1) Moose Burgers All Around! Hey McC, you sure did change the conversation, but then again, so will a bad connection. What was all that talk about needing to be "comfortable" with your pick? This is like bringing a stranger to a house party. Everybody wants to be nice to her but who the heck is she? Hey, is that Mitt over there?
2) Don't they have Cable? 38 million-plus sets are tuned to the OB acceptance speech but President Bush says he didn't watch it. I'm sorry, but that's like Heather Mills saying she didn't listen to the new McCartney album. Did you really have something else to do? Oh yeah, past your bedtime and all that. Will you stay up for McC?
3) "I hear hurricanes ablowing. I know the end is coming soon." Talk about a conversation changer. Gustav arrives as the GOP convention opens. You can't make this stuff up.
4) We are all Scrantonians! The question, "How's it playing in Scranton?" is suddenly in vogue again. In the old days it referred to stage plays that were maybe Broadway bound - Scranton was the last stop before the Big Apple. Now, it means something entirely different. Meet me at Coney Island Lunch!
5) Is that all there is? Michael Dukakis, 74 years old, at the Denver convention this week: "Losers are not delegates. They invite us, we wave, everybody cheers, we sit down....They do give us five extra tickets." [NYDN 8-26-08]
6) Two trains leave Denver traveling at 100 miles an hour..... President Clinton in Denver - two days before his speech - speaking to a group of visiting foreign dignitaries: "Suppose you're a voter, and you've got candidate X and candidate Y. Candidate X agrees with you on everything, but you don't think that candidate can deliver on anything at all. Candidate Y you agree with on about half the issues, but he can deliver. Which candidate are you going to vote for?" After realizing he was at the convention, he added, "This has nothing to do with what's going on now." Bill, please!
7) Most awkward scene since Richard Nixon hugged Sammy Davis Jr.: McC, at a Phoenix high school rally, accepts the endorsement of reggae singer "Daddy Yankee," and says, "I just want to say thank you, Daddy Yankee."
8) Is that a first-person shooter game? Historian Allan Lichtman and geophysicist Vladimir Keilis-Borok have developed their "Quake" model of predicting presidential elections. Says Lichtman, "We reconceptualized presidential politics in geophysical terms. We didn't look at it as Reagan versus Carter or Republicans versus Democrats or liberals versus conservatives. Rather, we looked at elections as stability versus upheavals." [WP 8-25-08] Well, where's the fun in that?
9) Best quote of the week: Tom Daschle: "In politics, only the paranoid survive."[NYT 8-26-08]
10) Best factoid unearthed by endless media references to 1968 Democratic Convention: MC5's Wayne Kramer is alive! And he debunks the legend that the band played for 12 hours straight during the '68 riots: "It was more like 50 minutes. We had to stop for some street theater, kids in Richard Nixon masks." [NYP 8-24-08]
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