We caught these two horses playing after a work out in the paddock by the big barn.
I was taking many pictures while they played, and was thrilled that I caught them rearing.
Our campsite at Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, KY.
The campground was actually very nice, but the showers were freezing cold. We drove thru the area of the many horse farms. Beautiful country, magnificant homes, and needless to say, many gorgeous horses.
According to New York Times, Nielson Media Research reported that 38 Million Americans watched Obamas's Acceptance Speech at the Democratic National Convention.
More than 80,000 attended the speech at the mile high stadium.
This makes Obama's speech the most watched Convention Speech in US History. More people watched Obama's speech than watched the opening ceremonies of the Olympics.
Congratulations to Barack Obama on his choice of Senator Joe Biden to be his VP. Senator Biden is a foreign policy expert, and heads the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. As opposed to John McCain, Senator Biden actually knows the difference between Sunnis and Shias, and the names of the States that border Iraq.
Senator Biden has authored many successful bills while in the Senate; including bills to increase funding for police and also a bill to reduce domestic violence. Notably, Biden didn't author bills that he is now against like Senator McCain.
Additionally, Senator Biden is also an expert on the working the US Government, and formerly headed he Senate Judiciary Committee.
Biden has a son who is a a member of the National guard and is a JAG Officer. He will soon be deploying to Iraq. Biden is from a working family, and his wife Jill is an educator, and has taught for over 27 years.
In comparison to John McCain, Joe Biden actually knows how many homes he has (1), and the car he drives (a Ford F-150). Joe Biden is a strong Catholic, and actually attends church. While he has been known the wordy from time to time, Biden also can be simple and direct; after all it was Biden who came up with the quip that shut down Giuliani; ie that each of his sentences has a noun, verb, and 9-11 in it.
Biden's Foreign Policy expertise, knowledge of the law and workings of the US Senate, his working class background, his ability to craft legislation, as well as his direct talk will make him a great addition to the Obama Ticket.
John McCain today attended a campaign lunch at the Sausage Haus in Columbus, Ohio. According to reports, McCain met with a half dozen local businessmen of German descent.
The rationale for the McCain campaign to set up and publicize an event with these 6 ethnic supporters is unclear.
We do know that in part, the Sausage Haus lunch was a replacement for a speech that McCain had planned on giving from an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. McCains's planned speech from the oil rig was hastily canceled after a collision between and oil barge and oil tanker left a 12 mile long oil slick. The McCain Campaign attributed the cancellation to "weather".
In contrast, Barack Obama also held an event with ethnic Germans and American Expats, in Berlin Germany. The event, attended by 200,000 Germans, Europeans, and US Expats, many waving US Flags, was apparently a blow out (click photo to enlarge). Notably, the Bush Administration ordered that US Government Embassy personnel were not to attend the event.
Obama's stop in Germany followed his visit to Afghanistan and Iraq.
Obama's trip was an interesting one; after the Prime Minister of Iraq said he agreed with Obama's Iraq Policy of removing US troops, the US Military promptly released a statement saying that this wasn't true. The US Military stated that there had been translation error; which there wasn't.
To make it perfectly clear, an Iraq Governement spokesman then repeated the Prime Ministers statement, this time in English. Shame on the US Military command for participating in Bush Administration partisan politics, by trying to deceive the American People.
Jealous McCain, trying to jab at Obama, then made a false claim that reduction in violence in al anbar province was due to the surge, when in actuallity it occurred prior to the surge and was due to local militias kicking out al Queda (which the US let in). CBS then became complicit in MCains fabrication by airing a broadcast in which McCain's erroneous statement was edited out. Furthermore, CBS edited the interview to substitute negative statments about Obama in place of the McCains response to the question. Shame on CBS.
In addition to having a sucessful meeting with leaders in both Iraq and Afghanistan, Obama was well received by US troops. Obama remains on his game and even managed to pull off this three point jumper on the first try.
