It's 4 am on a Friday night/Saturday morning and I'm on a bit of a political high. I decided to catch up on my convention coverage (both Dems and Repugs) because that's my idea of a fun Friday night.
The Boy and I went out to dinner this evening, and then I ran home to settle into my chair. I have not moved. I was just listening to Air America while searching through Daily Kos (I should really diversify my sources), and here are my thoughts:
1. I love Barack Obama. I know I am not alone, but I have never seen him speak before so this is all new to me. The written word just doesn't get across how nice his smile is. Now, I'm not usually one for overally patriotic discourse, but damn if I didn't get some goose bumps when he mentioned the skinny black kid with a dream during his speech. Kinda makes me want to move to Illinois. (But not really. Been there, done that.)
2. Janeane Garafolo is so funny. She just said, "I guarantee that where there are smoothies there are sandwhich wraps, and where there are wraps there are smoothes. AND, where there are men with khakis on business trips, there are Tom Clancy novels."
3. I would pay $20 to see a video of that Crosstalk interview between Zell Miller and Chris Matthews.*** I read the transcript and the words are wild enough, but I would love to have the accompanying visuals. Yes, I know I'm behind, but I told you I was playing catch up. Just work with me here, mmmkay?
***Update: Just found the interview. For free. It's like Christmas: check it out. God, he's wacky. But you gotta watch his RNC speech first (find it on c-span).
Have you ever listened to On the Media on NPR? It's pretty good. They have a story on the Matthews/Miller thing- it's audio but you can hear how pissed off Miller gets at Matthews and others who ask him to back up his claims. It also talks about how other media orgs are reporting the event. Fox news had a 9 year old boy reporting on what he thought about the speech- hrmm.
http://www.wnyc.org/onthemedia/
Anyways, the show is great.