McCain Declares Himself the Winner of the Palin Debate

Just wanted to get your attention, but I have no doubt that somewhere in the ether, the McCain campaign has already declared that Palin won the debate, although as I write this, it hasn’t even started yet.

This afternoon I am proud to say I rode my bike. I am preparing for a charity ride to raise money for the American Diabetes Association, my second time. Anyway, I digress. As I turned the corner from my house, the neighbors standing out on the sidewalk told me something unusual was going on. Well, it was a deer on the run through the street. Trying to catch up to him or her provided me with a very exhilarating ride.

I never did catch up to the very fleet running deer, but I felt the need to protect him. He seemed to understand what a danger a moving car was, so I hope he finds his way back to the woods or wherever a deer hangs out around here.

But I decided that he came to my neighborhood to see how many McCain signs are up. Well, the answer is one that I can see. I have not been on every street, but I’ve been on most of them, and I live in a pretty good -sized neighborhood. There are Obama-Biden signs galore, and the one house that I passed today that has the McCain sign is next to a house that has an Obama sign. Feels pretty good, frankly.

I realize that this is a bit presumptuous, but I feel like that deer is a Democrat. Otherwise, he’d live down in Atherton or up in Hillsborough where the uber-millionaires live. But this deer has taste, and as he ran frantically through the streets of San Mateo, California, I hope he was able to tell that he was in good company.