Comments on: Greetings from Minnesota

By: The 7-10: Anthony Palmer

The 7-10: Anthony Palmer — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:46:11 +0000

Adam,

Yes, Obama is at the top of the ticket while Palin is not. However, Obama made it to the top of the ticket because people actually voted for him. Palin made it to the bottom of her ticket because McCain appointed her. Palin never would have survived had she run in the GOP primaries earlier this year.

It will be very interesting listening to Republicans talk about ending affirmative action at their convention because that’s exactly what Palin’s selection reeks of.

By: loulou

loulou — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:42:30 +0000

About that set again….. go back and look at the set up where Ronald Reagan accepted his nomination. That was a temple too. And yeah, I thought it looked like the White House not a temple, unless Bush made the White House into a temple. Everything in America is 1984 anyway now, so mayb e the White House is a temple. Does that make Bush God?

By: Waldo

Waldo — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:16:25 +0000

when you are running for president, images redolent of the president’s house hardly seem inappropriate- except, perhaps, among those who don’t want to see a given candidate there in any circumstance. Declaring the bias up front would make the argument more persuasive.

As far as the set goes, it’s not done yet. Look around- there’s RNC images of the sheer excess of the GOP podium. You can only put out so many flags before it starts looking ridiculous.

And we haven’t gotten at all to Sarah Palin, whose homophobia is surely what drew Scoop Doggy to her side.

By: Earl Capps

Earl Capps — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:44:25 +0000

So in other words, Obama’s shortcomings are an immediate problem, but Palin is someone who can, as she has done already, learn the ropes?

Let them mock and spin … it’ll be interesting to see her lock horns with Biden.

By: Adam Fogle

Adam Fogle — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:24:56 +0000

Earl — Obama is at the top of the ticket, Palin is not. Big difference.

By: Earl Capps

Earl Capps — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:22:15 +0000

Adam – I’m a little concerned. The Democratic Presidential candidate was, four years ago, still warming a seat in the Illinois State Senate, and has never served in an executive office in the course of his political career.

Doesn’t this lack of experience call into question his fitness to be President? Or is there a double-standard rule that I’m violating.

By: D.G.

D.G. — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:50:13 +0000

Is it just me, or did the Barakopolis, at the windows in the center, look a bit like a stylized version of the white house, from the perspective of the Rose Garden? Another little bit of arrogance.

I am glad the Republicans are going straight forward and not for bling. First thing I noticed too. Let’s focus on message, not massage.

What a great day today.

Go McCain – Palin!

By: Randolph McEwin

Randolph McEwin — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:40:51 +0000

Please, guy. Let’s break down the many complex layers of sadness that compose this post.

1) The insecure overcompensation of reassuring your many readers that, “oh, yeah I could have gone to the convention nobigdeal.” Seeing as that you’re a “political blogger,” most people would think that you’d go and oh, I don’t know, blog the third largest political even that will happen this year?

2) What that picture shows is likely an incomplete set. If that’s the finished setup, the right phrases would be something more along the lines of “boring” or “poor design,” not humble. HUMBLE?? You must be kidding to refer to anything associated with a man who owns more than five houses as “humble.”

3) Palin’s selection as a vice presidential candidate is going to be a nightmare. It invites far more criticism from all sides than it encourages any kind of confidence in McCain’s political judgement. If anything, it’s likely to anger southern conservatives—McCain has chosen to court Dems who are hanging on to Clinton, rather than please the religious or conservative heart of the Republican party. When you claim that Palin has “taken the nation by storm,” you only prove how unwilling you are to look at anything objectively and rationally.

Oh, and McCain is 73 and has had 4 recurring incidents of cancer, while Palin has less than 1 term of gubernatorial experience, and 0 experience doing anything close to running the United States. Sounds like a great backup president to me!