Is anyone else sick of Monty Palin's Flying Circus yet?

By Cernig

There's a continuing lack of diplomacy in Georgia. Biden's saying Iran is a threat to Israel that the US must defend against. Anbar's being handed over to the Iraqis so that the Green Zone "powers that be" can (when it suits them) pursue a fixed election against the "powers that aren't" and the Awakening is about to go nutzo. The Taliban are winning in Afghanistan and Pakistan is falling apart at the seams. Nuke-armed India is losing patience with its nuke-armed neighbour's sponsoring of terrorism. There's flood water and Blackwater in Nola again, Hana is a hurricane. The North Pole is circumnavigable but the GOP's global warming denialists have left America with an 8-year lag on other nation's attempts to make hay while the ice melts. The police in Minn. are conducting raids for thought crimes and tens of thousands are marching against runaway crime in Mexico. The economy, at least as far as real people with less than ten houses experience it, is in the tank. The Republican convention was going to be a massive flop, with big names staying away in droves, McCain revealing himself as a craps-shooter unfit to lead and the religious right walking away from McCain - and few are even noticing how the GOP was saved from embarassment by Gustav.

And all anyone is talking about is Sarah Palin. Check memeorandum. She's sucked all the air out of the news cycle and that's all she was meant to do. Is anyone talking about how successful the Democratic convention was or how good Obama's speech was? This friend of corrupt politicos attended a church where they speak in tongues - she's Huckabee in a dress and without the track record. It's the biggest example of smoke and mirrors in US political history. And we've all gone for it.

/rant.

Comments

[Cheryl Rofer]

I've been trying to pull myself back to serious topics. Might even post another tonight.

But it's hard. We're all intrigued by just how peculiar other people can be, and when they're asking to be entrusted with the "leadership of the free world" or whatever we're calling it now, it's hard to break free from the rubbernecker syndrome.

And friends and relatives call with each new outrage. Or if they don't, I call them.

[Ron Beasley]

I thought all along the best thig to do was ignore here but jeez she makes it impossible.

[JWF]

"Is anyone talking about how successful the Democratic convention was or how good Obama's speech was?"

Uh, no, because the DNC was a bust and Obama's speech was a yawner. Just like this blog.

Maybe if the idiotic left wasn't busy spreading absurd rumors there wouldn't be so much attention paid to Palin.

[Mona]

It's the biggest example of smoke and mirrors in US political history. And we've all gone for it.

Pas moi, mon ami. Tho some of my co-bloggers have. ;)

[Steve Hynd]

As usual, JWF, you're even more content free here than you are on your own blog. If you've nothing real to add, then don't bother adding. Contentless namecalling will only earn you a ban.

Regards, C

[anderson]

Hey! C'mon, Cernig. Monty Python was funny. This is not.