We Darnells’ had our Labor Day today… met the peep’s new great grand daughter… My niece’s and nephew’s first. Amazing…
The discussion turned to RNC — Notice: My Dad, 85, and I are fallin’ for Palin… Dad, he is stoked!
He said, “C’s for McCain : the Man is crafty, cagey, and clever…”
I’ll give odds on McCain/Palin they get 48% of the pop vote — any takers? Jack you set the odds.
This year, the intense secrecy with which McCain advisor A.B. Culvahouse completed his vetting of Sarah Palin preserved the surprise. And ultimately, McCain aides say they’re sure that the rewards will be worth the risks. But as the Palin pick turns 72 hours old, McCain’s campaign is learning as much about her from the media and from Democrats as they are from what minimal political preparation they had.
The campaign anticipated that the Obama campaign would attack Palin’s experience, to which they responded by claiming that she has more experience than he does.
Late Thursday night, aviation buffs first noticed a curious series of out-of-the-ordinary airplane flight plans from Anchorage to Flagstaff to a small airport outside Dayton. Why not Dayton itself? Campaigns routinely try to hide these flights by diverting them to tiny airstrips far enough away from cities and events, a practice that the Obama campaign used to good effect.
( Ambinder, Marc; What McCain Didn’t Know About Sarah Palin. August 31, 2008)
