La Rubujo

Amazingly, indeed, the McSamiacs have decided during the 2008 convention to run on ‘the culture war’: http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2008/09/03/mccain_strategy.html

Wasn’t there another GOP convention (Grubby Old Pander) that was themed on ‘the culture war’? Oh, right, 1992! The year of Pat Robertson and Pat Buchanan.

Astounding. Truly astounding.

Obama picking Biden, that was a prediction, and I am proud mainly because I gave it a lot of thought, mostly sleeping on it, and eventually realized that Biden was almost perfect for Obama. But this other stuff, it’s just the GOPpers going through their own history for ideas, because they are too lame to come up with new ones. So, if I predicted a 1992 convention, it’s not really an intellectual exercise, but more a way of saying that these so-called Republicans have got nothing. Nevertheless, it’s fascinating to see happen.

Somebody replaced Gene Lyons with Principal Skinner: http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Editorial/235518/

I was attracted by the title of the column, and the name of the author, but didn’t expect a Gene Lyons article to end up as an Ole and Lena joke.

1. Palin’s Going to Be Tough for the Democrats
2. Peggy Noonan vs. Sarah Palin
3. John McCain's Magnificent Mistake
4. The Natural
5. Small-Town Sarah: A Star is Born
6. GOP Hatefest Continues; McCain Attacks Palin's Pork

See http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/213362.php

Obama has been acting sufficiently like a winner for me to make a little donation to his campaign, which I have done now.

McCain’s glare while he droned scared me for an hour. Then McCain finished his otherwise sclerotic speech (h/t Ron Reagan) with Hitler’s fist pump, after which the cameras zoomed out and McCain looked like Dave Bowman at the end of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’.

Also, how is McCain going to keep us safe from terrorists if he can’t keep harmless protestors out of the hall?

Thanks to Josh Marshall for reminding me—I forgot to mention I was particularly struck by the passage where McCain said he was going to take away your unemployment insurance and you’d better get a job.

I found that charming.