What a roguishly maverick character, eh?

The race for the White House is about McCain’s experience and Obama’s charisma and celebrity, or at least it was until Sarah Palin was put on the ticket.  By far the largest legitimate chink in Obama’s armor was his lack of experience.  McCain has found a way to make sure that this is not a campaign issue.  Obama can not attack McCain on his lack of celebrity without exposing the superficiality of his own campaign but McCain could use Obama’s inexperience against him, could that is until he tapped Palin to be his running mate.

Palin’s experience amounts to being governor of Alaska for a whopping 20 months.  Being governor of any state is a tough job but does that qualify you to be president?  Isn’t that like being the mayor of Denver with more parkland?  That’s good resume’ fluff if you want to be vice president of the Red Cross but we’re talking about being VP of the United States, one heartbeat from the White House!

I think Sarah Palin was chosen because McCain hopes she will be able to get people excited, that she will be a celebrity.  So, both candidates  tried to patch up their armor with their VP picks.  Its just that Biden’s experience helps Obama’s campaign and Palin’s inexperience helps Obama’s campaign.  I do give McCain some credit though, if all he wanted was a conservative Obama then he could have put Joel Osteen on the ticket.

This is a public service announcement.  For the love of the blogosphere, please do not tag your blog post “philosophy” unless it’s about philosophy.  Philosophy does not mean undefined, general, random, opinionated, or whatever!  Believe it or not, there are some people who really do want to read blogs about philosophy, and it’s really difficult to find blogs about philosophy, when every third post is tagged, philosophy!  It seems like half the blogs out there are called something like, “Nina’s Thoughts on Breeding Ringtail Lemurs, and Philosophy.”  Come on, Nina, is that really necessary?  Phauxlosophy (or philosospam or spamosophy?) is the most prolific spam on the internet except for “natural anatomy enhancers!”

In an earlier post I wrote that I had been using Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech recognition software. I praised it and harped on it but alas, I have found the Dragon’s weak underbelly. Dragon cannot spell Arauca bomb, Arauca mama, Morocco bomb, aaaahhhh B.A.R.A.C.K. O.B.A.M.A. Dragon can’t spell the name of that new dynamic politician. For your amusement, I have kept a running tally of all the various things Dragon has called For Rocco Momma. Complete with commentary

Brock of Mama I’m at a loss on this one. A Bonus a bonus sounds good, I think. All Ballmer he did play baseball. We’ll Bomb I doubt it, he’s more of a talker than a fighter. whoObote, ask the neighbors to the north. A Bomb On this seems to be a recurring theme. A Ball And balls and bombs, what’s up with this guy? Old Drama Its getting there quickly. Overall My…What? Over all your what? A Ball and, A Bomb Oh dear. Oh Bottle Oh yes! Morocco Bomber No, Kenyan, Kenyan Bomber. Ab Rocco Bomba, in his first appearance with Secret Squirrel! COBOL An ancient and secret organization of intellectual elites! And last but not least, Will Mamma, what choo talkin ’bout Will Momma for?