Interesting Day for an Engagement Party and other Random Thoughts

A friend and I were talking about what an interesting day it was in Memphis on April 4, 2008.

*Let's say I'm a Harold Ford Jr. I'm going to be marrying a white woman from New York and I've been getting slammed by the local media about it. I have to have an engagement party in Memphis my whole family is here, but I want as little media coverage as possible. What day would I chose? Perhaps, the 40th anniversary of MLK assasination when two presidential candidates, and every news agency in the world is here to cover it.

Smart choice to hide in the middle of a media frenzy. Jr's engagement party got zero coverage.


*Could John McCain have a worse day than yesterday. It probably seemed like a good idea at the time to come to Memphis and speak at the Lorraine Motel. But whoops, everyone their remembered he didn't support the MLK holiday and he got rightly booed. So the booing causes the story to get picked up by major media and it reminds everyone that although the vote was several years ago you didn't support MLK's Holiday. McCain realizing it is a disaster does a live interview on NBC to try to mitigate the damage. Unfortanately, Brian WIlliams brings up the vote again and nobody can hear a word McCain is saying because the current speaker at the Lorraine is talking over him. So all a viewer sees is an old man being aksed about his seemingly racist vote, unable to answer because the only thing the viewer can hear is a speech about equality and social justice by some guy off camera.

So let's recap, the republican nominee is an old guy who was once one of the Keating Five, who voted against the MLK Holiday, opposes assistance to people getting foreclosed but supports Wall Street bailouts, sings about bombing Iran, and wants to stay in Iraq 100 years. How are we going to lose to him?