Babymama Drama

So, a lot of interesting stuff happened over the weekend concerning McCain/Obama and the whole build-up to the election in November. I said last week that I thought McCain's pick of Sarah Palin was pretty brilliant... I still think she was a good choice and gained the campaign some publicity, but I'm not really sure how thoroughly they vetted her before the decision. All of these revelations about her daughter being pregnant, husband's past DUI...honestly who cares, that really says nothing about her and her political abilities. If having a past DUI at 22 is really that important than half of my friends are screwed (you know who you are). And as far as the teen pregnancy thing goes, as long as they didn't go on Maury to find out the results I don't think it'll have too large of an impact...although this could have been an interesting development in the race:



I think the bigger question is on McCain's decision making, was this a hastily-decided choice or was his camp aware all of this would come out and went with her anyway? They definitely knew about the teen pregnancy, but probably wanted to announce it at a later time when they could garner more press. Instead, they had to release it combat claims that the daughter had given birth to Trig, the baby with Down's Syndrome born to Gov. Palin in April. Pretty slimy, but not unexpected from the crowd who said Ronald Reagan was turning a crispy brown in hell before he was even in the ground.

Ultimately, the VP nominee isn't who we vote for in November, it's for the Presidential candidate. Every VP pick he could have gone with would be undergoing criticism right now, as well as praise. Pawlenty and Romney would be seen as more of the same-old white guy establishment, Ridge and Lieberman would be too liberal... Palin is having to undergo the same scrutiny now. It's honestly still too soon to see how capable she is, we'll have to wait and see how she does on the campaign trail and in the debates, but I like her political principles so far.

In related news, Bush conjured up another racist hurricane to send towards New Orleans to try and redirect some of the attention away from the new VP...do you think it worked? You can vote here on how at fault he is for Gustav.