Two items you may not have seen, but highly relevant

First up, my friend Terry Karney, with his one-liner about the attacks by Palin on the term "community activist":

"Pilate was a Governor. Jesus was a community activist."

http://pecunium.livejournal.com/336002.html

(You also may want to look over Karney's postings about the free speech issues at both conventions.)

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Second, a remarkably prescient post by Brad Hicks, predicting McCain would start pushing his "reformer" line very hard -- to the extent it might be why he chose Palin (and not gender as such -- that was a bonus):

"I think that the real reason that John McCain gambled his career on Sarah Palin is that he plausibly hopes that updating his Goo-Goo credentials will make the muck-rakers in the newsrooms all over the country fall in love with him again, will remember why they (we) loved him in the first place, before he went psycho after 9/11 and before the mental deterioration became impossible to ignore. He wants us to forget the last couple of years, especially, and come back to him."

http://bradhicks.livejournal.com/411044.html

Reagan's questions

When Reagan debated Carter, his first question was picked up a lot.

But I think looking at all of Reagan's questions shows just how disastrous the Bush administration has been for this country.

I agree with Reagan that it's time for, "another choice."

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"It might be well if you ask yourself are you better off than you were four years ago? Is it easier for you to go and buy things in the stores than it was four years ago? Is there more or less unemployment in the country than there was four years ago? Is America as respected throughout the world as it was? Do you feel that our security is as safe? That we're as strong as we were four years ago? And if you answer all of those questions yes, why then I think your choice is very obvious as to who you'll vote for. If you don't agree, if you don't think that this course that we've been on for the last four years is what you would like to see us follow for the next four, then I could suggest another choice that you have."