Like the late rhetoritician Kurt Cobain, I'm all apologies today.
First apology: sorry for being AWOL of late. I was in Oklahoma for the weekend--and wow did I enjoy some surprising revelations from staunch Repubs who can't vote for Bush this time!--and now I'm in Boston. I can only hope last night's game bodes well for a certain Red Sox fan who wants to beat a Yankee. Because don't let the accent fool you: W is a Connecticut Yankee if ever there was one.
Second apology: sorry I always have to so mean to my fellow bloggers.
Now let me continue with the important work of being mean to a fellow blogger. William Mari: you really must acquire a set of criteria for judging politicians that does not involve family relations! George Bush is not your daddy, Laura's not your mom, and unless I am mistaken neither George Nethercutt nor Dick Cheney is your grandpa! Neither are any of these comparisons indicitive of the kind of serious judgment you accuse Sierra of lacking. To paraphrase Scripture, you're removing a speck from your sister's eye with a log in your own.
To your point, William... with America's young men and women fighting and dying in two faraway lands, can we stop worrying about who's grumpy, and who's maternal, avuncular, or vaguely aunt-like?
Because the "real news today" is this: people who are voting for Bush have a markedly fallacious understanding of important facts about both the world situation-- and Bush's policies!
A serious, scholarly analysis of numerous poll results proves--at least for those of us in the reality-based community--that something is seriously wrong in this country. It starts with the White House's willingness to distort, deny, or classify every fact they disagree with. And Fox News (whose viewers "also wouldn't pass a test on foreign affairs") and its ilk don't help. But somewhere along the way, We the People do our part to mess things up by concentrating on style and not substance.
Don't get me wrong--I'm probably a bigger fan of "Queer Eye" than any of you. But there is a time to be Carson Cressley and a time to be more like someone serious about the Big Issues. Someone like my new hero, Jon Stewart.
Who, by the way, resembles nobody I know. Seriously.
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