Procastinatin' the Electorate
I missed Biden's speech and I've been to lazy to go back and look it up. I take that back, not too lazy, too busy reforming the Byzantine Empire, which may be the same thing, or not.
Obama really brought it home, gone were the warm and fuzzies and instead he took out the baseball bat and asked us to call him batman. Here's hoping anyway. At the time I felt really good about the prospect of the Dems getting some cahones from somewhere and actually standing up to the Repubs, but now I'm not so sure. I still hope though.
I missed Palin's speech, but did go back and watch a bit of it on your tube. Meh. I get the distinct feeling that they told her what to say, patted her on the fanny and sent her out into the crowd. She gave a good speech, and she did what she was supposed to. She really go the Repubs excited, though I'm not 100% sure why as I have to think that most of them were still going, " Huh, who?" I want to root for her, but she comes off as such a gimmick pick for McCain, much more so than a pick that would balance him out or provide a...wait, what does the VP do again?
McCain's speech really got me going, which it was suppose to, but afterwards it left me feeling a little hungover. Now I don't know if just don't remember it correctly, but it seemed he didn't have much to say, 'cept that he's now the change candidate too. Can you do that? Shouldn't there be a penalty like switching alignments in the middle of a D&D campaign? I do remember that he spent twenty minutes about his time as a POW, and having now read his wikipedia profile, I'd say he nailed it pretty well. I don't want to belittle the man's service to our country, or mock the terrible experience of a POW, but you know how you say word too many times and it starts to sound funny...
Since all of this went down I haven't been paying a lot of attention, though Mitzy and I have had some hearty discussions. Seems we don't see eye-to-eye, and that's for the best as it's made me think a bit more critically than I might have otherwise. Still, as of now, I'm still leaning pretty solid towards Obama/Biden, but looking forward to the debates.