McCain picks Mooseport Mayor as VP choice

After months of decrying Sen. Barack Obama's supposed "lack of experience," Sen. John McCain decided to confirm the image of the GOP as a party of the hypocrites by basically picking the Mayor of Mooseport as his choice as Vice President.

Gov. Palin who had been in office as Governor of Alaska (the 47th largest state) for less than two years was a surprise choice for many, perhaps even Palin. Asked in July about the speculation that she was being considered for the VP spot Gov. Palin gave a window into McCain's judgement.

"As for that VP talk all the time, I'll tell you, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day?" Gov. Palin said.

Just image if a Democrat gave that answer! It would replayed more often that Howard Dean's scream.

But apparently for the Mayor of Mooseport and the GOP, that answer is just great since you are a Republican.

Democrats stop bringing knife to gun fight

Watching Sen. Barack Obama's acceptance speech and the Democratic convention and the criticisms of both George Bush and John McCain one came away thinking, finally, the Democrats are no longer bringing knifes to gun fights.

In the past, perhaps concerned about the inevitable loopy criticisms from conservatives, Democrats shied away from criticising Republicans and then watched as they got butchered by conservatives. Tonight it was different.

From saying "Enough" to "It's not that John McCain doesn't care, it's that he doesn't get it," Obama made his points that the last eight years have not been good for the country.

The only disappointment was that the Democrats didn't figure this out four years ago. Perhaps that is why Sen. John Kerry's speech on Wednesday night was rated so high. Rather than a nice speech, Kerry told the truth, and for Republicans, the truth hurts.

"Never in modern history has an administration squandered American power so recklessly. Never has strategy been so replaced by ideology," Kerry said. "Never has extremism so crowded out common sense and fundamental American values.

"Never has short-term partisan politics so depleted the strength of America's bipartisan foreign policy."

People wondered if only he had spoken like this in 2004 how much would he have won by. A lot, but unfortunately he didn't enough and the country suffered over the past four years.