened during the President's talk on health care reform the other night. "You lie!" Sen. Joe Wilson (R-SC) yelled. It's not fair to lump all Republicans into Wilson's category of idiotic, disrespectful people who ought to know better, but he definitely gave Republicans a black eye.

What we say among friends is one thing. . . Heaven knows I've bad-mouthed g-dub enough. But he was the President, and I do believe the office (and therefore the officeholder) deserves respect, at least in public arenas whether I like them or not.

Alive and well

I'm alive and well, back from the road trip to New Mexico, and I think I'm going to start writing again soon.