What Wisconsin Bloggers Are Saying About the Democratic National Convention: Day Three

It seems that as the convention goes on, John McCain becomes a better and better man and friend of various high-ranking Democrats. So, a request to Howard Dean, Al Gore, Barack Obama and all of tonight's speakers: Please ask your friend John McCain to vacate the premises so that dangerous warmonger John McCain can be brought in for our examination. This man is not your friend, this man is "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran." This man is eating cake while New Orleans drowns. This man is overturning Roe and opposing the Ledbetter Act. This man is privatizing Social Security. If this man is your friend, and the harshest thing you can think of to say about him is that he's got seven or eight or twelve houses, kindly piss off. Some of us are trying to save this country and you're not helping.

The cable guys, for the most part were upset that the Convention lacked the killer instinct. Not enough "red meat" they said. "No one took on McCain". Well, perhaps change begins at home. It begins with Teddy Kennedy's incredible speech despite pain. Maybe, just maybe, the current belief that only negative campaigns win is about to end.

I am proud and excited that I get to be around and conscious for this momentous occasion. Someday, I'll hopefully be able to tell my own children, and their children, about this day - and I hope beyond hope that they'll find it almost mundane, because such a thing will be utterly commonplace for them. A girl can dream, anyway.

there is much more than mere politics to my joy. All of my long held beliefs from the days in grade school about what this country stood for came flooding back to me as I watched the televised proceedings. I found myself getting misty eyed in the living room as I watched and celebrated the huge step this nation has now taken.

At this point, the son of a Kenyan and a Kansan who grew up in Hawaii and Indonesia certainly presents a better alternative to John Wayne McCain. McCain claims to not know much about the economy, makes jokes about killing Iranians, and cheers on the smell of freedom at a gas-guzzling, Harley Hog show.

if this doesn't make all those Obama backers/Clinton haters kiss and make up with the Clintons then they really need therapy and to get out of politics, it's obviously over their heads.

Done. Convention is so lame. No drama. Nothing new. It's as bad as high school Model UN where nobody knows anything, yet they are required to get up and speak nutrasweet fake sweetness and wonder, matched only by the insincerity and boredom of the listeners.

The McCain campaign may be leaking Joementum hints to make any other choice look better. McCain could even claim -- falsely -- that Lieberman was the easy choice, the politically expedient selection, but that he put politics aside and put America first with whatever other awful choice he makes -- compared to Joe Lieberman, even Mitt Romney would look good.