1) It sucks all the talk away from Obama's big night and makes his speech a one day news story because this will now dominate the news cycle for over a week.

2) It gives McCain the perfect foil to talk about the experience thing. Who cares if the VP is relatively inexperienced he/she is not the president but what if the president himself is the inexperienced one? Then sir you have a problem. Every attack on her for inexperience just forces the press to compare her real executive experience with Obama's part time job in the Illinois legislature. And as for his US senate experience -well Obama said it himself "if I were to decide to run for president I would have to start now before I even serve one day in the Senate". Please, McCain is begging you -attack her for inexperience.

3) It makes McCain/Palin the ticket of change as much or more so than Obama. McCain loves that moniker and is comfortable with it. Her youth makes him the candidate of the future and definitely livens up the ticket. It also gives them real street cred that this is not just the same old Washington politics, not the same old Republican party. This is aimed at all those independents that are not yet comfortable with Obama and even those that might have thought they were may yet change their minds. For all the mud you are going to throw at her and for all you try to belittle her she actually confronted corruption in her own party and won. Show me those kind of credentials for anything Obama has ever done.

Sometimes a picture just says it all (if you squint you can see the words democratic national convention at the top but you'd think they were a bit ashamed)

The Denver Convention brought to you by the democratic national committee , the democratic majority in the house and Obama. Bought (cheap) and paid for by the telecom community with the money they save from not having to defend themselves from lawsuits. And please start holding your breath now for Obama to withdraw that immunity should he become president.

So for all of you wondering why some democrats don't support Obama this was just the beginning. You may be able to rationalize his actions to yourselves but I always supported democrats because they were the the party that stood for fairness and justice.

Of course I am not so naive as to believe that all democrats share my values but when they don't, I skip that name on the ballot. Obama has made clear from the beginning what kind of politician he is. Why did he join the wright church? Because it was good for his career in Chicago politics. Why did he disown the man who was his inspiration and mentor for 20 years? Because it was not good for his career as he runs for president. The laugh is that the media allowed Obama to characterize Hillary as the one who was willing to do anything to win.

I am devastated. The O'bama campaign has thrown the o'possums under the bus already.  The magnifigant seal didn't even last through the weekend. I wish I knew how to post a picture but I don't so here is the link to the story about how they already chucked the Obama/presidential seal here http://adage.com/campaigntrail/post?arti cle_id=127944

Thank goodness that through the magic of the internet it has been preserved for posterity. You can view how closely it resembles the real preseidential seal here http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/200 8/06/20/when-the-obama-logo-and-presiden tial-seal-morph/ I guess it is back to the drawing board for that awesome campaign  team of his!

And I was gearing up to produce my new batch of bumperstickers  "O'possums for truth". Such a shame.

I am afraid I am a die hard Hillary fan. And I am a bit miffed at the fact that blacks can support Obama at 90% but women can't get their act together and support the first woman candidate in history at the same rates. Especially one who was so much more experienced than her opponent. I wonder what ancient gene we carry that makes us look at each other as competitors rather than allies?

In fact I just got back from the Texas Democratic convention, which took place over the weekend.  Hillary won the popular vote in Texas but the caucus system that followed after gave Obama the lead from the caucuses and he ended up with 99 delegates to her 94. Based on my direct experiences here with the Kool-aid drinkers I am sure had it been reversed and Obama had lost to Hillary in such a close contest there would have been a blood bath at the convention.

It was hilarious for Hillary supporters at the convention because the at large delegates are chosen by a long drawn out process. After the party determines the split they then turn it over to the campaigns themselves to pick their delegates. The Clinton campaign process went quickly and the slate was submitted based on rewarding those that helped the nominee the most in the state. The Obama campaign however had huge problems. Dallas has two potential black power bases. One is a guy named Ron Kirk -wealthy black attorney and the other is the senator from the 23 district -Royce West- an old time typical democratic political power broker- the worst of that kind whether you are white or black. Well Royce West submitted his own slate completely ignoring the campaign's slate and since he had bought (not literally i.e. with money) the vote of the right members of the committee - he won. The floor fight was soooo entertaining watching them fighting amongst themselves and such a harbinger of what is to come.

There has been a lot talk about the recent gas tax holiday that Hillary (and McCain) have proposed. And Obama has called pandering. The media, helped by the Obama campaign, has gone along with this characterization of Hillary's proposal (though oddly that same frame has not been applied to McCain and he is somehow not pandering). And of course there is a huge difference between what Hillary proposed and what McCain proposed that for the most part has been given short shrift. She would pay for hers by collecting the tax from oil companies instead and McCain will yet again put it on the national credit card. So Hillary's proposal causes no loss in highway funds and no loss of revenue or jobs as Obama has tried to suggest.

Someone in my precinct went around with his video camera at the 16th senatorial convention in Texas and started recording this message about how all kinds of people are supporting Clinton. It is up on You tube now. Take a look and then do as he says and add your voice. Send it to your friends and all the people you know who are Hillary supporters. Lets get noticed!

View here and add your own voice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLHav_ysd rI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNAro1B_F V0&feature=related

Dear PA voters,

You have a chance to make history and I hope you will come through for us. New Hampshire did it first, then Texas and Ohio stepped in and made sure that everyone knew that Hillary was the best candidate and now it is up to you. (this is not to disparage the other states that went for Hillary especially Michigan and Florida but these are the states that made the pundits eat their words). MSM labeled her campaign "inevitable" not Hillary, they went on and on about how perfectly run her campaign was run in those early days and how she just couldn't seem to make any mistakes (of course the new meme is what a bad campaign she has run but we shall see) and then the MSM fell for their new love- Obama (but only if he isn't put up against their favorite -the maverick).

Americans (and democrats in particular) have a fascination with the new and untried. It always seems so wonderful to see a fresh face and democrats swoon so easily. That is the attraction of Barack Obama. If democrats had been smart in 2004 they would have made their nominee Al Gore. But no we democrats never go with someone who lost (even if they actually won by over a half a million votes and if Al Gore didn't suffer from the same democratic wimpyness as the rest of them he wouldn't have been in that position because he would have used Bill Clinton to his full potential and Florida would have been moot -but that is another rant). We in all our wisdom decided that a war hero was the way to go and it wouldn't matter that he was a northeast liberal and had a foreign sounding wife.  And we lost yet again. Do you honestly think that if the Supreme Court had stolen the election so blatantly from Bush in the 2000 election that the republicans would have fielded any other candidate? Not a chance in hell.