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I second that !!!

You are on a roll Chip.

When fenwaydav calls it a good speech, VB Goudie better look in the mirror.

I commend you on an open mind. As an aside, Dave, did you see Rep. Mary Fallin from Okla? Remind you of anything you heard from my wife? :-)

Chip, I consider myself a good writer, (although sometimes people challenge that). My friends say I should be on stage. This is the reason I disagree with them. Amongst friends I can be a regular Henny Youngman, with strangers I sometimes become a babbling idiot, even if I read prepared material. I don't know if you have ever wrote into mail call in the morning. I have and VB reads my stuff quite often. (Until recently I was David in Boston, I have just started using Fenwaydav.) He takes the liberty almost always to edit my piece. VB is what we call in the business a Control Queen. He heard John McCain speak and it wasn't perfect to his liken. His delivery wasn't good. You and I heard something different. I heard an Old Salt give the speech of his life. I never said I didn't like John McCain. I have asked some of my democratic friends if they watched any of the RNC? (and please don't assume they are all Gay) Most responded no. I told them and any one else, you can't give a opinion if you don't know the other sides views.

I was going to write a seperate blong on this...there was anothre subtlety last night. John McCain attacked his own party in his speech, and he got thunderous applause from the delegates.

Maybe the change he's addressing is coming faster than folks think?

Chip, if they let Sarah Palin bring her hunting gear to Washington, you can bet that there'll be plenty of change happening. And as to McCain attacking his own party and getting applause, I'm really not surprised at that. People (the everyday ones, not politicians and pundits) are sick of government. Sick to death of it, to put it bluntly. So, when he attacked his own party as well, that wasn't really for the delegates. That was more for the people at home, I think, but any way you slice it, I'm sure the delegates have picked up on the "fed up" feeling from us regular folk. (And besides, he kinda had to after Palin addressed how she took on her own party the night before.)

Actually, all I've seen from Obama lately is the attack ads about John McCain's 90% voting thing. But, I'm hoping that other people picked up on that subtlety and realize that while McCain isn't shouting the catchphrase, he means it. Almost without a doubt more than Obama, who's using it as a campaign slogan.

I'll have to check that out, Chip...I've seen evidence as it happens on both him and Biden courtesy of the EFF, but my chronology skills ain't so good these days.

What a tremendous insight. So simple yet so profound and revealing.