Prometheus 6

"...That's why I'll be watching the Republican nominating convention."

(...That's just a 'Sun Tzu' type thing to do!)

But that was a pretty deep article.

It pretty much encapsulates everything I've heard and read since Friday.

(...Amazing how much things can come together in the age of the 24 hour news cycle!)

A recurring theme around these parts that's usually never at a loss to ruminate over is the the rampant ignorance that runs through the American populace. The choice of Palin is definitely an attempt to appeal to that. What I think is also telling in the article is that a big part of Palin's rise in Alaska could also be attributed to that as well.

When I heard he had chosen Palin, I'm not going to lie, it freaked me out, because I remember when I saw the McCain commercial congratulating Obama last Thursday, I could swear he had the look of: 'The Cat Who ate the Canary!'

But it reinforced my opinion that I don't think McCain wants to be president. Or rather, I don't think he wants to be president with the economy being his number one priority.

I think his original goal was to be known as the president who 'Won the War.'

(...When the campaign season started, everything DID seem to be revolving around the war, but it's increasingly become more and more a peripheral item, ESPECIALLY with the advent of $4.00 a gallon gas!)

So now it seems as if his attitude is: "Screw It!"

(...If the country wants to vote him in as president, fine. He'll give them 'Bells and Whistles' and 'Bright and Shiny Things' as best he can muster, but he's not going to break his neck to do it!)

The choice of Palin seems to be a litmus test to see if the disillusioned Hillary advocates are so rabid in their discontent that they'd vote for a woman before their own self-interest.

(...It would be the equivalent of black people voting for Clarence Thomas solely because he was black. The supreme irony was that we never got to choose!)

It's not surprising that Alaska is a Republican majority. Although I've always heard how much Alaska is a great state for education for Africa-Americans,

(...Anchorage and Fairbanks I guess, would be the closest things to 'Chocolate Cities!')

But Eskimos AND African-Americans are out numbered, state wide anyway, somewhere around 3-1.

(...Whatever happened to the great Black Alaskan migration? History will recall that the 'Lamont Sanford' character in 'Sanford and Son' went to go work on the pipeline there and Gladys Knight starred in the Alaskan based movie 'Pipe Dreams')

So in some ways, it was a great pick, that is, if the ignorance of the country is as deep as he would want to believe, but if the collective I.Q. of the country can rise above it's natural biases, then I think it will be seen for the feeble attempt that it is.