It's the second day of the convention, and I'm in New York, getting ready to head to Denver. The big stories seem to be: 1) Hillary Clinton's delegates not going gently into the good night, 2) Obama and Biden wooing swing voters in the Rust Belt, and 3) who might end up being John McCain's V.P. But the really big story for me: Daddy Yankee endorsed John McCain yesterday for McCain's work on immigration reform.

Ahem.  

I'm not sure if Mr. Yankee is familiar with the work that McCain's other Republicans have done on immigration reform, but the prevailing feeling among most Republicans towards immigrants seems to be: build a fence and keep the brown people out. Senator McCain quietly championed immigration reform for about an 1/8th of a second until he realized that his fellow Republicans might not be so keen on supporting the candidacy of anyone who's not a rabid xenophobe.

And my second "ahem": I'm not sure if Senator McCain and his fellow Republicans are all that familiar with Daddy Yankee's oeuvre. Mr. Yankee had a huge hit single called "Gasolina" (which is exceedingly infectious and sounds fantastic in a disco in Bogota at 4 a.m). My question is: Do John McCain and his GOP friends know that "Gasolina" is, er, uh, cocaine? It's couched in subtle and nuanced metaphor (instead of saying "she loves cocaine" they sing/rap "she loves gasolina"), but "Gasolina" seems to be about ladies who love to do fuckloads, assloads, boatloads, etcetera-loads of cocaine.  

Maybe McCain and the GOP think that it's actually a song extolling the virtues of petroleum products? I guess that you couldn't really have a thriving cocaine trade without petroleum, so maybe the GOP and the cocaine cartels have found common ground. Ah well, politics makes strange bedfellows.  

Speaking of which, I wonder whether there will be more hookers in Denver for the DNC or in Minneapolis for the GOP convention? Everyone knows that hookers travel for conventions, right? And I wonder who pays better, Republicans or Democrats? And who asks for stranger shit?  

I'm assuming that would be the Republicans, as they are the party of Ted Haggard and Larry Craig and Dick Cheney (who we all know is surely into the nastiest things his cadre of dominatrices can cook up. "Have you been a naughty Vice President?" "Yes mistress, I have." "And do you need to be punished, Mr. Vice President?" "Yes mistress, I need to be punished." And etc).

OK, more from Denver when/if I finally get there.

- moby

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