Outsourcing Commentary

I am still in Denver but WiFi is scattershot and I don't have a heck of a lot of time before getting on the plane. So I'll delve into Obama's excellent speech and the choice of Alaska governor Sarah Palin as John McCain's VP later.

I'll say this, though:

Palin doesn't know what the Vice President does.

She is embroiled in an abuse of power scandal involving trying to fire her former brother-in-law who was involved in a messy divorce with her sister, and then firing the public official who refused to fire the brother-in-law. Very Nixonian. Shades of Archibald Cox and Elliot Richardson and William Ruckleshaus. (Even the REPLACEMENT for the public official has a terrible record of sexual harrassment. Bad judgment all around).

She was clearly a one-day story pick, designed as a desperation pass to keep everyone from talking about Obama's excellent and persuasive speech last night.

On that front, I'll say a lot more later. It was great to be in the room, and experience it live with the other 86,000 folks. The argument made was against not just McCain but conservatism, the yo-yo society (you're on your own) that they've created, their attack-dog, character-based, patriotism-questioning style of electoral politics, and how we've all had ENOUGH of these past eight years of failure. That's quite encouraging.

OK, gotta run.