Here are the incomplete thoughts I had while watching Michelle Obama’s Democrat Convention speech:
Alleged Plot to Kill Obama Thwarted
Details are sketchy and coming mostly from local Denver television news outfits, but it appears that police have broken up a 4-person plot to kill Presidential candidate Barack Obama Thursday night by shooting him from a high vantage point during his acceptance speech at the city’s Invesco Field.
Frank Farry Fights Fire
PA House District 142 challenger Frank Farry is one of the area’s most promising Republicans currently making a rise through local party ranks. Farry received a surprise unsolicited endorsement from US Senator Arlen Specter earlier this month in his bid to unseat Democrat Chris King.
It’s lucky for the Schaffner family of Lower Southampton Township that Farry has been out introducing himself to potential constituents door-to-door. If he hadn’t been, the family would likely have not been aware of the blaze in their propane grill, or at the very least they’d have had to wait for a fire crew to arrive to douse the dangerous blaze.
Biden Bust
Hey, that’s not the way the coronation was supposed to work! In the first poll conducted completely after Barack Obama named Joe Biden as his running mate, the Obamessiah went from a 7-point lead over John McCain to a dead heat. The CNN poll finds the candidates tied at 47%.
Rendell: Obama Coverage Was Embarrassing
Pennsylvania’s Democrat Governor and erstwhile Hillary Clinton for President supporter Ed Rendell gave left-stream media types an earful during a panel discussion with the three moderators of left-stream Sunday shows, resulting in moderator Judy Woodruff asking the Governor to sit down and Obama adorers in the crowd to cheer the request.
Call For Opinions on Comment Procedure
Quick meta-question regarding the way the site works specifically related to comments.
The comment package we’re using which allows for “Threaded Comments” (clicking “Reply” directly below the comment you want to reply to, keeping discussions grouped) also allows for an email notification to be sent to a comment author when someone replies to his/her comment. In other words, you’d receive an email when someone replies to one of your comments on the site.
I currently have this turned off, but was wondering if commenters would prefer to be notified via email when someone replies to one of their comments. It would save you the trouble of having to keep checking a post to see if anyone had replied to one of your comments.
It doesn’t matter to me either way – I receive email notification of all comments anyway.
If you want to be notified of replies to your comments, or if you feel that this would result in too many emails coming your way, feel free to leave your opinion either way in a comment to this post or by emailing me using the Contact Form.
I want to make the site as user-friendly as possible, and figured getting direct input from the users on this would be the best way to do that.
Two Geniuses – One Stage
Barack Obama introduces “The Next Presdient…Joe Biden,” then Joe Biden hands it back to “The next President of the United States, Barack America.”
This ought to be fun.
Video Below.
Biden Brags: I Try to Get “Black Men” to Wear Condoms
When answering a question about AIDS in the African-American community at a June 2007 debate, Joe Biden brags that he goes to local African-American communities trying to convince “black men” to wear condoms and make the women understand “they can say no” (whatever that means). He also reveals some information about Barack Obama that it looks like Obama would have rather not been revealed, and earns a stink-eye from Al Sharpton. Video Below.
…I Would Let the Tax Cuts for All of the Middle Class Lapse
Near the beginning of his failed 2008 bid for the Democrat Presidential nomination, on April 27, 2007, Joe Biden appeared on Iowa Public Television’s “Iowa Press.” In the interview, he was asked about paying for his Socialized (i.e. Socialist) Medicine Plan. His answer couldn’t be worse: By making the country less safe and raising taxes on the middle-class. Emphasis and annotations below mine. Video available here.
…Unless You Have a Slight Indian Accent [Video]
“You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. And I’m not kidding.”
-Joe Biden, Looking Slightly Maniacal, on 6-17-06. Video below.
