Friday, September 5th, 2008
[Tom LeGro, NewsHour / Flickr]
There were lots of favorable headlines in the mainstream media about Sarah Palin's convention speech. Here, from the blogosphere, is some of that same feeling as well as some edge.
Jeff from Elk Grove, California, is going to vote for Obama, but he thought Palin nailed her ...
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Speaking at the convention [Tom LeGro, NewsHour / Flickr]
Some reactions to Joe Lieberman's speech last night at the GOP convention in St. Paul:
Crystal Clear Conservative is a "Libertarian-leaning Republican" Yankees fan who writes mainly about Virginia and national politics. S/he thinks Liberman gave a "great speech" overall:
Lieberman was a breath ...
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
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Jack Wood -- retired lawyer from Nye County, Nevada, and Obama supporter -- thinks McCain was right to suspend the first day of the GOP's convention; he was placing America first. He also thinks Obama did the decent thing in condemning commentary about Bristol Palin's pregnancy.
What impressed him ...
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Wan · der · lust who, as her name suggests, has a "strong, innate desire to rove or travel about," caught Denver all dressed up in state flags last week in honor of the convention (thanks, Misa Dayson):
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Ronald Lewis lives in Denver and ...
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008
[talkradionews / Flickr]
We didn't come across anything superquotable on Joe Biden's convention speech in a first pass at Google Blog Search, but what we have is here, and we'll add to the list if we find more. Lots of people seemed to be 'fessing up online, though, that his son ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
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Catching up now on Day 3 of the Democratic convention. Bill Clinton's speech was generally declared a big boost for Obama -- so here are some qualified assessments of its effectiveness.
Kaylin, married 29 years and from New Jersey, seems to think Bill would have been more believable if ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
In Alaska [triciaward / Flickr]
Impeccably timed to eclipse the Obama-convention-speech headlines, McCain has chosen Alaska's Governor Sarah Palin as the GOP's vice-presidential candidate. Archbishop Cranmer, who blogs about religion and politics with sixteenth-century wisdom, feels this spells "Barack who?":
Governor Palin is a Protestant Evangelical Christian. Moreover, she is strongly ‘pro-life’, ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
In the stadium [zenobia_joy / Flickr]
We'll circle back to the Biden and Bill Clinton speeches shortly, but first, the largely giddy aftermath of last night's Mile-High Moment. (Please help us find good sharp critiques.)
Skinny Black Girl, a self-described "walking paradox" who appears to be from Cleveland, Ohio, disdained the pre-speech ...
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
[talkradionews / Flickr]
The general consensus seems to be that Hillary Clinton delivered party unity in her convention speech. Here's some blogjuice about other aspects of the speech.
Kyle E. Moore is "vehemently partisan, proudly democratic, and unapologetically liberal," and he felt Clinton met every "astronomical" expectation -- she stared down the ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Obama introduced Joe Biden as his running mate at Springfield's Old State Capitol, the same place he declared his candidacy in February 2007 -- the spot where Abraham Lincoln gave his "House Divided" speech. Obama referred to Lincoln liberally during his 07 announcement and counts him as a political hero. ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
These two photographs show Obama and Biden onstage at their VP-announcement rally. Race has obviously been in the subtext and the overt conversation about Campaign 08, so what I like about this juxtaposition is the white hand waving at Barack and the black hand giving Joe a victory sign.
The ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Just because it's a cool photo. It's a reflection of Springfield's Old State Capitol, where Obama introduced Biden as his running mate over the weekend. John Kannenberg took it. He's a visual and sound artist who "creates quietly reflective works [...] that blur the boundaries between intention and accident" -- ...
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