TOBY PETZOLD

It moved me deeply to see Edward Moore Kennedy address the DNC on Monday. That remains my favorite emotional moment so far. Hillary’s speech, however, was a masterpiece. It is the most impactful moment yet. I thought Mrs. Obama was lovely and exquisitely controlled. La Pelosi reconceived the white pantsuit in famous fashion. Biden needs a monster performance tonight. And Obamachrist? I predict he will emerge before those fluted Greek columns tomorrow night with a whacked-out professional wrestler mullet-weave and a boast in his throat. It will be a moment like the one a person feels in the split second he knows he’s going to fall a long way. There’s an adrenaline rush that makes nonsense of time and propels him into the air: “FLY, damn you! FLY!!!”

Just go with the look, man. It works.

According to Sam Youngman at The Hill, Bill Clinton isn’t done hatin’ on a certain playa:

The former president, speaking in Denver, posed a hypothetical question in which he seemed to suggest that that the Democratic Party was making a mistake in choosing Obama as its presidential nominee.

He said: “Suppose for example you’re a voter. And you’ve got candidate X and candidate Y. Candidate X agrees with you on everything, but you don’t think that person can deliver on anything. Candidate Y disagrees with you on half the issues, but you believe that on the other half, the candidate will be able to deliver. For whom would you vote?”

Then, perhaps mindful of how his off-the-cuff remarks might be taken, Clinton added after a pause: “This has nothing to do with what’s going on now.”

It’s hard not to notice that Bill Clinton no longer matters to his party. He may again, but it’s truly remarkable to see how quickly he’s been reduced by this new crowd to some cartoon racist complainer. And it’s almost completely wrong! Him and Geraldine Ferraro getting called racists? This bunch of morans running the Democratic Party are taking identity politics to a whole new plane of reality. Watch out.

So maybe it will be Caroline Kennedy after all.

I read John Lewis’ response yesterday to being called one of the wisest people John McCain knows —and it stung me in McCain’s place. It was an unnecessarily curt and aloof acknowledgement and I think it was beneath Lewis to have made it so.

You’ll note, of course, that when John McCain is asked about whom he thinks is wise, his mind ranges to great Americans who accomplished much. When Barack Hussein Obama is asked, he immediately thinks of family members —like the beauty contest-level narcissist that he is.

I would like to think, somehow, John Lewis thought more of McCain’s answer than he did of this celebrity charlatan.

He probably didn’t invent it, but there is a certain cadence in the voice of Stokely Carmichael —the radical Black Power leader of the 1960s— that belongs to him in my mind as surely as Bo Diddley owns the hambone beat. And this particular cadence sometimes works its way into Obama’s speech. It did into Bill Clinton’s speech sometimes and in some situations. It will probably come out again and again in Obama’s, even though it’s probably a habit to avoid.

The only way Obama can win is if he picks Hillary. I don’t see how that can be disputed.

If he picks Joe Biden, which has been the buzz du jour, then he gets nothing in the Electoral College he wouldn’t have gotten anyway and, for his pains, he gets to constantly clarify the latest pile of Biden’s unburdenings.

Remember Bentsen and Hedges in ‘88? Well, how about Clean and Jerk in 2008?

Go ahead. Steal it. Cause that shit were funny.

Looks like the Joe and Valerie Wilson Show hit another dead end today:

WASHINGTON, Aug 12 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday dismissed former CIA analyst Valerie Plame’s lawsuit against Vice President Dick Cheney and several former Bush administration officials for disclosing her identity to the public.

The Court of Appeals in Washington dealt another setback to the former spy, who has said her career was destroyed when officials blew her cover in 2003 to retaliate against her husband, Iraq war critic Joseph Wilson.

But it was Joe and Valerie who destroyed her CIA career by exploiting the opportunity she got him through her employment to try to publicly undermine the President’s case for war against a legitimate enemy. They doubled down on their stupidity with their disloyal liberal crap —and it’s gotten them nothing but the good opinion of people whose judgement isn’t worth the third bar piss of the night. People like the lunatic Larry Johnson and the anti-car tosser Duncan Black.

Guess it’s off to Hef’s mansion now, eh? 

Since Obama and his surrogates concede that he has no foreign policy experience to run on, they are obligated to say that he has the “right judgement” instead, which is a subjective dodge. But since the legend of this superior judgement is almost always invoked with regard to the War for Iraq, aren’t journalists obligated to ask Obama why he believes a non-decision about a war made almost six years ago constitutes a relevant and timely demonstration of his “right judgement”? He can’t keep going back to that well when his actual decisions about Iraq have subsequently been proven wrong.

Obama may think that he will lead us and the world into a new age of unicorns and rainbows, but he is a dumb bastard to not understand that Presidents inherit real circumstances and accomplished facts. We went into Iraq for more reasons than weapons of mass murder. It’s way past time for him and the godforsaken dolts who support him to acquaint themselves with some of those causes.

This has actually been a rather momentous day in world history.