Countdown to Election Day 2008

Our long national nightmare, the Bush Administration, is in its last days.

A year from today, voters will head to the polls and cast their ballots for the person who will have to clean up Bush's sh mess. From Baghdad to Bywater to the border, he will leave behind missions unaccomplished. But enough about Bush.

I want to give a shoutout to Catherine Morgan, publisher of Informed Voters. I'm the first guest blogger on her site, The Political Voices of Women. The blog was inspired by New York Times journalist Katharine Seelye's column purporting to shed light on why there are few women political bloggers.

While a journalist with access to the resources of the Times couldn't find women political bloggers, Catherine put together a list of 200+ women political bloggers in, well, a New York minute.

Perhaps Seelye was blinded by the monochromatic glare from the male-dominated YearlyKos and didn't see the political bloggers who attended BlogHer '07, the largest ever conference of women bloggers. The program included a session on how to write great political coverage (I was one of the presenters). Um, Ms. Seelye, ain't I a woman.

The MSM's marginalization of minorities and women means we must tell our own stories. Indeed, I'm reminded of the African proverb: "Until the lion writes his own story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter."