My kids are younger than John McCain.
As many of you know from reading this blog, I have two year old twins at home (they actually turn two on Sunday!). Words cannot describe the joy of knowing that their first presidential election was one where intelligence won out over the ideology of the lowest common denominator, one where an overwhelming majority of people rose up and said “I don’t give a shit about having a beer with the guy - I want the smartest f*****g person I can find sitting in that chair!”, one where the mainstream media seemed to finally do their job, one where hope won out over fear (of the unknown and of the Rove), one where honesty seems to matter once again, and - most importantly - one where the seemingly impossible was proven possible. It’s truly an awe-inspiring moment that makes me beyond proud of my fellow citizens because, to paraphrase something I read today on jedreport, not only will I be able to tell my kids (and, hopefully, their kids!) what happened today but because they won’t understand why it was so significant.
I’m also proud of - and extremely grateful for - the outpouring of support this little blog (and the accompanying book - now a collector’s item!) has received. I don’t know if either made even a small bit of difference in the election (I’d like to think that at least some of the 600,000-odd unique visitors to the site came with one opinion and left with something new to think about), but I enjoyed just about every minute of it. I sincerely thank all of you who submitted tips, made comments, and emailed words of encouragement.
As far as what’s next, stay tuned… I have an idea for a follow-up that I hope to launch very soon. But, for right now, I’m gonna go wake up my kids and give them each a kiss.
Good night all. Congratulations.
PS: Age a bigger concern than race, polls say. (CNN)
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posted by admin at 2:51 pm
According to an NBC/WSJ poll (by way of AmericaBlog), Sarah Palin is now McCain’s biggest liability. Now, while this is clearly a statement about her complete lack of qualifications (and brains), it would matter less IF IT WASN’T FOR McCAIN’S ADVANCED AGE.
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posted by admin at 8:37 pm
In light of her most recent idiotic comment (”the Vice President controls the Senate”), and on the suggestion of Nigel and countless others, I ask everyone to sign this petition demanding that Sarah Palin take the Immigration and Naturalization Test to see if she possesses, at bare minimum, the same knowledge about the United States that we ask of our immigrants.
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posted by admin at 4:43 pm
Thanks to Ann for sharing this photo of her too-cute daughter!
(Want your own shirt? Get it here.)
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posted by admin at 8:43 am
“The Declaration of Independence.
The Constitution.
The Bill of Rights… including the Second Amendment, the right to own
and bear arms.
These are all things Obama is working to change or remove of our liberties.“
So begins a comment that someone posted on one of my videos over at YouTube.
The rest follows after the jump in case anyone wants to weigh in and try to follow this whackjob’s convoluted logic. (more…)
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posted by admin at 9:31 pm
Thanks to all those who entered… it was fun to see all the designs!
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posted by admin at 10:39 am
I can’t wait until this election is over and these people are forced to sit down and STFU.
Sign the petition to have her censured or click here to donate to her opponent’s campaign.
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posted by admin at 2:09 pm
posted by admin at 1:57 pm
Obama is going to be on the November issue of Men’s Health and, in the spirit of equal time, I think it’s only fitting that McCain be on there as well - so I’ll give a free copy of my book to the person who can dummy up the best looking cover… complete with McCain’s face in place of Obama’s and the “appropriate” cover lines.
Send your “work” to tipsATthingsyoungerthanmccainDOTcom with the words “Men’s Health” in the subject line.
Here’s a larger version of the file to work with.
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posted by admin at 3:57 pm
In about 10 minutes, I’m going to be on BlogTalkRadio with someone named Olivia Wilder. Here’s the info:
BlogTalkRadio
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posted by admin at 2:57 pm
I mean, seriously - how dare you?
Do you know that the Dow fell *another* 700 points today? Do you know that it’s down some 2,000 points (almost 20%) in merely five days? I’m no statistics expert and I don’t have nearly the resources as some others do to track down relevant data, but I can only imagine that this amounts to billions of dollars in lost savings in retirement accounts, a massive increase in our national debt, thousands of foreclosures, thousands of failed small businesses, a generation of kids who won’t get to go to college, and an impact on our economy and the health of our country that won’t be fully realized for years.
And where are you both during all this? Whipping your base into a xenophobic, racist frenzy and running ads about who Obama is “palling” around with.
Barack Obama could tongue-kiss Osama Bin Laden on the steps of the Supreme Court while standing on the American flag and he’d be more presidential than either of you.
You should be ashamed.
(To my readers: I’m sorry that this has nothing to do with age - again - but I needed to get it off my chest.)
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