McCain's Running Mate...

Female Gov. of Alaska
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin

Joe Biden for VP

Barack Obama chooses Joe Biden for veep

WASHINGTON - The Associated Press has learned that Delaware Senator Joe Biden is Barack Obama’s choice to be his vice presidential running mate.
The 65-year-old Biden is a veteran of more than three decades in the Senate, and one of his party’s leading experts on foreign policy, an area in which polls indicate Obama needs help in his race against Republican rival John McCain.
The official who spoke did so on condition of anonymity, saying they did not want to pre-empt a text-message announcement the Obama campaign promised for Saturday morning.

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Pittsburgh and Philadelphia Pictures.... FINALLY

i will post my fav pics from each city here BUT here are the links to the entire albums.... enjoy!

Pittsburgh

Sister after the show

Mom and me on the second day

OK so that is just a mediocre picture of myself but I took a picture of myself like this with downtown Seattle behind me and I had to try to recreate it here :)

We walked past the cutest knitting store on Sunday and it, like everything else in downtown Pittsburgh, is closed on Sunday... booo!!!

"Coffee fries" from Six Penn... thinly sliced potatoes with lime juice, salt and pepper and coffee grinds!! They were AMAZING!

The most expensive tomato soup and grilled cheese I ever got at brunch

look at those lovely Patterson ladies! :)

This is how we look when we take pictures...

and this is how we look the rest of the time :)

Pittsburgh was great! Now on to Philly!!!!!!

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Philadelphia

I did forgo my vegetarian status for this cultural experience... it was ok. The meat was greasy and I didn't care for the fakey cheese topping... but apparently its not authentic without that?

Outside Independence Hall

doing this...

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Pittsburgh and Philadelphia

Mom and Vickie and I just got back from Pittsburgh and Philly, PA! We were in Pittsburgh for 2 days to see Mary perform in the ensemble of West Side Story. Apparently, lots of the kids from U Mich go to Pittsburgh to do summer stock at the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera. Mary did Mame, Annie Get Your Gun and West Side Story. It was fantastic!!! She was, of course, the prettiest one up there and should have really been cast as Maria... ;)

Then we went on to Philadelphia just because we were up there and none of us had been! We crammed so much stuff into the just over 24 hours that we were there! We saw the Liberty Bell, Congress Hall, Independence Hall, Betsy Ross House, where Franklin is buried, the first post office, the Rocky statue outside of the Philly Museum of Art and we walked around in the Philly Museum of Art... it was amazing!

I have too many pictures on my Picasa page right now... it won't let me upload anymore. Until I can get around this technical difficulty, you will just have to use your imagination!! But I will send pics soon!!! :)

Happy Birthday Valarie!!

Monday is Valarie's birthday!! YAY! :)

John Edwards, I am so disappointed

Edwards Admits Sexual Affair; Lied as Presidential Candidate

In an ABC NEWS NIGHTLINE interview, Edwards Reveals He Cheated, But Didn't Father Child

By RHONDA SCHWARTZ and BRIAN ROSS
August 8, 2008

John Edwards repeatedly lied during his Presidential campaign about an extramarital affair with a novice filmmaker, the former Senator admitted to ABC News today.

Democratic presidential candidate former U.S. Senator John Edwards (D-NC) speaks to supporters during a campaign event at the Keene State University in Keene, New Hampshire January 6, 2008.

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In an interview for broadcast tonight on Nightline, Edwards told ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff he did have an affair with 44-year old Rielle Hunter, but said that he did not love her.

Edwards also denied he was the father of Hunter's baby girl, Frances Quinn, although the one-time Democratic Presidential candidate said he has not taken a paternity test.

Edwards said he knew he was not the father based on timing of the baby's birth on February 27, 2008. He said his affair ended too soon for him to have been the father.

A former campaign aide, Andrew Young, has said he was the father of the child.

According to friends of Hunter, Edwards met her at a New York city bar in 2006. His political action committee later paid her $114,000 to produce campaign website documentaries despite her lack of experience.

Edwards said the affair began during the campaign after she was hired. Hunter traveled with Edwards around the country and to Africa.

Edwards said he told his wife, Elizabeth, and others in his family about the affair in 2006.
Edwards made a point of telling Woodruff that his wife's cancer was in remission when he began the affair with Hunter. Elizabeth Edwards has since been diagnosed with an incurable form of the disease.

When the National Enquirer first reported the alleged Edwards-Hunter affair last October 11, Edwards, his campaign staff and Hunter vociferously denounced the report.

"The story is false, it's completely untrue, it's ridiculous," Edwards told reporters then.

He repeated his denials just two weeks ago.

Edwards today admitted the National Enquirer was correct when it reported he had visited Hunter at the Beverly Hills Hilton last month.

The former Senator said his wife had not known about the meeting.