| This brought me back to Viet Nam peaceful protests and candlelight vigils etc when I was in Jr. High and High School. The anger, the fear, the disillusionment. Woodward still thinks that of the 43 Presidents that Nixon is "still the one" - as in worse one, but this looks pretty spooky to me and has that deja vu with a foretelling edge of "watch out, you haven't seen nothing yet". I just don't "get it" because we of that era are the people who are "in power positions" now, and it seems like there should have been a learning curve, right? Are we truly damned to keep repeating our mistakes? "My Mother Myself"? At least "Mom" never endorsed violence, unnecessary violence no less, like that...but we've got Miz Palin who seems to have transcended, morphed? into a crazy abusing power-at-whatever cost politician. Not knowing her record before the VP nomination (things get buried easily methinks) is it power hunger that drives her, or religious fever? She certainly embodies the raw footage that follows - IMHO maybe more than McCain does. McCain's just so confused and so he sticks with his belief that he's a "maverick"...but, finally, there were true moments of both Presidential candidates core self at the last "debate"; both let loose for a bit, their real passions coming through for a time...such as when Barack [finally] mentioned the cost of the War, and he spoke from his gut with passion for about 5+/- minutes ...and McCain got angry regarding his "golden goose"; his POW status being disregarded as the "sacred cow" it has been to date; untouchable and unrefuted like anything surrounding 9/11 and subsequent actions and abuse of power and funds and resources [our troops], in the campaign, and he finally let go and was his true self; he looked directly at Obama for a few stolen moments, and then looking away he talked about "that one"... his true colors that scared me. Why does no one get upset about the PTSD of having been in that POW camp, and his not being able to keep a lid on a flaring temper, especially when that sacred cow was touched as not the free pass to "knowing about war" and able to fight the war? It took mere mention of Eagleton's working through his own emotional demons way back in the 70s [in my opinion a smarter path to travel, admit one's issues and take care of them] to taint and oust him from his seat as running mate, but McCain has health issues both emotional and physical to scare us into the need to truly look at Palin as the next President if McCain can't go on...? That is heady, scary stuff. I digressed, it touched a nerve, no pun intended - but please watch this raw footage at the RNC:
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