Change has come to my iPhone

Obama iPhone wallpaper from Gx5.

Here I Am: Vote!

I am at
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=38.942220,+-77.371752 Just performed my civic duty at Dogwood Elementary School. Chose to go electronic over paper (no surprise there). Seemed like a long wait to check off four items, but I believe it was worth it.

McCain invents time travel

Winning a debate that hasn't happened yet is pretty impressive. Congrats. Or should I say "Mission Accomplished!"

Palin's hacked email: irony or karma?

Poor Sarah Palin. She used Yahoo! rather than a gov't account to keep her email beyond Alaskan freedom of information laws. That in turn made her email more vulnerable to hackers who have now freed it to the Internet. Irony or karma? And now the Secret Service is trying to stuff that toothpaste back in the tube. Nice timing.

Note to self: beef up email password

Hackers broke into the Yahoo! email account Sarah Palin used for official government business. While I suspect her password was not nearly as strong as my more than 10-character, alphanumeric monster, I think I'll beef up my password nonetheless. Is 30 characters too long?

NoVA GOP to hold ethnic unity rally

NoVA Republicans, including George Allen, will hold a "unity" rally on Saturday to build up support from ethnic minorities. I might have to attend, if only to show my support for racial unity, as demonstrated by my marriage to my white VA-born wife. Maybe they'll put us on stage and encourage everyone to follow our example... except maybe for the part about us voting for Obama.

Offshore drilling I can support

The House passed a measure that allows off-shore oil drilling. Way, way off-shore oil drilling. As in twice the distance Republicans wanted, where no one wants to drill. Or as Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) put it: "The drill-nothing Congress has brought a bill that says drill almost nothing." I personally favor no off-shore drilling, but almost none is good too, particularly when provisions for renewables (and against oil) are included.

John McCain: Miracle Worker

Today, one of McCain's top advisers help up a Blackberry and said, "You're looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create." It's not so much the contention that McCain helped create the Blackberry (whereas Al Gore did sponsor the legislation that lead to the Internet), but the implication that McCain can create "miracles" that has me going WTF? And since when is the Blackberry a "miracle"? By that logic, Steve Jobs is the second coming of Jesus.

If you support the troops...

...be aware, the troops overseas support Obama with six times the money they give to McCain. Even Ron Paul, who stopped campaigning, is pulling in more donations from the troops than McCain.

I'd like to agree with McCain on this but...

Straight-talking John McCain hit the right sentiment when he said "In the 21st Century, nations don't invade other nations", but unfortunately, nations do still invade other nations in the 21st Century, like we did - TWICE.

McCain gets schooled by Paris Hilton

It's a sad day in American politics when a presidential candidate not only opens himself to ridicule by the nation's favorite "dumb blonde", but gets smacked by her more intelligent retort. McCain, next time you compare Obama to someone, try to pick someone who can't make you look like an ass.

As if I needed another reason...

 

McCain can't catch a break

John McCain, presidential candidate in favor of offshore oil drilling, cancelled a trip to Louisiana because it's hard to drum up support for offshore oil drilling at the site of an oil spill.

Obama nails the drawdown timetable

For all the accusations that Obama doesn't know foreign policy, the man never seems to get it wrong. It's official: the Iraqi government hopes U.S. troops can withdraw from Iraq in 2010, well within Obama's 16-month proposal. It's almost as if the man is already calling the shots.

Do they know he's not commander-in-chief yet?

The Pentagon is getting ready to shift forces to Afghanistan. I seem to recall Obama stating something to that effect a few days ago. Obama also previously stated he favored covert ops targeting al-Qaeda in Pakistan. The CIA successfully performed such an operation not long afterwards. That's weird, right?