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September 03, 2004
Thanks

Posted by Bill

... for all the well-wishes (no further well-wishes required/desired). Things are more-or-less ok, personal stuff, really bad timing. I was really looking forward to covering the convention, but such is life.

I'm not sure when I'll be back to blogging, but a couple of quick notes ...

I caught the President's speech just now, and I'm frankly really surprised with initial pundit reaction that says it was just ok, or too long. I thought that it was fantastic, as good a scripted speech as George Bush has the capacity to give (roughly a B+) , and light years beyond Kerry's painfully inauthentic convention speech.

George Bush has a natural charisma that separates good politicians from ok politicians; this speech very effectively showcased this strength, and he mercifully avoided the annoying tics (i.e. chewing his lip) and strangely inappropriate smiles that mar some of his regular public appearances. The domestic content was middling and uneventful, perhaps average, but his vision for foreign policy was very eloquent.

Post-convention bounce to 52%. I think some pundits need to remember to look at these things from outside their routinely hyperanalytical perspective.

PS - Way off topic, but Dean Esmay is not in any way, shape or form a racist, and if I had any spirit in me right now I would take Oliver Willis behind the woodshed and beat him with a metaphorical shovel. Please offer Dean your support.

Posted by Bill at September 3, 2004 12:25 AM | TrackBack (6)

Comments

I truly hope everything is ok. Hope to hear you back blogging before too long.

Best Wishes,
SaaM aka Robb

Posted by: Sharp as a Marble at September 3, 2004 06:41 AM

Ditto.

Posted by: Robert the Llama Butcher at September 3, 2004 08:42 AM

I don't read too many blogs due to time constraints so I've been missing indc journal over the last week.

Best wishes to you and yours and I hope your situation works out for the best.

Posted by: Elliott at September 3, 2004 08:58 AM

Hope everything is going well and that you will return soon. Something to cheer you up: Steve the Llama-ho will be liveblogging a panel in which our good friend Anna-Marie Phallis will be one of the speakers. Speaking of Cox, Sullie will be there too.

Now get your arse back to the blogosphere!!!

Posted by: RS at September 3, 2004 10:05 AM

Glad you're back. Hope everything works out.

Posted by: Farmer Joe at September 3, 2004 10:30 AM

All of the above. You've been missed.

Posted by: Gordon at September 3, 2004 12:09 PM

CONGRATULATIONS OLIVER WILLIS!!
As the 1 millionth person to use the word "racist" in a ridiculously overwrought and inaccurate manner, you have successfully rendered this word utterly and completely meaningless! We here at Mirriam-Webster will now be forced to divorce the word from its original meaning as you have so diluted it that it has lost any censorious or accusatory power. Sure, there are a lot of us in the office who thought Jesse Jackson was going to hit the million mark first, and, yeah, I was kind of leaning toward Mfume, but damn if your chubby, half-witted, little ass didn't do it first! Well, congratulations, my hydrocephalic friend!, 'racist' will now act as a word that the truly oppressed probably could have used, but instead you chose to cheapen it to such a degree that it has now, officially, become devalued, devoid of power and useless as a means of shaming true bigots instead of guys who favor smaller government and personal responsibility. Nice job, asshat!
Sincerely,
T.Marcell
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
(please forward to O. Willis as his post-link is disabled. thank you)

Posted by: TMarcell at September 3, 2004 02:55 PM

Dude, you want I should give you a quick trim?

Posted by: Jeff's scissors at September 3, 2004 05:30 PM

Please find your blogging spirit again! I for one would really like to see you smack OW around like the old days...


ahhh... the old days...

Posted by: madmark at September 3, 2004 07:12 PM

Hey.

I, too, was disappointed in the reactions of the 'sphere, seeing (as I did) the Acceptance Speech as SOTU quality, hitting all the spots that (continue to) itch.

I was re-won-over by that speech, as much as I was forced to ulululululululu with elation at Miller's, think calmly and rationally with Cheney's, laugh with our Governator on his, and smirk irrepressibly in a chimplike manner with Giuliani's.

Haven't seen/ couldn't have expected a better round of declarations.

Posted by: kobekko at September 3, 2004 11:40 PM

Bill, I was really looking forward to your perspective at the convention, but I assume something much more important came up. Just want you to know, though I'm like way inept at picture-taking, you have inspired me to dip my little toe into blogosphere.

Posted by: Kathianne at September 7, 2004 01:14 AM

Glad to hear things are looking up.
Best wishes.

Posted by: Jane at September 7, 2004 06:14 AM

Was looking forward to some quality 2nd Avenue time during your convention foray here in NYC, but family is first and last (even --especially-- when they drive you nuts).

Stay true; take heart. Look around, BillyBoy: You ain't alone.

Posted by: TC-LeatherPenguin at September 7, 2004 11:40 AM

Do well and get better if your i,ll and come back soon we can never let those liberals get ahaead of us we need to be on the alert for them all the time

Posted by: Phoenix at September 8, 2004 10:24 AM

Hope to see some moonbat updates in the future - this is a great feature - especially the photos of the "earnest journalist" looking srious at such stupidity.

Posted by: ice eater at September 8, 2004 02:34 PM