Who said be careful what you wish for, it might just come true?

I certainly wished for Hillary Clinton to win the primary and be the Democratic Presidential candidate. I respected and still respect her amazing intelligence and her "narrative" which has been working for the middle class and for women and children her whole life. I wanted a woman in charge, specifically Hillary.

I was heartily disappointed when she didn't win, not because I didn't like Barack Obama, but because I wanted Hillary; she was my girl all the way. I wanted a woman in a high position to truly change the direction our poor country was being dragged in by Bush et al.

Initially, I did not detest McCain, even found him to be the least horrid of the Republican primary candidates. But then I didn't know him as well as I do now. He wasn't the Johnny one note I see before me nor had he chosen his running mate at this point.

The choice of Sarah Palin as a running mate is a total fuck you to the country and especially to women. McCain's choice and Palin's hubris to accept the nomination have placed women, once again, back into the category of not good enough to lead, silly little fluffs, leakers of breast milk and amniotic fluid, lipstick wearing, high heel wearing, eyelash batters, but not much more.

Maybe there's some truth to the joke: all women look alike in the dark. Maybe to McCain any woman would do, but the choice of Palin is a huge insult.

Although I might not share the ideology of Condoleezza Rice or Kay Bailey Hutchison or Olympia Snowe, I'd sure feel a lot safer and better right now as we go into the last weeks before the election, if one of them were McCain's running mate.

Palin is just unacceptable. I'm not talking about experience or lack of it, I'm talking about intelligence. This woman is an incurious, true believer who doesn't think and hasn't had to think and uses faith as a replacement for brain cells. She's a Neanderthal in lipstick.

Her latest comment about global warming and that it doesn't matter if it's man made or just natural climate changes, shows her ignorance. If you don't know what is the cause of global warming, then how do you go about fixin' it?

(I didn't think it was possible to find someone who could speak worse than George Bush, but McCain found someone!)

Of all her sins, Palin's choice to be anti-woman is the most difficult to bear. Palin could respresent and promote the rights and concerns of all American women. Instead she is our worst enemy. She wants us to hand over our reproductive rights to the government even though women have been loud and clear on this issue: the majority of women want freedom to choose what they do or don't do with their own bodies.

Yes, she has the Republican Viagra vote and the support of the extreme right wing conservatives, but this country has a lot more people than those two limited groups. This country also has me and my friends and associates who are embarassed by Palin and infuriated at McCain for his brain-fart choice.

I know there's more of "us" out there so please don't skip voting this year. Wouldn't it be nice to vote for someone who is intelligent, for a change?

We had 8 years of Bush doltishness and stubborness and we can't have four more of the same.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden will not embarass us; will not force extreme religious conservatism down our throats; will not lobby to control our bodies; have the capacity to understand complex issues; they will not jump into war to generate more war stories to tell on the stump; won't let our planet go to hell and won't let us down like George Bush did -- like McCain/ Palin will if elected.