desertvixen | Politics Can Be Amusing

This one made me laugh because it was quite true. Not posting the whole thing, just the bit that made me laugh.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26508994/

WASHINGTON - Is it just me, or is this the most bizarre presidential
campaign in modern American history?

Eighteen months ago, John McCain was the front-runner for the Republican
nomination. Fourteen months ago he was toast. Seven months later he was
the presumptive nominee.

On the Democratic side, Hillary Rodham Clinton was the front-runner
before being deposed in Iowa and resurrected in New Hampshire, only to
lose a marathon by a nose. A guy no one ever heard of five years ago is
now the Democratic nominee for president, and a woman very few members
of the Republican establishment have met is McCain's running mate. And
that's leaving out all the soap opera twists, turns and rumors of the
past 48 hours.

Then, to cap it off, a hurricane hits Louisiana again, almost
precisely on the third anniversary of Katrina, the event that marked the
beginning of the Bush administration's downward political spiral.

Let's face it: If this were a political novel, we all would have put it
down after the third chapter for being too far-fetched.

The jury is, and will remain, out on McCain's selection of Alaska Gov.
Sarah Palin to be his running mate. It's either brilliant or insane.
There isn't much room in between. A narrative storyline is going to
develop in the media. It will be either that she is the fascinating,
offbeat, not-off-the-rack maverick female governor from a very curious
place that reinforces McCain's change-and-reform message and resonates
with suburban mothers with children at home; or that her selection was a
half-baked, cynical move by McCain that, while "outside the box,"
probably should have been left in the box and never opened.

DV