I departed from my policy of getting convention news only via Daily Show reruns last night, and watched Obama's big acceptance speech. You can find substantive commentary elsewhere, and endless reams of wankery about whether he did what he "needed" to do, blah, blah, blah.
My main thought watching it was "Boy, it would sure be nice to have a President whose speeches aren't physically painful to listen to." The man sure can deliver a speech.
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Roger puts up another post (guest post, gotta love plausible deniability) about James Hansen:
blah blah blah....dictator who ordered millions of people to be gassed and then burned in crematoria...blah blah blah
Hey! You took advantage of my prolonged absence trapped in a metal tube hurtling at 37,000 feet above the Atlantic to fill up the last endless thread. Sneaky.
So Kallen over at the Biojournalism blog goes on a diatribe about great Echinoderms are, blah blah blah regeneration blah blah blah pentaradial symmetry. She then asks of her readers:
I couldn't agree more! Someone with some charisma AND someone who can pronounce words...
It was a good speech, and isn't the contrast amazing? While I watched I was wondering if Bush will give a speech at the republican convention.
By my count, he made 26 promises. I wonder how many he'd be able to live up to, if elected.
Harvard Law School is the Boalt Hall of the East. Are we playing toward Jeffersonian expectations for Obama? Anybody with kids knows the limits of command - and, on a good day, threadable loopholes.
It is incompetent fascists, corporatists, and double-digit IQ christ-besotted jackasses (Manchurian candidate McCain) against bleeding heart Liberals, welfare pimps, Enviro-whiners, feminazis, and Queer Nation (Dark Lord of the Senate). Anything not dripping God and entrenched stupidity can be made to work.
That last sentence excludes McCain's platform.