sweetheart-mine

read the post above yours. there isn't much fondness for the political parties on these boards, so your lovely "they're so far up their respective party's ass" is, well, untrue for the most part -- just as reactionary as you probably see many other posts.

thanks for writing this. it expresses so well what many independents, including myself, have come to this time around and why. although he isn't "my everything" in a politician (no politician could be!), i might be a bit more enthusiastic about obama than you -- i do like him a lot -- which makes your donation to his campaign and thoughts of working for it all the more telling about what's at stake in this election.

that would be good, because you contribute nothing but simple and simplistic darts. your approach is like that of a bad cognitive behavioral therapist or a junior high school debate class. it's getting old as hell. i respect and sometimes learn from the posts of some other conservatives on this board. and, as someone said earlier, you are not one of them. cheers.

that was one of the most ignorant aspects of some speeches, particularly palin's of all people. with her record, she's got no ammunition to be mocking anybody's work anywhere.

he has given hundreds or thousands of speeches on the stump across the nation during the primary campaign and now the general election campaign. no doubt some were written by speechwriters, although from everything i've read he plays a substantial role in creating his speeches. other than that, he speaks off the cuff -- again has probably done so hundreds or thousands of times -- and participated in i don't know how many unscripted nationally televised debates. sarah palin has done none of this. she read a tiny speech last friday, and a long speech last night. no contest there, if yo

1. i thought biden's speech was both specific and rallying, which actually was more than i expected -- and what does that have to do with last night's convention performances? biden wasn't as new and charming as palin, if that's what you mean. 2. my "disdain for the party as a whole"? you must be lumping a lot of posters into one group, and you're wrong to do that. if you paid attention to posts, you'd knock off that lumping. i've been voting for many years, and i vote according to the issues and the integrity of the individual. very occasionally that has meant i voted for a repub

thank you for providing one of many examples of differences between the conventions. one was civil at the most basic human level, and one wasn't.

i question whether the people at the democratic convention were cheering as blindly. they hadn't just met their v.p. candidate four days ago, and there was no example set there for the idiotic meanness of guiliani, the empty and completely unknown "tough" charm of palin, blah blah blah. i'd hate to be at any convention, but i see a big difference between the two this year and i don't like it.

oh yes, clearly. they do agree with the things that were said -- lies, sarcasm, arrogance, belittling for the sake of belittling, the whole bit. i'm not saying similar things don't happen at dem conventions, but i didn't see many of them at this year's dem convention. mccain and his crew look small in comparison, both to this year's dem convention and to past years' repub conventions. i'm surprised to feel disappointed by that.

and they may be right. i can't claim much confidence in the big picture at this point. maybe optimism will creep back in overnight. but the sight of pod people applauding lies and performance art from an unknown charmer thrust out there by a wild-minded "presidential" nominee does lower my expectations a bit -- every time.

not sure about that. he definitely thrives in the "town hall" type of atmosphere, but behind a podium with no script? he has floundered and foundered before in that type of setting.

conventions are emotional events, for those there and, in various ways, for those watching from a distance. and then they end. having seen palin speak (once before, last friday, like most everyone else), i knew that tonight she would charm, lower her voice this time, charm, talk tough, charm, highlight her "family values," charm, fake some knowledge of foreign relations issues, charm, and belittle & sneer at obama either covertly or overtly. (it turned out to be fairly overt, though no one will ever top guiliani, who i have to admit i always thought was a jackass.) i didn't know sh

it really has been striking: the RNC speeches all have alluded to problems created in the last eight years as if it were the other party that has been in power and created those problems. no, people, my yellow sweater is not purple. no matter how many times you try to make me think it.

palin is mccain's idea of his own obama, only she makes up a whole lot more stuff when she talks (or reads the speech, whichever).

yah, that was strange, to actually highlight her own lie -- and the pod people applaud her for it. they must know better, at least some of them. i'm sorry to see so many pod people there. also, i hope she credits whoever wrote this speech. i think she's fairly good at performance, though, which i sort of expected from her background.

:lol the humor on this board is saving me.

giuliani loves attacks. way more than i realized.

to me he's turned it into a fairly ugly scene. i would not like to think what we're seeing is the epitome of republicanism; other years haven't led me to that conclusion. hopefully these are just the death throes of the neocon aspect of the party.

whoa, i meant monthly monthly monthly that's what i get for trying to listen to giuliani and think at the same time.

ohhhh yessssss. $10 billion a day in iraq and counting, for starters. funny they're not talking about that at the convention.

ah, another distraction from the most crucial issues of the day. aren't we getting enough of those distractions from the genius speakers at the RNC tonight?

remy would tell you to unpress the SAP button on your television remote.

just love those endings. and yet another dinn trophy homerun theft by jacoby -- he is so much fun to watch out there.

that is really funny, but please don't say it! sssssh.

my 83-year-old mother just wrote to this to me in an email: "Hi - I really am stunned that McCain would pick a young mother who might end up being president. She is certainly not qualified now and with five young children she should tend to her family for awhile yet. Maybe if she had been her 17-year old daughter wouldn't be pregnant. How can anybody vote for him, and wouldn't it be gruesome if he got to be president!" politics aside, as a teenager i wanted her to go out and get a job So Bad!