Heat for Barack Obama and I both

It's hot hear in Chicago. The other day before it rained, it was Vietnam hot.

I'm skinny and I was sweating like it was going out of style.

The good news is I am leaving for Alaska tomorrow for a week. As I understand it, it will be 70 degrees at best in Alaska. I was told to pack one pair of shorts in case there was a "really" nice day. Glorious.

My roommates are from Alaska and they have wanted me to visit for a long time. I found out that I could go visit on a 50 dollar plain ticket and I signed up. Alaska Air has this incredible thing called a "companion" fare where if you fly there, next time you fly you can take someone along for 50 dollars.

The only downside here is that my roommates really want me to go camping. I don't camp for two reasons:

1. It's silly. I have been blessed with an amazing apartment in Chicago. Hardwood floors, the entire building is now occupied by friends from school, and I have my computer, wireless internet, running water, and a shower here. Why would I want to sleep outside and dig a hole so I could go to the bathroom? Talk about stage fright...

2. I'm Jewish. Jews do not camp. Last time we were in camps it didn't go so well. Call it semantics or a word association gone wrong, but 6 million of your people didn't die last time they went camping, did they?

I'll let you know how camping goes.

It's hot for Barack Obama, as well. The guy is out fundraising Clinton in the same way Iose weight faster than a hundred percent of people on weight watchers. Let's say he rakes in 2 million more than her, it may not seem like a lot on paper, but it's 2 million dollars.

The Sun Times ran a cover article the other day that said "Is he black enough?" It was written by a writer who I love named Mary Mitchell. Mary writes that part of the angry black woman for the Sun Times and she makes a lot of people mad. She blames nearly everything on the fact that blacks don't get a fair shake in this country, and she is dead on most times.

But asking if Barack is black enough seems ludicrous. When did there start being a measure for whether a black man was black enough?

I think the question of whether he is black enough degrades black people. Black people, I believe, want to see crime go down in their communities, universal health care, better options for education, and for our troops to get the hell out of Iraq. I don't think they care about the color of the skin of the candidate at all. To say anything else, in my eyes, objectifies black people as a bunch of racists who want to take over the country. Which is why black people do not fit in to the Republican party.

Ideal? A ticket with Obama on top and Edwards on the bottom.