Green Collar is the New… Uh… Whatever

I may be three hours behind you people, but your humble guest editor is on the job. Tonight, I subjected myself to about ninety minutes of Democratic National Convention speeches in order to glean wisdom and absorb change. Here are a few observations:

- The phrase “Green Collar Job” was repeated dozens of times by several different speakers. I had heard it being bandied about casually in the past, but I think I witnessed the actual birth of an annoying catch phrase tonight.

- Your own PA Sen. Bobby Casey, Jr. sure does sound like a muppet. Kermit, to be exact. But on the plus side, he unintentionally led the crowd in several chants of “four more months!” which delayed his speech for about a minute.

- Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano was all like, “You think I give a rats ass if McCain is from my state? I hope that sucker loses, hard!” Those were her exact words, really.

- The big name Republican the DNC booked for tonight? Jim Whitaker, mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska (Population: 31,000; Notoriety: zero). Way to stick it to the other party, guys! Whitaker is clearly a bigger get than the Republican’s pick of, uh, former candidate for Vice President and current Senator Joe Lieberman (D., Conn.).

- The news media is just dying to make a huge deal out of Clinton supporters refusing to support Obama. Dying, I tell you. It’s funny to hear all the politicians being interviewed being like, “Shut up, please.”

- I apparently missed Gov. Ed Rendell speak. Did anyone see him? Did he go off prompter?

- The basic message of former Virgina Governor and keynote speaker Mark Warner: Walnuts McCain is more of the same. We’ve already heard this message 5,000 times tonight.

OK, that’s about all the news coverage I can take tonight. See you tomorrow, possibly with some words on Clinton’s speech.