I wonder if Obama and the rest of the Democratic Party on the whole - but especially the bigwigs - realize that if Gustav is half the storm it sounds like it might be, they ought to be not out campaigning early next week, but pitching in in the Gulf states - as true leaders, […]

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National Weather Service has Hurricane Gustav tracking west of New Orleans.
Via The Oil Drum, take a gander at what lies offshore to the west of New Orleans:

Those would be oil and gas rigs.
Going to be a scary few days, for many many reasons.

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Hey, a non-Palin post! Came up on the MP3 player the other day - Lenny Kravitz, from Mama Said. Rawks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id9SDhXWe58

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Via Josh Marshall - not to worry about Palin’s utter and complete lack of national security bona fides - she’ll learn at the feet of the master. Who - most doctors think! - will live that long.

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A must read.

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Some 38.3 million people watched Obama’s speech last night - Neilsen says it’s a record (compare it to 24.4 million for Kerry’s speech in ‘04, 27.5 million for Bush’s speech in ‘04).
Higher ratings than the opening ceremonies in Beijing. Higher ratings than the finale for last season’s “American Idol”; higher ratings than the Academy Awards.
Then […]

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In which we learn that Palin does too have foreign policy experience - because Alaska is right next to Russia!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwWGS73v4_k

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Phone call from My Mother the Winger to discuss the boy’s impending birthday party when the topic, as always, turns to politics.
Did you hear about McCain’s VP pick, I ask.
“Yes. I think it’s terrible.”
Now, my mother the winger is a decided Mitt Romney partisan. She’s Mormon; he’s Mormon; she’s liked him all along. So she’s […]

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A quick glimpse in at The Corner shows the writers there to be almost unanimous in their praise of Palin - as is our own Joe Hainthaler.
You’ve really got to be kidding me.
As has already been noted far and wide, the Republican candidate, McCain, turns 72 today, and has a history of not being in […]

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Pawlenty out; NBC reporting the Mittster is out. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin - who she? - is being touted on Drudge as maybe The One - but now come reports she’s still in Alaska.
Who’s in Ohio, where this announcement is going to be made?
Joe Lieberman is in Ohio.
Update: And so, indeed, is Sarah Palin.
She’s the […]

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One of the most amusing aspects of Obama’s speech was the build-up regarding the “Greek columns.” AP did a story yesterday - is this going to make Obama look presumptuous? What about the fact it was going to be held in a stadium? Nuremburg!
But as Obama spoke, we didn’t even see the columns. What we […]

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Not what he should have looked like, but what he does.

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McCain apparently trying to steal some of Obama’s thunder by announcing VP - tomorrow, but it’s supposedly being (strategically, of course) leaked this evening, and there are indications it could be the Mittster.
Then again, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty has abruptly canceled a bunch of appearances, so maybe not.
Meanwhile, McCain - getting less classy by the […]

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Hey, WGAL ain’t the only ones who can do video promos. Ain’t the internets grand?

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World Nut Daily, as if on cue with the next “Hey - Didja know Obama is a knee-grow?” comment:
In his August 25 WorldNetDaily column, Craig R. Smith, who co-wrote Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil (WND Books, October 2005) with Obama Nation author and WND staff writer Jerome Corsi, […]

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Memories of Katrina likely to be plastered across your TV screen next week when the GOP takes the stage:

MSNBC just noted that with Gustav likely to hit the Gulf Coast next week this could be a “split-screen convention” for the Republicans.
A Gulf Coast hurricane disrupting the GOP’s messaging during convention week — three years after […]

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Funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr8y9BVP2e0

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Glenn Greenwald on what’s been missing from the Democratic Convention:
The GOP’s attacks on Kerry in 2004 were mocking, scornful, derisive, demonizing and deeply personal — in speech after speech — and they were also highly effective. They weren’t the slightest bit deterred by the fact that Kerry was a war hero who was wounded multiple […]

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And it’s a hella speech.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl7Jc8tNxck

Sullivan:
But since 2000, the worst aspects of Republicanism have crowded out its once necessary virtues. The reflexive impulse to use force over diplomacy, to use aggression over persuasion, to spend and borrow with no concern for the future, and to violate sacred principles such as the eschewal of torture with no […]

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Missed Clinton’s speech and John Kerry’s speech last night - both of which were said to have been excellent; will catch them on the Web later today - but did make it back from the fantasy football draft in time to watch Biden.
Wow.
If there’s a criticism of his speech, it’s that he didn’t lay into […]

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