Two items you may not have seen, but highly relevant

[libertango]

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