huda kazi in the big city

Dear Sarah Palin,

I am not a fifteen year old boy. I am also not a twenty-five year old man, or a forty-year old man, or a sixty-two year old man, or a man of any kind. Please stop winking at me. Please stop using words like “ya” and dropping your g’s and generally behaving like a high school cheerleader cozying up to the captain of the football team.

If you want to be taken seriously, act like a professional. Otherwise, get off the stage. This is an embarrassment to real, dedicated women everywhere.

–Huda

P.S. Also, if you could please maybe answer the question that is asked at some point, that would be lovely. (See? I can be feminine too.)

I know it’s not John McCain’s campaign sending out the DVDs. But… it’s also not John McCain telling anyone to stop.

I know it’s not John McCain’s campaign piping a “chemical irritant” into a room full of children who were waiting for their mothers to finish their taraweeh prayer. But… it’s also not John McCain being outraged that something like this could happen.

They’re acting on his behalf. He needs to take a stand. The fact that he doesn’t reinforces yet again why I plan to vote for the other guy.

Sarah Palin’s myth of America.

I thought it was an incredibly well-done column. Klein’s really been raising the bar these days — something must have him pretty motivated.

Also, yes, ANOTHER new design. I’m trying it out. It needs some tweaking (because my goodness is it monochromatic), but I don’t know if I will get to that until October. In the meantime, please don’t mind the bugs and wonkiness.

So sayeth the CNN story. It seems Ted Kennedy is confusing Barack Obama with Luke Skywalker.

Still no real post, but if you follow the links, there are actual words, and some of them are funny:

What does Hillary want?

and

Things Younger than Republican Presidential candidate (oh, and did I forget to mention war hero?) John McCain

And I do not appear to be the only one.

For the love of all that is holy, woman, quit already. Also, Pennsylvania voters who “knew” Obama would win the nomination but decided to vote for Hillary anyway… why? Why? To prolong the process? To provide another eight weeks of back and forth bickering? To leave a finely-picked over carcass for John McCain?

I simply do not understand people.

Yeah, yeah, 3BT is coming eventually. In the meantime:

The NY Times calls out Clinton’s aggressively negative campaign as damaging “to her, her opponent, her party and the 2008 election”, Maureen Dowd bemoans Obama’s inability to close out Clinton, Jonathan Chait defends Obama against the “liberal elitist” label (although not as well as Jon Stewart, who pointed out that if someone is taking on a job that may one day lead to his face being carved on a mountain, he’d better be a cut above the average American), and David Barstow has a stunning expose, the culmination of two years of work and a lawsuit against the DoD, about what actually happened at Gitmo.

And I crack up.

Yep, that’s right. Refreshing CNN, and the New York Times, and Time, and yes, sadly, even Drudge, like the obsessive-compulsive that I am.

Things, they are not looking good. Also not looking like they’ll get resolved any time soon (and by this I mean both the results tonight and the nomination in general)… so part of me wants to go to sleep while the other part of me can’t stop refreshing. And of course, all of me wants to know what in God’s name is wrong with Ohio that two major elections in a row they have monumental screw-ups.

Ohio. It’s the new Florida.

There’s some speculation that Hillary’s ringing phone 3 a.m. ad may be what swung voters back her way, and if that’s true, I want to quote some Shonda Rhimes: Seriously? Seriously?!? A Walter Mondale fear-mongering rip-off is what convinced people in Texas and Ohio to vote Clinton? With every such passing event, I have deeper understanding and appreciation for our founding fathers, whose hard work and effort was later repealed by the seventeenth amendment.

I’d wanted it to be over, not just because I like things to be in the bag, not just because I’m tired beyond belief of Hillary and her “everything but the kitchen sink” negative campaigning (that she doesn’t even ACKNOWLEDGE, especially not when she’s prattling on to Jon Stewart about the civility of the Democratic party’s nomination process — news for you Hillary: one side is being relatively civil, and it’s not yours), and not even because I think there’s truth to the concern that the longer the primaries run, the more the Democratic candidates do McCain’s job for him. Mostly I wanted it to be over because I simply can’t take another five weeks of this nonsense, and now Clinton won’t give up until after Pennsylvania at the end of April.

I am curious, though, how Texas fits into Clinton’s (or rather Mark Penn’s) graph of states that “matter” seeing as it’s one that will likely go red in November… and also completely not looking forward to all the coverage of Clinton gloating tomorrow.

I know it’s all politics around here lately, and I’m kind of sorry, but I’m also kind of not — this upcoming election is so important, and I can’t stop checking in on the latest developments. It might be kind of an obsession. Alicia and I were discussing the bizarre nature of the Texas primary yesterday, and after she read through a description of how it works, she said, “You’re going to be refreshing for weeks.”

Yeah. I probably will.

In any case, a link for now, hopefully to be fleshed out more tonight, along with a 3BT post: Maureen Dowd on why voting for Hillary simply because she’s a woman “fighting a man’s world” is a fallacious argument. A female president would be awesome, but I’m not voting for a woman simply because she IS a woman any more than I’m accepting Shonda Rhimes’ reasoning that Izzie is more at fault than George because Izzie hurt another woman.

Updated: I find myself disbelieving this claim that Patti Solis Doyle quit because her six-year-old son wanted his daddy instead of her. You don’t get that far on a national campaign for the presidency to quit one thousand delegates shy of the nomination. Not when sticking it through to the end could mean a place in history and a cushy position in the administration should your candidate win in November. Sorry, Patti. I’m not buying what you’re selling… unless you want me to believe it wouldn’t occur to you that your son might grow more attached to his father while you dedicated yourself to running a presidential campaign, and really, that just makes you sound incredibly dumb.

And now, back to work.