Maureen Dowd – ‘Barbies for War!’ – Op-Ed
The rant begins thusly,
Carly Fiorina, the woman John McCain sent out to defend Sarah Palin and rip anyone who calls her a tabula rasa on foreign policy and the economy, admitted Tuesday that Palin was not capable of running Hewlett-Packard.
That’s pretty damning coming from Fiorina, who also was not capable of running Hewlett-Packard.
Hoo boy. And it continues. …
Ephron doesn’t have as rosy a take on Hillary’s speech last night as I do:
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“My favorite part of Hillary Clinton’s speech last night was when she admonished her followers not to put their affection for her over the issues. When she reminded them that what’s at stake is far more crucial than their loyalty to her. When she reproved them for thinking for even a moment that her historic thrilling campaign was more important than the real campaign to defeat the Republicans.
“Where any of her followers could have gotten the idea doesn’t seem to have crossed her mind. The fish stinks from the head down. The Clintons’ narcissism (and yes, I know, it’s an overused term but if there was ever a moment for it in our national life, this is it) perfumed every bit of Hillary’s campaign, and it leaked down to her contributors and followers. “Were you in it for me” was her funniest line of the night.”
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So far … tops on my list: Michelle Obama’s speech. Kucinich. Hillary’s.
… and Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer.
What a guy. You go KICK BUTT, Schweitzer!
He had them up and cheering.
“Stand up, Colorado! Stand up!”
“Florida! Stand up!”
“Michigan! Stand up!”
“Pennsylvania! Stand up!”
“Get off of your hind end!
“In the cheap seats! Stand up!”
Entertaining.
Mark Warner Democratic Convention Speech: Text
I am way not keen on Mark Warner.
As I watched his speech, something went woop!woop!woop! in the background.
Amazing speech.
“No way. No how. No McCain.”
“Keep going. …”
Well done, Hillary.
Took me a long time to get the vid for this, so if you’ve been having the same sorts of issues, here you go.
I don’t remember other political spouses doing their thing at conventions.
Michelle’s was … pretty good! I think.
… and I think, after labeling this “politics,” maybe I should have a “2008 elections” label, eh?
Update: I’ve added an election2008 label to the stasho’labels. I’ll fill it in over the next while.
Towse’s True Confessions…
I have never been a Ted Kennedy fan, for various reasons I won’t go into here.
But this made me cry.
(Thought it was interesting that C-SPAN thought they had to identify Caroline Kennedy as “daughter of John F. Kennedy”.)
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