Nerve.com is having a Photoshop contest with the theme “pitbull with lipstick”. This was created by their “design geeks”.

Quite frankly, Palin’s joke was an insult to pit bulls.

Here’s another joke:

What’s the difference between Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney? Lipstick.

I’m watching “Meet the Press” right now – Joe Biden is being questioned by Tom Brokaw. I see now why Sarah Palin is not doing these shows – she wouldn’t be able to answer any of the questions. It’s amazing how much Senator Biden knows about Iraq and the Middle East.

I also saw a brief clip of Bill O’Reilly interviewing Barack Obama. I have to give Obama a lot of credit being interviewed by Bill. I will be going back and watching the entire interview. Personally, I wouldn’t have given Bill O’Reilly the time of day – he’s certainly no journalist – he’s just a mouthpiece of the Republican Party.

You know this is so unfair – Tom is asking Joe about domestic issues now. Where the hell is Sarah Palin?! Why isn’t she out there answering these same questions?!

There are only about 60 days left until the election – and the Republicans are telling us that they are not yet ready to allow Palin to answer any questions?

If you’re not mad as hell, then you’re not paying attention.

It’s been a few days since my last posting on this blog. I was waiting for Sarah Palin’s first real interview to take place – apparently, the McCain campaign is keeping her under tight wrap. Hmmm…methinks the campaign is afraid of what she might say in an unscripted moment. I also read recently that Charlie Gibson might have been given the first opportunity to conduct an interview – how Republican! Give the interview to one of your soldiers.

Ladies and gentleman, forgive the cliche, but Sarah Palin is literally a “heartbeat away from the Presidency”. John McCain is 72 – he likes to parade around his 95 year old mother – but everyone knows women live longer than men. Papa McCain died at age 70 of natural causes. So, if John McCain wins the election, there is a very real chance that he would die in office and Sarah Palin would be our next President.

So, to those of you supporting McCain – think very carefully about this election – if he wins, the odds are that Palin will become President. In your heart, is this really what you want?

As soon as Palin has her first real interview, check back here for my comments.

It’s a real shame when a comedy show does better journalism than ABC, NBC, NYTimes, Washington Post, etc.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/sitewide/video_player/view/default/swf.jhtml

From the NYTimes:

Running Against Themselves

Three days into the Republican National Convention, it is clear that the G.O.P. has settled on a message: “Washington is not working.” The phrase is included in virtually every speech and every statement in St Paul.

We agree completely that Washington is in desperate need of renewal and reform. We’re not even going to quibble about the fact that Barack Obama said it first. The problem is that American voters have yet to hear — from John McCain or his warm-up acts — any serious ideas on what, exactly, is wrong with Washington, apart from the fact that a Democrat might win the White House, never mind how to truly fix it.

The difficulty for the Republican ticket in talking about change and reform and acting like insurgents is that they have been running Washington — the White House and Congress — for most of the last eight years.

Sarah Palin, the vice presidential nominee, was a combative and witty relief at a torpid convention. But it was bizarre hearing the running mate of a 26-year veteran of Congress, a woman who was picked to placate the right-wing elite, mocking “the permanent political establishment in Washington.”

And we couldn’t imagine what Mitt Romney was thinking when he denounced “liberal Washington” and then, at the convention of the party that brought you unimpeded presidential spying, declared: “It’s time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother!”

As hard as he tries, Mr. McCain cannot escape the burdensome shadow of President Bush because his policies offer no real change. On the all-important issue of the economy, Mr. McCain has no prescription for ending the mortgage-driven crisis or for fixing the huge fiscal problems Mr. Bush has bequeathed the nation. He wants to make even deeper cuts in corporate taxes, eliminate the alternative minimum income tax and make permanent the Bush tax cuts that vastly favor the wealthy and that he once correctly opposed.

His only idea for balancing the budget seems to be controlling earmarks, which Republicans now denounce with the sort of single-minded fervor they used to reserve for Democratic-appointed judges.

Permanently extending the tax cuts would reduce tax revenue by $1 trillion over four years. If Mr. McCain eliminated every earmark (including money for the gas pipeline that Ms. Palin wants to build in Alaska), the savings would total about $18 billion a year. He hasn’t offered any idea of where he’ll get the rest of the money.

He has not explained how he plans to rein in out-of-control financial firms and avoid a repeat of the mortgage disaster. Mr. Bush’s ideological opposition to sound government regulation is in large measure to blame for the economic crisis, but when Mr. McCain talks about fixing Washington, that subject never comes up.

Mr. McCain also has yet to explain to voters how he intends to go on paying for the war in Iraq — and also fix a dangerously stretched and overburdened military. Mr. McCain talks about energy independence. But his primary solution is not a solution: drilling and more drilling.

Mr. McCain says he is the candidate who will better protect the country from terrorism. But about all he has to offer is his pledge to continue the war in Iraq. We have yet to hear an explanation for how he plans to do that while also salvaging the war in Afghanistan — the real front line in the war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

Now that everyone agrees that Washington needs fixing, we hope Mr. McCain will offer more than partisan boilerplate when he addresses the convention on Thursday night.

I find it interesting that the McCain election party would declare that the children of the candidates should be off limits.

“Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?
Because her father is Janet Reno.”

Joke made by John McCain at a June 1998 Republican fundraiser. See how NYTimes columnist Maureen Dowd’s responded.

Dear readers,

I had written and posted a blog about current political events. After posting I was so proud of myself that I text messaged my editor to read the post. Shortly after, my editor called me and requested that I remove my post. I explained that my post was intended to point out the hypocrosy of it all (abstinence-only sex education and sacrificing teenage pregnant daughters for political ambition) – however, my editor advised me to wait it out a few days to see how things play out. Although, I disagree, I do respect my editor and will give her the benefit of the doubt.

So, dear readers, I am sorry for not having a current post for you to read. I will endeavor to correct this within the next day or so.

The picture of Peanut? Well, she’s cute and makes me smile.

Thanks for your patience.