CNN

I'm watching a bit of CNN because I can't figure out when the Republican Convention is going to start. I think it might be on only for an hour or so tonight, but that seems odd when the Democrats were on several hours every day.

I happened to catch Campbell Brown's interview with Tucker Bounds yesterday that's getting so much press - she pressed him about Sarah Palin's foreign policy experience and he couldn't come up with anything. It was so disturbing to watch that I even shouted at the TV "just tell her you'll look it up and get back to her!" Geez...the fact that he couldn't come up with that doesn't speak well for the McCain campaign. I mean, I like to see the McCain camp sputter and spout nonsense, but it was really painful that he couldn't even save himself.

I think John King is NOT doing a service for Democracy. His stupid charts and computers and pronouncements belittle the process. He has it all worked out so the only states that matter are about 5 toss-up states. The rest of us might as well rubber stamp our state's traditional voting record and move on. I don't like it and I don't like his tone when he delivers his facts and figures.

The Cafferty File - I don't know who this guy is, but I liked his comments just now on Sarah Palin...
"There’s a growing sense that John McCain may not have done all his homework before making his V.P. pick.
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is now grabbing headlines for all the wrong reasons: her 17-year-old unmarried daughter is pregnant. Palin has hired a private lawyer in the “trooper gate” ethics investigation. She was for the bridge to nowhere before she was against it. Palin appeared at a convention of the Alaska Independence Party — which tried to get votes on whether the state should secede from the union. Her husband was arrested 22 years ago on a DUI. And, although Palin is now railing against earmarks, she got hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding for local projects as both governor and as mayor of Wasilla.
There’s more. What about her foreign policy credentials? CNN’s Campbell Brown repeatedly asked McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds last night why Palin is ready to be commander-in-chief, what qualifications she has, and to name one foreign policy decision Palin has made – Campbell never got an answer. It’s reported that Palin may have only traveled overseas once, last year to Germany and Kuwait.
This has all led many to wonder how thorough of a vetting the Alaska governor got. McCain only met with Palin once and had one phone conversation with her before offering her the job. It raises serious questions about the kind of judgment McCain would use as president to make other big decisions."