Thanksgiving is fast approaching, so it’s time to start buying food, drinks, dessert, and ensure your televisions are working for football. Forget about work, because there won’t be much work done from now until November 26.

For those of you traveling, especially those via the airlines, I feel for you.

The Debate

I caught some of the Democratic Presidential debate on CNN last night. I watched the first hour and then flipped back and forth between it and football.

Hillary Clinton easily won. She was impressive. I loved her comment about being the only woman in the race. Clinton said, “People are not attacking me because I’m a woman, they’re attacking me because I’m ahead.” That comment probably received the loudest round of applause from the audience.

Barack Obama fumbled the question: “Are you in favor of giving illegal aliens a driver’s license?” This was after he’d seen Clinton do the same a couple of weeks ago. Obama danced around the question about three times and most folks were happy when CNN moderator, Wolf Blitzer, finally stopped him. It was basically a yes or no question. Edwards had a tough time with the same question. Clinton answered, “No.”

John Edwards was booed. Edwards was portrayed as a mudslinger. It stuck. He is toast. Obama needs better debate prep. Rep. Dennis Kucinich seems to be the most liberal in this field, but he’s not getting traction.

CNN’s Blitzer could not get control of the candidates. They ran over him several times and the candidates controlled the debate, not him.

The Poll

Another one of those “famous” MSU-Billings polls came out yesterday (Yawn). Of the 412 “adults” who were polled, Senator Max Baucus has the highest approval rating with 64%. Governor Brian Schweitzer comes in at 63%, Congressman Denny Rehberg comes in at 59%, and coming in last from our state delegation is Senator Jon Tester with 57%. 21% of those polled actually approve of the job Congress is doing. 32% approve of President Bush’s job. It does not appear the polling was done on likely voters, just adults or one of their children posing as an adult.

Barry Bonds

Bonds was indicted yesterday for perjury and obstruction of justice. The so-called baseball “purists” are probably cheering today. I think it took the Feds about four years to do this. We all know the Feds have plenty of money (our money) to string out an investigation for years and years. We’ve all heard about a grand jury being able to indict a ham sandwich. It appears the time it took them to come up with this indictment, they might have had better luck with the sandwich.

I have blogged about Barry Bonds and his situation before. This indictment does not prove Bonds is guilty of anything, although the public and many of the baseball geeks condemned him years ago. But not me.

I still believe in Barry Bonds. Until he’s found guilty in a court, I believe he’s innocent. It would do this country a lot of good if the sportscasters, sports journalists, players and coaches would do the same.