Down and down, a much better speech than the one Mark Warner gave. I was a little worried the whole thing was going to be about her when she spent eight minutes or so talking about herself. Yet, in context, it does make sense, I guess. Her goal was to convince her supporters to support Obama, and it may have worked in some cases.
Basically, she gave a bottom line that eerily channels George Bush: Are you with us, or are you against us?
Perhaps my time would be better spent further analyzing John McCain’s VP prospects like I did last night. Although, what little I did see of Michelle Obama’s speech last night sounded pretty good (more on her in the next entry).
Tonight, the three biggies were Bob Casey (who I didn’t get to see), Mark Warner as the keynote speaker, and Hillary Clinton headlining after him. I’m not going to say much on his speech, because there’s not much to say. I don’t agree with one network’s pundits that he should have been an attack dog for McCain. Lets be fair. Warner mentioned McCain not that much less than Clinton did, and she got little flack for it. Yet, while he mentioned some things I like, such as looking toward the future, and the end of partisanship, I found the speech pretty uninspiring. That’s a bit of a let down to me, since I’ve seen him speak before, in person.
Since most of the DemoConvention 2008 mania for today is yawn invoking, I just briefly wanted to offer up some thoughts on where I think John McCain might go in his Vice Presidential selection.
So Barack Obama is a celebrity who likes to chomp on arugula, get buff at the gym, and like to gather crowds and make speeches around the world as if he’s already President.
So John McCain is a Hollywood and late night show favorite whose rich wife owns upwards of seven houses and likes to send his surrogates to Georgia as if he’s already President.
Are both by definition elitists, then? Probably.
Should we move on from these stupid character attacks by both candidates that do nothing but deflect from the real issues? Definitely.
Is that really likely? Probably not.
Unfortunately, I came in late to the broadcast, and didn’t make it back in time for a couple questions, but I was able to see a majority of it and was able to twitter a few notes from my seat. See you after the jump…
The “who can skew the facts more” contest continues between Barack Obama and John McCain. Today’s contestant: A reformulation of “100 years” followed by blasting the Iraqis for…umm…rebuilding their country through their most valuable natural resource.
Has Obama also been hiring Karl Rove proteges?
Barack Obama recently responded to John McCain’s “Celeb” ad suggesting that Obama was too a huge celebrity but not ready to lead.
While I think the ad is effective in pointing out the hypocrisy of McCain calling him a celebrity, it’s still a character attack, and I think the old adage “two wrongs don’t make a right” applies here.
Meanwhile, John McCain isn’t backing down from the “he’s a celebrity” brand of ads.
For me, McCain’s insistence on keeping to the celebrity argument is the same as Barack Obama keeping on repeating the “100 years” statement.
The Moderate Voice’s Jazz Shaw has an excellent article up on Pajamas Media about whether or not Bob Barr will make an impact on the presidential race.
Highly recommended read.
I’m starting a job tomorrow, and realized yesterday that I don’t know who I’m reporting to first. Guess the old standby will do and report to my direct supervisor!
That is all!
Well, good news has arrived. I have been offered a job and have accepted it.
About a month ago, I was contacted by the CEO of TicketNetwork, a maker of software for secondary market ticket sellers that’s based in Vernon. He was looking for a video editor.
Well, fast forward a month and I have a job! All in all, roughly three months isn’t a bad amount of time to wait. Sure, it would have been nice to have one right out of school, but it wasn’t like I wasn’t doing anything in the mean time. Between helping my parents at their store, and moving said store (see this category for more), it’s been a busy almost three months so far.
So, I’m happy that I finally have a job, and one that’s doing work in the field I studied for seven years. I look forward to starting on Monday!
