Both sides just feed us what we want to hear and then do what they want.

I hate to be the one to break the news, but it's called Politics.

Tonight wasn't the test for Palin as she was in a room full of friends, who would cheer anything she said. Heck, they even cheered her promise to be an advocate for mentally disadvantaged children. And her husband, who wants to secede from the country, got a standing ovation. She did well as expected, and I liked her but I don't know that she can lead the country.

I've said before that the more I acquire experience, the less convinced I am that it is absolutely necessary. However, I think the Republicans are doing her a disservice by overstating and puffing up her qualifications as mayor and a brief tenure as governor of Alaska. Nobody's buying it, but we'll let her be judged on her merits. I'll give her a fair shot although the election will eventually come down to McCain and Obama, and I will vote for Obama.

By the way, as her family took the stage after the speech (and they are a good looking family), my attention was on the young man, who is now referred to as "Bristol's beau." I thought that only in America, can a young teenage high school hockey player from a remote town in Alaska knock up his girlfriend, and suddenly find himself on center stage with the presidential and vice-presidential candidate of a major party at their convention.

Well, he DID score and didn't ice the puck!

On MSNBC Rachel Maddow stated that Politico.com is reporting that Palin sat through a church service during which a spokesman for a Messianic Jews organization stated that Israel deserved terrorist attacks because the Jews refues to accept Christ.

You don't say!! I never would've been able to figure that one out on my own. Thanks for the help.

You're welcome

You just did a community service by explaining that.

Yeah, I might have to regrade that one. I thought he worked the room well, but it was pretty much just empty attacks.

JL, I agree. Yes, it was rousing, yes it was a crowd-pleaser. But it was attack after attack after attack. I didn't like the content, although it was certainly delivered with style.

Well at least it wasn't a unilateral attack!

It's just politics. The nominee for Veep is supposed to give the "red meat" speech, and that is exactly what Palin did.

"Every sentence in a Rudy speech are 3 parts: A Noun, a Verb, and 9/11" - Joe Biden

The lesser Keynote speech this year: Mark Warner or Rudy?

I didn't even see Warner's speech.

Jeremiah Wright 2: Electric Boogaloo

But really, what difference is there between these Evangelical nutjobs on both sides of the American political aisle, and the Taliban besides the fact that one totally transformed a whole country's law, culture, and law to their "holy standards" while the other is trying to do the same?

Yeah, that's what he's hoping.

Anyway, the media as I predicted yesterday is praising the Palin speech to the high heavens.

Then again, am I the only one who thinks there might be a slight problem when the climax of expectations in last week's DNC was the Obama speech at Invesco Field, and this week at the RNC its a speech by the VP candidate?

To put it another way, imagine if everyone last week as more concerned with Biden's speech than they were with Obama's.

Actually, everyone last week was more concerned with the Clintons' speeches, than Obama's.

At worst, if McCain wins, she'll be an Agnew as in:

(1) Attack Dog for White House (like most VPs are)
(2) Irrelevant
(3) A deterrent against impeaching the President.

Then again, some people have joked (inappropriately) that Hillary should have been Obama's running mate, just because she would be a good insurance policy for him against a sniper bullet.



Yeah, though if this had happened 20-30 years ago, most of us probably would have laughed at it and thought that we was France and not America.

Oh how times change.

Were they? I had the sense that they were the mid-card compared to Obama the main event, you know? The expectations were extremely high for him, and most people seem to think that he met them.

A friend of mine emailed me this question:

"With the McCain speech tonight, if I was to play a drinking game for how many times he mentions 9/11, should I not go to work tomorrow?"

Oh and Appleonya, you said that McCain didn't attack Obama for his lack of experience:

McCain questions Obama’s judgment, experience

By Jim Snyder
Posted: 09/03/08 08:45 PM [ET]
Nearly a week after Barack Obama questioned his judgment and temperament, Sen. John McCain fired back in an interview with ABC News, saying his opponent in the race for the presidency “doesn’t know how the world works.”

“He has no knowledge or experience or judgment. [He] doesn’t know … how the world works nor how the military works,” the Arizona Republican said.

“I do and I can lead and secure the peace.”

ABC News anchor Charlie Gibson had asked McCain to respond to Obama’s charge, delivered in his nomination acceptance speech in Denver last week, that McCain likes to say he would follow Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell, “but he won’t even follow him to the cave where he lives.”

Gibson also pressed McCain about his decision to select Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. Some news reports have raised questions about how thoroughly the campaign vetted Palin after details of her unmarried daughter’s pregnancy, her past support for congressional earmarks and other issues became public.

McCain said Palin was “vetted by the people of Alaska,” and that she was “by far” the best candidate for the job.

He also offered kind words to Obama, in addition to the criticism. “He has accomplished great things and he has motivated people and so — he loves his country, just as I do. It’s just the differences that we have.”

http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/mccain-questions-obamas-judgment-experience-2008-09-03.html

With the Rudy speech last night, look what I found on youtube:



From back in the primary earlier this year, but that sarcastic look while eating at the end did make me laugh for some reason.

Speaking of which, Obama will be on tonight's THE O'REILLY FACTOR, which surprises me.

Why? I mean just this week, McCain cancelled an appearance on softball interviewer Larry King's program, and now Obama will go into the Lion's Den of perhaps the one media personality many of them despise more than any other (Sorry Rush, you're so 1994).

Will it work or backfire? Who knows.

Me too. That sarcastic look speaks volumes.

I can't believe he's on tonight, but for the opposite reason. Why would O'Reilly give Obama free prime time airtime on the night McCain is giving his acceptance speech?

In Feb. or March of 2003, I specifically recall O'Reilly on Good Morning America, discussing the pending war with Iraq. The invasion did not yet start, and he was making the case for war. He was asked, "What if we go to war and learn that there are no weapons of mass destruction?"

He replied arrogantly in no uncertain terms that he would never trust Bush again and become his most outspoken critic. I guess he meant "apologist."

Bill O'Reilly losing his mind still cracks me up.

Man, that's hilarious!