Lunch Break

While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.

Christopher Marlowe

No, I did not watch: I like the speech on paper. It does strike me as excessively derivative of other big presidential speeches. That might come with the turf. But he did not break any new ground, poetically speaking. Unless I am missing something...

Favorite bit: As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals.

Rewrite: This sentence missed its own payoff: "what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage." Should have been "when imagination is joined to necessity, and courage to common purpose.

Lest we forget: Obama's top 158 lies.

Clip: So Barry, is the first brigade coming home from Iraq right now? Like you promised? A pod is emailing me that BHO has been consitent on Iraq. I mentioned this to my very pro Obama lefty neighbor and even he laughed explosively. Here is a McCain video - yes MCCAIN - but it is all Obama talking. It's painful and funny to see what a liar the man is.


Music: This clip makes me reflective and sentimental. I have no idea why and I'm pretty sure I don't want to know.