i heart bobby mueller

finished a most intense scrub on our home last night, got my last puffs in before MeMaw's arrival today and settled in to the latest abc town hall meeting. a panel of four politicians, all on varying spokes of the wheel from conservative to liberal, who were moderated by ted "keep it rollin'" koppel, accepted questioning from the audience about whether we should stay or leave iraq. these people in the audience were a mix of politicos, foundation leaders, iraq vets and loved ones of those who've died there. there were viewpoints aflyin'! my fave character on the scene was bobby mueller (i think this is his last name). he's a clean-cut vietnam vet in a wheelchair from his war injuries, and man, was he fired up! bobby had *alot* to say about our current war and practically screamed, "have you people forgotten about vietnam already?!" (vietnam being arabic for iraq, after all.) naturally, the hillbilly governor of virginia jumped right in to answer bobby's angry queries and sidestepped the issue at hand entirely, in a manner befit of a foghorn leghorn lite like himself. most eyebrow raising of all -- our current administration chose not to send anyone to represent it at this televised meeting of the minds. not one person. you mean to tell me, there wasn't one single member of the white house communications corps that couldn't put in a perfunctory appearance at this thing? plenty that could have, but instead, we allow our elected rulers to hide their actions in a cloak of secrecy, never fully answering for their decisions that have already cost 1400 of my countrymen their lives. we need more bobby's making their presence known from here on out.

couldn't help but laugh during the evening vapidfest of local news as a clip from the united center fired across the screen showing a country band sashaying around a little gang of suburban moms in some kind of hokey shuffle. Mole grimaced and i was appropriately proud because i booked them there. :)