Working his way around the country in the run-up to the Democratic National Convention, President Barack Obama told workers early Monday in Ohio that Mitt Romney, who wouldn’t reveal his “secret sauce” for job creation in his convention speech, would guide the nation to a “losing season,” insisting that voters should take his opponent’s plan and “punt it away.”
** NEW COLUMNS COMING UP … SO WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED WITH CLINT EASTWOOD? (AND THE PERILS OF ARGUING WITH IMAGINARY OBAMAS), CONSIDERING THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (WHICH JUST ROSE TO $1 BILLION) and WHILE ONE CLINTON WOWS AT THE OBAMARAMA, ANOTHER PIVOTS TO THE LONG GAME.
** OBAMA TODAY – MONDAY. President Barack Obama is in Ohio, Louisiana, and Washington, DC.
In the morning, Obama speaks to a rally in Toledo, Ohio.
In the afternoon, Obama tours hurricane damage and delivers remarks in New Orleans, Louisiana.
He then returns to the White House.
** FROM THE JERRY FILES – MONDAY. Governor Jerry Brown is out of state.
He issued the following proclamation for Labor Day:
“When government and business recognize the intrinsic right of workers to organize and bargain collectively, it is possible to maintain an orderly system of industrial relations, avoiding the chaos and bloodshed that often marked labor disputes in the past. The industrial growth that our nation enjoyed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries came at a great human cost. While men, women and children suffered under brutal working conditions, their attempts to improve their situation were often met with violence by employers and the government. In response, many workers became radical or violent themselves, leading to a seemingly unbreakable cycle of destruction and terror.
“There were countless instances of labor actions leading to tragedy during this period. One of the earliest and most infamous of these was the Haymarket Affair of 1886, a bombing and shooting incident during May Day rallies in Chicago that took the lives of seven police officers, four civilians and four anarchists that were hanged for plotting the attack—a sentence whose justness is still debated. In 1894, a nationwide wildcat strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company led to a disproportionate response from the federal government. Twelve thousand United States Army troops were deployed to break the strike, killing 13 workers and wounding dozens more.
“Though unions and craft organizations had begun to hold Labor Day picnics as early as the 1870s, it was not until the aftermath of this tragedy that the observance became an official holiday for all Americans. In that year President Grover Cleveland established the national Labor Day as part of his efforts to heal the nation’s wounds. However, lacking an orderly system to address labor disputes, the country continued to suffer similar events for several decades after this symbolic act of reconciliation. During a textile workers’ strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912, police clubbed women and children attempting to flee the embattled town. In San Francisco, on July 5, 1934, two men participating in a longshoremen’s strike were killed by police gunfire in an incident that came to be known as “Bloody Thursday.”
“The following year, on July 5, 1935, President Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act—also known as the Wagner Act—the foundational law of our modern system of industrial relations. By legitimizing workers’ organizations as political entities and creating a legal framework for the resolution of workplace disputes, the Wagner Act effectively ended the decades of bloodshed and despair that attended our nation’s birth as an industrial giant. Today, disagreements between management and labor are typically worked out at the bargaining table with paper and pens, not in the streets with guns and bombs. For this we can all be thankful.
“This year, as we enjoy traditions ranging from beach outings and barbecues to an annual change in the rules of high fashion, we should remember how much progress has allowed us to celebrate this Labor Day. I urge all Californians to take this opportunity to appreciate not only the vast contribution of labor to our economy, but also the privilege of living under a fair and well-regulated system of industrial relations.”
In his Labor Day weekend video/radio address, President Barack Obama discussed his Friday visit to Fort Bliss in Texas to mark the second anniversary of the end of major combat in Iraq and thanks the members and families of the U.S. Armed Forces for the work they have done and are doing.
** NEW COLUMNS COMING UP … SO WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED WITH CLINT EASTWOOD? (AND THE PERILS OF ARGUING WITH IMAGINARY OBAMAS), CONSIDERING THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (WHICH JUST ROSE TO $1 BILLION) and WHILE ONE CLINTON WOWS AT THE OBAMARAMA, ANOTHER PIVOTS TO THE LONG GAME.
** OBAMA TODAY – SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. President Barack Obama is in Washington, Iowa, Colorado, and Ohio.
Obama received the intelligence and economic briefings in the Oval Office.
He then flew on Air Force One to Des Moines, Iowa.
On Saturday afternoon, Obama deliver remarks at a campaign event at the Living History Farms in Urbandale, Iowa.
Later in the afternoon, Obama will depart Des Moines, Iowa en route Sioux City, Iowa.
While in Sioux City, Obama will deliver remarks at a campaign event at Morningside College.
In the evening, Obama will depart Sioux City, Iowa en route Denver, Colorado.
Obama will remain overnight in Denver.
On Sunday morning, Obama will deliver remarks at a campaign event at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
In the afternoon, Obama will depart Denver, Colorado en route Toledo, Ohio. The departure from Buckley Air Force Base and the arrival at Toledo Express Airport are open press.
The President will remain overnight in Toledo, Ohio.
Obama is prepping for the Democratic National Convention, which starts at the beginning of the week in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Can’t you feel the excitement building?
He’s also monitoring and managing several geopolitical crises.
Iran’s big moment out of the shade of supposed global isolation is drawing to a close along with the annual summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran.
Despite the hopes of many in Israel and the US, top level representatives, in many cases heads of government, from 120 nations gathered in the Iranian capital to discuss the interests of nations not aligned with superpowers or would-be superpowers.
The group originally emerged in the Cold War as an ostensible alternative to the US and NATO alliance and to the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China. I say ostensible, as the various superpower/would-be superpower camps did in fact have allies in the NAM mix.
The fact that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other top leaders took part in the Tehran conclave was a plus for Iran.
But what they said and did largely was not.
While the NAM summit voted to back Iran in its drive for peaceful nuclear power — Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke and insisted that Iran has no plans to develop nuclear weapons (remarkable that they are so persistent against such opposition in the post-Fukushima world, isn’t it?) — that’s a largely boiler plate position, in my view.
Ban took Iranian leaders publicly to task for human rights violations at home and for its nuclear program.
Morsi called on all nations to support the uprising in Syria against one of Iran’s few staunch allies, the Assad regime, making it clear that it is part and parcel of the Arab Awakening movement.
Singh announced that India is cutting back on its purchases of Iranian oil, contradicting Iranian hopes.
And the UN’s nuclear watchdog agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency, issued a report saying that Iran has accelerated its nuclear enrichment program and is cleaning up a disputed site that it has occasionally said it might finally open for inspection.
This has triggered another spike in war talk from Israel.
But the Israeli security leadership is very split on war with Iran. More to follow.
Meanwhile, as her husband preps his Wednesday night nominating speech for President Barack Obama, the president’s once fierce rival is off representing him on the big geopolitical pivot to Asia and the Pacific.
Specifically, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has concluded the first part of a sprawling trip to the even more sprawling region, attending the Pacific islands nations summit in Rarotonga, capital of the Cook Islands.
Clinton brought promises of continued and in some cases, expanded US aid to the Pacific island nations. Including promises of more action on climate change and mitigation aid for nations which some call the charter members of “the League of Drowning Nations.” Which is not an official name, of course.
Clinton said that the South Pacific is “big enough” for both the US and China, which has lately stepped up its efforts to gain sway by providing financial aid and investment in the islands.
China, of course, is not at all on board with the anti-greenhouse gas movement, as one of the biggest obstacles to any sort of global agreement.
Obama is monitoring several geopolitical crises involving the Arab Awakening, Iran and Israel, Syria, Iraq, AfPak, and the South China Sea.
Military Crisis Zone Times: The Persian/Arabian Gulf is ten hours ahead of Pacific time and Afghanistan is eleven and a half hours ahead of Pacific time. The time in Manila, on the South China Sea, is fifteen hours ahead of Pacific time.
In remarks to the United Food and Commercial Workers union in Los Angeles, Governor Jerry Brown challenged New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to a fitness contest, consisting of push-ups, pull-ups, and a 3-mile run, saying he has no doubt of the outcome. Christie, in his inimitable fashion, dismissed Brown as “old” during his various comments at the Republican National Convention.
** FROM THE JERRY FILES – SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. Governor Jerry Brown and First Lady/Special Advisor Anne Gust Brown have left the state.
Brown has no scheduled public events.
Before leaving, Brown made this brief statement on the bipartisan passage of an updating of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 2004 workers compensation reforms:
“I commend the Legislature for an extraordinary workers’ compensation reform bill that helps injured workers and averts an imminent crisis of skyrocketing rates. Again, Republicans have joined Democrats to work together – perhaps, a portent of good things to come.”
Brown worked with legislators of both parties in a late-developing drive to fend off impending rate hikes for businesses and to increase payments to injured workers.
Both things were accomplished by cutting administrative procedures and costs and economizing on medical costs.
The bill, backed by business and labor interests but opposed by many lawyers and some doctors, passed by overwhelming margins in both houses, 64-4 in the Assembly and 34-4 in the Senate.
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan left Florida Friday morning following the Republican National Convention. “Obama doesn’t remind us of the Greek columns anymore because he promised us he would cut the deficit in half,” Romney intoned on the tarmac.
** NEW COLUMNS COMING UP … WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED WITH CLINT EASTWOOD? (AND THE PERILS OF ARGUING WITH IMAGINARY OBAMAS), CONSIDERING THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (WHICH JUST ROSE TO $1 BILLION) and WHILE ONE CLINTON WOWS AT THE OBAMARAMA, ANOTHER PIVOTS TO THE LONG GAME.
** OBAMA TODAY – FRIDAY. President Barack Obama is in Washington and Texas.
After watching the spectacle of Clint Eastwood argue with his non-spectral apparition last night on international television, Obama left the White House early this morning to fly to El Paso, Texas.
At 10:30 AM Pacific, he arrived in El Paso, Texas at an Army air field at the massive Fort Bliss complex.
At 11:15 AM Pacific, Obama took part in a roundtable discussion with service-members and military families at Fort Bliss.
At 12 noon Pacific, Obama delivers remarks to troops at Fort Bliss.
At 1:10 PM Pacific, Obama departs El Paso, Texas on Air Force One en route Joint Base Andrews.
At 4:45 PM Pacific, Obama arrives Joint Base Andrews, where he boards Marine One.
At 5 PM Pacific, Obama lands on the South Lawn of the White House.
What to say about Thursday night at the Republican National Convention?
Well, we saw pretty much the same Mitt Romney as always. Notably, he had no specifics on his plan to revive the US economy. He promised to create 12 million jobs, a specific number, but didn’t say how that would happen.
So if you don’t have faith that tax cuts and regulatory cuts and ramping up the oil industry gets you 12 million news jobs — and does not further bust the budget — you are left unsatisfied with it all.
But Romney, who was formally introduced by up and coming Florida Senator Marco Rubio, was in large part upstaged by the introducer before Rubio.
That would be Clint Eastwood.
I will have a piece exploring and at least partially explaining this.
The official word from the Romney camp is that Eastwood, who argued, arguably humorously, with an empty chair representing an invisible Barack Obama, was ad libbing.
Team Romney, in this version, turned over the stage to Eastwood and hoped for the best.
Well, if so, and that would be one of the biggest ifs you can find, that would be quite extraordinary, to say the least.
When Arnold Schwarzenegger, then the governor of California — and not a guy who showed up last month at the candidate’s fundraiser in Idaho to reveal his support, as Eastwood supposedly did — spoke to the 2004 Republican National Convention, his speech was gone over and over with a fine tooth comb.
In my own observation and experience, no star, no matter how cool or commanding, is given anything near this high profile a platform and simply trusted to make the magic.
There was no magic last night.
I felt badly for Eastwood, whom I’ve admired since I was a kid. I’ve met him, don’t know him, but certainly know friends of his. This surprised me on a few levels. More to follow
Obama is monitoring several geopolitical crises involving the Arab Awakening, Iran and Israel, Syria, Iraq, AfPak, and the South China Sea.
Military Crisis Zone Times: The Arabian Gulf is ten hours ahead of Pacific time and Afghanistan is eleven and a half hours ahead of Pacific time. The time in Manila, on the South China Sea, is fifteen hours ahead of Pacific time.
Clint Eastwood argued with an imaginary President Barack Obama during his appearance on the last night of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida.
** AFTER THE ROMNEYRAMA, AND MORE SERIOUS MATTERS. This Republican national convention has made one thing very clear. These days, the only practicing moderate Republican politicians are on Mad Men.
I wrote here in June that the Enlightenment, that sustained starburst in political thinking which ushered in the transition from the medieval to the modern and drove the American Revolution, has become a fundamental divide in American politics. And the increasingly insular and anti-science Republican Party is largely on the side of the anti-Enlightenment forces.
Political conventions lost most of their meaning a while back. Now they are mostly just grabs for media attention and excuses to congregate socially and do status self-checks. (And, more positively, network.) Folks get to play a more concentrated form of the political ping pong that is their stock in trade 24/7 and 365. From the outsider’s point of view, conventions don’t do much, but they do signal, often inadvertently, where a party really is. But they also ratchet up the distraction factor in a culture that doesn’t need any more distracting.
For Mitt Romney, the convention provides his latest attempt to re-introduce himself to the American people. But what’s that old ad tag line? “You never get a second chance to make a first impression.” It’s not a Don Draper line but it sounds like it ought to be.
Romney running mate Paul Ryan had a big night to work on adjusting his still emerging first impression. 2008 Republican nominee John McCain and former Secretary of State Condi Rice joined in the fun, though his first impression is long past and hers, well, probably doesn’t matter.
Ryan delivered a very spirited run-through of his very conservative agenda. More tax cuts for the rich, less regulation of Wall Street and business in general, privatizing Medicare while insisting he’ll protect it, cutting social spending, beefing up our beefy military, hewing to the fossil fuel path on energy and denigrating renewables, and so on. He didn’t mention his opposition to abortion for rape victims, or the ticket’s super-hawkishness, for those would be too obvious for undecided independents.
Ryan’s politics obviously aren’t much different from Sarah Palin’s. He knows more and is able to avoid the queasy deer-in-the-headlights stuff. He also lacks her pizzazz, though he’s certainly peppy, if more than a little preppy. Ryan’s speech was, er, severely factually challenged, as CBS and quite a few other outlets have pointed out.
A new Gallup Poll survey may, inadvertently and indirectly, sum up the reaction of the country to this presidential race as it delivers an assessment of Ryan.
The big reaction, as it were, is that there is no big reaction.
It’s sort of a collective “meh.”
The country is split on whether it views Ryan positively or negatively, with a quarter having no opinion whatsoever. That means that positive and negative reactions to him, after plenty of exposure since his debut early this month in Norfolk, Virginia, are each below 40 percent.
That’s not very good.
Especially not good for Ryan and Romney is that the negative has climbed much more rapidly than the positive since he was announced as the veep pick on August 11th.
Today’s 38-36 dead heat contrasts with the 25-17 positive assessment when Ryan was announced.
My guess is that Ryan is actually somewhat more negatively viewed than that, as I think that Gallup skews a bit Republican in its polling.
McCain and Rice handled the super-hawk side of things, especially McCain. Naturally, he didn’t talk about Obama getting Osama bin Laden, nor about the sweeping Obama anti-terror program which has resulted in the deaths — by unceasing drone strikes and special ops raids — of thousands of jihadist cadre in several nations.
He also didn’t talk about Obama’s very successful program in Libya, which resulted in a true coalition effort and the overthrow of longtime dictator Moammar Gaddafi. And the election of a non-Islamist government.
He did talk about him not staying the course in Afghanistan, not overthrowing the Iranian government, not doing something quite unclear to change the situation in Syria, not being sufficiently hawkish with Russia and China… You get the gist.
Rice’s message was more measured, although most anyone’s of substance would be. She’s moved more to the right since she was on the advisory board of Senator Gary Hart’s Center for A New Democracy during his Democratic presidential frontrunner days.
But she is much more moderate than most of the folks on display in Tampa. As a black woman, a useful symbol for the GOP, but nothing more, as I’m sure she will never run for public office. And given her deep involvement with the Iraq War — not that she was one of the strongest advocates of it, but she was the national security advisor when the fateful deals went down — her career in public office is probably over.
Would-be First Lady Ann Romney, originally scheduled for Monday night, addressed the conventioneers Tuesday evening as another part of the effort to deal with the GOP’s problem with women, and Romney’s humanization problem. “From my heart about our hearts,” she discussed what a great guy who came from very little Mitt Romney really is. Except, it didn’t happen that way. Never mind.
Then New Jersey Governor Chris Christie delivered the convention keynote address.
Christie, normally a big gust of wind to rival any hurricane, fell flat. Christie, who is, to be sure, more than twice the man Governor Jerry Brown (whom Christie cleverly insulted as “old”) is, insisted that “we have to fundamentally reduce the size” of the federal government.
He was humorless in text and delivery, unpleasant in aspect, boiler plate in his rote Republican appeal, and remarkably self-absorbed, mentioning himself far more often than Romney. To put it briefly, as is richly deserved, he was boring.
A Gallup Poll survey as the convention got underway had some unwelcome news for the new Romney/Ryan ticket. The expectation of a victory by Obama is overwhelming, 58-36 over Romney. In May, it was 56-36.
The needle has moved only slightly with all the sturm und drang, and not in the right direction for the conservative challenger and his would-be Robin.
Gallup consistently has the race closer than I believe it is, not incidentally.
The funny thing about polls regarding the likely victor is that the candidate viewed as the likely victory usually wins.
In fact, the candidate expected to win actually did win the last four presidential elections.
Notably, Democrats are more optimistic about Obama’s prospects than Republican are about Romney’s, with 80 percent of Dems saying Obama will win to only 60 percent of Republicans saying that Romney will win.
Meanwhile, Obama is prepping for the the Democratic National Convention next week in Charlotte, North Carolina, and managing some geopolitical crises.
While he works with former President Bill Clinton on his one-time opponent’s nominating speech, he dispatches Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on another lengthy geopolitical Pivot tour, again to the Asia Pacific region. (See my articles on the emerging US geopolitical pivot from over-engagement with the Islamic world to increased engagement with Asia and the Pacific here.) …
Governor Jerry Brown shot some hoops with the kids at Ramona Elementary School in the LA area city of Hawthorne while campaigning for the Proposition 30 revenue initiative.
** FROM THE JERRY FILES – FRIDAY. Governor Jerry Brown is in Northern California.
He has no scheduled public events.
On Thursday morning he appeared at a school in Los Angeles promoting the Proposition 30 revenue initiative. At a public elementary school in Hawthorne, which is also the home to SpaceX, Brown met with parents, teachers, and children, then appeared with various education figures all emphasizing the need to pass the initiative to avert disaster.
Brown also shot a few hoops with the kids, as you see above.
California’s landmark climate change program ran a test version of its cap and trade program on Thursday, with the Air Resources Board monitoring for glitches and potentials for gaming.
Brown awaits the last rush of bills on Friday, including a possible updating of the 2004 workers compensation reform package.
He will, as I reported a few days ago, go through hundreds of bills next week rather than attend the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.
** SPACE, JERRY BROWN’S PLACE, AND A RACE. … From my August 27th essay.
** AN INSULAR ROMNEY STRUGGLES WITH HIS SURPRISINGLY HEARTFELT VEEP PICK AFTER STRIKING OUT INTERNATIONALLY. … From my August 23rd essay.
** RECALLING TOTAL RECALL: INTRIGUE, ULTRA-VIOLENCE, HUMOR AND WHAT ELSE THAT IS MISSING FROM THE SCHWARZENEGGER REMAKES. … From my August 17th essay.
** LONDON’S GRAND OLYMPICS, ON AND OFF THE TRACK. … From my August 13th essay.
** GORE VIDAL: REMEMBERING A BRILLIANT, CONTROVERSIAL LEGEND OF THE SORT WE DON’T FOSTER ANY MORE. … From my August 3rd essay.
** ROMNEY’S DANGEROUS BUFFOONERY. … From my August 1st essay.
** SUNRISE IN CALIFORNIA? … From my July 26th feature.
** FROM GOVERNATOR TO MOONBEAM. … From my January 3rd, 2011 feature.
** OBAMA: RIDING WITH HISTORY. (NOTE: As Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States, this column was the featured column on the top of the front page of the Huffington Post.) … From my January 19th, 2009 Huffington Post column.
Last November, the USC Trojans football team, beset for two years by NCAA sanctions, upset the #4 nationally rated Oregon Ducks in Eugene, 38-35, to mark a sudden resurgence. Now USC, loaded on offense, led by Heisman Trophy favorite Matt Barkley, who returned to school rather than take first round draft choice riches in the NFL, is ranked #1 in several national polls as the college football season gets underway.
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** TRACK GLOBAL AND NATIONAL ENERGY PRICES IN NEAR REAL TIME VIA BLOOMBERG ENERGY MARKET WATCH. Having crashed over $147 for yet another record on July 11th, 2008, crude oil closed on Friday at $96.47 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
This is up about $62 from the low of $34 per barrel prior to enactment of the Obama economic recovery program, reflecting a low point in global economic activity, and down about $18 per barrel from the price at the time of the Osama bin Laden raid.
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| Comments (33) |
Good video of Romney leaving Florida.
Good shot by Jerry Brown.
Good video of the USC win that put them back on the football map.
Crazy speech by Clint Eastwood.
Romney can’t even make sense without a script!!
Swoosh!
Jonas says:
August 31, 2012 at 1:16 pm
Good shot by Jerry Brown.
I’m speechless like he should have been…
Jonas says:
August 31, 2012 at 1:36 pm
Crazy speech by Clint Eastwood.
Hey what about Cal??
Jonas says:
August 31, 2012 at 1:20 pm
Good video of the USC win that put them back on the football map.
Great HuffPoster article on the Republican Convention and the Big Real World and the big difference between them.
Here is your thoughtful article.
I fear it is already eclipsed by your boyhood favorite Mr. Eastwood and his antics.
Argh.
Capitol Boy says:
August 31, 2012 at 2:36 pm
I’m speechless like he should have been…
Jonas says:
August 31, 2012 at 1:36 pm
Crazy speech by Clint Eastwood.
Iran -Israel crisis video this weekend?
I LOVE the video of JB challenging loud mouth Christie to a physical fitness competition!!
Really good talk by Barack reminding the country that he ended the Iraq War, as promised…
Good Labor Day speech by President Ob ama, Happy Labor Day.
Good comments by President Obama in Ohio on the Mitt Romney ‘jobs’ plan.
Jerry Brown is very funny in that video talking about Gov. Christie.
Jerry Brown cracks me up, man.
Is anything really happening at that deal??
Bradley: Obama is prepping for the Democratic National Convention, which starts at the beginning of the week in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Can’t you feel the excitement building?
I hear Obama is getting nominated again.
Indeed.
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Jonas says:
September 3, 2012 at 4:18 pm (Edit)
Jerry Brown is very funny in that video talking about Gov. Christie.
Jack Aubrey says:
September 4, 2012 at 11:27 am (Edit)
Jerry Brown cracks me up, man.
That’s a big promise kept.
> Capitol Boy says:
September 1, 2012 at 3:02 pm (Edit)
Really good talk by Barack reminding the country that he ended the Iraq War, as promised…
Shocking, positively shocking.
> Capitol Boy says:
September 1, 2012 at 2:50 pm (Edit)
I LOVE the video of JB challenging loud mouth Christie to a physical fitness competition!!
Sorry.
> Jonas says:
September 1, 2012 at 1:59 pm (Edit)
Iran -Israel crisis video this weekend?
Indeed.
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Jack Aubrey says:
August 31, 2012 at 3:57 pm (Edit)
Argh.
Capitol Boy says:
August 31, 2012 at 2:36 pm
I’m speechless like he should have been…
Jonas says:
August 31, 2012 at 1:36 pm
Crazy speech by Clint Eastwood.
Yes, but now I’m on those antics!
> Requiem says:
August 31, 2012 at 3:31 pm (Edit)
Here is your thoughtful article.
I fear it is already eclipsed by your boyhood favorite Mr. Eastwood and his antics.
Thanks, I appreciate it.
> Capitol Boy says:
August 31, 2012 at 2:53 pm (Edit)
Great HuffPoster article on the Republican Convention and the Big Real World and the big difference between them.
After their loss to Nevada (!), aren’t you glad I left them out?
> Capitol Boy says:
August 31, 2012 at 2:36 pm (Edit)
Hey what about Cal??
Jonas says:
August 31, 2012 at 1:20 pm
Good video of the USC win that put them back on the football map.
Very nice.
> Capitol Boy says:
August 31, 2012 at 2:36 pm (Edit)
I’m speechless like he should have been…
Jonas says:
August 31, 2012 at 1:36 pm
Crazy speech by Clint Eastwood.
I know, I know.
> Capitol Boy says:
August 31, 2012 at 2:19 pm (Edit)
Romney can’t even make sense without a script!!
I had the entire USC-Oregon game, but now can’t run it.
> Jonas says:
August 31, 2012 at 1:20 pm (Edit)
Good video of the USC win that put them back on the football map.
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