5 days until election day! Have you noticed that nerves are fraying? Have you noticed that the world seems pretty delighted that The Big Dog is back?
Yesterday, we talked about political signs — tradition, ritual and who messes with them. Apparently the Clark campaign folks captured on camera someone removing one of his signs:
As more cameras are installed to watch more and more of what we do, I bet we see more pictures like this in the future. And seriously people, if you want to do something to help your candidate, phone banking is safe and actually productive. There are NO campaigns that will post bail for you!
Chris Rock has some staging advice for the DNC:
And how about that Bill Clinton! Last night he reminded me that no matter how mad he made me over the course of his Presidency, he remains one of the best defenders of Democratic policies alive. Last night he was GOP Fact Checker-in-Chief and it was fun, eloquent and persuasive. It was smart of Team Obama to let WJC put Obama’s name into nomination — one of Clinton’s key skills is that he is able to speak to D base voters (most of them) and Independents pretty much at the same time. It was a masterful performance and it was great to see Bill Clinton clearly having some fun with his role. If you did not get to see Bill Clinton’s speech, this is the video from CSPAN:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5knEXDsrL4[/youtube]
After the speech, CNN’s Republican analyst, Alex Castellanos, made this comment:
“I would recommend to my friend Paul [Begala] here, tonight when everybody leaves, lock the doors. You don’t have to come back tomorrow. This convention is done,” Castellanos said. “This will be the moment that probably reelected Barack Obama. Bill Clinton saved the Democratic Party once, it was going too far left, he came in, the new Democrats took it to the center. He did it again tonight.”
Of course he had to indulge in this brain dead narrative that President Obama is somehow on the left and ignore the fact that Bill Clinton just spent 50 minutes defending much of the Obama Presidency.
What interests you today?