So how are people feeling now? There was a lot of doom and gloom after the first two nights, but I think things are going well. I know a bunch of you hate it when they keep calling McCain their friend, but I am completely cool with them saying “John McCain is my friend” while …
Archives for August 2008
Convention Open Thread
We needed another one. 7:30 Maxine Waters got the biggest cheer in quite some time. 7:45 pm: Flipped to MSNBC and listened to Scarborough babble for 5 minutes. Next is Luke Russert. Back to c-span. 7:55 pm: The list of Senators who are dynamic speakers does not include Jay Rockefeller. 8:00 pm: I hereby declare …
Convention Open Thread
Seems this shin-dig is starting promptly at five pm. I am watching on C-Span for now, because I simply can not take any more babble from the pinheads. 5:27 pm: Ok. This is boring as hell, so I will talk about something else for a bit. About the ‘Greek Columns’ nonsense that the blogosphere seems …
Why Rachel Maddow is Smarter than 99% of The People On Television
One quote: Unlike Olbermann, Maddow plans to interview some conservative guests. But she is determined to avoid the left-right pairings that sustain much of cable news. “It creates fake balance,” she says. “I’m sorry — we’re going to have a debate about whether or not the Earth is flat? It doesn’t make sense to have …
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Classy
The modern Republican Party: The head of the Snohomish County Republican Party apologized Tuesday after the organization’s booth at the Evergreen State Fair in Monroe sold “$3 bills” depicting Barack Obama wearing Arab headgear and featuring a camel. Geri Modrell, the Snohomish County Republican chairwoman, said a volunteer had brought the bills to the fair …
OMG, He Was In The Same Room
Good old Fox news with the hot Ayers scoop: Obama’s association with Ayers, who now teaches at the university, has become an issue in the Illinois senator’s presidential campaign. The Weather Underground took credit for several nonfatal bombings on targets that included the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol, and critics accuse Obama of rubbing elbows …
Specifics
Stories like this befuddle me: Modern presidential conventions are mostly political circus, but for Senator Barack Obama, the question is whether the theatrics and drama of this one are overwhelming one of his most important tasks here: connecting with the economic anxiety gripping voters and convincing them that he has concrete and achievable solutions. Democrats …