All Hallows Eve

My daughter came home with a note today.  Her school has been closed all week, and today was her first day back.  The note was to remind me that her school will be closed again next week because it is a polling center, and the election is on Tuesday.  The yellow paper had an image of an exaggerated check box, and the text itself seems to have been photocopied hundreds of times.  This is the same note they send home every year.  It's Tuesday!  No classes for the kids!  Don't forget to vote!

Like I could forget.

A strange thing is happening in the wake of hurricane Sandy.  While Mitt struggles to make himself useful, his primary surrogate, Chris Christie is making the rounds of every news station out there saying how wonderful President Obama has been in all of this.  It's a bit unnerving.  

Trouble also seems to be brewing for Mr. Romney on two fronts.  While it does look good for Mr. Romney to suspend campaigning in Ohio to instead do storm relief efforts... in Ohio, it doesn't do him any favors that a clip of an old debate is back to haunt him.  It would seem that in a 2011 debate, Mr. Romney said that he would ditch FEMA in favor of shifting emergency responsibilities to the state or private sector.  During his "storm efforts" he was asked no less than 6 times about this stance and he said nothing.  Until today.

On the second front, Mr. Romney is taking some fire for a controversial ad attacking the automotive industry come-back.  In the ad, Mr. Romney asserts that Jeep will be moving production to China because of President Obama.  GM took exception.  In a very public statement, the company said that Mr. Romney is not telling the truth.  They said that this Romney move was "campaign politics at its cynical worst."  He is still sticking by this message.

Mr. Romney.  My daughter's school will be closed next week.  This might be the wrong time for so much mess.  The only saving grace for you will all of this nonsense is that the rest of the world is too busy worrying for our fellow Americans in New Jersey.  Our hearts go out to them, and this is giving you a much smaller grasp on a media circus that readily admits that they don't have a clue what will happen next week.  


I don't know about you, but I sure could use a laugh right about now.  Here's the best thing I have seen all week.  I love Joss.  I have to.  It's my generation.