Oh do lighten up - there's been a whole shed-load of serious discussion on serious issues and the serious guys won.
Animal rescue and rehoming is a significant and important part of voluntary effort - part of their work is neutering etc to keep the cat population figures down and thus deter future suffering. In the UK the cat population is pretty stable yet when i was a kid you saw loads of stray cats baying for food etc.
Posted by John at November 8, 2008 03:01 AMHow ironic. Palin is disgusted with the media for 'lying' about her clothing purchases and spreading 'false allegations.'
Posted by Judith at November 8, 2008 05:47 AM"That's cruel, It's mean-spirited. It's immature. It's unprofessional and those guys are jerks (McCain aids) if they came away with it, taking things out of context and then tried to spread something on national news. It's not fair, and it's not right."
Palin
Did she say that about the McCain William Ayers ads?
Posted by John at November 8, 2008 06:15 AMor when she called President-Elect Obama a Socialist?
Posted by Judith at November 8, 2008 06:49 AMYeah so the media spends too much time on the story, but sorry, I am interested. Isn't there a part in all is us that wants to connect with the Obama family outside of politics?
I'm guessing that their search has now become trivial after the presser. I'm assuming that there are many shelters/people offering up potential pups now.
Posted by Wimp at November 8, 2008 06:58 AMI don't particularly care about the Obama's search for a puppy for the kids, but I can tell you a few days of 'fluff' is just fine with me. I need some down time after years of white nailing it, and an election that drained me.
Posted by Judith at November 8, 2008 07:34 AMFor me, critters and nature make life worth living.
Posted by Sharkbabe at November 8, 2008 07:49 AMI just had a thought. While they were creating our reality, we just delivered the real thing.
Posted by Judith at November 8, 2008 07:52 AMlol Judith ..
I'm also struck, at how freshly obvious is the contrast between a spoiled, lazy fraud who skated on name and money his whole life, and somebody who started with nothing and had to actually earn his success.
It's a pretty stunning farkin contrast, really .. the one person develops actual ability, the other just fixates on trying to hide what a complete coddled nothing he is ..
Posted by Sharkbabe at November 8, 2008 08:02 AMSharkbabe, you mean the one who will return to Crawford to cut brush, the only endeavor he was ever good at?
Posted by Judith at November 8, 2008 09:35 AMObama was a GENIUS to bring up this puppy business. It will consume FAR more of the press's attention than his selection of a cabinet.
Posted by dj moonbat at November 8, 2008 03:40 PMIn the press conference, anyway, Obama was just responding to a direct question about the puppy.
Trivial? Sure. It's also the sort of triviality that humanizes him to an electorate which is still 40% fixated on trivialities over issues. That the press chose to fixate on this triviality (rather than "Have you spoken to William Ayers since election night?", say) shows that they are willing - so far - to allow Obama a honeymoon.
It's all good.
Posted by nicteis at November 9, 2008 07:10 AM