Levi and Bristol

"I'm a fuckin' redneck who likes to snowboard and ride dirt bikes, but I live to play hockey. I like to go camping and hang out with the boys do some fishing shoot some shit and just fuckin' chillin' I guess. Ya fuck with me and I''ll kick ass" [ Levi Johnston's  my space]

I have been called the king of hyperbole. If tweaking the facts will make my stories better then I tend to tweak. I would remind you that exaggeration in the defense of a good story is no vice!. That being said, and tongue firmly OUT of cheek: LEVI JOHNSTON is one of the most dangerous men in America .

NOT that the "ruggedly handsome Johnston, 18" [ ny daily news], is in any way a bad guy. I am going to go with he is the greatest NORMAL 18 year old kid in Wasilla, Alaska. Change snowboard to  water ski and hockey to football and it's Winder, Georgia. We all know Mr. Johnston, and harbor him NO ill will what so ever- Wish he and the "Doe-eyed Bristol Palin 17"  all the luck in the world with their new baby. BUT , they can be the downfall of American Democracy as we know it.

Has the American Media been in ANY way focused on any issues post the announcement of Governor Palin ?

"How do Obama and McCain differ on ways to curb green house emissions ?"

"How do Biden and Palin differ on the role of the U.S. in curbing Russian expansion and the threat of Soviet era nukes that are still in the area ?"

"How do the parties differ in creating new forms of energy for an oil starved world ?"

No!, They , and "we" are talking about when and how two perfectly normal teenagers in po dunk Alaska went at it. I DON'T CARE. I don't care when Mrs Palin had the lovely baby Trig, either . This race could, in the very short time left until November, just zip down that slippery slope and become nothing but the Jerry Springer Show. AND a great number of Americans will love it. Do you know how many people will embrace what Mr. Johnston wrote in his my space quote? How many votes that could get them??  Is it the slick talking talented HARVARD ( horror!) educated black guy or the FULL BLOODED AMERICAN PROUD REDNECK with poor syntax? To some, no contest, personality over ability, any time. Welcome to America in 2008.

The sex lives of Alaskan teenagers are so so much more interesting than knowing that the days of giant fast American cars is over. SO, much more fun than the fact that we are going to be a military presence in the middle east for a long long time. " Who is Bristol's baby daddy" is SUCH a more interesting question than: " how are we going to pay off the 9,659,313,537,344.27 dollar federal debt that George Bush has left us"

So, the election of the President of the United States becomes nothing more than a bad bad episode of GOSSIP GIRL or the new 90210. Maury Povich, not Jim Lehrer ,tells us who the winner  is. No facts, just personality. Nothing more than a high school popularity contest. If and when this happens , we will get the government that we deserve.