Thursday, July 29, 2004

Katie’s blog is fast becoming a favorite (I see a promotion to “This Roll” in her future). So I’m perusing her DNC Convention Day 3 stuff and there are some choice quotes:

Now here comes John. It’s like Vice President Ken Doll. ... Personally, I’d take Bush-in-a-flight-suit any day. This speech is brought to you by the word, “smarmy.”

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Did Edwards just say that “Your problems are [Kerry’s] problems”? Right… Kerry doesn’t have student loans and I’m not henpecked. We have different problems.

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“We’re going to reward work, not just wealth.: Then how about you actually reward work? Like by letting the people that work for the money KEEP the money.

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“Raise the minimum wage.”
Or we could just print more money. Then everyone would be rich. My tunnels are carping.

Continuing the fisking:

“Restore respect in the world, bring allies to us. It’s how we won the Cold war, it’s how we won two World Wars.”
No, dear, it isn’t. We won the Cold War by arms-racing the USSR into bankrupcy and the only way in which our allies came to us in WWII was in that “Help, help, we’re being blitzkreiged!” sort of way. We were isolationists then, John. We didn’t build broad coalitions because we didn’t need them.

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“Hope is on the way.” Oh good grief, they have “Hope is on the way” signs. They’re like a weird flag corps. I’d never seen Edwards in action before. He seems like someone who Hollywood cast to portray a young southern politician. He’s a bit shifty. And he blinks a lot.