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Gustav: McCain's Snow Day

During much of today I heard various cable news shows displaying sympathy for the poor GOP - having their wonderful convention disrupted by Gustav.  Why, George Bush, and Dick Cheney, scheduled to appear tomorrow night - have had to cancel their planned speeches.

How did John McCain ever get so lucky? The GOP convention was shaping up to be the big disaster.  John McCain's chances of delivering a speech comparable to Obama's was nil. Was George Bush ever able to compete with Bill Clinton at connecting with an audience? 

Aside from Doug Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, and his wife's colleagues at A.E.I - who wants to listen to Dick Cheney? (even Feith and Wolfowitz did so only to manipulate the old man) 

The media keeps on repeating that the plans were changed because of Gustav - when in fact Cheney was already planning on going to Italy and Azerbaijan.  And McCain has been running away from Bush as fast and as far as he can.

The fake tears supposedly shed in sympathy for the GOP are sad enough, but the real tragedy, the one that has already happened, is that once again a completely bogus storyline submitted by the GOP has gained acceptance.

Even the generally reasonable Moderate Voice has lost it:

In a generally-classy decision, the McCain campaign has announced that they will suspend all but necessary procedural activities for Monday...I would love to see the Obama campaign also suspend activities tomorrow and let us all direct our efforts to those in harm’s way.

In reality, McCain plans to go to Mississippi, avoiding the disaster that would be his convention and seeing what he and Cindy, Sarah and Todd Palin, some random kids, their Secret Service Team,their selected reporters, and police and ambulances on the ground, can milk from the disaster on the coast. He will not be providing help nor trying to save the people of the Coast; he is looking for them to save his candidacy. He won't be searching for those in need, only for photo ops. Obama will be watching the storm, staying out of the way of those who are actually trying to help, and planning how best to respond to those in need.

The people on the Coast, as well as in the rest of the country, need more like Obama - let's hope that this time the devastation that might happen tomorrow is not so bad that it is another demonstration of Republican incompetence.

(h/t memeorandum)

 

McCain Vs Alaska

John Sydney McCain, the third, was 23 years old when Alaska became a state. Conservative Republicans and Southern conservatives opposed granting it statehood. McCain, the scion of Southern Slaveholders, and a proud conservative Republican would undoubtedly have opposed it.

(h/t memeorandum)

Lieberman: Extremely Fibrous

Blogging whilst watching the U.S. Open, James Wolcott does an astute analysis of McCain's potential running mates. Especially good is his depiction of what Joe Lieberman would add to McSame's ticket.

"Together on stage, he and McCain would look like a gay Metamucil ad."

Wolcott, a birder who vacations in Cape May, is the Renaissance Man. Read the piece.

(h/t memeorandum)

Michelle Obama: Uppity Negro

Memeorandum led me to the piece in Townhall by Carol Platt Liebau in which she thought that Michelle Obama's recognition that there were some things that could be improved in this country sounded a bit "radical."  Liebau seemed to think that working to improve the lot of others was frightening. But then Liebau is afraid of the dark.

She also thinks that Obama is insufficiently grateful; Liebau wrote

"one heard much more about struggle and hard luck stories than about gratitude for a country that has made her opportunities possible."

Liebau wanted to hear:

"some forthright gratitude for [this] country."

Here are a few lines from Obama's actual speech:

In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much.

my piece of the American dream is a blessing hard won by those who came before me

And, you see, that is why I love this country.

I know firsthand ... that the American dream endures.

in this great country, where a girl from the South Side of Chicago can go to college and law school,

out of gratitude for those whose triumphs we mark this week, and those whose everyday sacrifices have brought us to this moment, let us devote ourselves to finishing their work,

When Carol Platt  Liebau writes about gratitude, she's really talking about being "uppity."

In the world created by Liebau - John Sydney McCain III is entitled to the gratitude of the nation; a successful black woman is insufficiently grateful if she only says "thank you" six or seven times a speech.

F--K AOL

As of April 30,  AOL had 8.7 million subscribers. Today, on its main page, it asks if Obama favors infanticide.

Next to a picture of Barack Obama, AOL ponders "Did He Back Infanticide?...Abortion Bill Stand Criticized" One is then given the choice of voting in their poll - as of this writing 62% of respondents say that yes, Obama did protect infanticide in Illinoios. The second choice is to "Read the Post," one by none other than Ed Morrissey of the Hot Air blog, a part of Michelle Malkin's on line empire of poliporn.

We can have a lot of fun talking about McCain's numerous houses. Why aren't we asking about John McCain's treason when he spilled the beans at the Hanoi Hilton? Why aren't we asking how many of the women he got pregnant after returning from Vietnam,before he met Cindy, had abortions? Hey, Marc Ambinder reports that it is all fair game.

Please go to AOL and vote.

(memeorandum)