I just got a call from my mom. She is watching the Presidential Candiate debate and is about 15 minutes ahead of us as we had to delay our start to get dinner on the (coffee) table. She is peeved that her local Fox affiliate, in the post-debate time, is just showing video of MObama (that’s Michelle+Obama) and totally ignoring Cindy and John McCain.

We aren’t there, yet, so I’ll have to wait and see.

But my mom is having a sort of renaissance this election year. Although she hasn’t voted Democrat since before Carter, she has always maintained her Democrat registration, ostensibly to be able to vote in the primaries. Until this year. She decided to can that excuse and just jump in with both feet and is now a registered Republican.

But more than that, she has gained a political “second wind” as she is approaching retirement. We spent quite a bit of time on the phone this past week during the “Bail Out” voting (“Rescue Bill”? I’m sorry, but a skunk is a skunk is a skunk – no matter how many corks you use). And she got so fired up that she actually called her (worthless) Congressman to let him know, in no uncertain terms (you have to know my mom) that she opposed the Bail Out Package. She’s never done that before!

Tonight, she told me that she’s going to have to talk with me tomorrow because she wants to write her paper. That she is ready to start to harassing some people over the issue of whether or not Obama is a true “natural born” citizen.

I’m excited to see my mom becoming passionate about politics.

Go Mom!

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Here’s a little more about what is worrying Mom:

Embossed seal of the State of Hawaii absent from the purported “birth certificate” of Barack Obama