Well...

It doesn't help to say it, but I told you so.

Yes We Can.

That is all.

Fucking A.

Awesome

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That One?!?!?!

Really?



The last few days have seen the McSame/Pale Imitation team sink into muck that might just be unprecidented in American politics.

But, "That one?"

Really?

Have they really decided to abandoned coded racism and just go for it?

Well, I know who I'm voting for...

Is It Me?

I opted out of the RNC coverage tonight in favor of a good book, but I've been tuning in to the re-runs and just caught W's video address.

But, doesn't it suck? Convention talking heads are in short supply from what I've seen, but the speeches, the stage craft, the images, simply seem to suck.

I've been guilty of overestimating the American people in the past, but, really?

When W was speaking and the camera pulled back from his screen, I kept seeing empty seats.

Fred Thompson is pretty good, if you like that kind of thing, but isn't he a Hollywood homo anyway?

And, well, he lied. My favorite Law and Order prosecutor seems to have forgotten that McCain, in July, told a PA reporter that he named the Steeler's defensive line as his Squadron mates while a POW. Tonight, as it has been in the past, it was the Packers.

Pandering to the audience?

Cognitive Dissonance

I don't really care that the daughter of an "abstinence only" politician has found herself knocked up at 17, when, perhaps, a condom or two might have been useful.

But, this line, from the initial story, caught my eye:

Bristol Palin made the decision on her own to keep the baby, McCain aides said.

I wasn't aware that McCain or his aides thought there was a choice in this kind of matter? Has he changed his position?

And, this line, from the official statement, caught my eye too:

We're proud of Bristol's decision to have her baby and even prouder to become grandparents.(emph mine)

I'm so very confused. Palin has supported parental notification laws, which would seem to indicate that, for Bristol at least, it's not her decision at all. Because she's not 18. But, more importantly, she subscribes to a world view in which the decision to have a child isn't a decision at all, but rather the will of God.

The stories do dovetail, however, with a McSame statement from 2000, when asked what would happen if his own then teenaged daughter became pregnant:

I would discuss this issue with Cindy and Meghan, and this would be a private decision that we would share within our family and not with anyone else," McCain told reporters in New Hampshire on board his campaign bus nicknamed "The Straight Talk Express. "Obviously I would encourage her to bring, to know that baby would be brought up in a warm and loving family, but the final decision would be made by Meghan with our advice and counsel."

So, Senator McSame and Gov. Palin, does/did Bristol actually have a choice here? Just curious.

Stunning

The Speech? Unfuckingbelivable. Pat Buchanan was wetting himself about how good it was. Pat Buchanan. Bizaro world.

But, mostly, how could anyone remotely familiar with American history not get shivers to think that, 45 years to the day after "I Have A Dream," an African American man steps up to the podium and says,

To Chairman Dean and my great friend Dick Durbin; and to all my fellow citizens of this great nation;
With profound gratitude and great humility, I accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States.

45 Years, 43 years since the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I have friends older than 43.