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Did you get a chance to see the new ad from the quickly melting down Obama campaign?  John McCain can't send e-mails.  Ha Ha.  What an out of touch guy.

Unfortunately, that crack Obama staff couldn't do a google search (do they know what that is?) and find out that McCain isn't able to use a keyboard because of his war injuries.  Get it?  What a joke, isn't it?  Did the Obama people do a poll and find out they were running behind with the South Park voters?  If only they had read that article in the right wing rag Slate back in 2000. 

Let's not forget, Obama's lack of sympathy for injured war veterans.  Remember how he disinvited Max Cleland from a fundraiser.

Fox News has a poll (all right, go ahead and pile on Fox).  Because the overall number is similar to the other polls out there, I don't think there's much reason to be too skeptical of the underlying questions and how they split out.  The results on Independents are most remarkable.

McCain is leading among them 46-31, a 16 point swing in the last month.  Among Independents Obama has a 13 point advantage on health care (which seems never to be talked about) .  McCain has a 28 point advantage on Iraq, 5 point on the economy, 37 points on terrorism, and 11 on energy.

The Republican ticket has a  32 point advantage on experience, 19 point advantage on judgement, and a 2 point advantage on change!

My favorite is this one.  Is Barack Obama a talker or a doer?  55% of independents say talker, 26% say doer.  Lots of other fun questions in there including a desert island test.

A blogger has done an interesting study of the negativity of the speeches of Obama and Palin.  Of course, the media has played up that Palin was very negative.  Although, at the time of the Obama speech I know that more than a few commentators remarked how unusually negative Obama was.  This blogger cites twice as many negative Obama points as Palin.

So the analysis on Obama's negative points.

The analysis on Palin's negative points.

And yes, this is a conservative writing this.  I linked to this because of the comment someone made in my other post about viewers not being the end all, depending on what they see when they tune in.

An analysis of McCain would need two separate attacks on Dems from attacks on his own party.  :)

GOP convention was the most watched in history.

More than a few Democrats were crowing last week and suggesting that the GOP couldn't match the Dems.  Just for old times sake, here's D. Boon from last week.

On August 30th, 2008 at 08:34 AM, D. Boon said:

Uh oh.  More bad news for Republicans:

    The historic speech by the first African-American presidential nominee of a major political party reached 38.4 million viewers on 10 broadcast and cable networks, Nielsen Media Research said Friday. PBS estimated that an additional 3.5 million had watched its prime-time coverage.

    The ratings dwarfed the audience for the Summer Olympics and the season finale of “American Idol” in May, and added to what was already a sense of buoyancy within the Obama campaign that the night had gone better than planned. ...

    The four-night convention was the most-watched since 1960, when Nielsen began measuring the events. The 10 p.m. hour, Eastern time, from Monday to Thursday was viewed by an average of 22.4 million households, Nielsen said, surpassing by half a million the Republican convention of 1976, previously top-rated.

Well, I am sure the Republican convention will do just as well, especially now that the former Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska is on board.

Goodnight, Irene.

Two of the craziest points being raised by the left the morning after the Palin speech are that she reads well from a teleprompter and that she had someone write her speech. 

Of course, this is true of every single person who has run for president in the last three decades.  Why it should be brought up now is a mystery, although it would be hard not to point to at least one of two factors.  First, she's a woman.  Second, she's not Ivy League. 

I'm guessing the second reason really is why.  Let's face it.  Teleprompters and speechwriters are kind of a dirty little secret.  The media knows about them, but doesn't really talk about them.  The public barely knows they exist.  The media doesn't think they're really necessary for their heroes, just convenient.  After all, their heroes usually went to Harvard or Yale.  If you go to the University of Idaho, you're not going to get that kind of slack.  And if you actually deliver a great speech, well, it couldn't be based on ability, there just must be some other reason.

But in light of the Democratic team this year, it's truly a laugher.  First, Biden is a notorious plagiarizer.  He not only stole a speech from Neil Kinnock, he actually stole Kinnock's life!  At least Palin's speech writer got paid.  Second, Obama used lines from governor Deval Patrick, without attribution, and presumably without pay too.  Of course, each employs speech writers. 

And of course the teleprompters are another story.  It's pretty clear that without a teleprompter, Barack Obama would still be a law professor at the University of Chicago, probably forced to actually publish something.  Obama's inability to speak off the cuff is notorious.  Ums and ers fill every interview.  Below is a great you tube just showing how glaringly incompetent Obama is without a script.

Of course, Biden without a script is no better, and arguably much worse.  To his credit, he doesn't have the ums and ers.  To his detriment, he usually puts something extremely stupid in their place.

most of you spend enormous amounts of ink complaining about how broken the politics of Washington are, how sordid and inefficient and ineffective it is and yet during the course of campaigns or conversations you're looking for validation in terms of how well does this person work the system you are constantly decrying,
you are saying is broken and doesn't work and I think it is important at some point to ask do we need someone who is not steeped in the very traditions
you say do not serve the American people.

So Obama picks Biden, McCain picks Palin.  Oh, and how many times have we heard Obama "shame" someone in his own party? 

I just read where Bill Maher said that watching Obama made him realize how conservatives could get so excited about Reagan.  Well, I think conservatives are getting excited again, for the first time since Reagan. 

The bottom line with Palin is that she's the first person I've ever seen who seems to put her actions where her words are.  A true reformer, with a lot of guts, principles, and great values.  She's going to surprise a lot of people and be the difference in this election.

Sure, there are plenty of drawbacks but my bottom line is that I think she has what it takes to win this election and to be a good vice-president and president if needed.  Reasonable people can agree with whether she's got enough experience.  Although my sense is that Democrats, who didn't care about Edwards lack of experience, or Obama's or Ferraro's will never give up insisting that she's lacking.  The voters, well that's a different story.

For now, I'm in with both feet!