Thoughts On The RNC

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– Remember Habeas Corpus? Apparently all it takes to make people forget about it is footage of caltrops and an alleged slingshot. Meanwhile, the dozen-odd raids of houses that didn’t have caltrops, but did have reporters, were minimized.

– Bush and McCain have cut short their RNC appearances to do photo-ops in New Orleans. Obama is mobilizing his volunteers to provide aid however it is needed. I suspect that Obama’s move is the more useful one, as far as the Gulf Coast residents are concerned.

– Oh, and by the way, if Sarah Palin makes it to the RNC, I wonder if she’ll be asked about this:

Before she was running against him, Sarah Palin—the governor of Alaska and now the Republican candidate for Vice-President of the United States—thought it was pretty neat that Barack Obama was edging ahead of John McCain in her usually solidly red state. After all, she said, Obama’s campaign was using the same sort of language that she had in her gubernatorial race. “The theme of our campaign was ‘new energy,’ ” she said recently. “It was no more status quo, no more politics as usual, it was all about change. So then to see that Obama—literally, part of his campaign uses those themes, even, new energy, change, all that, I think, O.K., well, we were a little bit ahead on that.” She also noted, “Something’s kind of changing here in Alaska, too, for being such a red state on the Presidential level. Obama’s doing just fine in polls up here, which is kind of wigging people out, because they’re saying, ‘This hasn’t happened for decades that in polls the D’ ”—the Democratic candidate—“ ‘is doing just fine.’ To me, that’s indicative, too. It’s the no-more-status-quo, it’s change.”

This was two weeks ago, at the statehouse in Juneau.

This oughta be interesting.