Lea & Liz: political and delicious
January 8th, 2008
OK, so Liz has been ALL over us starting to blog about the election and I have been quite the procrastinator since it has seemed SO far away. Then last night I had my parents over for the MOST delicious meal (this pot roast and these mashed potatoes). Now you may take all my political rambling with a grain of salt (albeit seasoned salt) but you will have to admit that the me sharing recipe to that pot roast makes you like me much better because listen up if I made THAT pot roast and served it at every poll, well then the spoils would be going to the victor and you would be in such a food coma that you would vote for ME for president (and we would all be in grave trouble or should that be GRAVY trouble?)
Anyway, pot roast and potatoes on the side, during the meal my dad was talking about how my uncle had already sent his vote in for the Florida primary. I had totally forgotten that we had moved up the primary (”we” being the Florida Legislature and really that isn’t me at all) and it is now breathing down my neck, not to mention salivating over the leftover pot roast in the fridge. So I guess it is time to start thinking and blogging about the election.
I have to be really politically honest here (since I have been gastronomically honest already and established such a nice pattern)… I have NO idea who I will be voting for in the Republican primary. Moreover, the reasons I have to discredit certain people are not valid at all (example, I don’t like Fred Thompson because his wife seems too young. Is that really a valid reason to not support “Fred ‘08″? Oh, and that whole “Fred ‘08″ thing seems like a bad political slogan and looks dumb on bumper stickers, but again, not a good reason to not vote for someone.)
I need to pay attention and do some REAL research. Which is not as much fun as just watching the candidates on Jay Leno and deciding based on who is the funniest. I have to figure out how to get to the truth behind the hype. Hopefully having to write about it will help me to be more diligent. Of course the fact that I am well fortified with pot roast and potatoes is a really good start.
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3 Comments Add your own
1. lea | January 8th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
is it just me or is that whole entry just rife with grammatical errors? must have been the excess butter in the potatoes that hindered my editing skills. that and the fact that i wrote it WAY too early in the morning. there, i have effectively blamed all my problems on something other than my own lack of ability to edit… i could run for office with those skills….
2. R.C. | January 14th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Odd what you said about Fred Thompson (not getting on your case about it, mind you; it just surprised me). Jeri is certainly younger than he, and initially that’s off-putting (because y’think “maybe he picked her up waitressing at a diner somewhere and is using her for eye-candy”). But then I found out how intelligent and capable she is, and the fact that they’re raising a couple of young kids together. Now I think it’s a marriage of equals, despite the age difference, and that he cares more about family than about having his wife be a flat-bellied hottie (which is nigh-on impossible with two kids under 6).
Anyhow, that’s my take on Fred’s marital life.
3. lea | January 16th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
see that is just the kind of useful info that i should be learning and NOT jumping to conclusions based on appearance and sound bites that i hear on comedy central (OK so i don’t really get my political info from comedy central and i shudder to think that some people may use that as a primary source of political “facts”). thanks for the nice way of correcting my ignorance (but mostly thanks for making me feel better that i am not a flat-bellied hottie since i have THREE children and therefore am excused from that role…)
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