Found this over at Dirty Harry’s Place. If you like, you can also listen to a 1/2-hour interview podcasted by IBD, and it’s interesting and heartening. She’s very well spoken. UPDATE: And reading this piece, I find that I am more and more pleased that she is not another Ivy League lawyer who planned and plotted a political career, but rather a concerned and active, intelligent woman who simply followed her own interests and concerns, and walked through the doors... Read more
When I hosted the online retreat a few weeks ago, we pondered – a lot – the idea of not getting in our own way, not disrupting the trajectories of our lives by insisting on our own ways, or complicating things with our own insecurities and neurosis. We also talked about the mysterious value of sacrifice and generosity. In watching the coverage of John McCain’s choice of Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, I thought about generosity and the... Read more
Was exchanging emails with Deacon Greg, who is not especially interested in politics. He wrote of Palin’s speech: I’m watching the replay on my computer on msnbc…I love that she used that “ship in a harbor” analogy … and that she said politician’s should have a “servant’s heart.” Right after I was ordained and starting my blog, a deacon wrote to me and said “Every day say this prayer, ‘Lord, give me a servant’s heart.'” I had noticed, and appreciated,... Read more
Last night, my Li’l Bro Thom and I were wondering about McCain’s pick and I said, “it has to be Palin, the GOP cannot put McCain and some boring middle-manager type against Obama. Obama is too glamorous; he’s so glamorous that he could afford put Biden on his ticket, because he didn’t need more glamor! Palin, please! She’s smart, she’s feisty, she has at least as much experience as Obama, and hers is executive, she can speak without a teleprompter,... Read more
I’m so glad McCain did this. But my first thought: Murphy was wrong on MSNBC – Bill and Hillary Clinton will NOT be voting for McCain in November…if McCain is elected and bites it in office, Palin will be the first female president. I first imagined that scenario back in May. Ouch, Hillary wouldn’t like that! And, as Tim says here, if McCain is a one-term president, it sets us up for a Clinton-Palin duel in 2012. Interesting! McCain’s introduction... Read more
I know the scuttlebutt is that John McCain will be naming Tim Pawlenty as his veep running mate, today, but this is still pretty intriguing (via a commenter at Althouse): INTERESTING DEVELOPMENTS: Did this Gulfstream private jet, going from Anchorage, AK to Hook Field Municipal Airport, near Dayton, OH (scene of tomorrow’s Republican VP announcement) carry Governor Palin? Track the flight via Flight Aware. Hmmmmmm. Watch the video – note Craig Ferguson’s take that Palin has a “naughty librarian thing”... Read more
After noting that the AP took the good economic news released yesterday and re-wrote the headline and lede into negatives, I just noticed this: The second quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was revised upward Thursday by the Commerce Department from the initially estimated 1.9 percent to a robust 3.3 percent, but neither the CBS Evening News nor NBC Nightly News mentioned the good news…NBC News veteran Tom Brokaw, however…asserted from Denver: Beyond this arena, and this city, the American people... Read more
Dick Meyer, writing over at NPR (when we all know he should be out there promoting his excellent book, Why We Hate Us) says we as a nation – regardless of our political affiliations or which way we’re voting – should feel proud, tonight, to watch an African American be declared the official presidential nominee of a major political party. I would hope that as voters listen to Obama’s acceptance speech and watch his campaign, they will do so with... Read more
It will be launching for the RNC Convention. I like the idea. Pajamas and TV go together, in my book. And nothing – nothing, nothing, nothing – that PJM does can be any worse than the crap we’re watching now from the “big time professional” journalists. And this is certainly fun! UPDATE: In the comments, Save Liberty says “woohoo! Stephen Green is a riot!” He is. I’d love to see PJM team him up with Rachel Lucas commenting via house-feed.... Read more
Supped out last night with some friends and one of them, a political maven, greeted me with, “have you been watching the convention? It’s such garbage! Remember when it used to be fun? You’d have gavel-to-gavel coverage, you’d get to watch the platform fight – the roll call – it was great fun and you really got to see these people in action. It’s all so scripted and polished and safe, now.” Understand, this pal is a true TV News... Read more
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