To State the Obvious

At the risk of stating the obvious: The immense response to Sarah Palin has been prepped. She's an appealing woman, but that appeal doesn't explain the extraordinary emotion by which she's been greeted.

A man thrown a rope while seated in his living room might indeed be impressed that it's a very nice rope; a man thrown a rope in a rapids will grasp at it as though his life depended on it. Indeed, in that case it does. The American public just now is not in a rapids, but they are in a miasmatic swamp of propagandistic delusion, and they have seen a bright light --call it sanity-- and they grasp at it, delightedly. Obama is being sold as a man of great capacity. He's a dolt. No human of any sort of functional capacity, say the ability to breath in-and-out, can see him and not see a dolt. Yet he's extolled as exceptional.

Enter Sarah. She is exceptional. A beginner, but exceptional. It's a truism of criticism that the way to criticize is to compare. The one will be better than the other. So now you have two, beginners both. Which is the better?

This is a sanity, and once the American public has seen it they won't forget.

And they won't forget who attempted to perpetrate this fraud of a Messiah. It's not merely His Holiness of the Big O, it's something called... the Mainstream Press. This election could be a realignment. The Messiah is not the only one who has earned an identity.

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5:00 PM
It's official now:

John McCain has won the ratings race.

The Republican nominee beat Democratic challenger Barack Obama's record-setting convention speech viewership by 500,000.

McCain's address at the Republican National Convention on Thursday nightwas seen by about 38.9 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research.Obama received 38.4 million.

And crude is now at $106.70, and hit a low of $105.11. What a good day.

Note:
I read many of the comments on the ratings article. It seemed most said it was a terrible speech and they had fallen asleep. That's a defensive tactic, they're falling asleep to avoid being snapped awake.

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12:18 AM
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bdffd9a6-7b71-11dd-b839-000077b07658.html

This is interesting:

The conflict between Russia and Georgia began on the night of August 7, when Georgian forces, including commando units, tanks and artillery, assaulted the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali.
Russia says that at least 133 civilians died in the attack, as well as 59 of its own peacekeepers, according to figures released this week.

In response Russia launched a mass invasion and aerial bombardment of Georgia, in which 215 Georgians have died, including 146 soldiers and 69 civilians.

I wonder if this is "official." From the article (Financial Times) the Russian figures are a Russian release. It may be only in reference to the assault on Tskhinvali. The Georgian figures seem to be of the conflict as a whole, though where they come from I don't know. But these are really low figures for what supposedly was a decimation of the Georgian army.

Been a fun day.Hope to read even better poll results tomorrow.