[wind_magic]

Watching CNN tonight as Obama became the nominee (finally) was instructive.

Mixed thoughts about it.

McCain had a terrible speech, what was up with that ?

Clinton ... uhh .... ????????????????????????????????????????

Obama, nice speech, as usual.

CNN .. umm, aren't you supposed to at least give the APPEARANCE of being unbiased ? That's one of the things that struck me the most is the opinions not of the guests (it is a Democratic night, obviously), but the apparent bias of the whole CNN organization itself. You'd think the Democrats had already won the election, etc, and that the election was over. I mean we hear so much about Fox News being so "obviously biased", and then you sit and watch CNN and you don't think the exact same thing ?? When is the last time you watched a Republican talk on CNN as anything other than a response to what the Democrats are doing, as anything but a response to the Democratic nomination process, etc ? Ever seen a single Libertarian on CNN, even once ? For the past few months everyone outside the Democratic party has simply been a prop to expand further on the "Democratic story". Most stories seem to be about how Democrats are going to get over the Republican hurdle to win, or how something a Republican says is going to affect a Democratic win, etc, the bias is very obvious.

The Republicans I don't know what they are doing. It's like someone set a grenade off right in the middle of camp and people are walking around trying to figure out what happened. I don't think Republicans have any idea what they are doing at the moment - they don't like McCain, they don't like what's going on, basically just don't know what to do. Republicans seem to have no plan at the moment, at least in the near term, for how they are going to come out ahead.

And the Democrats, no idea there either. I watched Obama's excellent speech and kept thinking "Wow, what a great guy, really like him ... wish I agreed with the things he was saying". Health care, great, how are we going to pay for that exactly ? I think Democrats are going to be surprised after all of this to find out that about half the country still doesn't agree with them, and that even MORE people don't agree with them now that they've nominated a candidate that is even further away from the rural point of view than Republicans and Clinton are.

There is NO rural friendly candidate this year.