I’m sure it pained the Huffington Post to run this story about McCain’s speech not only topping Palin’s in the ratings, but also the messianic Obama’s speech, and every other convention speech in history. Obama may be largely responsible for the surge in interest this election cycle, but that does not mean he’ll reap all the benefits.
Finally, Michael Barone does a good job of summing up the events and results of the last week at the GOP convention. Now we’ll have to see how successfully McCain/Palin can execute on the pivot they made towards being maverick reformers, instead of focusing on “experience.”
This pick looks promising - I’m still reading up on her.
In the meantime, my favorite line from National Review Online this morning about Joe Biden:
Real people don’t define “experience” as appearing on unwatched Sunday-morning talk shows every week for 35 years and having been around long enough to have got both the War on Terror and the Cold War wrong.
Joe Biden is actually the pick I was hoping for. He is actually quite a funny guy, but he often takes it too far. It’s only a matter of time before he puts his foot in his mouth again, or perhaps even his entire leg.
The idea that 6 terms in the U.S. Senate make him a “foreign policy expert” is really amusing to me. There’s a big difference between chairing a committee on foreign policy, and being the policy maker and executor of America’s foreign policy.
This goes back to the fact that Senators do not make good presidents. But then again, that’s just my opinion - I could be wrong. And yes, I realize that McCain is in the same boat.
My favorite Biden quote (of this presidential campaign) had to do with Rudy Giuliani:
There’s only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, and a verb and 9/11.