state convention

Today is the state conventions and I will be attending if I can find it.
I went to one years ago and it was a very interesting experience in grassroots politics.
I will try and get some pictures also.

The everyone Hates America myth

The major media has picked up on this and I don't know where they get it from.
I have said it many times before that this is the one country that people want to come to more than any. Maybe it is just the ones left behind that hate the US.

More confirmation came today as I overheard this conversation in a game I play a lot.

"So what does a 22 year old Swede want the most out of life?"

"a greencard"

lol

Zombies and Democrats

This video clip is just too funny not to share. It is related to this post from Dr. Helen's site and shows that in some ways thing change very little over time.

Case for Democracy

Rather long but interesting post over at Solomonia on a couple of talks that Natan sharansky gave at Harvard to promote his new dook, the Case for Democracy.

Good stuff.

The Clinton Legacy

I don't often watch late night TV since I get up at 5am but tonight I did and these two jokes caught my attention.

1- The Clinton Library opened this week. It costs $7.00 to get in but the good news is that every night is lady's night.

2. The Clinton Library opened this week with 80 million items, three of which had not been inside Monica Lewensky.

Pretty funny but not the kind of legacy he imagined for himself.
Forget Hillary in 2008, she's toast.

Predictions

I was busy with work on Friday so I ended up missing the debates. IT sounds like Bush did a lot better.
Our local hometown internet paper CronicallyBiased.com has an article where Dan Patrick predicts Bush winning with 275-300 Electorial votes.
The vacationing Connie duToit has predicted Bush getting 300 E. Votes.

I don't make predictions. I hope they are both right but this whole situation is still much to fluid for me to be relaxed. Both camps are saying it will be close and I think that is the right thing to do. They both need to fire up their base's now. It is time to pull out all the stops and go for broke.

I do hope Connie and Dan are correct but I won't celebrate until after the election.

Debates Number 1

Pretty much a draw.
I wonder if anyone will make a fuss over Kerry's mistaken claim that the NY Subways were closed during the convention.
I would expect the Mayor would say something but he probably goes everywhere by limo.

Dems vs. USA

Chris Hitchens is on target as usual in this article.

We are invited to believe that these hard-pressed soldiers of ours take time off to keep Osama Bin Laden in a secret cave, ready to uncork him when they get a call from Karl Rove? For shame.

Meet The Press - South Dakota

Watching Thune and Dashle go at each other on MTP. The are getting hot and heavy and Tim is just sitting back and letting them go at each other.

Dashle is good but Thune is holding his own.

Great TV.

Update: It seemed to that Thune won this. Dashle was very bad at the begining on Iraq where we he said exactly the same things two or three times in a row. When it moved to Domestic issues Dashle got better but still there were questions that Tim asked where Dashle went somewhere else rather than answer. On the last question about rolling back the tax cuts and not spending the money (as if there would be any) Tim had to ask him three times for him to commit to not spending. (fat chance)

Meet The Press - South Dakota

Watching Thune and Dashle go at each other on MTP. The are getting hot and heavy and Tim is just sitting back and letting them go at each other.

Dashle is good but Thune is holding his own.

Great TV.

Update: It seemed to that Thune won this. Dashle was very bad at the begining on Iraq where we he said exactly the same things two or three times in a row. When it moved to Domestic issues Dashle got better but still there were questions that Tim asked where Dashle went somewhere else rather than answer. On the last question about rolling back the tax cuts and not spending the money (as if there would be any) Tim had to ask him three times for him to commit to not spending. (fat chance)

Swift Vets

In case you are not sure about this story you can go here and judge for yourself. This of course is the swift vets side that is not getting into a lot of the major media. The Kerry side you can get from abccbsnbc or the ny times.

I did hear that the Wash. Post did a good piece on it but I can't find the link.

Predictions

John Kerry's Blog is titled We Will Beat Bush but unless they manage to beat Dean he will never get the chance.
Look for him to stop going after Bush and going full steam after Dean. If not, he is history.

Responsibility

I just finished Bill Whittle's new essay, Responsibility.
It took me two days ,sittings , to finish it all and now I have 200+ comments to read through.
Go check it out.

The California 125

We got the final number.
There will be 125 candidates in the recall election.
According to a CNN poll Arnold would win easily if the election was held today.
As I predicted no other name candidate has entered, in fact the other Dem was forced dropped out , leaving Bustamanate as the only alternative for hardcore Dems.
They are hoping that Arnold is at his high point and will go down from here.
I think that is wishful thinking of the part of the Dems.


Listening To: Killer Queen - Queen

Arnold

Arnold
I just watched the Tonight show, which is something I rarely do and saw Arnold declare himself as a candidate for Governor.
He didn't sound half bad.

He made a good move by preemptively listing all the bad things that Gray Davis might say about him.
That is always a good move, admit your a womanizer which he didn't do but he did.

He said, Davis will say I am a womanizer.
He didn't admit it but he brought the issue up so if Davis does all it will get is a big yawn.

I predict he will be hard to beat.
Tomorrow there will be dems getting into the race. That will be the end for Davis.
Jay set up a press room in the back and Arnold is holding forth with every LA journalist not in Eagle Co.

Arnold gave two movie quotes during the show. One was from of his movies, the other was from one of my favorites.


Listening To: Your Wildest Dreams - Moody Blues