So, everyone's talking today about Sen. Obama's historic acceptance speech, and well they should. It was the retelling of the American story, and the promise of hope for a weary nation ready to regain our greatness.
It was a fabulous night to cap a great convention, and a speech maybe best summed up by Chris Matthews on MSNBC.
What he said was about us, and that's why we care about what he said.
But birthdays are important, too, and today is John McCain's.
It's an interesting date in history, actually. John McCain's 72nd birthday is the third anniversary of the day Katrina hit New Orleans and of Bush and McCain's party on the tarmac. They look like they were having a pretty good time, don't they? Well, it was a party. There was cake.
On August 29, 2006, as unknown numbers of Americans were enveloped in the great deluge, as Condi shopped and Brownie dawdled and Cheney hid in some undisclosed location, and America anticipated the horror, John McCain and George Bush were celebrating the 69th birthday of the Senator from Arizona, a man so out of touch with America and the people of the Gulf that he had a birthday party/photo op with George Bush as Katrina struck. Not because he didn't care, but because he doesn't get it.
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As John McCain celebrates the big seven-two, and prepares for his convention, there's a reminder of that tragic day on the horizon, and it's not one that anyone will be celebrating. Gustav, already a killer storm, is expected to build to category five strength in the warm waters of the Gulf over the weekend and hit the still recovering Gulf region early next week.
Barack Obama said last night that it's not that John McCain doesn't care, it's that he doesn't get it.
Well, it's one of the two.
