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Bev, I heard about that Pontius Pilate crap. Personally, I hope they keep this up because that sort of comparison talk appeals to no rational person.

Molly, I’d forgotten that Galveston area is your original neck of the woods. I’m so sorry, I hope somehow many structures and things can weather through it.

kassie, how are you doing?

Good morning everybody. We are awaiting the rainfall and storms that is coming from the cold front to the north and Ike from the south.

I spoke with daughter last night and she’s feeling good about how things are coming together with her class.

If the Obama campaign sees the Senator’s poll number continue to drop as they are now, one final ''Hail Mary play'' remains to shake up the election. I predict that there is a good likelihood that Senator Biden will develop a mysterious illness or personal problem in late September or early October which requires him to step down “for personal reasons” or “for the good of the American people.” Senator Obama, saddened by this turn of events, will turn to Senator Hillary Clinton to fill the void. That would really shake things up again, re-energize his base, and bring in those 18 million cracks-in-the-glass-ceiling, negating much of Governor Palin’s advantage.

The problem with this strategy is two-fold. If Obama becomes president, all of the factors that led to Senator Clinton being passed over are in play again: the baggage of an ex-president shambling around his old digs on Pennsylvania Avenue and ogling the interns, and Hillary’s high negatives and unbounded thirst for power.

The second problem is Governor Palin herself. Unlike Hillary, Sarah (as all of her constituents in Alaska seem to call her) did not get to be where she is by riding on the coattails of her husband. She in genuinely likeable, something Hillary isn’t. If the McCain campaign can be bothered to write some new speeches for her (she seems to be simply repeating her “greatest hits” from her acceptance speech on the stump so far), Sarah comes across as tough as Hillary but more human.

Scott Ott, of Scrappleface, told a story on a CNN web panel: he was in the bathroom at the Republican convention when he overheard two journalists discussing how Sarah reminded them of someone but they couldn’t place her. Scott opined that she reminded them of a real person, a rarity in politics. She isn’t the product of focus groups and polls, driven by soft socialist theory that she has to keep hidden from the voters. She is certainly not beholden to special interests that have funded her political career as both Obama and Clinton are. She’s not going to get teachers’ unions to contribute or knock on doors, so she can pursue a realistic reform of schools that puts the students, not the unions, first. She’s already implemented a successful market approach to generating more energy and more tax profits from the oil industry, personally besting the efforts of representatives and senators from both parties in Washington.

There is no doubt that a last-minute substitution of Mrs. Clinton for Biden will shake up the campaign and influence many voters’ decisions. Will it be enough to overcome the new energy and popularity of the Palin/McCain McCain/Palin ticket? My money remains on the Republicans, who will make history with the first female vice president (and then in four years inexorably the first female president). Dresses and “down to earth” persona will beat pants suits and pardons.

http://www.chronwatch-america.com/articles/3549/1/Obamas-October-Surprise/Page1.html