What will Bill and Biden say?

Well, I ended up being dead on about what I thought Hillary should speak about last night, even though I wasn’t sure what she would say, so hopefully I continue that streak tonight.

Bill Clinton is up first, and I have a feeling that he’s going to try to tie in the success of his Presidency into what Obama wants to accomplish and why we needs a Democratic president.

Now, I would love Clinton to sink his teeth into McCain, since he’s probably the best attack dog the Democrats have to offer, but I have a feeling that he won’t do much of that, and will instead extoll the virtue of Democrats generally.

Biden, on the other hand, I think will be set loose on McCain.  I think we’ll get at least 3 new zingers from him tonight, and I think you’re going to see the strongest attacks on McCain yet, many directed towards his supposed strongest issue: national security.  I think – and hope – Biden’s speech will be a McCain blood bath.

Nomination Roll Call Live Blog – Hillary nominates Obama by Acclamation

Hillary and Obama get their names put into nomination and seconded.  There will be a total of 7 speeches – 3 for Hillary and 4 for Obama – and then we’ll have the rollcall of the states.

Update

Here it goes:

State	Obama	Clinton	Abstain
Alabama	48	5	7
Alaska	15	3	0
American Samoa	9	0	0
Arizona	40	27	0
Arkansas	47	0	0
Colorado	55	15	0
Connecticut	38	21	1
Delaware	23	0	0
Democrats Abroad	8.5	2.5	0
District of Columbia	33	7	0
Florida	166	51	1
Georgia	82	18	2
Guam	4	3	2
Hawaii	26	1	2
Idaho	20	3	0
Indiana	75	6	4
Iowa	48	9	0
Kansas	34	6	1
Kentucky	36	24	0
Louisiana	43	7	17
Maine	24	8	0
Maryland	94	6	0
Massachusetts	65	52	4
Michigan	125	27	5
Minnesota	78	8	2
Mississippi	33	8	0
Missouri	82	6	0
Montana	18	7	0
Nebraska	28	3	0
Nevada	25	8	1
New Hampshire	30	0	0
New Jersey	127	0	0
New York	Moves to Nominate Obama by Acclamation
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Puerto Rico
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Virgin Islands
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
California	Pass	Pass	Pass
New Mexico	Yields to Illinois	Yields to Illinois	Yields to Illinois
Ilinois	Yields to New York	Yields to New York	Yields to New York
Total	1,549.5	341.5	49

And there you have it. Too bad we didn’t get all the way through, but that still kicked ass.

Calling a liar a liar

At some point, politicans should stop responding to attacks by “correcting the record” and instead respond by telling it as it is: by saying that their opponent is flat out lying.

Update

In fact, I think I would go on the attack on this, not only by saying that McCain is lying in this case, but by bringing up all the other times McCain has lied, or badly misrepresented what Obama said and create a narrative that no one can believe a thing that John McCain says anymore.

Update 2

This could help with the attack as well:

McCain lied about Romney.  McCain is lying about Obama.  All McCain can do is lie, lie, lie, because he has no arguments of his own.

McCain: Working together with the world is bull

OK, he didn’t exactly say that, but McCain is basically saying that there are some countries that we should never, ever deal with ever.  Either that, or he’s making some hyper-nationalistic statement about how the United States can solve all the world’s problems on it’s own without anyone else’s help.

Of course, all of this is despite the fact that we actually talked to our adversaries quite a bit during the Cold War, and that talking probably made things a lot better than they would have been otherwise.