Currently I’m watching the Katie Couric Sarah Palin interview and the more I see of her, the more I absolutely hate this woman. She’s a moron. She’s anti every single thing I stand for. She can’t even get thru a single sentence without hmm’ing and hawing and talking in circles and long pauses. Nothing that she says even comes close to answering a question. Here’s one of my favorite excerpts:

COURIC: And when it comes to establishing your worldview, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this to stay informed and to understand the world?
PALIN: I’ve read most of them, again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media …
COURIC: But, like, what ones specifically? I’m curious that you …
PALIN: All of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years.
COURIC: Can you name a few?
PALIN: I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news too. Alaska isn’t a foreign country, where, it’s kind of suggested and it seems like, “Wow, how could you keep in touch with what the rest of Washington, D.C. may be thinking and doing when you live up there in Alaska?” Believe me, Alaska is like a microcosm of America.

So lets get this straight. 1) you’re being interviewed by Katie Couric. She is not what I would call a hardball reporter. It’s not like you’re in front of Keith Olbermann or Dan Rather or whomever. It’s Katie friggen Couric and you still can’t speak coherently. 2) This crazy woman can’t name a single newspaper or magazine that she actually reads, instead she reads all of them. Oh and wasn’t she a journalism major at some point in her community college career? 3) She can’t name any supreme court decision outside of Roe V Wade. How bout Bush V Gore, Miranda V Arizona. There are quite a few others to choose from. 4) She tried to argue with a teacher that dinosaurs and humans lived on earth together 6000 years ago… I could keep going but frankly even typing this is making me want to vomit a little.

I am looking forward to Thursday nights debate. I can’t wait to see what words fall out of her mouth and how Tina Fey uses them on this weeks SNL. Please Ms Palin go back to Alaska and stay tucked far far away from the rest of us. Perhaps go to the part up there by the maritime border that has you so close to Russia and go ahead and try to work on your international policy skills.

This week I am working a strange shift as I continue to take my two new fledgling staff members and prepare them for the joy that is a real job. This means that I got to work at about 3pm.

Usually I average about 100 or so emails in the hours that I’m not here excluding the spam complaints I have to read thru as the mail administrator. This afternoon while sifting thru literally about 80 emails that had come in while I have been not in the office I see three different ones from our office manager/HR person. Are they important informational emails about new policy and procedures? Are they information on my health/dental insurance? Are they information on a customer, a problem, anything at all related to my job, my work, the building we work in, the parking outside the building we work in, my coworkers, the streets running to and from the office?? No, they are chain letters.

These three in addition to the 4 from yesterday in addition to the countless others I’ve gotten from her in the last month annoy me. In fact, looking back thru all the emails I’ve gotten from her (14 since August) only 1 email has been NOT a chain letter. I swear I am going to put a rule on the exchange server that blocks any email from her to anyone with Fw: in the subject line. I can do that afterall.

I don’t often blog about politics, but with the way things have gone this year with our presidential race, how could I not. From the start I’ve been pro-Obama. For the first time in my life I saw my generation actually give a damn. It was refreshing to say the least. I like Hillary just fine, she just never really inspired me, even with that whole woman in power thing. When Obama chose Biden as his Vp pick I was thrilled. Biden seems to maybe actually get it, and he has experience to back up the ticket. I thought once that choice was made it would be a pretty clear cut election.

Then McCain- who I just cannot stand for a variety of reasons goes and chooses this woman from Alaska. I honestly have no idea what was going on in his mind. If really he thinks a hunting card carrying NRA member is going to attract all the women to his ticket from the Hillary camp then I am just insulted. She is the antithesis of everything that Hillary represented. Now I sit glued to CNN, MSNBC and of course my fav’s over at comedy central because I am eagerly awaiting what Jon Stewart and Keith Olbermann will do to her. All of a sudden too I’m starting to see news stories about this woman that further confuse me and make me wonder what the hell the GOP is thinking. She’s an unknown who yes is a governor but is one of a state which has less inhabitants than most of the lower 48’s big cities. She’s also only been a governor for less than two years after having been mayor of a small Alaskan city. Then there’s the whole scandal over getting her brother in law fired which she’s currently under investigation for, and now the teenage daughter who’s pregnant. Her mother of course was a big backer of that whole abstinence sex ed program. Also I’m unsure how the mother of a four month old with Downs syndrome really expects to go on a huge campaign and I’m assuming then plans on being the VP of this country.

I am uneasy with the thought of this woman being literally one breath away from taking over the country. McCain to say the least not in ideal health. After hearing some of his random speeches I’m not entirely sure he’s in the best mental health state either. He looks like a befuddled old man who can’t seem to remember what he’s said or done from one day to the next. Yes one day I want to see a woman in the office, either as Pres or VP, but not this woman. I look forward to seeing Biden rip her to shreds in debates just as I look forward to watching Obama rip McCain to shreds. With all due respect Mr McCain yes perhaps you could at one point been our commander in chief, and perhaps you would have actually done a good job with it. That time I think though passed years ago. With all due respect Ms Palin, I am all for women being powerful independant and making a difference, however you stand for many of the things which I just do not believe in and I think your candidacy and the fall out from what I’m sure will be a debacle of a campaign will actually end up setting women back in terms of running for high political offices.