Kevin DuJan;

The equivalent of this would have been having Marilyn Monroe talking about the things she let JFK do to her on the same night that Jackie Kennedy was going to speak somewhere and announce her plans to renovate the White House. It was the most surreal thing I’ve ever seen anyone do in real life…

All parties must come to an end. So seems to be the case in Europe and America these days. Most of the Europeans appear to be in deep denial about this, as are at least 45% of Americans. The Telegraph’s Janet Daley illustrates the contrast:

Last week’s Republican national convention sharpened what had been until then only a vague, inchoate theme: this campaign is going to consist of the debate that all Western democratic countries should be engaging in, but which only the United States has the nerve to undertake. The question that will demand an answer lies at the heart of the economic crisis from which the West seems unable to recover. It is so profoundly threatening to the governing consensus of Britain and Europe as to be virtually unutterable here, so we shall have to rely on the robustness of the US political class to make the running.

The comments on the column, from what one would assume are mostly British residents, will provide tremendous insight for future historians about how deeply in denial about the current dismal fiscal situation their country is truly in. In fairness, one can’t reasonably argue that most Canadians would be any more intelligent.

QOTD;

I hear the DNC had a video tribute to Ted Kennedy, the only politician with a confirmed kill in the War on Women.

— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) September 5, 2012

Michael Barone;

I’ve been to 22 Democratic and Republican National Conventions in one way, shape or form (see my reflections in this August 25 Wall Street Journal piece) and I’ve been on the floor in 17 of them. So naturally on arriving in Charlotte, I wanted to see the floor of the 18th. So I went over to the Times-Warner Center (the Charlotte Convention Center, like the Tampa Convention Center, houses the press; the convention in each case is in a basketball/hockey arena). And I have one word to report to you. Tiny! Bill Plante of CBS News, who started attending conventions in 1968, when he lugged baggage for Mike Wallace at the Republicans’ convention in Miami Beach, agreed with me that it was the tiniest convention floor he’s ever seen.

Well, this will turn things around.
Related: Clint Eastwood was right.

The bad news: As many as 9 DNC hotels are infested with blood sucking parasites.
The good news: They check out on Thursday.
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Congratulations, America.

Asked by Parade magazine, “What do you hope to accomplish in your second term?” First Lady Michelle Obama said she wants to “impact the nature of food in grocery stores” …