This was originally published July 14, '08 over here.

He says he is not going to run for a seat in the senate. He said that tonight on Larry King. Jesse has until 5pm tomorrow to enter the race and he stated that if God calls him and tells him to run he will. So far he says God has never talked to him.

My first reaction to this news was relief and a big "Thank God"! Jesse ran for Governor of Minnesota in 1998 and won. I want to make it clear right here that I was driving across country moving to Seattle, WA during the primary election and thus I never cast a vote in that particular election. I had nothing to do with it.

Jesse was seemingly a breath of fresh air. He didn't hold back and told it like it was. At least like it was for Jesse. I Googled Jesse today. I hadn't paid him any attention since long before he left office as our governor but with his upcoming announcement today I wanted to catch up with what he had been doing. I knew he had written a book or two though I never bothered to read them.

According to many websites Jesse believes that 9/11 was caused by our own government. He is not the only one who believes this. Rosie O'Donnell and Willie Nelson also believe this crap. Willie Nelson I can almost understand. He has smoked a little too much peyote and since he doesn't believe in paying taxes it isn't a stretch to think he might be one of those people who see a conspiracy everywhere. Rosie has also been under a bit of stress, she seems to fly off the handle for no good reason rather frequently so I'm not surprised she would believe this too.

I was talking to ex#1 last night when I started writing this post and mentioned to him the fact that Jesse thinks 9/11 was an inside job. Ex#1 does not believe that but he told me that if he was skeptical about any of the conspiracy theories out there he was inclined to believe that we never really landed on the moon. He never mentioned this little factoid when we were dating or married but I assure you that if he had thrown that out there my son would not be here today.

I have no doubt that I am gullible and likely to take as gospel a lot of the things the government tries to sell us. I should be considerably more skeptical but I'm not. I like my rose colored glasses very much thank you.

Jesse had until 5pm this evening to file to run for Governor. He didn't but his pale Dean Barkley will be in his place. You can read all about him here. I might just start up my membership again so I can date him. Of course he is only looking for slender or athletic and toned young women and no more than a high school education so I guess I'm out of the race. What a maroon!

I wrote this and posted it on my blog on June 4th.

St. Paul hosted Senator Barack Obama last night at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. The redundancy is on purpose since most of the news outlets were unable to utter the words St. Paul without Minneapolis coming out first.

This morning as I was heading from the parking ramp to my office building I bumped into an Obamafan who was left behind from last night’s revelry. I could tell he was not from here since he was extremely chatty at 8am. He was also talking to me in an elevator which we never do. I suspect in his natural environment he would also not talk to others in an elevator but he was so excited, I suspect from the orgiastic events of last night, that he was acting outside his comfort zone.

Him: “Where ya going this fine morning?”

(It was raining, overcast and cold)

Me: “uh…to work”

(I was unprepared for such an assault so early in the morning and found myself oddly and rarely tongue tied)

Him: “Oh yeah, what building do you work in? I’m going to the Crown Hotel, is your building by the Crown Hotel?”

Me: “uh….I’m in that one over there” (I point in the general direction of my building whose name escapes even though it is painted on the side of the whole building, which indeed is right next to the Crown Hotel)

Him: “There is a Skyway to the Crown Hotel isn’t there?”

(Minneapolis was the first city to install Skyways in their downtown. We followed suit the next year. The Skyway lets us go from building to building during the winter months without actually having to go outside into the cold. It is really just a large scale Habitrail system. No one knows where it begins or ends but there are stories of a large running wheel hidden in the tubes somewhere.)

Me: “Yes… but… “

Him: “Great, oh, I see it right there.”

He hops out of the elevator and dashes into the Skyway system.

Had I not been so stunned to talk to anyone so early in the morning I would have been able to tell him that he was headed off in the wrong direction and it would have been faster had he just walked across the street with me.

The Grateful Dead played here decades ago. We lost several Dead Heads to the Skyway System. Occasionally they would get out and you would see them walking around dazed and confused months after the show. They were easily identified with their tie dyed shirts and unkempt hair. The Obamafans are much more hygienic and certainly far more perky in the morning but like the Dead Heads I fear we have lost another one.