Tuesday's musings

The federal government has earmarked $50 million for each political convention to pay for security around the Pepsi Center and Invesco Field in Denver and the Excel Center in MN...The Libertarians raised a $12,000.00 for Bob Barr last week at a meet and greet...James Carville and other prominent Democrat advisers are correct. The Dems missed a golden opportunity to pounce on the Republicans last night. The imagery presented did not respond to two challenges Obama faces: 1. his exoticism and 2. charges of hollowness and inexperience...The Democrats just did not offer a lot of red meat last night. In addition it's being reported that Senatorial candidate mark Warner of Virginia, tonight's keynote speaker, will not offer much red meat either...Is there anything that Senator Clinton can say tonight that will convince 40% of her supporters to support Obama and not McCain or sit out the election? New reports are surfacing out of MN that McCain, in order to minimize Obama's bounce, will announce his VP candidate this Thursday, not on Friday as previously scheduled...Experts are predicting that Obama will get a 10 point bounce out of his convention. Stay tuned.