Month: August 2008

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Perhaps my time would be better spent further analyzing John McCain’s VP prospects like I did last night.  Although, what little I did see of Michelle Obama’s speech last night sounded pretty good (more on her in the next entry). 

Tonight, the three biggies were Bob Casey (who I didn’t get to see), Mark Warner as the keynote speaker, and Hillary Clinton headlining after him.  I’m not going to say much on his speech, because there’s not much to say.  I don’t agree with one network’s pundits that he should have been an attack dog for McCain.  Lets be fair.  Warner mentioned McCain not that much less than Clinton did, and she got little flack for it.  Yet, while he mentioned some things I like, such as looking toward the future, and the end of partisanship, I found the speech pretty uninspiring.  That’s a bit of a let down to me, since I’ve seen him speak before, in person.

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So Barack Obama is a celebrity who likes to chomp on arugula, get buff at the gym, and like to gather crowds and make speeches around the world as if he’s already President.

So John McCain is a Hollywood and late night show favorite whose rich wife owns upwards of seven houses and likes to send his surrogates to Georgia as if he’s already President.

Are both by definition elitists, then?  Probably.

Should we move on from these stupid character attacks by both candidates that do nothing but deflect from the real issues? Definitely.

Is that really likely?  Probably not.

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Barack Obama recently responded to John McCain’s “Celeb” ad suggesting that Obama was too a huge celebrity but not ready to lead.

While I think the ad is effective in pointing out the hypocrisy of McCain calling him a celebrity, it’s still a character attack, and I think the old adage “two wrongs don’t make a right” applies here.

Meanwhile, John McCain isn’t backing down from the “he’s a celebrity” brand of ads.

For me, McCain’s insistence on keeping to the celebrity argument is the same as Barack Obama keeping on repeating the “100 years” statement.

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Little did I realize when I donated $35 to the Libertarian Party recently that I was doing more than supporting the efforts of another party.  What I didn’t remember was that when you donate anything $25 or over, you actually become a card carrying member of the party.  So, it surprised me today when I received a letter in the mail today proclaiming me a member of the party, with membership card and everything.

Oh well.  Whatever the Libertarians think of me, I still consider myself an Independent and have no plans on changing my voting affiliation any time soon.

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Well, good news has arrived.  I have been offered a job and have accepted it.

About a month ago, I was contacted by the CEO of TicketNetwork, a maker of software for secondary market ticket sellers that’s based in Vernon.  He was looking for a video editor.

Well, fast forward a month and I have a job!  All in all, roughly three months isn’t a bad amount of time to wait.  Sure, it would have been nice to have one right out of school, but it wasn’t like I wasn’t doing anything in the mean time.  Between helping my parents at their store, and moving said store (see this category for more), it’s been a busy almost three months so far.

So, I’m happy that I finally have a job, and one that’s doing work in the field I studied for seven years.  I look forward to starting on Monday!