A great post over at Blogging with Badger:

In her speech at the GOP convention, Sarah Palin made a comment about being a small town mayor. She seems to believe that small town = better, and she’s not alone. Most Democrats and most Republicans have bought into the notion that small-town America is our country at its best, most pure form.

I humbly disagree.

I was born and raised in a place called Lacey, Washington. It’s a suburb of Olympia, the state capitol, though it’s large enough at this point that Olympia is almost a suburb of Lacey. It was, while I was growing up, a bedroom community for people who worked in Tacoma and soldiers who were stationed at Ft Lewis.

As I grew the town grew, but even now it’s not exactly huge, having a population of only about 38,000 people. True, this is bigger than Wasilla (which I visited for one day back in 1991), the town Palin ran, which has about 8,000 people, but it’s hardly large. I’d say it’s on the upper end of “small” status, and when I was growing up it was smaller by far than it is now. It was entirely possible to walk from the mushroom farm across from Nisqually Middle School at one end of the town, to St Peter’s Hospital at the other end. Not an easy walk, but not that harsh.

Go read the whole thing.

I just finished watching Obama's acceptance speech on Tivo, and I have to say that I found it pretty impressive. He spoke openly and honestly about a lot of issues, addressing them directly. These are real issues that will affect all of us, and I'd like to hear what other people thought, and how you perceive the choices in this election.

In case you missed it, here's the video:

Here's the text.