It's all over: Years of planning, hours of speech-writing, millions spent on creating the venues to host thousands of Democratic and Republican convention attendees. What remains are the words that the politicians spoke (or didn't), and the promises they made. To re-cap those words, we thought we'd create a Wordle gallery of the most notable candidates', spouses', and supporters' speeches. Wordle is an online application created by IBM's senior software engineer Jonathan Feinberg. Using text ...

I just got off the phone with "notq," a Twitterer who served as an information hub during this week’s St. Paul protests around the Republican National Convention, as I detailed yesterday. As a point person for on-the-ground information, notq served as a node through which a great deal of tear gas notices, police instructions, and tactical information flowed. But here’s the rather remarkable thing: he was doing it all from Tempe, Arizona, some 1,800 miles ...

I’m elevating this comment from Anderkoo to post status (and testing our comment system in the process). I was deeply troubled by Palin’s attack on community organizing. Anderkoo makes the point wonderfully below and follows up with some more deadly logic for the GOP. Attacking community organizers finally proves one thing: REPUBLICANS HATE POOR PEOPLE. For decades we’ve heard Republicans rant about how poor people need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps rather than ...

Yeah, i’ve got no snappy title this time, but i do have a lot to say… There is a question about Sarah Palin and double standards on ireport.com, “Is there a double standard in parenting expectations? Does the fact that she’s a woman and mother affect her abilities as a politician” My question is Who *doesn’t* see that there’s a double standard? In her speech last night to the RNC, an emphasis was given to ...