I didn't think he could do it, but I'm very impressed. Obama won Iowa, and his victory speech was goosebump-inspiring. I caucused for Ron Paul, but I'll be switching my registration back to Democrat now, and hope to vote for Obama (or Edwards, though that seems unlikely) next fall for President:
Today is my wife's birthday, and we're celebrating it in Montreal. She didn't know we were coming here until a few days ago, but was happily surprised (I hope). We had numerous delays on the trip here, arriving about 8 hours later than we were supposed to, due to delayed and cancelled flights due to weather, but we made it, and spent yesterday shopping in the Underground City, ice skating, eating copious amounts of meat at Le Milsa, and finished the day off with a pint of cider at Hurley's, before collapsing into our beds. On today's agenda: The Montreal Biodome, and the fine art musuem.
Great article here from Tucker Carlson, talking about Ron Paul:
One thing you can say for certain: The crowds at Ron Paul rallies aren't coming to be entertained. Stylistically, a Paul speech is about as colorful as a tax return. He is the only politician I've ever seen who doesn't draw energy from the audience; his tone is as flat at the conclusion as it was at the beginning. There are no jokes. There's no warm-up, no shout-out to local luminaries in the room, no inspiring vignettes about ordinary Americans doing their best in the face of this or that bad thing. In fact, there are virtually none of the usual political clichés in a Paul speech. Children may be our future, but Ron Paul isn't admitting it in public.
Paul is no demagogue, and probably couldn't be if he tried. He's too libertarian. He can't stand to tell other people what to do, even people who've shown up looking for instructions. On board the campaign's tiny chartered jet one night (the plane was so small my legs were intertwined with the candidate's for the entire flight), Paul and his staff engaged in an unintentionally hilarious exchange about the cabin lights. The staff wanted to know whether Paul preferred the lights on or off. Not wanting to be bossy, Paul wouldn't say. Ultimately, the staff had to guess. It was a long three minutes.
Wow, Rudy's commercial was cringe-inducing, but Hillary's is just... well... it makes me want to puke. She needs to do a follow up ad that shows her having to pay off the credit card bill for those gifts in January...
By comparison, Ron Paul's Christmas video seems genuine, and he wears the requisite red shirt:
Mike Huckabee's commercial also plays as genuine, to me, though the "floating cross" is a bit disturbing. That said, I find it hard to believe that they actually came up with that ahead of time, it was probably a happy accident for them.
I think Huckabee and Paul have good Christmas ads, won't win them many new voters, but they don't turn people off. Rudy's ad is just plain creepy and weird, and Hillary's reinforces her image as calculating and her humor always just seems so forced...
I hope this is intended as a joke, and not a real ad, but I fear I'm wrong:
