I’m pretty sure this isn’t the effect the RNC was hoping for after Sarah Palin’s speech:
St. Paul delegates are giddy with Sarah Palin’s speech. The mood is buoyant, enlivened, energized. It’s a party. There are revelers. The faces shine with joy and pleasure at a convention finally fully underway. Their VP nominee did it – [...]
One of The Right’s most common attacks on Obama is that he’s “an empty suit”, that he’s nothing but a flashy showman reading teleprompter speeches to try to con the audience, to trick them into believing he actually has substance. It’s a completely bogus charge but, given the focus on Palin this weekend as “more [...]
Today’s selection of important stories you might have missed:
~ Sean Hannity doesn’t ever remember Chelsey Clinton getting attacked. I suppose we’ve always been at war with Eastasia as well, eh Sean?
~ What happens when people peaceable assemble in America? Well, if it’s next to a GOP convention they get teargassed and flashbanged. Apparently the 1st [...]
Over at Talking Points Memo Josh Marshall brings up a good point regarding John McCain’s VP pick: she seems to be in lockdown mode.
On the RNC website they have a clock that shows the time: “Since Joe Biden’s last gaffe”. Perhaps the Democrats should put up a clock of their own, the time: “Since Sarah [...]
Today’s selection of important stories you might have missed:
- When asked today what exactly it was about Sarah Palin that made her qualified to be Commander-In-Chief McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds couldn’t come up with a good answer. Note to McCain: that’s not good.
- Speaking of Palin ardent Hillary Clinton supporter James Carville was attacked today [...]
Let’s get one thing straight: Bristol Palin should not, under any circumstances, become the direct subject of media scrutiny. It’s none of our business who the child of her father is or what he’s doing, the details of her pregnancy, or anything about her save that she’s the pregnant daughter of a rabid pro-life/fundamentalist “family values” politician [...]
In the GOP world when you can’t win on the issues you claim elections aren’t about issues, they’re about personalities. When you can’t win on personalities you go on the attack, you try to make voters fear your opponent. Think of it as “The Political Theory of Stupid”. It’s crude, it’s offensive, and McCain campaign [...]
Fueled by a combined movement of undecided voters and former Hillary Clinton supporters that began during the course of the Democratic National Convention the Gallup Daily tracking poll is reporting that Barrack Obama has reached the increased his support to a solid 50% point.
McCain’s trying to play the president while politicizing the gulf coast hurricane preparations, New Orleans has been evacuated and coalition troops formally handed over security control of Iraq’s Anbar province on Monday.
These are all major stories and yet, in spite of it all what’s been the topic of conversation around the political water coolers for [...]
For a guy who once advised John Kerry to lay off the Vietnam references lest they be used against him McCain sure has changed his tune as of late.
Take his housing gaffe. It has absolutely nothing to do with the fact John McCain was a prisoner of war. Nothing. Does that stop the [...]
