before I had finished.  I think that John McCain is suffering from dementia.  He forgets, becomes confused, defies logic, seems to repeat verbatim what his handlers tell him to say.

Tonight on NPR, he talked about his selection as someone who puts principles above self interest, etc., and there was no connection whatsoever to reality, to the candidacy of Obama and Biden. 

Have we really become so manipulated, so deranged, so distractivle that such nonsense plays?

The handlers of McCain and the Republicans don't care about logic, about rationality, about persuasion.  They will do anything to hold onto power.  I can only hope that they have underestimated the American people.

Last night's applause for Obama seemed as if a hunger was being demonstrated, a hunger and need for moral leadership, for enlightened leadership, and it was hard to stop applauding the need is so great.

Just my opinion.

Maybe John McCain's dementia is affecting me!

I told friends and family in March 2007 that it was time for Obama. From that moment until yesterday, many were still telling me all the common things--he's too young, he has no foreign policy experience, he's all words and no substance.

Over a year of hearing that can get to a person. I was ready in March 2007 to start a local Obama group, but because of constant harping of other and really having no spare time, I decided to wait it out.

Now I'm left with mixed feelings--I can say "I told you so" to everyone who doubted Obama and me. But I also feel somewhat sad that I haven't been actively campaigning for Obama since March 2007.

Long before I could vote, I would pay attention to candidates and then inform my parents who would win. And I was right most of the time. I've since lost that ability. 2000 really messed with my head because Gore did win! But with Obama, I knew early on he was the one.

I try to be circumspect in responding, but I think the direct, honest answer says it. This is a ridiculous choice of Sarah Palin, and what the women on Hardball are thinking is beyond belief. This is simply a whacko choice.

Well, back to Keith, then Bill Moyers Journal, then Bill Maher. Simply exhausting.

I've been checking around the feminist blogs where the reaction is a huge, cynical yawn. They point out that it was never about electing any woman and that McCain has a tin ear to assume that any woman would do. "It would be like the GOP countering Obama by running Alan Keyes," one blogger correctly points out.

Hey John? "It's the ideology, stupid."

On the upside, at least we know which John McCain hopes to show up on Inauguration Day, and it isn't good old moderate John McCain.

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Then there's today's giant stock market tank despite the fact that the price of oil went down. Normally when there's a big drop or spike in prices, reasons are mentioned. Tonight the giant drop was reported with no reason attached. I can only assume at least in part it telegraphs Wall Street's lack of interest in Gov. Palin.