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Apple's big event today in San Francisco left many people wondering: What the heck was that all about? Normally, the great Steve Jobs uses his time on the podium to delight and surprise the masses. But today he gave little more than a preview of the new holiday line of iPods, and the TV ads that will accompany them...
...respectful valedictories of Tuesday. Now the speakers blared Everyday People as delegates felt license to dance (the Bushes had left; the storm had died away), and at any mention of energy policy, they erupted into chants of "Drill, baby, drill!!!" In place of the old white men, the podium featured a Latino farmer's son turned California state senator, impressive female CEOs and entrepreneurs, conservative black activists, apostate Democrats and, to deafening cheers, loyal Republican losers who raised the curtain on the surprise winner...
That sort of change wasn't talked about from the podium much, and not at all by Obama. At best it was smuggled in like samizdat poetry in speeches like the one by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, another of the young black innovators. "Democrats don't deserve to win just because Republicans deserve to lose," he said...
...introduction of Palin, McCain was quick to highlight Palin's gender, calling her "a devoted wife and mother of five." Palin's husband and five children, the latest of whom was born just months ago, followed her out onto the podium. Moments after the rally had ended, Palin offered her first interview to People magazine [which shares the same parent company, TIME Inc., as Time], which boasts an overwhelmingly female readership. "What I've had to do, though, is in the middle of the night, put down the Blackberries and pick up the breast pump--do a couple of things...
Much of this week, I've watched for New Orleans' painfully slow post-Katrina recovery to become a prime-time talking point from the Democratic National Convention's podium. Friday, after all, marks the third anniversary of the hurricane's arrival, and another powerful storm, Gustav, appears to be barreling toward my hometown...