No bounce

Obama received no poll bounce after his convention, just as I predicted.

What are you talking about?

Google Obama bounce.

He even broke 50 for the first time in the Gallup running average I think.

Stop making predictions. Leave that to the experts, like me.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/109960/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Hits-50-First-Time.aspx

Sometimes Mr. Greenwald is on the money, this time he merely exposes himself.

No campaign has ever been more vicious than the campaign waged by Obama, his supporters in the media, right wing talk radio, and the new front--organized internet posters--against Hillary Clinton. But the campaign against Sarah Palin has been just as vicious: the rumor she faked having a baby which was really her teenage daughter's just about takes the blue ribbon for vicious fabricated personal attacks--so far.

Obama is a ruthless, mean street-fighter with a "Harvard" patina made more lustrous by an adoring media. We know that anything "disrespectful" of the Chosen One is "racist", "off limits", almost blasphemous. I guess whether it's true doesn't count.

All of the media and the Democratic machinery will be spending the next couple of months trying to destroy Sarah Palin. But I'll bet not the lot of you can "field dress" a moose, raise five kids, and govern the largest state in the union. And give a great speech with a malfunctioning teleprompter. To borrow a reference to the way Lyndon Johnson looked after being defeated by Jack Kennedy at the 1960 convention: after Palin's speech last night, the national media looked "poleaxed".

And rightly so. The arrogant, snotty, condescending, elitists who "crawl over the high places of the world" (yes, it's Balzac) cannot understand Sarah Palin. But hundreds of millions of Americans do: Sarah Palin is one of us, not one of you.

According to several polls listed at pollingreport Obama did get a bounce.

http://pollingreport.com/wh08gen.htm

You're damn right there is a culture war on. And it is promulgated every day in the sneering media, the condescending entertainment business, the revolting gross-out movies and "reality" tv.

There is so much that is ugly and destructive in the dominant culture that came out of the 60s. It needs to be oppose, needs to be fought hard, needs to be rolled back.

If you've got a complaint about that, take it to the Leftie culture establishment in academia, media, Washington, and the bureaucracy.

That's some expensive patina. Can you by the lacquer or varnish at Ace Hardware and do you have to hand rub it?

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/51665.html

...and at sig...

Here's some excerpts worth savoring.

However, the governor has no command authority overseas or anywhere in the United States other than Alaska, said Maj. Gen. Craig Campbell, the service commander of the Alaska National Guard.

"When members of the National Guard are federalized, they work for the president," Campbell said Wednesday. "It's not just overseas. They could be federalized to go to other states or they could even be federalized in the state."

The governor has granted him the authority to act on his own in most cases, including life-or-death emergencies — when a quick response is required — and minor day-to-day operations.

"Some authorities have been given to me that she has acknowledged that I can execute," he said. "For others I have to ask her each time."

The recent decision to deploy a C-17 cargo plane from the Alaska Air National Guard to Louisiana to assist during the Hurricane Gustav response was an occasion in which Campbell briefed the governor's office and sought its approval, he said. Chief of Staff Mike Nizich signed off on it.

The flooding that occurred in Fairbanks in late July — for which the Guard sent trucks north to provide clean drinking water — didn't require the governor's approval, Campbell said.

The Alaska National Guard receives about 75 percent of its funding from the federal government, Campbell said. All the federal funding is pre-allocated by Congress.

One of the things I think the dems need to learn, is that the press isn't going fact-check anything the repugs say. Sarah Palin repeated her lie about opposing the bridge to no where, but I so no mention of that in my paper today. The press is not going to point out when the repugs are lying, so the dems have to start doing that. Don't be afraid to use the L word, come right out and say LIAR. Don't use euphenisms like misspoke or mislead, so they LIED.

"...Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny." Not only are Democrats incapable of framing visceral issues, devising compelling images, and getting people to feel that their entire world is at stake if they don't get on board, the have a partisan and incompetent, unthinking media to deal with which repeats whatever the radical right tells them. Plus, Dems have to worry about disenfranchisement in states that passed voter ID laws. (See the latest NY Review of Books.)

Obama's forces can't just register new voters, they must help them obtain government-issued picture ID's. This election is not going to be a walk in the park.

I agree with you completely.

Just look at this tawdry display!

http://tinyurl.com/5gcncq

Can you imagine that in our nation's White House?

What would Abigail Adams think?

Would you like to see the nude?

Tail

Hook

Is it comforting to know that had Sarah Palin been a junior naval officer attending a Tailhook convention, she would have probably been groped by a senior naval officer named John McCain?

All of the media and the Democratic machinery will be spending the next couple of months trying to destroy Sarah Palin. But I'll bet not the lot of you can "field dress" a moose, raise five kids, and govern the largest state in the union.

-- rphillips111

This is parody, right?

Did anyone catch her cankles last night?

Ghastly.

Nobody has belittled Palin experience. She's been given the red carpet treatment. Pundits, including Glenn in his last post, completely dismiss her experience and won't even admit that she is a Governor. Her attacks on obama's experience were rightfully in response to the horrible attacks on her.

I am very impressed here. Two truths built upon two lies, all squashed into just 47 words. Very masterful use of english to elicit laughter.

obama opened the cultural attacks with the clinging to guns remark, the association with reverend wright and his wife's lack of pride in her country.

Now a descent into satire and irony. This just gets better and better.

Stop playing the submissive victim Glenn. When it comes to "brutal personality and cultural attacks" you guys are the tops.-- tiberius

And s/he jumps the shark tank! Comedy gold here!

Seriously, tiberius, when did you decide to quit the contrarian schtick and just go for the laughs instead? I mean, you can't mean a word of what you wrote here. Stupidity of this level just isn't genetically possible.

It just can't be. We're more evolved than that...aren't we?