Politically I" think Obama has been outsmarted by... Gustav!!.... of all things. Well, one can't win them all... Move, Obama !!... get your custom built drain pump out to Katrina/Gustav country.... at least you'll be doing something for my country.... Donah////
P/S, Thanks CNN.... I'll be watching you from the satellites...

Gallup Daily: Obama-Biden Ticket Leads by 6 Points August 31, 2008
The Democratic presidential ticket of Obama-Biden holds a six percentage point lead over the Republican McCain-Palin ticket, 48% to 42%, in Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Thursday to Saturday. This includes two days of interviews after Obama’s acceptance speech as well as McCain’s vice presidential announcement.

Country First or Family First with Palin?
Will this hot soccer mom be feeding her newborn at 3:00 am in the morning when the phone rings about an terriorist attack? She is very sexy..I am sure the terrorist will fall for her charm like McCain did..just kidding. Or if the rumor have it, I am sure her daughter can breastfeed for her if all that is true...Let's face it. I am not a dem or rep so keep an open mind when reading this.I am a female and I am all for equal rights. My hat goes off to Palin raising a family and having a corporate and political career. However, I find it embarrassing that the the republicans just insulted their entire party by picking Palin over other qualified republicans. It is not about Obama or Palin being a woman. It is about their party. Again, there were other republicans that earned their wings and they were not given a chance. They could have still did something for Palin later in her career at the right time..Not during desperate times. Not during times when our nation is in a crises. How can we trust a party that make decisions based off gender. And most of all why all of a sudden..They shocked their own and making their own have to defend a woman that they do not know nor the public does not know. All we know that baby could be of incest. And I am not attacking them personally we just don't know them. People who are asking these dishonest republicans to be truthful for once will defend their own to the end. And that is okay but God will look out for the true right human being. Don't even waste your time with them because God apparently is showing them that it is time for change. Obama spoke brilliantly and from the heart in from of 85 million people and it was perfect. The reps tried to attach and call him a rock star but God held the weather up so his message can come across. McCain panicked and picked a woman thinking any woman could beat Obama and any woman can be Hillary. That just goes to show you the mind set of how they view their women. I am not a dem or rep. I just use good common sense. Now...Back To God..Look at who the hurricane parade is raining on now..God is bigger than all of this..And my prayers goes out to all of those in the path of the hurricane that no lives are lost and property are not damaged. however, the damage has already be done to the republican convention...Remember, I am in the middle but my voice keeps is real...real voices..real people...

Bush/Cheney not attending Republican convention:

"It's probably easier to say who is attending."

At least 10 incumbent senators, plus several Senate candidates, have sent their regrets. Only three incumbents in hotly contested races, including Kentucky's Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, will join the partygoers.

Let's see who's on the "sending regrets" list these days:

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will bow out to stay in California and deal with a budget stalemate.

Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana canceling because of Hurricane Gustav.

Gov. Rick Perry of Texas canceling because of Hurricane Gustav.
President Bush has now said he will not go, per CNN just now.
Same with Vice President Dick Cheney.

Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens is awaiting trial on seven federal charges stemming from a corruption scandal. His staff says he won't attend because he is too busy campaigning for his eighth term.

Idaho Sen. Larry E. Craig also has reasons to avoid the Twin Cities.
Pat Roberts of Kansas enjoys a double-digit lead over a Democratic challenger in a state that hasn't elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1932. But Roberts is "finishing his 105-county tour" of the state and doesn't want to stop, said spokeswoman Molly Haase.

Maine Sen. Susan Collins also will skip the St. Paul festivities to campaign at home, as will Oregon Sen. Gordon H. Smith, who is running for his third term.

Ditto for North Carolina Sen. Elizabeth Dole, who is locked in an unexpectedly tight reelection race.

Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), who is retiring after two terms, plans to visit Europe this week rather than St. Paul. Hagel last week issued a statement of praise for Joe Biden, the Delaware senator who is now the Democratic nominee for vice president.

Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.) also offered public support for Biden. He isn't going to the GOP convention, according to his office.
Neither is Mike Johanns, a Republican running for Hagel's seat. Johanns is "taking no vote for granted" and will be knocking on doors in Nebraska, said spokeswoman Sarah Pompei.

Retiring Sen. Wayne Allard (R-Colo.) is skipping the convention.
So is the Republican who is campaigning to succeed him, Bob Schaffer. McCain didn't help Schaffer, or his presidential election chances in Colorado, by indicating this month that he supports renegotiating a 1922 Colorado River compact to allocate more water to his home state of Arizona, as well as Nevada and California. "Over my cold dead political carcass," Schaffer told reporters.

Gustave may have just helped them save face...

Sudheer Mopperthy

You just know the Repug Spinsters look at this situation from this very angle. They Think Tank EVERY angle. Its sad that Bush/Cheney won't be addressing the convention. They needed to give us an eye to eye explanation about how they spun up, lied and took us into an unnecessary war, how they collectively let the big oil companies mercilessly rape the American people, how they let the housing/credit crisis unfold, let inflation run amuck and lower our standard of living. What about the fact that 9/11 happened on THEIR watch. And where the hell is BIN LADEN??? Republicans should understand that we now bear the fruit of giving them all the levers of power in Washington. They HURT our country, and sullied the reputation of our country around the world. Ive voted for Republicans on and off for 30 years, But when Bush Jr ran for office I remembered "Read MY Lips, NO new taxes" and realized Bushes were no good liars. And just as George Bush was a puppet of Dick Cheney and the Neocon Shadow Government, so will be McCain...Vote Anyone BUT Republican!

Well, that is certainly a positive spin on what is surely a disaster from start to.............What is apparent is that this vice presidential pick is a true horror. To begin with, a forty four year old woman surely to goodness knows the odds of her pregnancy producing a Down syndrome baby. How selfish can you possibly be? And that is supposed to be a maverick? Then she sets her seventeen year old daughter up for a spotlight no child in crisis should have to endure. For what? There is no way to defend these actions. She is a self-absorbed, delusional woman and we've already had the male version, thank you very much.

There is no way that the Mccain's party can make Obama's camp look like they're out of touch, are they going to try and make it seem that Obama caused the storm? That's the way it seems to me when I heard one of the republicans had wished for some rain to fall at the Democratic convention, how ironic! Looks like it backfired, lol. Now I am only making fun of how things have actually turned out and to me, Mccain looking like he cares is another false attempt to convince Americans that he has our best interest at heart when he has already voiced his plans concerning our country and the Bush policies he plans to continue, which has not been good for the country at all. As far as Palin I do respect the fact that she has a career and has succeeded in politics in her home State, but we don't know her at all and we have had the time to get to know Obama and he has ran probably the best campaign in the history of campaigns, managing and equally distributing through out his group to get the job done. Alot of the policies he has introduced to legislation has gone through, even Bush and his camp have adopted some of his strategies or policies in our recent aggreements with Iraq to bring troops homes in hopefully near future. So, this so called experience everybody is talking about has been taken off the table by Mccain himself simply by the pick he made. People have a problem with her since she believes in abstinece, no sex ed in schools but her daughter is out there doing the very thing she's against, and all I am saying is if she can't govern her own home, how in the heck can she govern our country when old man Mccain kicks it. Well that's all I have to say at this time but if people look realisticly at this situation the Mccain party and the media made a big issue over Obama's choosing of a candidate saying that he better pick someone with experience or else, then you look at Mccain and he picked someone under qualified, it's confusing and misleading and frankly unfair.

90% of the time John McCain says yes to George "WAR" Bush's policies. So LOGIC tells us that John McCain's administration will just deliver the same failures this dirty administration has brought us. I'm neither a Democrat nor a Republican. I'm an independent voter. It's just really mind boggling that up to this point in time, after eight long years of horrible Bush administration, a lot of people still don't get it. As the saying goes: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." So if McCain wins, the shame is not on him or George Bush. It's gonna be on us. And the entire world will probably laugh at us.

Have anyone investigated gov Sarah Palin secret love affair yet.
And what are we telling teens of the USA now it's ok to have a baby without a husband. If that was one of Obama's daughter's the Republican's would be saying everything. Yall don't know this woman, You need to investigate her more before making her vp.

Mccain campaign says country first !. Well, that is what vp Palin is doing, by puting her job first and now even watching over her own underage kids. If this is how she run her family, then imagine how the country will be run like?. An irresponsible parent is a reflection of what type of government rules for kid's education will be implemented if they win. Remember kids are a reflection of the parents. Palin kids 'need a real mother, but not a mccain and his war plan Ads !!

Hi there from Oz
the way I see it (and yes we ozzies do take an interest in your politics) it's time to go for a Party who will once and for all "try" put an end to the gun battles you ppl face nearly every day. Now again we are hearing about tragic news coming out of Seattle this morning (our time). Doesn't this deaden your hearts?
Please don't get me wrong, we in Oz can have firearms, but we have register with the Police Dept first for screening and we must state for what reason we need a rifle. With the go ahead from Police, we can then purchase a rifle, but NOT Automatic, nor semi.
Pistols are strictly for the pistol range and you must be a member. You cannot carry a pistol in your car unless you are on your way to the pistol range. We can still be sporting shooters and a lot are (rifles).
Deaths in Australia have drop dramatically, since the new legislation was introduced.
Just a thought.
Cheers
Anette

I am very excited to see that Sarah Palin has been nominated for the Vice Presidency, we need to stop Obama which in my view is being paid by terrorists elemnts around the world, 9/11 was a big blow to our country but Obama is the secrete weapon of the terrorists around the world, I can only imagine that he is going to be the Hugo Chavez of the United States with his leftists rethoric, he has already begun to ask people how many homes they have, this is what communists like Chavez and Evo Morales do, If Obama becomes president he and his hostile and agrressive wife are planning a revenge for past wrong doing, they want to attack the people who are productive and creative in order to equalize what they perceive as disparities in U.s.. He already made it clear that he intends to initiate relationships with Cuba and other communists countries, he intends to humiliate the American people with his Islamic views injected in his brain by his mentor and spiritual guide Rev. Wright and all the hate mongers from that Black Church, I am afraid that this man has a dangerous influence over a multitude of young man and women wo are not able to decipher his rethoric, this man is Rev, Jones fron Guyana who had a lethal influence over his followers, vote for Mc Cain and Pailin, they will defend our country from all enemies in and out of the states.

I am neutral when it comes to the American DNC and RNC political ambitions. My worry however is with Mr McCain and how he will be received in the foreign arena. The whole world for the first time in history have somehow shown or spoken through a landslide pick who they will align with as the American president.

This clearly shows he is not accepted by the world from inception and this definitely will affect the american foreign policies and relations vis-a-vis perception and reception if eventually elected . The American image abroad may be heading for an all time low, even worse than Mr Bush's.

Think about the hate for America or Americans all around the world, will his being there help or worsen the already bad situation. His choice for VP is not even helping matters.

I am sure America doesnt want a leader who is not really welcomed in any country he is visiting.

How is he going to handle these facts?