What might have been…

It was tough watching Al Gore on Meet the Press yesterday. Here’s an incredibly intelligent, articulate, passionate individual who won the popular vote in 2000 yet had the election stolen from him by an anitiquated election process and Republican thievery. Our country, and the world, would be so much better of if he were president rather than the current halfwit-in-chief.  It’s a sad, sad story.

Double standards in the SCLM…

Someone please explain to me why it’s OK for republicans to routinely snuggle up the worst sort of racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-science religious leaders that the Christian right has to offer with nary a whimper from the press yet when an African-American dem candidate has ties to a rabble-rousing African-American with critical things to say about the country that’s a big issue.  I guess the lesson to learn is that bigotry is more of an American value than patriotic dissent. Pathetic…