Isn't it funny how the Democrat Party's female members can criticize Sarah Palin for running as McCain's VP?
The party for male/female equality wants to send her back to being barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen.  Why can't a women heed her country's call to duty...all it means is that her family must step up to help just as any man's family would.  I guess equality is all in the eye of the beholder.

Wow!  Sarah Palin...a gun totin', baby bearing, PTA Lady, Hockey Mom, Mayor, and Governor...wow!  Articulate and attractive...McCain...maverick...full of surprises!  I like the choice.  It seems the Liberal media does not know how to approach/attack her...so they have very little in print (at least here in AZ) about her.  I am sure the Obama campaign had attack ads waiting in the wings for a Romney or Pawlenty pick...this choice took the wind out of everyone's sails.  However, ignoring her (either while looking for something on her to attack or as a strategy is a poor idea...because shouldn't CHANGE compare and CONTRAST the CHOICES available?)  The Left's silence is deafening!  Hurrah for Palin!  Perhaps the Obama campaign thinks that the less said about her leaves her as an unknown quantity creating fear and therefore one should support Obama....as if we know him...he lacks specificity in his speeches about his grandiose plans.   He refuses to address the Ayres connection and the fact he sat in the pews for 20 years listening to the Rev. Wright.  Character does matter...and what does this say about his character and his wife's as well as their belief system.  Any white candidate attending a church with an extremist viewpoint would be annihilated by the press...Obama and his family get a pass? 

Why didn't Hillary mention she was a proud wife, as well as Mother, daughter, Senator?  She delivered her speech well.  This speech was about her as a woman and her place in history...as though one upping her husband's presidential legacy.  (He will always have Monica.)  Unable to get her party's nomination, Hillary was driven to create her place in history by being a former First Lady turned Senator, and now with an historic attempt at a presidential run.  Wonder what Bill is going to say.

I find it curious how many people can bash this country...completely ignoring all  the good we do around the world.

What other country has hosted the Olympic games multiple times and has had athletes standing in line to defect to the USA?   I would wager that will not be the case in China.

Count your blessings...even when times are tough.  Paraphrasing Dr. Schuller with the Crystal Cathedral..."Tough times never last, but tough people do."

A final thought for today...I had a button some years back that said:
 
"Remember,  the word American ends in I can."