[Names Ash Housewares]

The nation is threatened by something that laid waste once before and right in the middle of the convention. There is hyper sensitivity to all of it now.

What should he do?

Can you define the line between genuine concern and opportunism when a camapigns motto is “Country First”?

Or is this a test to the nation what that really means?

The primary business of the convention can go on, and that serves the nation too.

[the invisib1e hand]

These are worthwhile questions, considering that I had seen a headline about Obama offering his donors' money to NO, and I judged it opportunistic, before I knew that McCain had also proposed some time of assistance. So I was forced to ask myself, "is it opportunistic for Obama to do it and not McCain?" And the answer was, "Of course!"

No, I'm kidding about that. They FReeper with the duck graphic made the point that Obama came off looking like he was one-upping McCain's proposal, and I do agree with that.

I also think it's a bit presumptuous for him to pledge his supporters' money like that, but I suppose that's just the politician in him.