That said, one of the great things about living abroad is that I can pick and choose my intake of American media. Seeing Obama accept the nomination via youtube was inspirational. The old fart and the shrewish librarian? Yeah, don’t need to actually watch them, happy to get the condensed version elsewhere. Let me guess — a major part of the speech went like this? “9/11 9/11 9/11 ZOMG!!!”

Very “Ross Perot-like.” Remember, people were enamored with Ross’s “folksy” rants at first, and then grew tired of them.

What a damn nightmare.

Obama…Biden…Palin…

Can we just elect McCain and call this off?

Oh well…there’s always Football.

Tom Brady will carry me through…Brady to Moss!

JK

Only columnists of the proper ideological bent — Krugman, Barnicle, Dowd, et al — can get away with this kind of “bullshit.”

Krugman says bad things about Republicans. (Barnicle? Dowd? Not so much, but I see where you’re trying to go with this.) Now Noonan says something bad about a Republican.

Your schtick should be: “Well, now maybe she’ll be Olbermann’s new best friend! She’ll get her own column on HuffPo!

If you’re going to play the “media is liberal” card, at least do it right.

Giulani’s speech was actually better. And she had substantial inaccuracies in hers. She took the money for the ‘bridge to No where’ for her state and never returned it…and totally lied about Obama’s tax policies.

Sort of Dramatic…Holy Shit. Like Sending her son off to war …for a Political Point…on 9/11. How symbolic and gimmickry is that???

Unlike McCain, who was too busy drinking away his days at the Naval Academy, and graduating 4 spots above dead last? Which more deserving candidate did he bump out of the Academy cause he went crying to his daddy to let the big bad admissions board let him in?

Not!! She’s an uncouth clown girl with a fetish for shotguns at weddings.

She’d be much better ‘forgiving’ her critics and then moving on to substantial matters…

heh? Giuliani is attacking Obama first….perhaps taking the wind out of her sails.

Giuliani? Mafia dad, who thought the Presidency would be given to him…for 9/11?

I get the feeling ‘middle America’ is tuning off already.

You treat every microphone just like you treat every gun — like it’s ready to do its job at any instant.

Noonan and Jackson shoulda known better.

J.

I guess Noonan won’t be called on to write any of McCain’s speeches?

I read the advance text for Palin’s speech….it goes much harder at Obama than Biden did on McCain. And to the GOP’s credit, that’s what a VP candidate is supposed to do.

But something in my brain tells me that I simply don’t want to hear this kind of crap from a person who was presiding over a town meeting of 25 people, 3 years ago….when the top story was probably something like a “troublesome Grizzly on Elm street.”

JK

Pretty much explains your deal.

In my “old age,” I don’t have a high tolerance for political drama. I see far too much drama developing in Sarah Palin’s selection as VP running mate. I didn’t know anything about her one week ago…now I know more, and I think McCain could have picked a woman or man less apparently, and surprisingly polarizing, and far more qualified. Certianly far less mentally fatiguing on the American psyche.

We don’t need a “high-maintenance VP,” who’s a heart-beat away from being leader of the free world.

JK

I hope Palin later goes on to talk about Obama’s work as a community organizer when he worked closely with ACORN, who — it seems — has more of its people arrested and charged with forging voter registration records every other week or so.

Or discussing what Obama was putting up his nose when he was about the same age as her pregnant daughter is now. THAT, sir, would be nasty.

She won’t do that last one, though. And she shouldn’t.

But back to the subject… this ought to be a major blow, if not a fatal one, to Noonan’s career as a columnist. Only columnists of the proper ideological bent — Krugman, Barnicle, Dowd, et al — can get away with this kind of “bullshit.”

Say good-night, Peggy.

J.

“Since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves,” Palin said. “I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a `community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities.”

Let the games begin. The above is nasty stuff….especially when we consider that Obama was one of the first ones to ask that people put a stop to the “knocked up 17 year old” gossip. You’d think Palin would have the decency to not take it to the gutter.

This McCain leaning liberal is now growing increasingly tired of Sarah Palin and the soap opera, the DUI hubby, the knocked up daughter.

The gun toting beauty queen is grating on my nerves, 2 days after I liked her. Oh well….

JK

Front page at HuffPo. So it’ll probably be on Countdown.