August 2008

Enjoy!

In perhaps the most pathetically desperate move of any presidential campaign ever, John McCain has selected Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska, as his running mate.  Apparently he is so desperate to attract some attention (and some Hillary votes? hahaha, not with this one John) that he picked the beauty queen governor.  So, who is this Palin person?  Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson can’t help us out:

I really don’t know that much about her.

Palin, before her whole year and a half as governor, was mayor of a town of 7,000 people.  WOW!  Talk about experience.  So if McCain, who readily admits he’s old and jokes about his own age, were to die in 2010, then suddenly Palin would be President?  Really?  Can we really put our country in the hands of someone with absolutely zero experience?

It gets better though!  Palin was also a pander to the wackjob religious right.  She’s pro-life, anti-gay rights, and a creationist.

Brilliant move McCain.

It was an incredible speech and a historic moment for our country.

Here’s the Obama intro:

And the speech:

Full text below the jump:

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Blatantly ripped off from billmon’s diary at DailyKos because it’s that cool:

Gallup’s latest tracking poll (a.k.a. “the worst thing to happen to journalism in ten years”) shows Obama going from up one point (45%-to-44%) over McCain yesterday (and a 2-point deficit the night before) to a six-point lead (48% to 42%) today.

And then an update from a commenter on that diary, CA Pol Junkie:

It’s not hard to get Excel to break out the day-by-day results.

August 20: O 45 M 43 
August 21: O 45 M 44 
August 22: O 45 M 45 
August 23: O 45 M 46 
August 24: O 45 M 44 
August 25: O 42 M 48 
August 26: O 48 M 40 (post-Michelle) 
August 27: O 54 M 38 (post-Hillary)

Holy shit!

Barack Obama gave an incredible speech tonight.  I’ll get the video up ASAP.

John McCain says he’ll follow bin Laden to the gates of Hell, but he won’t even follow him to the cave he lives in!

Hillary was incredible!

Here’s her introduction, narrated by Chelsea Clinton:

And her speech:

People who know me know that I tend to get very pissed off about the media advancing false arguments in the name of “fairness.”  This is the common practice of the 24 hour news networks to have someone on from both sides of an issue to fight it out on air.  The problem of course is that sometimes, one side is factually correct, and the other is not, and by giving both sides air time, the media lends legitimacy to an argument that is demonstrably false.

So in today’s Washington Post article about Rachel Maddow, I was quite happy to read this:

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 a debate about whether offshore drilling is going to bring down gas prices. You know what? It’s not. The fact that it’s false ought to be reported, or you’re advancing a lie.”

I can’t wait for her show to start!