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McCain and Obama: Hire me
The Labor Department today said unemployment hit 6.1 percent in August, the highest in almost five years. And it didn’t take long for the McCain and Obama campaigns to interpret what that means.
Each side’s rapid response teams rapidly responded with statements that the numbers clearly mean the nation needs to hire its candidate.
Team Obama won by three minutes with an e-mail that hit reporters’ inboxes at 9:36 a.m.
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REPUBLICAN CONVENTION VIDEO: Final Night Timelapse
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Texans react to McCain acceptance speech
Texas delegates react to John McCain’s acceptance speech on final night of Republican National Convention in St. Paul.
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McCain rehearsal
The scene at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul as Sen. John McCain rehearsed for his Thursday night acceptance speech.
Here are excepts from the speech:
“I’m very proud to have introduced our next vice president to the country. But I can’t wait until I introduce her to Washington. And let me offer an advance warning to the old, big spending, do nothing, me first, country second Washington crowd: change is coming.”
“The constant partisan rancor that stops us from solving these problems isn’t a cause, it’s a symptom. It’s what happens when people go to Washington to work for themselves and not you. Again and again, I’ve worked with members of both parties to fix problems that need to be fixed. That’s how I will govern as president. I will reach out my hand to anyone to help me get this country moving again. I have that record and the scars to prove it. Senator Obama does not.”
“I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else’s. I loved it not just for the many comforts of life here. I loved it for its decency; for its faith in the wisdom, justice and goodness of its people. I loved it because it was not just a place, but an idea, a cause worth fighting for. I was never the same again. I wasn’t my own man anymore. I was my country’s.”
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Dressing down dressed-down journalists
The national media is under assault at the Republican convention by delegates and operatives who think the coverage of vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin has been unfair.
But the criticism goes beyond what the media is reporting, as illustrated by this item in today’s Minneapolis Star Tribune:
“The folks handing out free coffee at RiverCentre were getting a little suspicious. A woman carrying several shoulder bags and wearing a chunky vest kept coming to their booth to mooch free drinks.
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Texas delegates cheer Sarah Palin
Texas delegates at Republican National Convention cheer for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
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Palin convention speech excerpts
Here’s some of what Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will say in her Republican National Convention speech tonight.
On her experience as a public servant:
“I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town. I was just your average hockey mom, and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids’ public education better. When I ran for city council, I didn’t need focus groups and voter profiles because I knew those voters, and knew their families, too. Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown. And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.”
On why she is going to Washington, D.C.:
“I’m not a member of the permanent political establishment. And I’ve learned quickly, these past few days, that if you’re not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone. But here’s a little news flash for all those reporters and commentators: I’m not going to Washington to seek their good opinion - I’m going to Washington to serve the people of this country.”
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President Jesse?
Ron Paul, of course, was the star of the Ron Paul rally in Minneapolis. But Jesse Ventura ran a close second when he announced a possible 2012 presidential race.
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Hillary or Joe: Who’s the most popular Dem at the GOP convention?
Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, who was the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 2000, may think he is the most popular Democrat at the Republican national convention. He addressed the convention Tuesday night, after all, and got an enthusiastic response.
But with GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin under fire in the blogosphere over her thin political biography and the problems within her family, Republicans on Wednesday repeatedly invoked the name of Hillary Clinton, one of the most unpopular Democrats ever in GOP circles, to make the case that Palin is the victim of sexism.
“One of the things I have been told by many many Democrats over the last several months is how disappointed they were in their own party for not standing up against the sexist smears that Hillary Clinton endured,” Carly Fiorina, chairman of the Republican Victory 2008 campaign, said at a news conference Wednesday. “The Republican Party will not stand by while Sarah Palin is subjected to sexist attacks.”
Unfortunately for Clinton - or perhaps fortunately - Fiorina did not raise such objections during the New York senator’s unsuccessful bid for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.
Still, Fiorina added, “one of the things that Hillary Clinton’s historic run for the presidency did is highly tune women’s ears to objectionable and sexist attacks” and “all of us are sensitized and outraged when we see sexist treatment.”
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Palin’s speechwriter not a fan of hunting
Former longtime Bush speechwriter Matthew Scully is the man behind tonight’s convention speech by Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, which is interesting in light of Scully’s moral opposition to hunting and Palin’s love of the activity.
The speech by the woman selected by John McCain as his running mate is viewed as crucial as she withstands withering scrutiny of everything about her. Among the things learned about Palin is her love of hunting.
“We hunt as much as we can, and I’m proud to say our freezer is full of wild game we harvested here in Alaska,” she recently told Newsweek.
Another report detailed the home where her parents “live amid hundreds of sets of trophy antlers and a taxidermy collection that includes a giant moose head and a full-grown mountain lion.”
The photo above, published in London’s Daily Mail, shows the grizzly bear skin on a sofa in her Anchorage office. Chuck Heath, the governor’s dad, bagged the bear, Sally Heath, the governor’s mom, told the British paper. And the Heaths said they heard the news about McCain picking their daughter as they returned from a reindeer hunt washed out by rain.
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I have seen how they thin out the wolf packs, it makes me sick to think that this kind of behavior is justified because these wolves take your game - wolves are a top predator and keep that balance. I have nothing more to say, nor can I have faith in anyone
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I have seen how they thin out the wolf packs, it makes me sick to think that this kind of behavior is justified because these wolves take your game - wolves are a top predator and keep that balance. I have nothing more to say, nor can I have faith in anyone
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I have seen how they thin out the wolf packs, it makes me sick to think that this kind of behavior is justified because these wolves take your game - wolves are a top predator and keep that balance. I have nothing more to say, nor can I have faith in anyone
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BS”D
Scully is vegan and even more critical of facrory farming, supporting Proposition 2 in California which would ban battery cages, sow gestation crates, and veal crates. It’s not about him being a “city boy.”
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