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Topic: Civic Duty
6:30 PM MSNBC Panel speaking honestly or trying to make the news. Buchannan and Scarborough peeing on themselves in defense of Hillary's 3:00 Am ad.
The majority in this country are not as fear-driven as broadcasters make us out to be. McCain as more Bush and more fear is not going to keep the election close playing only one note.
McCain as a continuation of Bush? Word is there'll be temptations to refer to McCain as John Dubya McCain as if Dubya were his middle initial. Accurate no?
Bush at 19% is offset by the fact that U.S. has not been attacked since 911. Bush gets credit?
Or the natural ability of the spectrum of leadership in this country to do something with security?
6:45 PM
Pennsyvania Governor Rendell represents and talks like a same old same old party hack. The kind who feel the nominee should be someone who has paid their dues. Trying to talk around 11 losses in a row, implying Hillary will win them all tonight ...
On Maher last Friday he practically declared that we owe gratitude to Obama for bringing so many voters back to the polls and arousing the next generation. Now that they're here, "Thank you Obama ... us same old party hacks will take it from here. Hillary has paid her dues and we're going to justify her."
6:54 PM
McCain's speech.
Newspeak ... includes assumptions that we are not a people who think or who pay attention. Plying talking points like an old guy at the bazaar who is limited in his understanding of his audience. He's not speaking to his choir, he's speaking to an audience assumed to have the mentality and experience of his own generation and mine.
The future is not those generations. 
The future leadership generation is powerfully interested in changing how business is done in this country.
McCain's speech could be offered to any political audience of the 70's and 80's.
"An uncivil brawl over the spoils of power" effectively defines the Bush presidency and administration and what this country has suffered.
My friends is what the huckster says when he want's you to give up something he's going to misuse or simply pocket.
7:05 PM
Russert quoting Democrats: "This is the 3rd term of a Republican Administration in the midst of a recession."
Perhaps they'll have to try harder to make us afraid ... very afraid.
