Convention thoughts
Everytime the cameras scanned the audience tonight at the Republican National Convention, I searched for black faces. I think I saw one (Thomas Sowell?), but white people, especially older white people, predominated among the delegates. No surprise, really. The GOP is mainly a white party, dominated by the South.
Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the Democratic senator from Connecticut, completed his estrangement from his party with a speech at the convention endorsing John McCain. He looked uncomfortable, and his wife, Hadassah Lieberman, who made a campaign stop here in Harrisburg in 2000 when her husband was Al Gore's running mate, looked even more so. She was seated next to Cindy McCain, and got the kiss-kiss from Barbara Bush the Elder when Lieberman's obnoxious speech was over.
Tomorrow night is Sarah Palin's night. She will accept the nomination for vice president, assuming nothing surfaces in the morning news cycle to give McCain second thoughts. But I'm not counting on it. Better her withdrawal happen in about two weeks anyhow. Associated Press is reporting tonight that Levi Johnston, husband-to-be of Palin's pregnant daughter Bristol, is on his way from Alaska to Minnesota for a big family values photo-op at the convention after his future mother-in-law's acceptance speech. His mother insists he wasn't pressured into marrying her. Interestingly, she won't say if he's still in high school.