I doubt most in the crowd actually knew what he was talking about with the "present" thing. It's just that the word "Obama" is a dog whistle that means "crazy nigga!"

Wow. And I thought Rudy might be able to get through an entire speech without mentioning 9/11...

People vote 'present' in the Illinois Legislature all the time. It's part of the process.

This is just a cheap shot from an utter slime ball.

It's interesting to hear him bandy about the word "cosmopolitan" in reference to Obama seeing as though the jerk comes from New York City and lives, for all I know, on 5th Avenue.

Dobama is a creature of the Chicago Democrat Machine, bought and paid for. It would be wise to continue reminding America what kind of kleptocracy and dictatorship Dick Daley and son Richie have been running for, oh, 50 years or so (with a couple of seat warmers and a false messiah in between the 2 Daleys).

A fascinating convention, in which a series of also-rans united behind a man they claim to respect. Yesterday, we had Fred Thompson, with his phony drawl and strong jaw, finally waking up like Rip Van Winkle to venerate the military prowess of the flyboy who dated “an exotic dancer known as the Flame of Florida” and drove a Corvette, by golly! Then they rolled out turncoat Lieberman, who forgot how effusively he praised Obama back in 2006, claiming to be his “mentor,” now kowtowing to his Republican audience, while ostensibly pitching his new position to all those wobbler Democrats somewhere out in TV-land who were like, totally not listening to him.

Tonight, we got Carly Fiorina, who in the video below said insurance should pay for birth control like it does for Viagra, not surprisingly garnering little applause from a restive audience. We got a rabid Romney, with his absurd claim that the Roberts Supreme Court is liberal because it gave civil rights to “terrorists,” somehow not realizing that all people are entitled to civil rights until we lawfully determine they are terrorists, and then, we take their civil rights away and punish them. I wish he'd showed his audience how well he gets along with black people, as the video below illustrates.

Then we got Guiliani, a cross-dressing, choice-mongering easterner if ever there was one, smirking his way through a speech that would have fallen flat in front of anything but an audience of die-in-the-last-ditchers. Since he's still trying to raise cash to pay of the campaign debt for his campaign, he was really smirking for his supper. Strange he didn't mention his deep love for his chauffer, Bernie Kerik, aka Taserman, who would've made a great Homeland Security chief, with his Mafia conncections.

As for Palin herself, the woman of the hour, talk about preaching to the converted — she is going to benefit greatly from a wholesome defeat to crown her career. Her smugness is powerfully off-putting, and for that I am so grateful. My favorite Palin is, however, her daughter Bristol, whose pain I can feel quite clearly. I'd get pregnant myself if it would get me away from Sarah Palin.

The whole "he voted present" talking point is not only inane, it's innumerate.

If Barack served eight years in the Illinois state legislature, and voted present 130 times, this means he voted present an average of 16.25 times per year. If, as people familiar with the process indicate, a "present" vote is a standard and accepted part of the Illinois legislative process, it seems he actually played that card surprisingly little.

And you know, when you're President of the United States, you can't just vote "present."

No, but you can sign a bill and then issue a signing statement that you didn't really mean it.

No matter how you slice it, no matter how common or uncommon it is, a "present" vote is a cop-out. Its use is to skirt a tough decision.

And that is what Obama has done. Now, it may be OK for other legislators, but they aren't running for the highest office in the land, are they?

Voting present doesn't "skirt" a tough decision since it's counted as a no. It's not like absenting yourself for a vote, which is skirting a decision, and which Senators do all the time. Maybe McCain is never absent for votes and Obama is all the time. That would be a better argument, if true.

Also, this is maybe overthinking a line that wasn't meant to be taken too seriously, but the President actually does have something very like a "Present" vote. It's called a pocket veto. Under the right circumstances the President can effectively veto legislation without doing it explicitly. More normally, he can accept legislation implicitly by failing to veto it. Of course in both cases he's really making a decision, but the same is true of a "Present" vote.

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