Shower shoes...

And I always thought that flip-flops were sandals you wore in order to avoid getting foot fungus from dorm showers. But now, they are politicians. Not just John Kerry, but now, the Bush Administration is one big, giant flip-flop. In last night's Battle of the VP candidates, Dick Cheney got a little taste of what's it like to be called a flip-flopper. Edwards - "Now, flip-flops: They should know something about flip-flops. They've seen a lot of it during their administration." He went on to mention some examples: The 9/11 Commission...first they were against, then for it. The Department of Homeland Security...first they were for it, then against it. Promises made from the beginning of Bush's presidency were not kept (putting money aside for Social Security, funding for the No Child Left Behind Act). Edwards squashed the credibility of the Republican flip-flop argument (if you can even say there was much credibility in it in the first place).

The whole idea of flip-flopping, coming from the mouths of either candidate, is retarded. Changing your mind is natural. People do it all the time. I just changed my mind 5 seconds ago when I decided to use the word "retarded" instead of "ridiculous." You should probably stop reading this now...you don't want to be influenced by the opinions of a flip-flopper. Anyway, even L. Paul Bremer (who CNN describes as "whom President Bush appointed as head of the Iraq occupation" (whatever that means) went and semi-flip-flopped his comment about there not being enough troops on the ground in Iraq. First he said "We never had enough troops on the ground," then he said, later on, when the Republican Ministry of Magic threatened to send him to Azkaban if he didn't promise to make things right, turned around and said "One way to have stopped the looting would have been to have more troops on the ground. That's a retrospective wisdom of mine, looking backward. I think there are enough troops there now for the job we are doing....We certainly had enough (troops) going into Iraq, because we won the war in a very short three weeks. The point that I have been making, and that has gotten a little bit distorted in the press recently, is that, as I look back now, I believe it would have been better to stop the looting that was found right after the war."

So, what have we learned here today? It's OK to flip-flop if you are a member of the Bush Administration, but it's not OK to flip-flop if you are John Kerry. Wait...or is it the other way around? I can't make up my mind.