This is NOT much of a diary and I apologize in advance. My main purpose in writing it is to draw your attention to another diary, which passed through the list last night, which you may not have seen, but which every Obama supporter should read, bookmark, and study. That is ShadowSD's diary Know Your Stuff, Obama Supporters. I highly recommend that you take a look at this very important diary and that it makes the rec list.
Also, this morning I've been thinking of how successful John McCain has been at making and remaking himself.
He's a man who claims to care more about the country than being elected, when surely the opposite is true. George W. Bush, in 2000, slimed McCain's family with infamous push polling calls asking if people knew that McCain had a "black baby". And yet we have the pictures of McCain hugging Bush and being the best of friends. I know most of us would not be so quick to hop into bed with someone who'd attacked our family.
Then, although the whole Republican convention theme was "country first", McCain puts himself first by choosing a running mate who is obviously not qualified to be President on day one should he have a coronary at the swearing in ceremony. (And for those that think that Vice Presidents can't be called to take over within a month of inauguration day I give you William Henry Harrison).
McCain is wrong on the issues, and all we can talk about is Caribou Barbie. The McCain camp must be clapping each other on the back over that one. We should make a concerted effort to make sure that there is at least one diary on the rec list at all times here that challenges McCain on the issues. If we can't do that here, how can we expect anyone else to do it?
That's it. Have a good morning.