Anyone Can Run

Meet Susie Flynn, our newest candidate for President. O, unimpressed, points out the age requirement, but still, anyone can have a Web site!

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How Inconvenient

[Take that, Donna Brazile!] Today the news is all about Al Gore's $2439/mo. power bill. Hard to be Mr. Green when you're spending that kind of green.

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Reality Check

On the whitehouse.gov page, the President discusses progress in Afghanistan and the global war on terror:

In today's Afghanistan, people are free to speak their minds, they're free to begin to realize dreams. In today's Afghanistan there's a NATO Alliance is taking the lead [sic] to help provide security for the people of Afghanistan. In today's Afghanistan, the terrorists who once oppressed the Afghan people and threatened our country are being captured and killed by NATO forces and soldiers and police of a free Afghanistan. Times have changed. Our work is bringing freedom. A free Afghanistan helps make this country more secure.

Meanwhile, on another planet, PZ sends this note from his Afghan Director:

You must ask L. about the airport incident with the 75 year old lady in the wheelchair and the two boxes of high caliber weapons she was trying to smuggle to Dubai.

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Reading List

This is a weird one. Usually a memoirist works hard to make him/herself look good. McAuliffe just can't help coming off like the run-amok nutball he probably is. The book provides a fascinating look at how to make $7 million just sitting on the phone for a few hours (I have no illusions that anyone other than McAuliffe can actually do this) and an earnest, if not entirely successful, attempt at humanizing the Clintons. There's also a brief bit about how the Clintons shot down Richardson when he lobbied for the DRC position they wanted McAuliffe to have. Maybe the Clinton/Richardson ticket is just a pipe dream? Just this week, poor Terry was shunned by his own Catholic high school, which reneged on an invitation when they apparently "found out" he was pro-choice.

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It Takes a Village

Spent an hour and a half with other Drydenites working on the village campaign. The election is March 20, so we have very little time. Our candidates, Elizabeth Gutchess and Lisa Valentinelli, are smart and credible, so there's some hope that we might gain a majority on the Village Board.

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The Multiple-Wife Factor

Carrie sends this, which notes that Mitt Romney is (gasp) the product of polygamists. Why, his great-granddad had five wives, putting him two ahead of Rudy Giuliani and Dennis Kucinich, and perhaps on a par with Barack Obama's dad (I kind of lost track as I read the bio). It gives "First Lady" a whole new meaning.

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Home Again

Wow, it's just impossible to blog with dial-up. I give Mary Ann all kinds of credit for persevering. Anyway, we're back. Tom Vilsack has been deleted from the right-hand column, as he's dropped out of the race. More to come, no doubt!

Dems in CA to whom I spoke (and I only spoke to Dems) are somewhat shamefacedly optimistic about their governor, who continues to surprise them with compromises and rather left-of-center moves. SAZ thinks Maria is calling the shots.

See our slideshow to find out where we went and what we saw.

LATER: Lara points out that the West-Coast challenged might like a map that better shows our tour. This one shows the route from Cardiff to Tehachapi (south of Bakersfield), and you can spot Capistrano by the shore and Avalon on Santa Catalina Island (we took the southernmost boat route to get there, from Dana Point just north of Capistrano).

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