Autumn officially begins on Monday, but here in Boulder, fall is in the air... The Aspens are beginning to turn, the nights are crisp and cool, the days are bright and blue, but have a hint of chill. Fall may be my favorite time of year here... altho, I'm sure I say that each new season is my favorite here... lol...
In addition to fall, the political season is in full swing... CO is a swing state so both candidates have flooded our airwaves with ads... the most vicious ads tho are the ones for the politicians running for Congress and Senate... they are brutal.... did you know that just stating that someone comes from Boulder is enough to condem them with the Republican party... well in the ad running against Mark Udall, it headlines with "Boulder liberal"... ahhh the sleeze is running thick here... and I have found myself addicted to MSNBC; Chris Matthews, Keith Olberman, and Rachel Maddow... I love it... I really hope that there are enough intelligent, concerned, empathetic, aware citizens here (not just in the boulder bubble) that will realize the situation our country is in and vote for Obama...
But election time is one of the things I miss about not being in Washington. I loved that politics was the news of the day... That elections were not just relegated to the national news but were also staples of the local news...especially now during this election and the financial crisis... I miss my Washington fix.... I'm sure that in Washington, the local news has said where each candidate is on any given day... and how they were received and what people were saying ... how they presented themselves... etc... here...not so much... lol... we certainly get alot of ads, but nothing of any real substance... I have tried to feed my Washington fix by logging on to the Post, but alas ... it's just not the same on line as it is in print... So thank goodness for cable and MSNBC.... if I can't be in the 'burbs of DC... at least I can feed my fix somehow...
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and I've been thinking I wish I could read news in other places to get a "reality check"--especially about the financial news, which is rather doomsday around here. I guess living in Boulder is sort of like coming from Democratic Montgomery County! We actually just re-subscribed to the Post (it stopped coming when we kept forgetting to pay the bill) because I'm hoping to have an awesomely historic headlines to save! You could subscribe to get the Sunday ed mailed to you. Might be better than nothing.
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