On the ground

From the Huffington Post last Thursday:

Now, I want to be clear and speak directly to those of you who LOVED that Palin interview. You’re an idiot. I mean that. This is not one of those cases where we’re going to agree to disagree. This isn’t one of those situations where we debate it passionately and then walk away thinking that the other guy is wrong but argued well. I’m not going to think of you as a thoughtful but misguided person with different ideas who still really cares about the country and the world. No, sorry, not this time. This time, if you watched those interview excerpts and weren’t scared out of your freakin’ mind, then you’re mentally ill, mentally disabled, or mentally disturbed. What you are NOT is responsible, informed, curious, thoughtful, mature, educated, empathetic, or remotely serious. I mean it.

But I like to think that anyone can change.

Stop voting for people you want to have a beer with. Stop voting for folksy. Stop voting for people who remind you of your neighbor. Stop voting for the ideologically intransigent, the staggeringly ignorant, and the blazingly incompetent.

It was tempting to just lift the entire post and quote it here but I didn’t. But go read the whole thing. It’s fairly short but what Seitzman says is very much to the point.

I couldn’t have said it any better.

I guess we can institute a new regular feature here, huh? The Weekend Giggle at Republicans Making Asses of Themselves …

(And props to The Huffington Post for spreading this one around.)

All eyes are on St. Paul tonight, as the Republicans eagerly await the wondrous words that will drip from the lips of their new goddess.

I’ve been watching the Sarah Palin comedy in the press since John McCain first announced his vice presidential pick.

I’m wondering why there have been so many mystified comments from the media.

McCain didn’t need to pick a veep to round out his own far-from-thin resume, obviously. And I don’t think he’s naive enough to truly believe that a pro-gun, pro-life, fire-breathing conservative is really going to appeal to ex-Hillary supporters, either (except for the stone-stupid among them, perhaps).

No, what McCain needed was an antidote to his age. He’s old and he’s been around forever. For all the snide and dismissive remarks, he needed his very own glitteringly ‘new’ rock star.

He found her in Sarah Palin — change Republicans can believe in (which is to say, no real change at all).

And it’s pretty clear already that he got exactly what he was looking for. Right now, the media is so utterly pre-occupied with her that it is wholly ignoring Obama. That must already be making McCain feel better; for a few months there, it seemed as if he could have pulled down his pants in Times Square and still not interested a press that was following Senator Obama around like a set of lost puppies.

More importantly for McCain, his choice of vice presidential nominee has given rank-and-file Republicans a reason not to stay home on November 4th.

So, while I wouldn’t call her a good choice for an actual vice president, I think she was a smart political choice for a vice presidential candidate.

Hey, this just in … Sarah Palin (like President Bush) believes that the Iraq War is a mission from God.

Personally, I think both of them have watched The Blues Brothers a few too many times.

Happy to help.

That’s the part that’s not so funny.

(And props to Gina for the heads up)

Former President Bill Clinton speaks at the Democratic National Convention in support of Barack Obama for President.

“People the world over have always been impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power.”

That’s a line that will be remembered.

(Visit the videos page here at the DCDC web site to see more memorable speeches from the 2008 Democratic National Convention.)