I would have to agree agree. I think she revealed in her latest book that she's voting Democrat for the first time this year. Her reasoning was something along the lines of "when the house is on fire, you don't worry about redecorating." Makes sense to me.

She manages to say things that might sound a bit shopworn coming out of somebody else's mouth, but her brightness invests her short outburts like this with a lot of punch. Is she single :-)

Come to think of it, the political figures that seem to always interest me are the ones who don't have strong allegience to their parties. Either they've switched parties, are rebels in their own party, or have stances on issues that don't necessarily fall into party lines. Guys like John McCain, Wesley Clark, and even Colin Powell to a lesser extent. I wish there were more of these people, but our political system doesn't allow them to survive for very long.

I agree, mostly. John McCain, well, I'm gonna write him a letter. Wesley, well, liked him but wasn't sure about suitability to executive politics (and I blame his campaign for blasting Dean out of the skies over Iowa).

Colin Powell? Huffington said the other night: "There is a special circle in Hell reserved for Colin Powell." My reasons are maybe just a tiny bit different than hers, but I agree 100 percent. Colin, you were the *one* guy on this side of the Atlantic who had any kind of a shot at stopping this war, and you completely caved. Now Cheney and Co. ignore you, treat you with contempt, and disgrace you further. Well, Colin, you deserve it. I wish there was a Hell, with that circle just for you.

This being Friday, and since nobody else has posted it, figure I should post the recently released RNC convention schedule. Scary.