James Pedrick’s Blog

It was fun having Erica out here in D.C. this week. I had a bit of a cold and the weather wasn’t perfect, but we had a good time anyway. We kept very very busy… but some highlights included running into Speaker Pelosi and our Senator Patty Murray while touring the U.S. Capitol (ask me off line what I told Pelosi), visiting tons of museums and monuments, enjoying the driving privileges of having a deceased relative at Arlington National Cemetery, seeing the new 9/11 Pentagon Memorial for the first time, and learning that I am just blocks away from the coolest Catholic church and shrine in the country… come on out to D.C. and I’ll show you a good time too!

Erica also got to learn a few things about my new life out here. My apartment is AMAZING and my land lady is pretty darn cool… while visiting, she delivered some pretty cool new furniture for the pad. And Erica learned just how addicted I now am to Diet Ginger Ale – surprisingly the new settled champion brand is Giant’s Sterling.

Chris will be here come Wednesday. I hope to check out the Newseum for the first time and Colonial Williamsburg, as well as find some places to check out the next two debates at…

Speaking of debates, check out this clip and post at Talking Points Memo.

I think people really are missing the point about McCain’s failure to look at Obama. McCain was afraid of Obama. It was really clear–look at how much McCain blinked in the first half hour. I study monkey behavior–low ranking monkeys don’t look at high ranking monkeys. In a physical, instinctive sense, Obama owned McCain tonight and I think the instant polling reflects that.