Obama's Nomination is Official

This country has done nominated it's first Black man from a major political party for the highest office in the land. This most certainly is a momentus day. Last night was much better than the previous day all told. I tuned in CNN as the seconding speeches were being given for Hillary Clinton and then there were the nominating and seconding speeches for Obama. Then you had that real scripted circus thing going where they started the rowcall vote and the speeches from each state got longer and longer, till they arranged that bit of theatrics to have New York and Hillary was there to stop the voting and have the vote done by acclamation, which means states like Ohio and others in that end of the alphabet didn't get their moment in the sun. Now we all have a deeper appreciation of the Joe Biden family and what sort of dedicated man Joe Biden is. He gave an excellent speech. John Kerry gave an excellent speech. Bill Clinton's speech was meaty and well structured, some would say "like a legal argument". Joe Biden's speech was also quite logical and systematic showing and contrasting all the areas where John Mc Cain has just plain been wrong. It would seem that the Republicans really have their work cut out for them trying to top those speeches of last night. I guess for tonight we need to just pray that none of those predicted (?) thunder storms will happen at Invesco Field. One would hope the Republicans would listen to Clinton's, Biden's, and Kerry's speeches from last night ti size them up and figure out whether it's possible to do better than that. I really think the Republicans should look for a different man at the top of the ticket, because I bet a lot of people attending the convention already regret that they're stuck with Mc Cain. Mc. Cain has so completely sold himself out in the past few years - -not long at all- - that one would be hard pressed to talk about Mc Cain's past without reminding the deligates that he used to be a liberal.

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This is an overcast Thursday morning August 28, 2008. It’s funny the things that pop into your brain when you first awake. I was thinking of that time when Tom Leykis was talking about he was mad at his father for having so many kids that they had to move into a bigger house. When Tom was eleven in the summer of 1967 he lived in the Bronx and went to all the Yankee’s games. But when he was twelve his family moved to a big house out on Long Island and Tom was so lonely. And he would hitchhike back into town to spend time over at his cousin’s whom he was good friends with. I think some significant planet has moved into a new house today. I feel different. I was thinking on how I’d have to quite smoking to honor that fleece to God last May that is Obama actually won the nomination I’d quit smoking and do something else the very nature of prevents me from even bringing it up now. Of course this time of year you always get that “summer is almost over” feeling because the days are so much shorter both on the evening side and the morning side. We had oatmeal for breakfast along with toast and scrambled eggs and coffee. Alma remarked about the below average temperatures.

I caught hurricane Gustav on the Today show before breakfast and Rush Limbaugh is right. God is a democrat. They are already making plans to evacuate the city of New Orleans days in advance of the storm. Of course August 29^th. is the anniversary of the storm- - and I’d like to confirm in my own writings. This is the date that Mc Cain has chosen to make his Vice Presidential pick. Talk about lasts, August 29^th. 1966 was the last time the Beatles played a live concert, and that was in San Francisco, of course. It was seven years to the day that the Beatles were officially launched as a band. A tidbit I didn’t share yet was it was August 29^th. that Mona Best opened up the Casbah Club and George Harrison and bass played Ken Brown had just quit their band Les Stewart Quartet, and they ran up John and Paul and they formed the Beatles. And of course, they have been a hit ever since.

I guess the question is do I have to say everything about last night twice, or can I use this material on my blog. We’ll see. It’s kind of funny how people are always talking about the South sides of town. To listen to the media you wouldn’t even think towns had a northern half. You hear of south Chicago, south Boston, and south Philadelphia, and south central LA. Of course you know that Mom moved a lot when she was a child. People seemed to move around a lot during the great depression looking for work or whatever. She lived in south Illinois, south Indiana (there’s that word again) and she lived in Florida. She also lived in Modesto, San Luis Obispo, and Julian, but that was back before NBC renamed the town as Allester. One time she mentioned she moved back from Florida to Indiana and people remarked how she talked funny. She had picked up an accent from living there. And of course as you all know Marlon and Denise would make these trips to New Hampshire in the summer and come back with their accents “reinforced” sounding like Bobby Kennedy. But I never saw them much after the end of summer 1962. Of course there was that time in 1964 when me and Tim saw Denise and Susan, and Roger of course. That was when the joke was going around “How is a girl like a frying pan”. And my answer was “Well, if they’re like Susan it’s because they’re both flat”. We’re missing Drive radio now. The other day Drive had 1976 music but the trouble with that year is that 1976 is a year that’s pretty much been beaten to death on Classic Radio. I guess we’re about heard all of the songs.

Last night I had CNN on the computer. There were a lot of short speech. Tom Dashell spoke and Jack Reed (?) from Rhode Island, and Evan Bygh from Indiana and one other quickie. Bill Clinton spoke earlier than expected and I hadn’t yet gone out to get coffee. Then I got coffee and when I returned John Kerry was speaking. Both of them gave excellent speeches. Then KCET cut out and we were into that media black-out period again so I switched the computer on again to CNN and they had some lady Iraqi veteran speaking. Another key thing that they included hurredly was the actual nomination and voting for Joe Biden by the concention. This was done very quickly with alcclamation votes. Then there was that big build up to Joe Biden film, and then Joe Biden’s son spoke and then Joe Biden himself spoke. He finished up at about five to eight and then Obama himself appeared at the convention. Then I watched the “Bones” rerun. I saw Venus for the second time this year. The key is to get out there early before it gets completely dark, or it’s already gone. I don’t mind commentary is there is still stuff you can watch on camera and they still have the music going so that you feel you are a part of it. It’s when they cut away entirely that bothers me.