OMG... Matt helped me turn my Actiontec ROuter to a bridge, and Oh My Sweet Jesus this thing is fast. a torrent with only 65 connected seeders (169 total) was coming down at over 1 MB/s. Holy Crap!!!
I'm so set when blu ray batman hits the scene.
September 16, 2008
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September 3, 2008
Palin
At first, I thought it was a brain dead move, bringing in Palin to the McCain campaign. But after all the initial stuff, I think I see the biggest pluses she brings to the campaign. At first, given the backdrop of the Hillary storyline, it’s easy to see Palin as Clinton primary voter pandering move. But if you look at who is really excited about her, and where her base of support is, it’s not necessarily the working class that Hillary claimed to get the backing of, or women, but the evangelical. Palin brings the evangelical base. Her politics, from supporting Intelligent Design and anti-environmentalism, are evangelical wing-batism. But the real appeal seems to come from her uncanny good looks and her life story. Say what you want about getting her ex brother in law fired or teen daughter getting pregger… its so distracting to her appearance that all the non-policy issues slide off her. She’s too sexy for your scandal. And then she brings out this picture perfect family, and holds to stuff like hockey mom as if it’s a badge of honor, suburbs of America will eat this shit up. It’s the perfect counter to Obama. If Obama is “different,” “weird,” and “foreign”; Palin is “familiar,” “normal,” almost “cozy”. It works so well, I almost have to hand it to McCain. Smart play.
As convincing as Obama’s speeches are, even I find myself wondering how much of a consensus builder he is versus being a more standard politician. He doesn’t fit the DLC mold, but he’s not exactly a pure liberal contender. He’s something else, and I haven’t quite put my finger around it. That said, I want someone in office who will think about the problems that approach him. That’s Obama’s real strength, his analytical approach. It looks like he spent more time vetting his VP pick, and deciding what was right for him. While McCain might have made a good pick, I don’t see how the two will work together for 4 or 8 years. The choice of Palin, curiously, exposes McCain’s rashness and also gives us the most convincing example of him caving to the evangelical base.
Seeing what has happened to McCain, being remade into this puppet of the right-wing, is not the kind of maverick I voted for in 2000, and he’s not one I want to vote for to today. Palin being the vice president only makes the issue more clear.
As convincing as Obama’s speeches are, even I find myself wondering how much of a consensus builder he is versus being a more standard politician. He doesn’t fit the DLC mold, but he’s not exactly a pure liberal contender. He’s something else, and I haven’t quite put my finger around it. That said, I want someone in office who will think about the problems that approach him. That’s Obama’s real strength, his analytical approach. It looks like he spent more time vetting his VP pick, and deciding what was right for him. While McCain might have made a good pick, I don’t see how the two will work together for 4 or 8 years. The choice of Palin, curiously, exposes McCain’s rashness and also gives us the most convincing example of him caving to the evangelical base.
Seeing what has happened to McCain, being remade into this puppet of the right-wing, is not the kind of maverick I voted for in 2000, and he’s not one I want to vote for to today. Palin being the vice president only makes the issue more clear.
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