Palin rocks RNC!; WaPo website can't help itself: Look at all the White people!

Taken directly from Washington Post's website at 2:40 a.m. Thursday morning, directly below Sarah Palin photo
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/?nav=globaltop&reload=true

Palin Takes Swipes at Obama and Critics
(photo shows of Sarah Palin kissing daughter Piper, while husband Todd applauds with crowd)
Palin says it is Obama's experience, not hers, that is lacking, as she embraces role of attacking Democrats. (Toni L. Sandys/Post)

In Diverse Nation, a White Convention
Republicans have worked to improve their minority outreach, but setbacks have negated their efforts. Eli Saslow and Robert Barnes

(That's at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/03/AR2008090303962.html?hpid=artslot)

Just a reminder.
Complete list of elected Black governors in U.S. history:
1.) Doug Wilder, Virginia, 1989 (whom I voted for in Arlington)
2.) Deval Patrick, Massacusetts, 2006.

As Tony Kornheiser would say, "That's it! That's the whole list."
Still not on list: California, New York, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey.

Hmmm... I thought they were supposed to be so progressive there? I guess the White folks there must all be racists, too, huh?

In case the story link above doesn't work, Gov. Sarah Palin Comes Out Fighting, is at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/03/AR2008090303221.html?hpid=artslot

Also definitely worth checking out is Tom Shales review in The Washington Post of the Palin speech: She Shoots! She Scores! A Hockey Mom's Moment
If the Republicans win the presidential election in November, it may well be said that they won it last night -- the night that John McCain's brilliantly screwy choice for a running mate changed from laughingstock to national star.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's acceptance speech wasn't brilliant rhetoric, and she's not entirely accomplished as a public speaker, but she put herself over with slick, self-assured skill. To those in the hall and probably to millions watching at home, she came across as genuine and down-to-earth, a self-described "hockey mom" whose confidence and bravado were not exactly ingratiating but were somehow persuasive.

Read the rest of the column at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2008090400111.html

What makes for amusing commentary is the legion of flummoxed Obama supporters among the Air America Crowd ignoring Shales specific points, and resorting to their usual spewing of nonsense about John McCain and her at Reader Comments http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2008090400111_Comments.html
They lost their mojo and they don't know where to find it.
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John Dickerson of SLATE has been writing some of THE best campaign pieces of the entire campaign, and this new piece shows why.
http://www.slate.com/id/2199250/
A Pit Bull With Lipstick
Why the smiling, sudden, relentless Sarah Palin should scare Democrats.
By John Dickerson, Posted Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008, at 1:21 AM ET
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Washington Post Politics web page at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/politics/
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Upcoming post to look for here at HBB and South Beach Hoosier, as I change the layout a bit this
weekend: NBC's Andrea Mitchell isn't alone among Beltway media in not knowing anyone in Washington who knows Palin, which Palin could care less about, as she mentioned with relish in her comments Wednesday night.
I look forward to reading the inevitable upcoming Tom Friedman column on nobody within the
Davos Crowd not knowing Palin either.
But I'll bet Bono knows by now that one of her baby son Trig Paxson Van Palin's names, Van, is an homage to Van Halen.

Hate to say I told you so, but I told ya Palin would be catnip!

Wait 'till she starts spending some quality time bouncing back-and-forth like a ping-pong ball b/w
Ohio, PA and West Virginia, the wacky area where my paternal ancestors settled, even before Ohio was a state.
One of those ancestors was a Virginia Congressman in the 1820's who has a county in West Virginia named after him.

Trust me, the very first time Sarah Palin puts on a miner's helmet at some function in West Virginia
and flashes her confident smile, that photo will be on the Drudge Report in a nano-second, not to mention, on the front page of newspapers everywhere in the country the following day.
And Obama HQ in Chicago will not be able to rely on their media allies to kill it.

I can already picture it in my head, right below the masthead on the front page of USA Today next week, when I buy it next Friday for the great sports section, as I always do during the NFL season due to their amazing stories, stats and Michael Hiestand's sports media columns.