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Exciting reaction from the McCain supporters whom did not have the credentials to watch McCain speak. This is some really exciting stuff to watch, I know(smile)

the last day of suffering ... and I'm not just talking about my feet.
A guy passes by our position on radio row, lugging a trolley stacked with boxes filled with copies of a book with the very original  title, "The Audacity of Deceit: Barack Obama's War on American Values," written by another guy called Brad O'Leary.  It is going great guns.  Several well-heeled individuals pass by our table with the book tucked comfortably under their arms.  A young 'un comes running up to me, frantic, looking for the person who was giving out these books because he missed him, and wants to get a copy.  

"Did you see him, did you see him," he asks me.  

I tell him he went that away pointing to the main entrance of the Xcel Center, and that he might as well take one of the four copies that is stacked up over on the Fox Radio booth right smack dap across from Air America.  

"Do you think they'll mind," he asks nervously.  "No, not at all," I said.  "They won't mind at all." 

Disseminating false information is nothing new to them.

 

Okay let's start with the whole "Country First" business and the "USA" chant. Why? It's the logic of the GOP, they might as well be chanting, "Ham and Cheese."

A gift from heaven: "I fell in love with my country when I
was a prisoner in someone else's." You were in your twenties, right? Isn't this the same thing Michelle Obama said about her love of country? Presumably if you fell in love at the Hanoi Hilton, you were hitherto not in love with America.....before that?

Patriot: He wants to reach out to us? "I know these are tough times..." That's how McCain began, and up goes the "USA" chant again. Why? Come now. It doesn't matter if things are tough. The "USA" chant is "the ground noise and the static." (His words.) Big cheer. Huzzah. The woes of our economy. "USA!" Fine. What does he intend to do about it? "Stand by our side." Great. I'd rather have him pay my bills.

And then comes the nonsequitur: Sarah Palin and her wondrous executive experience! Yay!!!

Here's another nonsequitur: John McCain is a kept man. Never made a dime. (Okay, he made a dime, and inherited some money but...)

"I will make them famous and you will know their names.... I fought lobbyists who stole from Indian reservations" Okay, great. I'll believe it when I get the frisbee you promised me the last time you ran for president, you old fuddy duddy. As for fighting lobbyists, you must do nothing but fight. Your campaign is run by them.

War talk. Let's talk about that. We have lost the war. Next! Or perhaps you are talking about another war? You are a fighter. Yes. Or perhaps (I know I repeat myself) you are looney?

There was a lot of talk about Sarah Palin's resume yesterday. It's more impressive than mine, but big whoop. It's not more impressive than Barack Obama's. Again, so what? She is not running against Obama. McCain is. And his resume is as thin as his hair. He never earned any money worth talking about, his books didn't sell as well as Barack's, and every law that he authored--more or less--he's since decided against. John Bickernut McSame blows with the prevailing winds, and he likes to be where the money is. The lobbyists running his campaign scream one fact: He is very much for sale.

But this post isn't about McCain's brand of Beltway simony or Obama per se. It's about the false notion that Sarah Palin has something on Obama.

Let's start with her speech last night. Fine delivery. What did I get from it? This: Former Bush speechwriter, Matthew Scully, possesses some of the qualities of a fine McCain mini-me. Bully for him. It says nothing about Palin. She is merely an avatar of GOP perfection, a pure reflection of the market they need to grab--and marketing lingo really does have a place here: George W Bush's eight years of CEO leadership has monetized that trip to the polls. With gasoline at record prices, voting involves a feelable purchase for many Americans. A lot of us are going to buy that trip to the polls. This is a referendum on personal taste. Sad but true. And I think more Americans are prone to buy GOP product. It's simpler than the competition's wares.

 

 

CBS News reports that:

 

On Tuesday night, 15-year-old Victoria Blackstone, a sophomore at the St. Agnes School in St. Paul, led the crowd at the Xcel Energy Center in the Pledge of Allegiance. The audience heard her 434-word essay, “Pledging myself to the Flag of the United States of America,” an essay she’d entered it in the “Wave the Stars & Stripes” essay contest and won. The RNC turned that essay into a three and a half minute video, a visually stirring montage rolling over Victoria’s words about sharing the Pledge with Americans who have stood at important moments in history.

There’s the Continental Congress…A real WWII vet…Photos of workers at Ground Zero. A close-up of a folded flag presented to a grieving widow at a military funeral… profiles of soldiers swelling with pride in slo-motion.

But CBS News found that the footage of the ‘funeral’ and soldiers is what is called ‘stock’ footage. The soldiers were actors and the funeral scene was from a one-day film shoot, produced in June. No real soldiers were used during production.