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Dispatches from Boulder the Damned
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Monday, September 08, 2008
Rain, yet again. We need it, and I'm for it, but I moved to Colorado to avoid it years ago, and it depresses me by and large.
I was pretty well appalled at the crappy interview 60 Minutes did with Bob Woodward yesterday, promoting his new book. He announced new technology that we have that dooms insurgent commanders and he can't reveal it. Horseshit. He's either placing that propoganda in play without basis but our need, or he's covering up some bribed official in Iraqi circles. If such a thing existed, we'd have bin Laden and Omar dead. But we don't, and can't seem to get those guys.
Unless they've been saving it to get McCain elected.
In an altogether predicted (by me, if nobody else) syndrome, the Democratic bloggers are in apeshit panic because the GOP picked up a lead after the conventions. Underneath all this is the growing suspicion that Obama isn't all they thought - and clue: he's not, and could not be - and may NOT be up to the job.
Far worse, they now secretly fear that Clinton was right, and that Obama would fold under the GOP smear machine. And he might, but he hasn't, and he's made few errors so far. Palin isn't what she initially seemed either, and if the media is on her, this will all fade. But at the moment it doesn't look good. The McCain group says that no media can talk to her unless they're nice, and ABC/Disney bought it and will do some interviews for a job that isn't that important. And it will be a kissy face.
I'm pissed at the weak kneed whiners, but I'm mostly pissed at how they're not accepting their major share of the blame. They screwed up in Connecticut with the immortal Ned Lamont, driving Lieberman far to the right and essentially losing a Senator who should have been courted. And they've screwed up Obama's Karma by this thin support and shallow grip of the American electorate. I have to say, I'm not convinced McCain's lead means much at present. After the Olympics and two conventions, the realities of our national problems is back with us. And that favors the Dems.
Still, Josh Marshall's prancing fears on TPM are rather doofoid, and if this hadn't occured to anyone, they've never known what they were talking about. Here's the Gallup poll.
Here's Pollster. Save this address.
Although it's a stretch - kinda - I watched the debut of the new HBO series last night True Blood (I think it is ....) about Louisianna vampires. It's by the same guy who did Six Feet Under, and that was the show that put the red haired daughter in front of me, Lauren Ambrose, who I thought was hot. But that show and this show are about being gay, in large part.
Vampire and gay have been interlaced long before Batman and Robin, and it's pretty much presented sympathetically since True Blood screams Metaphor Alert! with sirens whenever possible. There's a great deal about the supposed canon myth of vampirism that is abandoned - like, religion and need for human blood, since here they can survive on synthetic blood, and have emerged to be regular citizens. It's silly. And sorta icky in the forced speeches to advance the plot and announce how sexy the characters are. And it annoys me.
It annoys me because I see the same themes running through the dialogue on this stupid show that appear in political blogs, like Andrew Sullivan's, and all others that forced Obama to the fore. And we need to be truthful: Barrack Obama is where he is because a lot of people of both genders find him physically attractive. And I cannot forgive the Daily Kos for losing Lieberman and being so self congratulatory about it and never admit their political stupidity, quite the opposite.
That said, I've grown to admire Obama, and hope that there is more to the man than the GOP claims, because the incompetence of the GOP appended to the corruption of those in power far too long will doom this nation.
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Sunday, September 07, 2008
Since I'm off my regular computer, I'm pulling photos from the web, and man, are there some beautiful pix out there of my state. This one is of the Sneffles Range by Ouray and Telluride, and it is, by any measure, heartstoppingly beautiful. No clue as to photographer.
The Feds gets set to bail out Freddie and Fannie and absolutely nobody will be held responsible for what has to be criminal incompetence witnessed over years by many others obligated to call media attention to it, but the citizens will bail out business again, who will then bitch about guvmint interference.
After all is said and done, it seems Palin hasn't changed much out among the voters.
She's competent to be VP, even President, but she's not competent to be interviewed, or surivive the muckraking in Alaskan waters. The GOP treats us like idiots. And we are, if we let them get away with this. And this. If the media doesn't sense blood in the water, they need to hang it all up. They're worthless.
The issue of handicapped children and birth defects and out of wedlock birth - formerly Bastards - is in the news again because Sarah Palin has offered up her kids, the cute and very cute both, for consideration. She just gave birth to a Down Syndrome child, not to be unexpected in her forties, although older fathers may also contribute. So.......
If they wanted another child, they could afford it if this one needed extra care, but I wonder if that is true? While they may need enforced companionship and special schooling, Down Syndrome kids don't play football or instruments or have travel needs or grad school, so in some ways - I cannot guess - a Down Syndrome child is cheaper. But why run the risk? Why not use birth control?
We all know selfless people, nearly all of them women, who dedicate themselves to causes involving children. Childhood diabetes, birth defects, infant cancer, and others that must be acid itself to both the child in pain unimagined and unable to explain or receive explanation, and to the parents, unable to console or face a lingering death. Committees, fund raising, public education all absorb and sap energy from these women, and they're committment is deep and long lasting. I am, however, cynical by nature and would want to ask some questions.
Of these people - again, mostly women and mothers themselves - how many became engaged because and only because they have a child suffering from the issue they dedicate themselves to alleviating? Isn't it, in the cruel light of honestly, a fact they are asking for help for their child and themselves, either by tax funding from regressive taxation or by institutionalized charity? This is not an evil, of course, and understandable, because everyone cannot devote themselves to the crushing of every human birth defect, every disease. You do what you can when stuff is called to your attention.
But there are people who devote themselves to these issues - the long hours, the pain, the suffering of children and infants and their tortured parents - when it has had no role in their own life at all, just something that affected them by observation or imagination. Of all the people, mostly women again, who we all know in this sort of charity work, how many can be so described as objectively concerned with salving the suffering because it's the right thing to do, given the ability to do so, and not because it affects them directly?
And of them, how many are liberal, and how many conservative?
That is a cruel, tasteless question, but it goes to the issues Bush raised years ago about compassionate conservatism, and it arises again when Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin has a handicapped child, yet has twice, I read, cut funding for handicapped kids in her state. And this is a state with almost no financial concerns, which essentially bribes its citizens to support a perpetual dole under myth of rugged individualism. It's not money Alaska earned, it's money that regressive taxation from the other 49 states generated by buying the land, exploring it, and mining it.
Palins husband supports and may belong to a group that wants Alaska to get back, free of charge, all the federal land so the 600k Alaskans can personally profit from it, having done nothing or less than nothing themselves to deserve it. She did a warming video for that group's convention this year.
Palin is a walking example of the utterly bogus American - and mostly GOP - myths about what made us great. Alaskans have been on the dole, have a negative state tax, and have had Ted Stevens, a sometime Palin ally till he became radioactive - bringing home not only Alaska's bacon but many others' as well. Alaska, for all its wealth and beauty, ain't all that it claims it is.
And Sarah Palin discovered a charity she can throw her saddle over as well as weight behind. It's understandable, and good for everyone. But the people who deserve the applause are those who serve when it doesn't benefit them directly. After all, Palin is promising to help herself, as well as others.
Bob Woodward's new, rather pointless, book is out now. All the books on the administration run together because they're so many, and they all say the same thing: the bastards lied and people died, Halliburton and Cheney profitted, and Bush may be dumb or he may be ignorant but the result bears a close resemblance to what would have happened had our president been both.
From a story about CT scans, this bit, which helps explain cancer, at least to me.
Every so often, scientists believe, a CT scan unleashes the following chain of events:
Radiation knocks loose an electron from an atom, creating an ion that damages a cell's DNA.
Although the damage is not big enough to kill the cell, it is too big to repair. Over the next two or three decades, the cell divides and multiplies, spreading the faulty genetic instructions.
The result is cancer.
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Friday, September 05, 2008
Let's not forget Bob Shaffer, although I beg you to forgive my lifting of the graphic from ColoradoPols, which is why nothing happens if you push the buttons. So, follow the link there to play with it. Shaffer is pretty much involved with Abramoff and other GOP horror shows, and ought to pay the penalty by losing the election for that alone. But there's so much more.
People were so swept up in the magic of the Republican Convention and Promises of Change they engaged in two days of economic retraction. A reverse, upward trend. A very busy slack season. Total economic collapse, rather.
Beloved Condi Rice, the least constructive member of the cabinet in reality, is today visiting Libya, called a "historic visit." This, because she is the highest ranking American in 50 years to do so. But, what is the purpose? Why, when all is going to hell just south of Russia, are we devoting ourselves to Ghaddafi?
In fact, what the hell has Rice been doing - and why - for her term as Secretary of State? She's been accused of being more concerned with the photo ops and her own reputation than in doing anything constructive, much less take some needed chances, and god forbid rein in her idiot boss.
"Just from what little I've seen of her and Mr. Obama, Sen. Obama, they're a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks that they're uppity." An individual that "thinks they're uppity." First, oh Georgia Republican Congressman Lynn Westmoreland, that's SENATOR Obama to you, pip squeak. And for a guy who never finished college, you aren't forgiven that ofay bigotry, however well it plays in your county of inbreds. Second, moron, you didn't say what you meant to say. Obama doesn't think he's uppity, you think they are.
On the up side, it's good the nation gets a chance to see again the smirking face of the lynch mobs of not so long ago, even in a Congressman. For a mere high school grad, I'd watch who you call uppity, Congressman. He's younger than you, more accomplished.
But it will be a racial election, I'm afraid. The pressure is on Obama.
Or, perhaps, a musical one.
Nancy Wilson of Heart spoke to Entertainment Weekly:
I think it’s completely unfair to be so misrepresented. I feel completely fucked over.
And then she and her sister Ann released this statement:
Sarah Palin’s views and values in NO WAY represent us as American women. We ask that our song ‘Barracuda’ no longer be used to promote her image. The song ‘Barracuda’ was written in the late 70s as a scathing rant against the soulless, corporate nature of the music business, particularly for women. (The ‘barracuda’ represented the business.) While Heart did not and would not authorize the use of their song at the RNC, there’s irony in Republican strategists’ choice to make use of it there.
Sorta like using Born in the USA in years previous. Reagan years. Lyrics? We don't listen to no fuckin' lyrics....
Apparently McCain and the GOP think it says something about Palin as an attack.....fish. Something.
It fits in with their general misogyny, though.
Then McCain screwed up his own speech with an error out of Spinal Tap. Instead of showing a graphic of Walter Reed Hospital, they showed a graphic of Walter Reed Elementary in ....... Hollywood, I think. Competence you can believe in.
Meanwhile, not only Shaffer but Mike Coffman has some explaining to do. The person to oversee the November elections in Colorado just.....quit. No explanation, and none from the Secretary of State's office, which is in charge. We'll see if this gets better tonight or over the weekend. Suspicious? You bet.
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Thursday, September 04, 2008
One of America's great canting, posturing hypocrites bit it today when he admitted to lying under oath. It's about to get worse for the Detroit Mayor, since he lost it and shoved a cop. His paramour goes on trial on the 11th, and will have to plead as well or risk a longer term inside. Kwame Kilpatrick is everything the Republicans want Obama to be, but Obama is more family value oriented than many of the hypocrites who claim than mantle from pulpit and podium.
Speaking of which....
"I think God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that." This from Governor Sarah Palin, urging Pentecostal congregants to pray for a $30 billion natural gas pipeline project that she wanted built in her state. That's government we can trust.
So, I'm still recovering from the Colorado Daily, that today showed the group Widespread Panic, which is coming to town for, I think, New Years. They're OLD, and fat and gray. The road will do that, of course, but I had them at the Boulder Theater nearly 20 years ago and they were young. Could I look like I've aged as much as they have? Naw. The laws of nature remain in suspension over me.
So, Sarah Palin gave a barnburner of a speech last night, but it was inaccurate and clueless. Fortunately, just the thing to incite the GOP 'base' of wealthy socialites from various sides of the bigot-theocrat spectrum and their mounds of inherited or married wealth. I don't see Palin surviving, frankly. She's having a lot of smoke blown up her butt, and she's got too much odd behavior in Alaska to yet come to light. Much of this is because the media loves a close race, and there isn't much to suggest McCain can provide one.
She did not write her speech. Neither does McCain. Obama does.
In any case, I doubt Obama will have much trouble in his debates with McCain, and I doubt Palin can respond without a prepared speech, and one not necessarily of her own creation. Getting such a boost last night will excite her to overextend herself.
The polls currently show Obama leading, but there will be a jump in the GOP numbers after the convention, so it might equal out again.
Here in Boulder the Damned, the thug who - by DNA, insofar as that is proof - murdered Susannah Chase eleven years ago Christmas, is dumping his Public Defenders, possibly as a ploy to expense up the state's case and trade for a lesser sentence. He's a Chilean, and there are issues with it, but he might end up representing himself, a Spanish speaker in an English court.
When I went to trial, I represented myself, and it was a disaster, but I cannot say a lawyer would have done notably better in end result, although I'm assured otherwise. But I speak English.
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Hell is upon us. Amy Goodman was arrested in St. Paul yesterday because......well, we don't know. Obstruction, I guess.
The story we're getting is that two of her producers, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar, were getting arrested, and she rushed down with a cameraman and managed to get arrested as well, this on tape. Goodman is host/ess of Democracy Now, a valuable and often terrific show of decided left wing bent, but generally fair if esoteric in its concerns. It was born of the sixties' hysteria and she leans towards the templates of those years. While I saw nothing in the You Tube video to justify her arrest, I know bad acting when I see it, and she's in high melodrama. She was not beaten, they allowed the cameras - they have no choice in the years since the cell phone camera - and since we aren't provided the build up, we know not everything.
This is the St. Paul police, a small group unused to mass events like the RNC, and demonstrators, many of whom are there solely to be arrested to up their street cred. If they were anything like the bozos in Denver, they came to provoke the RNC law enforcement as they last week tried to with various Colorado police, who are generally way beyond that these days. When tired and provoked, maybe, but not when things are organized. In any case, the Denver events were a total downer for protesters, who had little enough to reasonably protest of the Democrats, and their desperation showed.
In St. Paul, there's a bunch to be upset about, but the GOP is internally crumbling upon the petards of their incompetence and hypocrisies. Trophy wife McCain and Laura Bush make you want to burn every bed in the world, such is their combained warmth at the podium in a nearly empty facility.
This has all the depth and silliness of the Human Shields, years ago, a contrived and silly bit of play acting. We don't know what the two producers were doing, we don't have video, oddly, only the descriptions from less than objective sources which are composed of paragraphs of mounting hysteria. Pepper Spray, rubber bullets. And Democracy Now! getting all excited when they claim Goodman was "illegally arrested" when she may well have been totally legally arrested.
What's annoying beyond the norm is that Democracy Now touts the rights of citizen journalists, by which is meant anyone with a camera and access to a blog, above and/or different from citizens. That's quite stupid, since carried to its logical conclusion, most people in a crowd would qualify, and as journalists would be subject to more control than the general public. This reawakens the debate over what a journalist is.
It's important, by the way. By the Bill of Rights, there can, technically, be no such thing as a professional journalist in the US. This, because in 1776, a 'profession' was exclusively a trade guild vetted by the state and government, which violates the First Amendment. Now, the term is often used just to imply a level of competence and quality of work above the 'amateur', but the words don't originally mean that. Much of the greatest advance in science until the last century was done by amateurs, and no slam attached to the term.
Now, 'citizen journalists' are about, and further muddying the waters. As in the past, amateurs might have more money and better equipment than those DN denotes by the term 'citizen', given it arrives via Robespierre and the French Revolution. It's an interim step to 'comrad journalist,' FauxNews might imply, and not without reason.
Meanwhile, we have the family drama of the Alaskan Palins, she who is Governor and VP pick of John McCain, apparently without any vetting worthy of the name. Alaska gets a lot of oohs and ahs because of its land size, which makes it the biggest state until you subtract the land owned and solely run by the Feds, which makes it one of the smallest states, with only a little over 650k people total, including Indians, Eskimos, and Innuit, people who are resentful of being lumped together. Republicans like to call it the last frontier, but in reality, it's only about the most socialized state in the Union. Because the feds money developed oil and gas and pays the state for transport by pipeline or vehicle, there is no state income tax. At this points, the state government has never had to push through legislation for taxes against the population's wishes, or defended it, or had to spend limited funding.
So, it's sorta a pretend government, on a federal allowance and built-in income. That's not what people associate with a Governor's office, but it's all Palin has.
Palin was chosen, apparently, because her religious views and far right beliefs, as expressed, made her acceptable to Dobson and other horrors of the religious right. Pregnant herself beyond the years for safe births, she delivered herself of a Down Syndrome child. Her own seventeen year old daughter - a child - is pregnant with an illegitimate child by someone who might not want to marry her, or she him, although it's been so announced. What failed besides abstinence? Parental explanation, was the kid stupid, in rebellion, what? And how are the Palins enhanced by these births?
I can well understand committing to having a child regardless of what the tests suggest will be his/her life, but it was a risk not the parents right to make, especially true if they knew the mathematical chances to condemn a soul to a restricted life, and one that would not have survived at all till quite recently.
The utter pointlessness of conventions is illustrated by how easily things can be bumped and suddenly seen as unnecessary. Rudi Guiliani apparently is gone forever, since he's been trashed along with Bush and Cheney from speaking, all of which is good for the GOP, given how the current administration is viewed and how Rudi was trounced so badly. But now, they have to attend to the sanity and competence of their nominee, whose decision makeing ability is certainly under the scrutiny. Palin, throwing his and the party's saddle over a storm that disappoints, and underlines that the GOP cares when it helps them, didn't during Katrina when they controlled the entire government.
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Sunday, August 31, 2008
There is no point trying to prance about it, as the media is devoting itself lovingly to doing today: if Gustav hits New Orleans as a Category 4 or 5, the city is gone forever. After three years of half-assed support for the Corps of Engineers and with no infusion of needed labor, the city's protections - while supposedly 'better than ever' - are not even up to the protection level supposedly there three years ago. Even if they were, it's not enough, because in their wisdom a Category Three is all they have to worry about. I'd love to see the logic of that diagramed.
And there's Bunko Ray Nagin, trying for his sound byte moment of glory. Hard to say how many died because of this irresponsible fraud, but way, way too many. At least the city busses got people out, and FEMA is there, and Homeland Security - its boss, don't forget - is there, and what will happen different? Nothing. The levees will overflow in the storm surge. Salt water, death, and winds to level the French Quarter and all the land higher than Katrina could bring the sea. Not this time, it looks like, will the city save a part of itself.
McCain must be relieved, sorta, that Bush and Cheney (who also must be relieved), won't be at the Convention strikes, so they can be posed as concerned and involved for a change. But it will remind the nation how badly the Bushies did and how vapid their concerns about our infrastructure if it doesn't benefit big business here. They have no interest, otherwise. If a bridge collapses - again - in Minneapolis during the convention, it may not still be a dark enough underline to the fiasco and horror of the Bush years. It's not a Democratic observation, even honest Republicans admit it, and a few proclaim it.
That a President AND a vice-President won't be at their party's national convention is an open wound, of course. There is no reason that Cheney could not attend, except that we now have the impression from the last eight years the Vice Presidency is the second most powerful office. There are assistant deputy staffers who have more actual legal power. Cheney expanded to fill a vacuum, and it is a lesson we need to learn before all this garbage becomes fact.
Hilary Clinton was not insulted by not being considered for VP. Why would she step down in power? Biden is at the end of his career, let's be honest. He's very competent and a good placeholder but he is not, after two or three failed attempts, going to run for President again. Nobody would panic if he had to run Security Council meetings if Obama gets hurt. He is exactly the sort of person who should be VP.
Sarah Palin is not. She is smart and would have been qualified after a term as Governor or Senator, but two years in a very small state (about 75% of Alaska is owned by the Feds, and has about 650k people total. The Denver metro area has more people. She may be small town corrupt, if she was trying to punish her soon to be ex-brother in law and get him fired, and fired his boss because he wouldn't fire her sisters husband. That's petty beyond the norm, but this is Ted Stephens country.
Palin may be involved deeper than we even suspect, but she might be totally innocent. I'm not sure I care, because she is not qualified by any stretch to take the Presidency in an emergency. Worse, she has a little girl voice that I imagine grates after a while. She isn't unanomously popular in her party or state, as the LA Times rather cheerfully presents.
As little as a month ago, she is quoted as saying she doesn't even know what the office she is campaigning for does. Faux News is going long with the Alaskan border with Russia and, actually, Japan if you believe the off shore claims, but as stated, this is handled by the feds, who own the land in question. Mostly. But, she does have executive experience of a town of 7k and a state of 650k, and a built in gusher of cash from oil and mineral wealth which relieves the state of tax squabbles and other annoyances we poorer selves must face. In short, it's a playpen in comparison to real politics where mistakes cost the community. That's her experience, not unlike the weak governorship of Texas, whose government meets every two years and where the Lt. Governor and state legislators have more power than the Governor, a fact announced and ignored by the electorate in 2000 and 2004.
Pay attention people, including Obama's folks. I'm one, at present, by the way. This election will give the winner the horrific duty of picking up after Dick'n'Dubya, and it will need much attention in a world suddenly willing to pick fights with us over trivia just to shake the plum tree and rattle the cages to see if the Tiger is ready and if he is well fed and able to defend itself. It's a world of nature, not of law. Which is why we need to preserve all nations of law, as we once were and need to be again.
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Friday, August 29, 2008
I couldn't find a photo of Mile High Stadium at Invesco Field that would let me use it from last night, and I really wanted to, BUT: here on the cover is a photo of cow nose rays on the move sufficiently lovely to compensate. I got a bunch of these from various mailing lists, so did most of you, and I checked Snopes and they had nothing ill to say of it. So, make of it what you will. It's summer, and summer's almost over.
I admit it. Today is Michael Jackson's birthday, and I didn't know it. Rather proud of that, actually. Why I mention this is that Michael Jackson turned 50 today. I'll wait. I know. That's rather a shot in the gut, what?
Dwell on that, please, say all the Republicans, because John McCain turns 72 this day. Not getting the coverage it needs. 72.
Other birthdays today? Hurrican Katrina turns three. This will be a big deal in coming days, since the Minneapolis convention, where McCain will welcome his new VP choice, Governor Sarah Palin of criminally corrupt Alaska, may happen as Gustaf comes ashore to polish off any remaining hopes of New Orleans.
With all the media covering two conventions and prepping for disaster on the Gulf Coast, Washington is devoid of both people and people to cover people. "Here they are, covering the process of selecting the president," a CBS News radio reporter said, "and nobody is covering the actual president!" There were around a dozen reporters at the White House morning briefing yesterday, and one said he finds it amazing there are 15,000 people with media credentials in Denver. If you saw Obama's night, not hard to imagine.
The first thing that I'll recall is that Invesco Field looked damned good, probably because the shots needed for the Convention were antithecal to those during football, and we could see the grace and sweep of the stands and how colorful the whole event was. Lovely, and entirely of a piece with the Birds Nest stadium of the Beijing Olympics, just past. This is a visual triumph for the Democrats and something that is going to make Minneapolis look sad.
For example, the Nutter Center where Sarah Palin was introduced as McCain's VP choice this morning, as of last night was still giving away tickets to fill a 10k seat facility. Further, the cynical choice was made because McCain thinks women, especially Hillary women, will flock like fictional lemmings to his banner, such is his regard, merely for a woman beneath the man on the ticket. I'd doubt that. Palin is a potential star, but she is REALLY untested and there is that ever expanding scandal around Ted Stephens going to trial.
As usual, Josh Marshall gets it right and to the point.
And now John McCain, who is a cancer survivor who turns 72 years old today, is picking a vice presidential nominee who has been governor of a small state for less than two years and prior to that was mayor of a town with roughly one-twenty-seventh of the citizens that Barack Obama represented when he was a state senator in Illinois.
Obama has learned from Bill Clinton, and among the lessons was how to speak to huge crowds. Every entertainer has known since sound production made it possible, that you have to slow things down so that the timing coincides with the reception. It's gotten better over the decades with sound not echoing so much, but delivering a speech to 84k people has certain issues that are not apparent or of conceren to 5k in an auditorium. Obama has mastered it. Smart. His presentation was brilliant.
And not a little bit like Huey Long and both his pacing and his voice, at certain times, rather implausibly recalled to me Bruce Springsteen at the memorial for Harry Chapin. His delivery, and his deliberate (this is very important) and alpha male ability to end sentences with the pitch and tone lowered. It's how good officers address men, and how respected adults address children. Soothing, but combined with confidence and competence. He has it down.
Obama is innocent of what he's about to find as an executive, I still think. But I no longer fear it. He's aware, he's incredibly sharp, and - a surprise - he's angry, and angry about the same things that make me angry and a lot of others. I look forward to him vivisecting McCain, and I don't think Biden will have trouble with Palin, who may be in scandal mode before long.
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