Candidates as trains
From Daily Kos.
If it’s Sunday, it’s. . .
. . . another SNL skit featuring Tina Fey as Sarah Palin. Spot on and edgier than usual (listen for the Fey-as-Palin definition of marriage):
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A heartbeat away? "Say it ain’t so, Joe!"
I tried, I really tried to give her a chance. Until this:
Say it ain’t so, Joe, there you go again pointing backwards again. You preferenced your whole comment with the Bush administration. Now doggone it, let’s look ahead and tell Americans what we have to plan to do for them in the future. You mentioned education and I’m glad you did. I know education you are passionate about with your wife being a teacher for 30 years, and god bless her. Her reward is in heaven, right? I say, too, with education, America needs to be putting a lot more focus on that and our schools have got to be really ramped up in terms of the funding that they are deserving. Teachers needed to be paid more. I come from a house full of school teachers. My grandma was, my dad who is in the audience today, he’s a schoolteacher, had been for many years. My brother, who I think is the best schoolteacher in the year, and here’s a shout-out to all those third graders at Gladys Wood Elementary School, you get extra credit for watching the debate.
And Joe Biden didn’t impress me with his bit on yesterday’s oxymoron, clean coal:
Oh, on clean coal. My record, just take a look at the record. My record for 25 years has supported clean coal technology. A comment made in a rope line was taken out of context. I was talking about exporting that technology to China so when they burn their dirty coal, it won’t be as dirty, it will be clean.
Let’s get ready to rumble!
Who needs The Office when we have a decent chance of real, live, unintentionally-awkward humor from Biden and Palin? Gotta love Oliphant.
Good news, bad news
Good news! The Office is back! Bad news! We have to wait until October 9 for the next episode. Good news! It’s pre-empted next Thursday for the Vice Presidential Debate, which could provide as many uncomfortable comic moments as a typical Office episode. Really good news! A preview of the next show:
"Come on up for the rising. . . "
And Obama enters to the surprise of all in the Pepsi Center (but not the MSNBC viewers), says a few things to the faithful, and teases tomorrow night’s acceptance speech at Invesco Field (okay, Mile High Stadium). Loved hearing Springsteen’s “The Rising” – and The Boss is supposed to appear tomorrow night as well. Biden’s family, from his elderly mother to the adorable grandchildren, hit the stage with the emotional icing for tonight’s cake.
Joe Biden’s Moment
The VP candidate has the Pepsi Center eating out of his hands. Once a stuttering child, now one of the most engaging members of Congress. Loved his tribute to his mother. Like Bill Clinton said earlier tonight, Barack Obama’s “knocked it out of the park” with his first presidential decision – choosing Biden as his running mate.
Meanwhile, the MSNBC yahoos scroll the “BREAKING NEWS” that Obama will join Biden on stage for a “surpirse” appearance. Doesn’t telling us defeat the purpose?
APE Lang Column of the Day
Here’s E.J. Dionne’s take on what Senator Joe Biden brings to the Obama candidacy. Bonus question: Which classic play does Dionne allude to below?
Obama has chosen as his running mate someone who said many years ago: “We wonder why it is that blue-collar workers, who come from a heritage that is the Democratic Party, began to leave it. It’s because we really don’t respect them.” This week, respect will be theirs and attention will be paid.
