More links from Denver, etc.

Following up on all of it:

New Hullabaloo poster Batocchio rips on Cokie Roberts in some detail

Olbermann shreds AP’s Charles Babington for his radically biased, Ron Fournier-approved, article on The Speech

Billmon says there’s already a poll bounce despite most of the data preceding Obama’s speech

Video of psychotic cop brutally attacking a Code Pink demonstrator

Video of ABC reporter being arrested

Lt. Governor Carol Molnau abuses authority to thwart antiwar billboards (can’t have the Republican delegates seeing anything about the war, you know)

More Wordles (I’m not kidding, they really are wonderful tools for distilling the essence of an article or speech)

“Sweet leaf” is already in soda pop?!

WI cops are on their way to the RNC (WINston SmITh)

Document analysis shows no Ayers-Obama connection (and almost any MN Democrat could be linked to Sarah Jane Olson by the same mindless they-went-to-the-same-cocktail-party math)

With Bush still in charge, Crimea could erupt soon

One last PUMA video (because I never tire of Republicans pretending to be Democrats)

Cops gear up for Rage Against the Machine riot they had no reason to expect would happen

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Obama’s speech in Wordle format:

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Antioch University throws their “Womyn’s Center Library” into a dumpster (video via Vick). Thirty garbage bags filled with card catalogs, books, videos, magazines and other, most likely irreplaceable, items of historic and scholarly value. 

The Yellow Springs campus is closed now, thanks to a decade-long effort by the local administrators to close the college. Local administrators widely rumored to have once been on the CIA’s payroll. Now, the second the students are gone, these same pigs are engaging in a patriotically correct campus cleansing. 

I’m guessing that they would have preferred to have burned these items, but couldn’t get a permit.

Despicably Stalinist, typically Republican

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John Cole on the politics of politics:

The Republicans have nothing left to fling. Watch the news- there is no mention of them.

The first couple of days, they were making some media headway with their war room, and certain memes would trickle into the news cycle. Now, nothing but limp jokes about the Greek columns from the official McCain website and attempts to gain some attention by claiming McCain has made his VP decision. The PUMA movement has been defanged (if, indeed, they ever had any fangs to begin with), and have now completely devolved into farce, with commenters on PUMA sites claiming Hillary was speaking to them in code by wearing an orange pantsuit (apparently the “color” of the PUMA movement) and asserting that the raucous applause for Bill Clinton last night was… an attempt to silence him.

 

And the best thing is what is to come- the train wreck that will be the GOP convention, and that can not be understated. It is going to be a disaster. The Democratic convention was forward looking, positive, hopeful, and constructive. For all the talks of disunity, this party is unified and ready for battle. Contrast that with what we can expect to see next week.

First, we know for a fact that the GOP, unlike the Democrats, will not be able to control themselves. They will launch attack after attack at Obama, and try to destroy him. It will fail, and they will get savaged in the media, who were all present at the DNC. The best thing about the babble all through the Democratic convention is that they will feel duty bound to do the same during the RNC, and they will be shocked and taken aback by the viciousness of the GOP. Bank on it. Either the gild will come off the McCain maverick/respectful lily, or we will have to realize that McCain wants to be President but can not even control his own convention. I will take either narrative for 1000, Alex.

Second, the Republicans actually are not unified. Just yesterday their platform took a step toward the troglodyte right, as a call for a ban of ALL stem cell research, public and private, was placed in the platform. The base currently hates their candidate, and are trying to will themselves through this election with a greater hate for Obama. They have NOTHING positive to say about McCain; it is all anti-Obama all the time. Not only will this not play well with the middle of the electorate, but it also provides minute-by-minute opportunities for them to over-reach and go to far in the attacks.

Third, forget about the PUMA’s. Ron Paul is going to outdraw the RNC. Hell, half the Republican party is not even attending the RNC.

Fourth, it looks like Hurricane Gustav is going to make a guest appearance on the first night of the convention, giving us all sorts of opportunities to remember the Katrina response.

One last reason to root for Ron Paul before consigning him to the dustbin of history.

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A Bill Hillsman story from David Sirota.

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The Northwest Passage has been discovered created!

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Tild on Bush’s arrival in the Twin Cities for the RNC.

 

 

 

 

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