It's nice to see that both Joe Biden and Sarah Palin were able to rise above the incredibly low bars set for them. All Biden had to do was not stick his foot in his mouth or act condescending towards his opponent; all Palin had to do was stand upright and remember not to ask Gwen Ifill if she could buy a vowel ( Read more... )

Once again snurched from kradical (where does he find them?)

( Lotsa questions behind the cut )

And that's why I'm not voting for you.

By you, I of course mean the McCain/Palin ticket, which has over the past two weeks convinced me through their tone-deafness ("The fundamentals are still strong!"), their cluelessness (see Palin's sit-down with Katie Couric), and their grandstanding ("Sorry, Dave, I'm rushing back to Washington to take charge ( Read more... )

Snurched from kradical

( A bunch of questions behind the cut )

If you didn't catch Late Show with David Letterman last night, get thee to YouTube and see if there's any clips up. Dave was on fire last night, and with good reason. John McCain bailed as a guest at the last minute, claiming the need to rush back to Washington and help solve the economic crisis before "our economy craters," as he put it to Dave ( ( Read more... )

The gang in TNZ had some fun with the McCain campaign's assertion that greenhorn VP candidate Sarah Palin is an expert on our foreign relations with Russia because Alaska shares a maritime border with that country. So if that's all it takes to put her on par with Condi Rice (who has a Ph.D. in that area), what would it take to make us more ( Read more... )

Seems Dayton3 wants to write a Trek novel.

Dayton3: Isn't there a saying somewhere that everyone has at least one good book in them?
Trent Roman: Yep. The key is getting it out in the narrow timeframe before the stomach acids make it unreadable.
 As laughable as I think that is, at least he's trying to back up his bitching about the character-driven ( Read more... )

So McCain defied the conventional wisdom and passed over Romney (looks & talks like a used car salesman), Ridge (pro-choice, so the evangelicals would pitch a fit), Pawlenty (who?), and Lieberman (despite his "independent" status and his pro-Iraq stance, he's still with the Democrats more often than not) for Alaska Governor Sarah Palin ( Read more... )

Well, that was four nights of awesome. From the surprise Ted Kennedy appearance to the outstanding keynote speeches from Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, and tonight Barack Obama, I've never been this psyched about a political campaign. (At least not in a positive way; in '06 I was psyched for Bob Casey only because a ( Read more... )

When I watch a convention, I want to watch the convention. I don't want to listen to the endless rambling of Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann, or watch Rachel Maddow and Pat Buchanan do everything they can not to kill each other. It seems like they've been talking over half the speakers, and only shutting up for the famous speakers (Michelle ( Read more... )