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Friday Afternoon Open Thread:

By Jeralyn

From today's St. Petersburg Times editorial: McCain's speech failed to deliver on change

[H]is agenda promises only more of the same: tax cuts for the wealthy that the nation cannot afford, an aggressive foreign policy that cannot be sustained and an energy policy short on vision and long on oil drilling that would threaten Florida and provide no near-term relief.

Holding that losing hand, Republicans dealt themselves new cards from a very old deck. Instead of emphasizing experience, the Arizona senator who has been in Washington for more than 25 years tried to hijack Democrat Barack Obama's pitch for change. But there was no innovative thinking in his laundry list of the usual conservative proposals, from school choice to trickle-down economics to market-based health care changes that will not make medical treatment more available or affordable.

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There was no clear assessment of America's challenges abroad in the routine scare tactics about the dangers of terrorism and Russia's aggressiveness.

And the convention turned back to the dated, tired GOP playbook of attacking abortion rights, the media, intellectuals, government, activist judges and the Washington elite.

Via Slate: The Sarah Palin FAQ: Everything you wanted to know

Your turn.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 05, 2008 (boomark / email).