I was playing around with Obama’s speech in Wordle today and decided to post the results. I am far from the only one to use www.wordle.net to do this.

There has been constant coverage of a few Clinton supporters who are upset that she lost - thats understandable - but if you listen to the news you get the impression that these people are eager to go out and support John McCain. McCain’s platform is so far from what Clinton stood for in the primary season that you have to question what these few, but vocal, Clinton supporters wanted out of this election.

With certification of all delegates for the 2008 Democratic National Convention now complete, the Democratic National Convention Committee (DNCC) announced today that 44.3 percent of the delegates elected to attend the Convention in Denver represent minority communities, 50.1 percent are women and 31.4 percent are either seniors or youth, making this the most diverse Convention in Party history.

If conservative Republicans are a group that John McCain wants to court and cement their support, should he be campaigning with someone who ran for Vice President of the United States sharing a ticket and platform with Al Gore?

AlterNet is featuring an article from The Huffington Post that describes, at length, the key elements of Obama’s Energy Plan. The plan has been available for some time on the Obama website as a PDF, but this article does a great job of breaking it down and explaining the benefits of various elements of the plan in a way that makes complex issues very clear.

There is nothing wrong in Mr McCain hammering away at Mr Obama’s policies or lack of experience. What is so disappointing in Mr McCain’s new strategy is the derisive and debased tone of the attacks.

The GOP is at it again. Both the McCain campaign and the RNC have used some very slimy math techniques along with maliciously false claims to try to run up a huge number of Obama votes for tax increases.

When exactly did it become a acceptable for a national party to ignore issues and focus instead on the kind of work normally left to special interest groups like 2004’s Swiftboat Veterans for Truth?

Once again the RNC has decided to reach back into the earlier days of the primary season to try to sow more dissent among Democrats. It still amazes me that there are at least five RNC press releases that do not mention their candidate for every one that mentions McCain.

The big loser in last night’s Clinton/Obama debate, at least in the eyes of media critics, was ABC News.
Tom Shales, in the Washington Post, gives a thorough and fair critique of what ABC’s Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos did wrong. Ignoring the aspects that were outside the moderator’s control such as timing and number [...]