You lose all semblance of objectivity. Kos:
When was the last time we saw a speech like tonight's -- a full-throated defense of progressive principles, devoid of mushy "centrist" crap?
Um, the night before, and the night before that.
It didn't avoid the tough social issues like abortion, guns, or gay marriage. It wasn't apologetic.
Actually, it did. We're all in favor of fewer abortions. (That's our pitch to the evangelicals.) We're not going to take any nice person's guns. We're for civil rights for gays, not gay marriage. I happen to agree Obama on these issues, but they hardly represent a "full-throated defense of progressive principles." In fact, they are precisely "centrist crap."
Unlike Bill Clinton's and Biden's, it didn't unnecessarily praise John McCain. It drew sharp distinctions between Democrats and Republicans.
Um, actually it did. Obama repeated the mantra previously echoed by Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and many others, that John McCain is a "good man."
It came from the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party.
Yes, and that was indeed reassuring.
Tomorrow, the McCain campaign will try to "steal Obama's thunder" by announcing Pawlenty. Or Mittens.
Oops.
Well, McCain chose Sarah Palin and the blogosphere has lost it's mind again!
Taylor Marsh who railed against sexism in the media for a year, has photo-shopped Palin's head onto a swimsuit model. I got an e-mail yesterday from a congresswoman - a DEMOCRAT, urging me to express my rage at the Palin pick as an "insult to all women" and then proceeded to say that Sarah Palin was nothing but "Dan Quayle in a dress". Since when do "democrats" express rage at a republican VP pick?
The world has gone mad I tell you, mad!
Posted by: gormenghast | August 30, 2008 at 06:25 AM