Face the State

"So, someone showed me yet another anti-Amendment 46/47/49/54 flier that came to them in the mail this week, and I looked at it, and I noticed something strange. Look close and see if you can spot what it is.

No, I don’t mean the implicit violence in depicting a boy and a woman symbolically torn in half. I mean the Spanish. Where is the rest of the Spanish?"

"All in all, a solid post-convention stump speech, delayed for a few minutes while President Bush addressed the financial crisis on Wall Street.

But in the end the rally really exhibited the incredible magnetism of the candidate herself, who struck a chord in the center-right/GOP, especially right-leaning women, in a way unmatched by any recent Republican candidate, and overshadowed only by Barack Obama’s similar adulation, though in less-than-messianic terms."

"After last night’s amazing speech, I’m jealous. Alaska, you can have Bill Ritter. Can we have Sarah Palin? Then I thought, in a few months she has a very good chance of being our vice-president. I’ll settle for that."

Maybe not an exact transcript, but the meaning is all there...

"8:34 — Obligatory nod to Hillary. Obligatory nod to the military.

8:35 — Nomination accepted. OMG! Shocka!

8:36 — “No longer will you hear the eight most dreaded words in the English language: the Vice President’s office is on the phone.”

"Recreate ’68s moonbats and Alex Jones’ 9/11 Truthers aside, there was one rally and vigil conducted with peace and dignity, and without the profanity-laced, conspiracy-theoried, and hate-filled rhetoric and action of the majority of protests from both far-left and far-right during the DNC–and easily outnumbered the more extreme events by at least 1000."