Sarah Palin

Look, I haven't posted in awhile and I'm not trying to become one of those special Internet bloggers, but what's going on in the US disturbs me.

In the US election, you have Barack Obama, perhaps the smartest, best candidate the democrats have put forward since JFK. On the Republican side you have John McCain. Truth be told, if it were between John McCain and Al Gore in 2000, I would've supported McCain, but America twice decided to go with some idiot of a president's son. McCain now looks frail and it would not surprise me if at some point Sarah Palin took over office. Yes I do see her as a trailer trash Alaskan, but she's not ready to be president. She's spent two years running one of the least populated states in America and before that was mayor of a town smaller than Port Hope.

Sarah Palin is not a bad mother because one of her teenage children has gotten pregnant. Many children will go out and have sex before they are married, regardless if their parents tell them not to. But when a mother teaches contraceptives are evil and wrong as Ms. Palin publicly has, this is what happens. I went to a very large Catholic high school that had one of the highest pregnancy rates in Ontario and one shouldn't be surprised.

As frail as McCain looks, this election may be a battle between Obama and Palin. As pathetic as Palin's attempt was to show she actually has more experience than Obama, people seemed to lap it up. Americans will get what they ask for. George W. Bush was a lousy president, as will be Trailer Trash Alaska. But maybe That's what the US wants.

Unrelated, I saw a film called The World According to Monsanto. The film itself is rather boring and not the best put together documentary. Going in though, I did not know as much about Monsanto as I should have. I think what was most eye-opening was when Vandana Shiva, environmental activist and former winner of the Right Livelihood, or Alternative Nobel Prize, said that what's more dangerous than one person owning all the world's guns and bombs is owning all the world's food, which the movie claims Monsanto is trying to do, though it is a one-sided smear job (A company official is on tape saying they will refuse to cooperate).

On a happier note, Rochdale Rhymes and Readings is on Sunday at the Regal Beagle, 335 Bloor St. W., featuring Tomy Bewick and Phlip Arima. Admission is PWYC and there is an open mic. Come on down.