Convention Hubris
August 27th, 2008John McCain has made his choice for Vice President of the United States and will announce it Friday. Here’s my unsolicited advice to McCain: announce it earlyish in the day, late-morning to early afternoon, and do it like a normal human being. No teasing it for hours on end, no nonsense about text messages or emails, just announce it, have him speak, speak for yourself and move forward with an aggressive campaign. Why would I recommend that? Because Barack Obama made it easier to paint him as a celebrity tonight by appearing early at the Democratic National Convention, by acting as if he were a lowly street-MC (”Hillary rocked the hoooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwse!”) and by announcing that he’d be speaking in front of Greek columns tomorrow. Biden gave a good speech, but not a great one, and the Vice President doesn’t matter much anyway. President Clinton was good but the same can be said for him. It’s up to Obama to deliver for himself tomorrow, and then he has to brace himself for a Republican National Convention that should hit him harder than he has ever been hit before. This is the beginning of the actual fall campaign.