Phil_Shuman's Blog

What can you say about Laura Bush and now Cindy McCain that hasn't ( Stepford) already been said ?

  I mean after a couple of days of storm dampened anticipation, they were the main draw here in St Paul.. the idea was now that the worst of the ( dont say the G word) has passed, the two of them are going to fire up the crowd... well.. that was the theory.  they took the stage in the Excel ( lack of ) Energy Center and underwhelmed.  They looked beautiful and they're obviously intelligent and charming and good Republican wives... but how about firing up the crowd a bit. They made a brief but impassioned ( boring) plea to donate to a web site for the gulf... introduced some lame video w/ gulf governors looking macho.. and were gone.. Everyone came streaming out of excel to see a giant ( and i mean giant) video screen screaming the negative Sarah Palin news..... it was like the crowd had gone to see Springsteen and got a little Peter Paul and Mary and then left to catch a glimpse of oh... say... the approaching end of the world as they walked outside the ugly gray steel perimeter fencing.. as the song goes.. " tomorrow.. tomorrow ..."