There's a New Sheriff in Town

C: And his name is Dave Grohl.

On what will bring America together: “I think that what the country needs now is a good, smoky barbecue—family style, at least once a week, winter months included. It’s important that people bring it back to cooking over the fire as a family unit. You know what I do when I sit around a grill with my family? I talk. We talk. It’s something about that hickory smoke that brings my family together—and friends. And that’s where I really get to share and learn with my family and fellow Americans. It’s around that grill. It’s two beers, it’s three beers, it’s four beers, it’s 10 beers. This is what America needs—beer, and barbecue. It’s the red, white and barbecue.”

http://www.harpmagazine.com/news/detail.cfm?article=12287

For religious reasons I must throw my full weight and support behind this man and his March to the White House.

Carolina Oddity

J: South Carolina's Republican governor, Mark Sanford, has written an op-ed piece in Columbia's newspaper, The State, praising Barack Obama's candidacy.

http://www.thestate.com/editorial-columns/story/281604.html

"Within many of our own lifetimes, a man who looked like Barack Obama had a difficult time even using the public restrooms in our state. What is happening may well say a lot about America, and I do think as an early primary state we should earnestly shoulder our responsibility in determining how this part of history is ultimately written."

Whoever wins the GOP nomination would be wise to take a serious look at Gov. Sanford for a position in their administration. That, friends, is how you reach across the aisle.

C: If I were the novice journalist sent by my liberal elite NorthEast/Leftist Coast newspaper to cover South Carolina, there is the Holy Grail of phone-it-in stories just flopping around in the boat. "What are your views on the Confederate Flag?"

And while my education in South Carolinian subtleties and nuance continues, I've always been a fan of the Weirdness that was Strom Thurmond.