Protester

How come everyone is talking about the Code Pink protesters instead of the guy in black shirt that said "Iraq Veterans Against the War" with a sign that said, on one side "John McCain Votes Against Vets" and on the other said "You Can't Win An Occupation"

He wasn't even thrown out.  Very cool.

Cindy McCain attacks John McCain?

Cindy said Obama never mentions his P.O.W. experience in one speech.

In the next John McCain speech, he talked about his P.O.W. experience.

GOP Convention: Fah

Everyone says McCain never talks about his POW time or his service, but every single damned one of his commercials seems to bring it up, and that fawning RNC video before his speech tonight brought it up.  Are we supposed to believe that he didn't approve the video?  We know darned well be approved the advertisements.

RNC FearMongering

RNC produced a video about terrorism.  They started with a clip of the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis.  Since when was that "terrorism?"  Just a way to get the war with Iran McCain has sung and joked about.  The clip also said "the day was September the 11th, 9/11."  Twice, or were they just defining it for us?

Before the video was Rep. Mary Fallin (OK-5), who is looney tunes.  Someone should really work on the education system in Oklahoma.

Marsha Blackburn has been all over the airwaves for the last few days.  Fire breathing squirrel.  Tonight she said the TV only provides talk, never provides answers.  John Sidney McCain III has appeared, over the last decade, more times on the TV news than anyone else.  More than twice as much as his nearest competitor, Tom Daschle.  Daschle was the leader of a party in Congress, a position McCain has never held.

Blackburn also Palin would make the best Vice President ever, better than Jefferson, Adams, or T Roosevelt, although she didn't name them by name.

GOP Convention, Final Night's Notes 3

Bill Frist is???  On Drugs?  Hates John McCain?  Worst speaker so far.  And he's gained weight, too

GOP Convention, Final Night's Notes 2

Rep. Tom Cole criticized Obama's experience.

The Penultimate Convention Night: American Totalitarianism's Face

What ideas founded America?  Of course, the American Revolutionaries didn't agree amongst themselves, and they likely didn't even have a consistent view of history.  One important source that all sides favored was Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws, this includes Washington, Hamilton, John Adams, John Jay and Madison.  Another important work was the Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.  They both said that the military was often the destroyer of liberties.  James Madison, in the Federalist Papers, wrote the same thing. 

Why does America have freedom?  If you ask Mike Huckabee or Sarah Palin, our freedoms come from our military.