Complete 180

Gotta admit, seeing Obama and Clinton on the stage together, they looked like a pretty formidable tandem.

Obama/Clark 08?

I just got back from the Caribou Coffee between The Washington Post and my office building) @15th and M. Coming out of the ladies room was Caroline Kennedy. Sitting outside was Eric Holder - they're heading up Obama's VP search. I saw him coming out of the former Swedish Embassy across the street from Caribou. About 2 hours earlier, headed to lunch, I saw Gen. Wesley Clark leaving that building. Could this mean we'll see an Obama/Clark ticket?

Hmm

Yesterday, leaving the grocery store, the garage attendant wanted to know if he could ask me a question. I said sure. "Would you allow your daughter to live with her boyfriend?" he asked. I replied, is she 18 or older? He said she was, so I told him I see no problem with it - she's an adult and you can't allow or disallow an adult to do anything. He looked a little upset with my answer and asked me if I based it on religion, culture or spirituality. I told him all of the above. He waved me on and that was that. Strange, eh?

Father's Day

Thanks Dad. You're the best!

Straight Talk

In Case You Forgot

Hot!!

Can't blog - too hot! How did we survive as a species without A/C?

Any woman, or just Clinton

Much has been written this election cycle about feminism, sexism, etc. as they relate to Senator Clinton's historic run for the Democratic nomination - and a lot of women are very upset that Mrs. Clinton didn't win, as if she was the last great hope for a woman to become President. I just want to remind everyone that we Dems have several female governors (Ruth Ann Minner,Jennifer Granholm, Janet Napolitano, Kathleen Sebelius, Kathleen Blanco, Christine Gregoire), not to mention Nancy Pelosi and other female members of Congress who are more than capable of becoming President. Those that say they won't vote for Obama because of perceived sexism, and that he must pick Clinton as his VP, what about the women I just named? Would any of them do?

Wow, I'm kind of speechless.

Well, it’s happened and I can’t believe it. Barrack Obama is the Democratic nominee for President of the United States. A brother is going to be “The Man”. I’m 39 years old, I never thought I’d see it. Well, the optimist in me, the one who married a 1st generation Irish woman, who’s going to name his future son Liam, and whose children will have American, Canadian and Irish passports believed it would happen. The realist in me, the one who’s great-grandparents where slaves (my grandfather was pretty old when my dad was born), the one who had friends tell him the only reason he got into the University of Virginia was because he’s black, the one who received some pretty hostile stares while travelling across Nebraska and Wyoming just 2 weeks ago with his white wife, that guy didn’t believe it. And yet, here we are. We’ll get back into the dirty, nitty-gritty part of the race soon enough, but for now, I just want to savor it.

Historic

I've got a lot to say about Obama being our nominee, of which I'll write about later. I do want to say that sometimes everything lines up just right. Obama will give his acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention on August 28, 2008 -- 45 years to the day after the March on Washington and Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream" speech. Unbelievable.

Yes We Can!!!

Random Thought

I hear that Hillary Clinton is open to being Obama's Vice-President. That's nice - I'm open to being the starting goalie for Arsenal.

Podemos Con Obama