RNC Wednesday Wrap-Up: Family Values
Watching the night three RNC 08 coverage, baby Trig has become a central prop in this campaign.
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RNC Wednesday Wrap-Up: 9/11, 9/11
My twitter at 7:27 pm PST: Mega-screen behind Rudy has mega-view of lower Manhattan. I didn't look for the Trade Towers, did you?
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The Likes We Haven't Seen Since Terri Schiavo
Wow, you can't make this stuff up. McCain goes to the airport to greet husband- and father-to-be, Levi Johnson.
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The Republican Clone-vention
You remember the transmitter controversy, regarding the alleged bump under Bush's jacket and the rumor that Bush was receiving his debate answers directly from Rove? Watching the RNC on TV, you quickly get the feeling -- especially when it comes to Sarah Palin -- that everybody in that convention...
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A Noun, A Verb, And A POW (The Size Of Minnesota)
The audacious scale here is an incredible commentary on how McCain's captivity has been inflated to obscene proportions.
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Day 2
This is the Day 2 shot released by the McCain campaign of the newly announced Veep.
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Anbar, Minnesota
Photo from AP Photo by Matt Rourke Members of the media watch as police question a group of people detained at a home in at the Republican National Convention in St.... Republican National Convention protesters targeted in a series of police raids Friday night and Saturday said they wouldn't...
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Our Man In New Orleans: Do You Think They're Going To Feel Confident?
According to Alan Chin from New Orleans (in my best transcription), these were the four stories to Gustav:
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The Connection Between John McCain And Bristol Palin
What resonates in this photo -- in John McCain's over-the-top chuckle and his focus on Bristol Palin -- is how much McCain's impulsive, yet potentially world changing decision to ask Bristol's mom onto the ticket without vetting her echoes Bristol's impulsive act of getting pregnant
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Palin's Place
I've been trying to get a handle on the Sarah-Bristol-Trig story since the Kos piece came out alleging that Trig wasn't Sarah's baby. Where I landed on this, even before this AM's news that Bristol is pregnant, is that Sarah Palin has serious character and judgement problems. One person...
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NOLA: The Critical Factor
No matter how many Gulf Coast photos I look at tonight, I keep coming back to this one -- the levees fixed at the center of the human and political Gustav story.
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