BLOBBY'S BLOG

WEEKLY WRAP-UP

• Ohio is going blue. Not as in 'Lenny Bruce blue', but as in 'not republican red'. The governor's race has Ted Strickland up by almost 20 points over Ken Blackwell (who btw...pretty much made it possible probable for Bush to win Ohio - legit or not). Sherrod Brown is up over Mike DeWine for the senate race - to the point where the GOP has cut their losses here and stopped giving DeWine monetary support. All the other state races have Dems leading, but w/a margin of error which could tip them either way.

• Ohio is not sure they can count (let's forget accurately) the absentee ballots. First it was just in a timely manner. Blackwell said ballots couldn't be scanned 19 hours before election day because that would be 'counting them'. Though it is clear that scanning and hitting the 'tabulate' button to actually count are two differen things. But now, Diebolt has to send dozens of workers to Ohio to figure out why their machines cannot even scan the ballots. Yep - they're not working. They didn't work in May either, but no one bothered to really do anything about it until...well....today! I mean, they can scan the unfolded ballots, but since all mailed absentee ballots are folded, well......you can see how there might be an issue!!
  

• Unfortunately the McLaughlin Group said that Ohio would still be THE pivotal state in the 2008 election. FUCK! I can't even tell you how exhausting it is here during election season anymore.

• Ann Coulter is still a lying scumskank - but now possibly a cheating one too. Let's hope someone finds the accusations of voter fraud to be on the up and up.

• John Kerry is dead in the presidential. And that is just fine with me. He reminded us of why he single handedly killed his own campaign. He didn't lose to Bush as much as he lost to himself. Even a joke that was scripted for him he fucks up. ..and though I am NO fan of Shrub, I'm not sure Kerry should be making fun of his academic abilities when transcripts showed him to have the same GPA as W. As reporters on the Diane Rehm Show said on Friday - IF there is a silver lining to Kerry's comments, it's not only that the DNC knew Kerry couldn't run in 2008, but that Kerry himself got that message loud and clear! (let's hope!)

• Doogie Howser, M.D. is gay. I guess not a huge shock - though I love Neil Patrick Harris' womanizing character on How I Met Your Mother. Go figure. But how he came out was pretty good - or at least the statement he presented. The same cannot be said for the next item.
  

• And of course the big news is that (shock!) some big evangelical has been outed. Naturally, he denies everything then slowly (actually, not so slowly) begins to admit actually getting 'massages' from a man who only advertises in gay papers/websites and to buying crystal meth, but not using it. I love how he says he was tempted, but just threw it away and had never used it. Ever. Why does one just go to the trouble of buying meth - if never having used it? What is he tempted by, exactly? Most drug users (ummmm...i've heard) don't start out using meth - they work their way up to it. Personally, I want the 'prostitute' to give specifics about the sex. I want to hear that Pastor Ted took it up the ass - and he took it hard!
  

Some true right-wingers had tried to compare the lies of Clinton (natrually) to Pastor Ted and how the latter's are not as bad as the former. I pulled the following comment off a blog comment page that I can't seem to link to. "Paul" accurately states: Yep, Bill lied about his sex life. But he never rallied his political base to demonize and oppress the chubby, cocksucking brunettes of the world only to keep one for himself in secret.