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More tea, anyone?
The opening day account on Fox News sounded a suitably defensive note. “Don’t let anyone tell you this is not a big deal,” reporter Carl Cameron said. “If this gathering is unimportant and this movement is a mirage, why are its detractors so upset and its participants so upbeat?”
Palin’s convention
In Saint Paul, men wore Ronald Reagan t-shirts declaring “my heroes have always been cowboys.” The image of a young John McCain standing in front of his jet fighter was a distilled manifesto.
Campaign exhaustion
Hillary Clinton looked knackered. Barack Obama was hoarse. The bags under Mitt Romney’s eyes offered the first clue that his defiance was hollow. Even as he was saying “this campaign is going on… all the way to the White House” his body was visibly giving in.
© 2010 Andrew Purcell. 