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.
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:
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)
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.
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.”
Wow! Ted Kennedy was electrifying. He showed up and delivered a fantastic speech despite having had surgery earlier this summer to deal with his brain tumor. Who could have thought that Kennedy would be outdone later in the evening?
Michelle Obama gave one of the best speeches I have seen. It was incredible. She made the case not just for Barack Obama, but for Democratic ideals. Ours is a party that is not content with the world as it is, but wants to strive for the world as it should be. That is the center of Barack Obama’s message, and Michelle delivered it perfectly tonight.
Barack stood up that day, and spoke words that have stayed with me ever since. He talked about “The world as it is” and “The world as it should be.” And he said that all too often, we accept the distance between the two, and settle for the world as it is - even when it doesn’t reflect our values and aspirations. But he reminded us that we know what our world should look like. We know what fairness and justice and opportunity look like. And he urged us to believe in ourselves - to find the strength within ourselves to strive for the world as it should be. And isn’t that the great American story?
