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**jeff miller[_2_]** · September 5th, 2008, 08:56 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly

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On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:23:41 -0400, jeff miller
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On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:19:42 -0500, Ken Fortenberry
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OK, do I post the obvious:

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

or do I post the less-so:

She was back at the bar, showered, dressed, and halfway into drinks and
dinner when the ball finally hit the ground...after going straight over
the mound and somewhere WAY past the lights...

I didn't watch it, I was about 8 miles from the nearest road
canoe camping with my new pup, but from what I read today it
was a great speech for getting clueless white folks to stand
up and chant; USA, USA ! And little else save the usual GOP
lies and half truths denigrating the Dems.

She came off as a provincial rube with a perverse and willful
ignorance about the country she lives in. Mocking community
organizing on Chicago's south side ? What in the hell was her
speechwriter thinking ?

But I'm glad you enjoyed yourself.

USA, USA !! ;-)

You pet your puppy with those fingers...? For shame, for shame.

And if you missed McCain, too, here's the scoop:

Better than fair, not objectively great, but it got the yahoos cheering
their asses off. And yet again, the Dems are gonna have to figure out a
way around it - it had the USA!!! mom and guys in decorated VFW caps
swooning over sonny boy, and Dem rebuttals blasting mom and the VFW is
one surefire way to lose. I'd give it, surprisingly, a 85-90 on content
and about a 70-75 or so on delivery, but it was a rah-rah, so it could
break _seriously_ one way or the other. Impressive moments in a so-so
speech, but it had elements that may or may not click. If they click,
he hit a respectable homer, if not, at worst, he was so-so, so overall,
worst-case, break-even.

TC,
R

the most remarkable and noticable thing for me with regard to the entire
republican convention was the patent caucasian hue on the convention
floor and balconies...

I know...it was almost like every group of "gets to stand behind Obama
in a picture" was put into one big space...

Seriously, though, you expected much differently? There were a few
black and brown faces in the crowd, but not many.

nah...i know the typical repub face is caucasian...still startling and
sorta scary to actually see it on such a large scale in the context of
this country's most important political event. i know this is gross
hyperbole and far afield, but it made me think of newsreels i have seen
of huge political gatherings in berlin in the late 1930s-early 1940s.

other than speaking openly about the details and effect of his time as a
pow, which i thought a bit fetching but compelling and effective, his
talk was basic republican gruel...

the pretense of change was laughable.

And this contrasts with Obama...how, again? And I'll ask again - have
you read his "Blueprint For Change?"

most of it...why? b.o. has offered details in a public document and in
his talks...i don't see the same from your guy.

my intended point about mccain concerned his promise to change that
which has been in control of his own republican cadre for 8 years, and
his assertion palin is somehow going to be his co-architect in the
change. ... he has no "blueprint for change"...hell, he doesn't even
have a notecard for change. he's become the conventional republican with
too many promises to fullfil to be a "maverick", if he ever was
such...plus, he'll really screw up constitutional and federal law.
stevens won't last another 4 years...

palin is the story so far...

Naturally, because she's the newest. She passed the first big test, but
how she handles the lead-up and the first duel with Biden will be when
the real story begins (or ends, as the case may be).

not sure it's the "newness"... but agree, i too think it's a dead heat
and will be decided by the knee-jerk vote. the only hope in nc is for a
large af-am turnout, because the bubba block is resolute.

jeff