two main topics i want to discuss and just some minor ones i wants to touch upon.
first...as a follow-up to the democratic national convention.
well, actually, first.... wolf blitzer just cut off someone from NOLA who was describing a dire situation where it appears some levees might be about to give way. he cut him off.... a man who was passing along some very important information.... so we could listen to laura bush address the republican national convention.
indeed, laura bush must clearly be more important than NOLA going under water again.
jesus.....
but...this does lead me into some aftermath talking points of the DNC.
hillary can't win
as we all know... hillary gave a helluva speech on tuesday night. it did so much to unify the party and move the entire obama campaign forward.
first....how does the rudepundit on tuesday night say, "rarely does one witness someone eating shit with such energy, grace, and aplomb." and then write such a glowing review on wednesday morning? i've lost so much love for the rudepundit.
but back to cnn. i think just about everyone agreed that hillary did everything she needed to do (except, maybe, fox news). but to emphasize the fact that the entire great divide between hillary and obama was driven by the media... a media that is still unwilling to let it go, cnn had the following story on their website:
(CNN) — What did Hillary Clinton's body language give away at the Democratic National Convention?
Dan Hill, a body language expert and author of "Face Time," told CNN that even while the words Clinton delivered offered an unequivocal endorsement of Barack Obama, her body language was much less affirmative.
"When she spoke about Obama, she really did not emote very much," Hill said. "The only thing she showed was a very weak smile, the cheeks didn't tend to lift very much, it was really almost what I would call a 'crocodile smile' where even the slight corners of the lips sometimes raise into a little bit of a smirk."
"I don't think that helped move the 30 percent of her supporters who say they won't vote for Obama," Hill added. "What she did do was appeal to voters at large, that she did more emotionally."
body language? seriously? you guys can't find shit to fault her with in her actual speech so you decide to attack her body language. come one, cnn.... get your shit together.
countdown to forgiveness
keith olbermann continues to make amends for his jackassery during the primary season. he seems to be annoyed by everyone at msnbc and he's doing his best to move the dialogue positively forward.
i'm not ready to forgive him yet... but sunday night football starts soon and i'd like to hear him recap games without a sneer.
separation of church & state, anyone?
i'm sorry... but that rick warren forum on faith never should have happened. i don't give a shit what religion my president subscribes to and his (or her, someday) religion should never make a difference in their executive decision making.
separation of church and state was one of the few things the founding fathers got right. why can we not seem to keep the two separate?
i'm growing more annoyed by the day as religion becomes a bigger and bigger part of our national, political dialogue.
hillary is right
is anyone else amazed that the republican party and john mccain are using hillary clinton in their ads to sell mccain as president? i mean... doesn't hillary represent everything evil in the minds of the GOP? and yet... now they have commercials that say "hillary is right."
really? i mean... i know hillary's right... i'm just happy to hear the republicans finally get it.
did you hear about john mccain?
apparently he was a POW during the vietnam war... i guess for about five years or so.
now... i don't mean to demean this sacrifice.... but when mccain uses the excuse for every fucking thing in the world... he diminishes it himself.
maureen dowd, the fauxgressive of the times, did write a fabulous article about this last week. and i was kind of aware of it... but when mccain was on leno the other night and leno made some joke about "how many houses do you really have?" mccain got all grave and said, "can i be serious just for a minute..." and then went into his years spent as a POW. ummm.... what does that have to do with the fact that you can't even remember how many houses you own?
also.... the republicans had no problem dismissing john kerry's vietnam service back in 2004 saying "oh...that was forty years ago." ummmm....so was mccain's time in the hanoi hilton.
are we allowed to dismiss it so willy-nilly?
sarah barracuda
so.... how 'bout that surprise pick by john mccain back on friday? pundits on the 24 hour news channels weren't even sure how to pronounce her name.
loyal readers will remember that i mentioned governor palin about a month ago but quickly dismissed her. it looks like mccain should have done the same.
now... i will admit that palin of alaska seems like a great choice.... for about a week. but what does she ultimately bring to the ticket? she's been governor of a state that ranks 48th in population for about 20 months (not even two years). no foreign relations experience (despite fox news' insistence that alaska being right next door to russia gives her experience).
also.... it takes away mccain's main argument against obama: his lack of experience.
all old man jokes aside....mccain is 72. that's not young... and his health has not been great. his veep is much closer to the "heartbeat away from the presidency" than most. does anyone really feel like palin could step in on day one and run the country?
i mean.... palin gets the party excited. she's got a great backstory. she's charming and stunningly beautiful. (obviously, mccain has a soft spot for ex-beauty queens.)
but she won't bring along any hillary supporters. she's hardcore pro-life. she's evangelical. she's a hunter, a fisher... her favorite meal is moose stew... and she wants to take polar bears off the endangered species list. polar bears!
and she's a strong, strong supporter of abstinence only education in school. no contraception. no safe sex education. abstinence only.
and, um, did i mention her unmarried, seventeen year old daughter is five months pregnant?
yeah..... clearly the abstinence only education has worked well for the palin family.
and i'm not even going into what the news channels are already calling "troopergate." all i want to say is... this is a lot of surprises in the first weekend following a friday morning announcement.
can't wait to see what comes out next!
e.
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