You call this a convention-worthy bump? Add to that the fact that 38 million people watched Barack Obama’s speech, and it ought to be downright depressing. Though Obama doubled our trade deficit with China on the fireworks alone, and all he got was a lousy 8 points over John McCain.

Apparently, not many were convinced.

Take that.

On John McCain…

“The only man in this campaign who has really fought for America”

Targeting disenchanted women voters…

“Hillary Clinton put 18 million cracks in the highest, hardest glass ceiling in America. Well, it turns out the women of America are not finished yet”

Pro-gun, pro-life, pro-energy. Lots of good stuff.

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(Nashville) – U.S. Senator Fred Thompson issued the following statement:

“I am absolutely delighted by this selection. Once again, John McCain has shown that he is an independent thinker who paints in bold strokes. Sarah Palin is a conservative reformer with executive experience who will bring a breath of fresh air to Washington. She will be an ideal running mate for John McCain, and will make a major contribution to our country’s future.”

So much for a second day of Obama speech coverage. The McCain campaign has played the veep selection game to perfection - plus, no one had to suffer a cheesy “you’re the first to know” 3am text messages (a d***, er, private eye move, if there ever was one).

Unconventional, sure. But Sarah Palin plays well into the campaign dynamic. Surely the Obama campaign cannot attack her experience - she has more than the junior Illinois senator does. She also brings great credibility on the energy issue and the concept of government reform. Plus, the GOP base now has something concrete to coalesce around.  Palin’s conservative bona fides are above reproach. And she is young.

Plus, she looks good on t.v.

Count me as a fan.

UPDATE Obama’s first press release was to attack her experience. That is idiotic.

I love my MSNBC. It’s like political liberal porn. And it’s free.

Keith Olbermann… so orgasmic he cannot even make sense. Chris Matthews, inspired. The FEC ought to do an equal time investigation into these jerks. Wow.

Now, Matthews compares him to Reagan as a like “unknown” (two term governor of California, highest paid private speaker in the country at the time of his candidacy … yes, the similarities abound). Throws in a military reference for good measure. Now we hear that the “other side” is “full of crap”.

Eh, I’m done.

Brooks and Dunn? Out of all the half-brained leftist entertainers’ songs to use, he picks Republicans. Heh.

Fireworks? What’s next, We Will Rock You? Maybe the 1991 Chicago Bulls intro routine?

Then again, The Imperial March might be most appropriate…

And the backdrop really does look like the Oval Office. Sheesh.

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The shining city on a hill? Or “the better place around the bend”?

Choose. But choose wisely.

Doesn’t Obama know why Republicans were picking up Democratic ballots?

If I had to guess, it would be Keith Olbermann’s pants.

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The surge is still not working, right Barack?

He is so tough!

Does anyone buy this line of hooey?

A “failed war” that we are winning? That deposed Saddam Hussein in a matter of hours? Nice judgment.

Ah, back to the greener pastures of “CHANGE”!

So far, nothing here but a wholesale abandonment of America’s founding principles.

Throw some equal pay, equal work refuse in their for the HIllary lovers.

“Some” of these programs will cost more money?

Now we must inflate our tires properly, which is a weird segue into fatherless homes…

He intends to abandon free trade. Nothing like killing the export economy.

He will cut taxes for 95% of all working families? Yet another lie.

In ten years we will end our dependence on oil from the Middle East?? This coming from a candidate who refuses to drill for more supply (to include natural gas, despite his false assertion otherwise). Obama is going to end the addiction by legislating energy use. He will help American automakers “retool”. He will subsidize the purchase of new hybrids.

My federal deficit calculator has cursed me and shut down. We are looking at a $1 trillion deficit if we’re lucky.

His plan for education is to federalize it. Oh yeah - that will work.

What a dunce.

I am my brother’s keeper? Does that include the one in the hut he’s done so much to help?

There is also some bandwagon, and some third person testimonials. Someone got the business administration 101 book out and read the marketing chapter!

Now he just lies. Lies about what McCain said about the middle class. Lies about McCain’s stance on taxes.

Of course, now the answer is the federal government to all one’s ills. There is very little more un-American than a micromanaging federal government.

So far, he hasn’t said anything about what he, as president, is going to do to effectuate the suckerism innate in “change”. This is likely because he himself doesn’t even know what he would do.

Eight is enough? Eight men out?

Anyhow, obligatory honoring of McCain before the slam.

Voting 90% of the time with Bush? At least he shows up to vote…

I guess no one briefed Obama on the 3.3% growth in the second quarter. He now attacks George W. Bush, who (I don’t think) is running for a third term.

I think am having a Howard Dean flashback…is he going to exploit individual tragedy from every state?

Is Michelle Obama the great statesman who says “hi” to the Amtrak conductors, or was that just a really bad pause?

An appeasement to Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton. Necessary, and good to get out of the way.