brief political update.
in the last week john mccain has made a few, uh, mistakes.
1-he talked about the country of czechoslovakia(which hasn’t actually been
a country since 1993)
2-he talked about the iraqii – pakistani border(only problem being that iraq
and pakistan don’t actually share a border)
3-he talked about his opposition to gay couples adopting children, stating
that children need a mom and a dad(even though senator mccain divorced
his first wife)

i mean, everyone makes mistakes, but i think that our standards for a presidential
contender should be a bit higher.
i mean, maybe, just maybe, we need a president who doesn’t refer to countries
that are no longer countries and who knows the basic geography of 2 countries
in the middle east where tens of thousands of u.s troops are stationed?
eh, just a thought.
moby

democrats in the senate tried to pass a motion allowing a debate on the iraqii war. republicans in the senate blocked the motion.
senator dick durbin, D-illinois summed it up pretty well with this quote:
“If the Republicans want to stand by their president and his policy, they shouldn’t run from this debate. If they believe we should send thousands of our young soldiers into the maws of this wretched civil war, they should at least have the courage to stand and defend their position.”

the republicans are so afraid of discussing the war in iraq that they’ll even block debate?
hooray for free speech?
moby