The August news slump and the veep hype
You know it's the August news slump when A) there are front page stories about which state has the most fatties, B) all halls of every legislative body in the land are empty and C) the news media is breathlessly waiting for the announcement of Barack Obama's running mate in the presidential election. I don't know about you, but I don't care that much unless it were Hillary. Wouldn't that be a fun match up? Death Race 2008.
On Friday evening this were really bad with broadcasts saying, excitedly that Obama had picked his candidate, but we still didn't know who it was. Talk about a non-story.
Truth is, unless the veep candidate is either truly fantastic (George Clooney), truly reprehensible (Dick Cheney) or truly goofball (Dan Quayle), who cares? I don't.
Mariel, you are wrong. We should care, and very carefully we should care to see who is going to be the running mate of the future president of the United States. If anyhting happens to the individual in charge of our country, a fantastic, or a reprenhensible, or a goofball (man or woman) could be in charge of our destiny and then what? Roosewelt had Truman. Nixon had Ford and Agnew. Kennedy had Johnson. Truman, Ford and Johnson stepped up to the presidency because death, murder and stupidity gave them the opportunity and the rest...good or bad, is history.