This is just the right tone. I also held a garage sale for Obama this weekend and people were just forking over money (without even buying anything). They were all fired up. Remember, we have a base, too.

That was better than the original.

Sorry Joe.

ridicule the notion of reform and tie it to the legacy of Dubya. The line about the sequel allways being worse is great!

Yes, there are always a few exceptions (some would say The Empire Strikes Back surpassed Star Wars), but you have to go pretty far back (25-30 years) to find them. In recent years, sequels have generally SUCKED. Great line by Biden!

an extension of Bush is the way he is conducting his campaign with a "Blizzard of Lies."

Good line from Biden, no doubt.

Obama lost me with his FISA garbage but his choice of Biden makes me smile, and Palin being on the repub ticket ensures my vote for Obama.

I wonder what sequel Palin wants to ban?

You know, when they get some washed up star from several years ago, and a cast of no names, and make the same movie over again, but with bargain basement production values.

I really wasn't all that worried about McCain becoming president, of course I was going to vote for Obama, but I knew that McCain was at least up to the mechanics of the job, and he would probably be better than Bush. A low bar to be sure, but still, I wasn't terribly frightened at the thought of him being president, and then he picked this blank eyed whack job as his running mate.

I would rather just keep Bush than get this nut, hell, I would even settle for Cheney over lunatic lady. With McCain being 72, it's even more frightening. This is a sequel to a horror movie, like The Howling 2, with Palin in the Sybil Danning role.

Sen. Biden is known as the Senator from MBNA because of his close relationship with the credit card companies in his state. The big difference between Bush, Biden, and Obama is that John McCain has a proven record of success in reaching across the aisle to pass landmark legislation. More recently, he worked with Sen. Feingold for the Campaign Finance Reform which Sen. Obama agreed and then refused to accept after a pledge to do so. And Sen. McCain has worked with Sen. Kennedy on Immigration Reform. Aside from all that, Sen. McCain has shown exceptional leadership skills by making an excellent speech after Russia invaded Georgia and the role of Putin. Biden did not say anything and Obama was on vacation. Eventually, Sen. Obama made a speech and had to revise it three times and that may be before or after he met with his 300 foreign advisers. Sen. McCain delayed the RNC Convention and had the delegates prepare care packages for the Gustav Hurricane victims instead of putting on a glizy show. And he had the vision to put a qualified woman on his ticket. America First.

"Biden did not say anything and Obama was on vacation."

Actually, Biden was invited to Georgia by President Mikhail Saakashvili. And he did release a statement when he returned.

"I have long sought to help Russia realize its extraordinary potential as a force for progress in the international community, and have supported legislative efforts intended to forge a more constructive relationship with the Kremlin. But Russia's actions in Georgia will have consequences," the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said in a statement. "Russia's failure to keep its word and withdraw troops from Georgia risks the country's standing as part of the international community. That is not the future the United States or Europe want -- but it is the future Russia may get."

Just so you know.

It will damage your brain even further than it already is.

As a matter of fact, spouting GOP platitudes is the first sign of brain degeneration.

John McCain thinks killing civilians is a funny joke as long as they're foreigners. I really don't see how anyone can get past that unless they are also immoral monsters. But hey, that's why he's a Republican.

From Ethel S

And he had the vision to put a qualified woman on his ticket.

If he had that vision, why didn't he actually put a qualified woman on his ticket?

Again, sorry, but it was just hanging there and was too tempting.

I'm glad Biden has found his way back to the campaign, and the tone of this speech is exactly what we need. McCain is claiming that he can 'change' the current policies, but is supporting the current policies. McCain used to be an honorable man, but has turned to the dark side. McCain made the most cynical VP pick I've ever seen. I can't get my head around why this thing is even close.

http://palincounter.blogspot.com/

Poor Ethel was sent here to plop out each of the McCain talking points, and look how flimsy they are!

More recently, he worked with Sen. Feingold for the Campaign Finance Reform

Right. Then he broke his own law through campaign finance violations.

Aside from all that, Sen. McCain has shown exceptional leadership skills by making an excellent speech

So, McCain makes "an excellent speech" and that's leadership to you? But Obama or Biden make an excellent speech and it's just all talk, right? Got it.

Sen. McCain delayed the RNC Convention and had the delegates prepare care packages for the Gustav Hurricane victims instead of putting on a glizy show.

You completely missed the fact that the care packages for Gustav was the glitzy show. The show was called "Please don't think about Katrina during the GOP convention" or "We've learned our tragic lesson from 3 years ago, really we have..."

And he had the vision to put a qualified woman on his ticket. America First.

He did?? Who is she? All I've seen is Sarah Palin, who doesn't even understand the Bush Doctrine which she intends to continue. How could anyone suggest she's qualified, unless by that you mean that she knows how to run a bullshit campaign in order to hide one's past record and future intentions.