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.
Best line from the Weekly Standard Blog: “We’ll get to dust off Joe Biden’s greatest hits, a pleasurable task that will take weeks.”
I love Warren Buffett, but his politics just don’t match up with the pure capitalism that is Berkshire Hathaway. This quote from a New York Times Magazine article sums up what Obama would do to us:
“If you talk to Warren, he’ll tell you his preference is not to meddle in the economy at all — let the market work, however way it’s going to work, and then just tax the heck out of people at the end and just redistribute it,” Obama said. “That way you’re not impeding efficiency, and you’re achieving equity on the back end.” He continued by saying that he thought there was some merit in Buffett’s argument.
