I am beyond ready to see a woman running that White House (as long as her name isn’t Sarah Palin). Could you, in fact, be that woman? I certainly don’t see why not.

I used to think that I would be in politics someday—in the House was where I wanted to be, that’s where all the action is!—and I had plenty of people ready to campaign for me while I was in college. But that was before I had my daughter, settled down a little bit (or stopped screaming about George W, the Boy King—long enough to breathe in between screaming, anyway), and focused on being a provider rather than much of a muckraker. That doesn’t mean that it will never happen; that just means it won’t happen just yet.

The White House Project, a movement dedicated to getting more women leaders involved in our political system, is holding a bunch of trainings this fall for women who want to start running this country. And the more women (non-moose hunting women, of course) running it, the better, says I.

Go Run is a training program that “will provide you and the women in your life with the inspiration, information and necessary tools to lead a political life.” The program will be in Colorado during July 24^th and 25^th, Florida from September 25^th to 27^th, New York for October 9^th and 10^th, and in Wisconsin during October 23^rd and 24^th.

In addition to the workshops, The White House Project has suggested reading the Forbes list of seven steps for running for office if you are ready to get started. I remember being armed with Michael Moore’s Stupid White Men and feeling ready for my role as soon as I was old enough! Now I can’t find that book anywhere; I think I let somebody borrow it and they never gave it back…

Boy do I miss being on the political scene; when all of the Obama excitement was going on, I was nursing some bitter layoff blues and didn’t do nearly as much as I did for Kerry—a man I didn’t support even half as much in my heart as I did for Obama. When my little girl’s a bit bigger, we’ll get back in the game—and you can bet if there’s a woman running for that seat (who is really a woman, and not a man dressed in a Barbie costume), we’ll be knocking on your door.