...even with a studdered delivery:

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To be fair, McCain is not an orator. The parts of the speech where he needed to make his point, he did.

Particularly moving portions of the speech included his retelling of his time in Hanoi, with a very telling portion:

"I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else's. I loved it ( Read more... )

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Governor Palin came out swinging ( Read more... )

Disclaimer: This is not my opinion, but the opinion of the presenter.

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He has a valid point. Why all this talk about inexperience for Sarah Palin? She's not running for President. She's not inexperienced. She has more executive experience than the other 3 people on the two tickets. The Obama camp cannot deny this.

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This video is one of many on YouTube, a guitarist from Japan who happens to love Tak Matsumoto as much as I do (evidenced by my never changing avatar). This is a song off of "BIG MACHINE" called "Ai to Nikushimi no Hajimari". This guitar player has some impressive chops, and this is one of Tak's more diverse sounding rhythm tracks. Enjoy!

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What do you get when you mix a conservative (small c), pro-life, pro-gun, mother of 5, with a reputation for rooting out corruption in her OWN party ( Read more... )

Regardless of your political affiliation, or lack of one, this is a day we can all be proud.

Barack Obama was nominated as the first African-American Presidental candidate. It has taken 40 years from the end of the relevant civil rights movement, for this nation to finally realize Martin Luther King's vision, truly "judging not by the colour of ( Read more... )

Russia unanimously voted for recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as "independent states ( Read more... )

Come on.

~Dave

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