As hurricane Gustav surged at increase speed through the Gulf of Mexico toward New Orleans, John McCain initiated an immediate change in the GOP Convention in St. Paul scheduled to begin tomorrow afternoon when the hurricane is scheduled to hit the Big Easy.

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John McCain pulled off a slam dunk today by naming a former point guard and the Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin as his running mate.

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With the background of a massive neoclassical set that the staging supervisor for Britney Spears said was designed to evoke the White House and the Lincoln Memorial not the Acropolis, but that the McCain campaign called the “Temple of Obama,”  Barack Obama, the first black American, accepted the Democratic nomination for President and said hello [...]

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Sen. Joe Biden came out this evening as the pitt bull he is known to be and attacked McCain as offering up ‘more of the same.’
Biden said Obama would turn the tide and pledged to serve “every American who was trying to do the right thing.”

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Former President Bill Clinton passed the torch tonight and will now get out of the way, hopefully for Obama. 
His message points were delivered with outrageous hypocrisy but what else is new in politics or better yet what else is new with the Clinton’s?

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Sen. Hillary Clinton was allowed to give her swan song speech of this presidential year election at Obama’s Democratic Convention. It was probably her best speech ever, all about her with token references to husband Bill and only 10 mentions supporting the candidacy of Barack Obama.

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A Lion stepped up to the plate tonight — much like Babe Ruth — at the Democratic Convention and hit an emotional home run while dealing with a death struggle of brain cancer.
Ted Kennedy, ignoring doctor’s orders, appeared on the Convention floor before tumultuous applause to speak in behalf of Barack Obama for President, passing the baton [...]

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During World War II there was a saying that, ‘Loose Lips Sink Ships.”
Loose lips can also sink candidates and yesterday following a 3 AM text message – that Hillary Clinton didn’t answer – from Obama announcing to his followers that Sen Joseph R. Biden Jr., (D-Del) was his selection for Vice President, the two appeared together to [...]

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I have been planning to write a column on Spitting & Baseball for some time now, but after watching this evening’s game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Los Angeles Angels (TB 4 LA 2) the spitting issue seemed to come more into focus.

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I live in one of the worst places to be when a tropical storm approaches, a barrier reef in the Gulf of Mexico.
They built up my expectations as Fay approached, as they always do when a tropical storm forms and heads towards Florida.

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