I previously touted Kathleen Sebelius, governor of Kansas, as one of my two rooting interests to run with Barack Obama. Though I'm reasonably confident that Obama will make a wise choice, no matter what, I was left with only one rooting interest after James Webb removed himself from consideration.

From Wikipedia:

On July 7, Webb removed himself as a possible candidate for Vice President in a statement to Time Magazine, stating ... that "under no circumstances will I be a candidate for Vice President.”

Although Mitt Romney was my dad's choice for the presidency until he exited the race, the governor's politics and lack of conviction meant I'd never support him. So I never really thought about what it might be like to have a neighbor as the president.

But this morning, for the second time in a couple of months, I ran into him in the market. The other time, I was with Georgie but he was alone, cruising the produce section of the Shaw's Market in Belmont. This time, I was alone but he was with his wife, Ann, when we met up at adjacent cash registers at Wilson Farms.

Scientist James Hansen has been raised almost to sainthood for his early sounding of the climate-change alarm and for his adamance since. He testified before Congress Monday on the 20-year anniversary of his global climate change testimony, saying roughly what he has been saying all along.

... not a whit, and if you don't, this link will be of little use to you.

But apparently someone at Treehugger does. In this post, they say...

I think of the "still-president" (see: Jon Stewart) as one of the worst in our history, and like to think I was in the first million or two to think it. SPB says, of course, that history will treat him much more kindly than anyone outside the White House now expects. Not just good, but a visionary, even.

James Carville has a good idea (blogged about yesterday on Gristmill.com), and I-I-I know (that's me-me-me) because I had the same idea. In March. In writing.

From Grist Mill comes this tidbit, a gift for the environmental thinker who had any doubt whom to support in the presidential election. A supporter told John McCain that his energy policy could be summed up as "nuclear, drill wherever you find it," and McCain answered "you just gave my speech. Thank you, my friend."

Wow.

I posted a while back that John McCain was dead to me, for his panderific suggestion that the federal gasoline tax be suspended for the summer to give drivers a break. I thought it a dumb idea (still do), but worse, it showed me Mr. Straight Talk would be willing to throw anything under the Straight Talk Express if he would gain a few votes for doing it.

I wrote previously about 350.org, a planned offensive in a worldwide effort to bring the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere back to 350 parts per million, which is considered the safe maximum to foster a stable environment.

You're up on your climate math if you know that the world is already at 385 ppm, and is gaining about 2 ppm per year.

Barack calls Hillary's "idea" (McCain said it first, she larded onto it) to get the oil companies to pay the 18-cent-a-gallon federal gas tax instead of motorists symbolizes a candidacy consisting of "phony ideas, calculated to win elections instead of actually solving problems."

Link.

And: previously:

McCain is dead to me
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