There are many facets to this story. There's the issue of yet another area where I'd urge women who are considering voting for McCain because they're mad about HRC not getting the nomination to look at his record on reproductive rights. There's the issue of yet another situation where McCain demonstrates that he has a severe case of "CRS" (Can't Remember Shit). There's the issue of one of his surrogates going off message and subsequently causing McCain to reveal his acute "CRS". We've got it all!

McCain Squirms on Birth Control Question

I know that many here at dKos may say "not another Russert diary" but it's not for those people, so if that's anyone's reaction, move along...nothing to see here.

I started to write this on Friday, that day we all got such sad news, but a day that obviously forever changed your life and your mom's life . I didn't, thinking it was kind of silly to write to someone I'll likely never meet and someone who will likely never see it. But I keep thinking these thoughts and in the days since, as I've watched you handle yourself with such maturity, grace, humor, love and wisdom beyond your years, I felt like I wanted to say these things.

Needless to say, it's been a grueling and exhausting week. I'm talking about for us. It's been beyond that for the Democratic Presidential nominee. So in the hopes of lightening the mood, winding down the week, and celebrating our nominee, I thought I'd share this story about what he's up to this weekend. More after the jump.

I don't do many diaries because usually by the time I've written them, someone's beat me to the punch. That and there are so many talented and astute people here, I figure kos world will be just fine without my meager contributions. But sometimes things are too funny to pass up and while this won't be the most issue critical diary of the day, well what the hell.

I just read sad news about the passing of Mildred Loving. For those unfamiliar with her name, she and her husband Richard ( d. 1975) were the Lovings in "Loving v. Virginia", the case decided by the Supreme Court in 1967 that struck down laws banning interracial marriages in 17 states. These were unassuming people who wanted what any other couple in love wants; to be married. I was a toddler when their landmark case was decided and at that young age completely oblivious to how grateful I would one day be to them. That day was my wedding day, when like Mildred, I married the man I loved with all my heart. Also like Mildred, I was a black woman marrying a white man. Unlike Mildred, it didn't take a Supreme Court decision for our marriage to be valid.

Mildred Loving, matriarch of interracial marriage, dies

Please be gentle with me as this is my first ever diary. I was watching Hardball just now and Chris Matthews made a slight issue over the fact that both Clinton and McCain were in Memphis today making speeches to commemorate the anniversary of Dr. King's assasination, while Obama was not. He's not the first I've heard today try to make something over the fact that Obama was not in Memphis but in Indiana, also a symbolic place this day given it was there that RFK announced King's death.