Live Blogging Sarah Palin Speech

10:31 Palin hits the stage.

10:33 Palin accepts nomination. Shocking.

1036 So far Palin is hitting the right notes.

10:38 Talking about family and panning to cute daughter. Smooth.

10:39 Palin will be our friend in the White House. Let's go get ice cream.

10:43 Palin goes into PTA and hockey mom spiel.

Wayne Garcia
: her voice is, how to put this delicately, amazingly grating and annoying. a deduction on aesthetics points.

10:48 When did Palin stand up to oil interests?

10:51 Palin falsely claims she was against bridge to nowhere.

Running the same attack Republicans used on Kerry. What did Obama do in the Senate? How about this.

In actuality Obama and far right Republican Tom Coburn (OK) worked together in 2006 to pass a landmark bill creating c "Google-like" database for the public to search details about federal funding awards. It passed unanimously and Coburn said "I consider Barack a friend. He's a liberal. He's not ashamed of it. What we agree on is that things should be transparent." The same year, Obama worked with Indiana Republican Richard Lugar to pass legislation to keep weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of terrorists, the Cooperative Proliferation Detection Act, which was passed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously on May 26, 2006 and was eventually incorporated into the Department of State Authorities Act of 2006 and signed into law on January 11, 2007. It wasn't the first time Obama had teamed up with Lugar. In 2005 they worked together to pass an amendment to fund research for hybrid/flex fuel vehicles. Then in 2006, Congress passed a Veterans Affairs Committee bill which included several provisions originating in Obama's SAVE Act (S. 1180) and Homes for Heroes Act (S. 3475). Obama worked with two Republican colleagues on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, Senators Larry Craig and Richard Burr, on the legislation. This year, Obama worked with Senators McCaskill (D-MO) and Bond (R-MO) to pass several provisions from their "Dignity for Wounded Warriors Act" into law. The legislation improved standards at military medical care facilities. The new law would require the Secretary of Defense to establish a set of standards for military medical care facilities and oversee compliance with those standards by a specific deadline. Finally, the new law would require an annual report to Congress on the conditions of those facilities. The provisions would improve health care services and health care tracking for service members, and would require post-deployment, face to face mental health screenings for returning service members within 30 days.

10:59 Republicans cheer Miranda rights not being read. Scary.

Kicking out the death tax.

11:00 Campaigning against change is going to kill the McCain campaign.

Not looking for a fight? Talk to Rick Renzi.