Tonight's magical festivities. This was my first:
You know, the GOP acts like 9/11 was the best day in their lives. This little video is downright pornographic. Fear: Then Vote.
Maybe that's worth a longer post sometime, but this just continues the GOP's political exploitation of what was in fact a gigantic bureaucratic and national-security cockup on their parts — and to a great extent remains so. And perhaps the national media has somewhat backed off of the Bush ball-washing; and therefore all that garbage has lost its potency with the public. We should be so lucky.
Update: Globe noticed too about the live footage of 9/11. Didn't realize it had never been done. I guess the GOP is desperate enough.
sean-roche says
Loyal, loving, and true husband, did she?
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charley-on-the-mta says
… to me, anyway.”
david says
that, from above, the new stage looks like a giant phallus? Hilarious!
johnk says
laurel says
ball? hmm…
david says
by the frequent disruptions by protesters. Apparently the Dems did a better job with the 84,000 at Invesco than the GOP did with the 15,000 (or whatever it is) in Xcel!
af says
Wasn’t there mega security to gain access to the Excel? Wasn’t McCain speaking to his party loyalists? Wasn’t that supposed to be an adoring audience for him. Well then, what protests? What were they protesting.
pers-1765 says
No way anyone unwanted got into the convention.
huh says
I’ve read a couple reports of a Ron Paul delegate being escorted out for converting one of the officially sanctioned signs into a RP sign.
cannoneo says
McCain used the term “corporate welfare” – that’s an example of successful framing by our side.
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huh says
Sad, but priceless.
danseidman says
McCain’s Republicans will work closely with the Alaskan Independence Party.
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cannoneo says
Is this the first time that “elitist” and “isolationist” have been paired, and “populist” and “free trader” dually claimed? The only way this works is by authoritarianism – get people to fiercely defend the interests of their betters.
marcus-graly says
but Fox News uses those videos all the time. Usually interlaced with a speech by some Democrat about the need to protect Civil Liberties.
sabutai says
Did McCain just remind that he remembers Pearl Harbor? On purpose?
huh says
You can tell because he stumbled reading it off the teleprompter.
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p>His delivery and facial expressions are awful, BTW. I keep thinking I’m watching “Charlie Brown Runs for Student Council.”
sabutai says
…Mitt Romney is repeatedly bashing his head against a hard surface.
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p>(Another golden moment…McCain stumbles over the line “teach an illiterate adult to read” while trying to read it from the teleprompter. )
david says
McCain tonight:
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cannoneo says
david says
The Hill:
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johnt001 says
…who wants the ten commandments plastered all over every government building in the land – but when asked to recite the ten commandments, could only get 3 of them! Typical ignorant Republican…
david says
pretty lame. I mean, no one expected him to out-orate Obama. But for God’s sake, the guy has no concept about public speaking. Step 1: learn to use the teleprompter.
sabutai says
He really sold out every incumbent Republican in the country. Elizabeth Dole, Susan Collins, Mitch McConnell, Norm Coleman, and Ted Stevens and any other Republican incumbent running for re-election were all labeled as part of the problem by their own presidential nominee.
they says
that anyone go out and be a community organizer. Be a teacher, enlist, run for office, join the ministry, and some others, but nothing about singing for a rock and roll band, or fighting in the streets? What else can a poor boy do?
david says
that’s not a bad point. What he was saying was EXACTLY along the lines of “go out and be a community organizer.” But of course he couldn’t say that, since his running mate just trashed community organizers. That is going to come back to haunt Palin, IMHO. It was truly mean-spirited.
sabutai says
He spent quite some time on the fact that many of us teachers need to be fired, and education should be sold to the highest private bidder.
they says
to focus groups, like communist pot smokers who are just bugging people about Saul Alinsky all the time. Plus, in Obama’s case, with hindsight, it insinuates that he only did it to get himself into the state senate and on his annointed way, just like joining the church as an outsider and unbeliever, just to get a foothold in the community (and then professing to have got religion, which seems semi-legit but too academic (we won’t be convinced tell we hear him speak in tongues).
david says
Quit cheesing, dude.
they says
why they seem to be happy to highlight this (foundational) part of his career.
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p>I think people must associate Community Organizers with radical communists who are always trying to overthrow the system. Apparently there was no vetting done on his Community Organizing past by Democrats. Did you know Saul Alinsky dedicated his book Rules For Radicals to Lucifer?
johnt001 says
…you demean everyone’s faith in Jesus. Just like the morons wearing purple heart bandaids at the RNC in 2004 were demeaning every purple heart recipient since the award was established – how do you live with yourself?
they says
Isn’t it a fact that he was an unbeliever when he joined, and he joined it to network and embed himself in the community?
laurel says
if you’re going to assert something as “fact”, you need to back it up with evidence.
they says
That’s from Obama’s resignation letter. So, that means he hadn’t found Christ before joining. As to why he joined, here is a passage from an article I found that has some quotes from people around at the time:
dmac says
When a lot of Black folks say they “found Christ” it’s not meant figuratively. It’s not meant to suggest that they didn’t believe in God. It’s meant to describe when the person made an effort to perhaps live their lives differently. It in know way suggest anything other that in my opinion.
they says
Laurel asked me to back up my “slander”, which was not even an “assertion” but a question. I think I answered it myself that he was indeed an unbeliever when he joined, both according to his own words and others, and provided links. Anyhow, my point wasn’t to make those assertions as fact (impossible, no one could know such things even about themselves) but to discuss why the McCain campaign might be highlighting the “community organizer” aspect of Obama’s history. David seemed to think that everyone in the country automatically has a high opinion of community organizers, but that’s not true; usually they are seen as do-nothing agitators, but on top of that, in Obama’s case it is seen in the same way as his joining the church is, for his political career. OK, that was my point about that. Will that be good enough for Laurel and David to treat respectfully, or will it be met with flings of monkey poo? We’ll see.
they says
A commenter on RMG pointed to this article about Obama’s decision to go quit the CO movement and become a public servant (like McCain suggests).
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david says
that the policy part of the speech sucked. Vague retreads of old, failed Republican ideas that are inconsistent with his personal “maverick” story that he’s desperate to sell, and fatally undercut his efforts to be the “change” candidate.
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p>The McCain campaign comes out of the convention completely muddled. What is the campaign’s message? What does it stand for? Honestly, I have no idea.
david says
“shockingly bad.” Wow. Says Palin in contrast was great — riveting, exciting.
sabutai says
We were wondering if they’d taken all of the speechwriters and shipped them over to Sarah Palin’s hotel room for the last couple of days.
jasiu says
Oh wait, on second reading, never mind… 🙂
stephgm says
The orchestration adds to the effect, in particular a dissonant strike (from a flute?) as the plane hits the building at time 0:46.
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sabutai says
…don’t know who sent it. Strange.
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pers-1765 says
Sounds better in the original german.
johnt001 says
She’d have a lot to say about the Palin pick, I’m sure of that…
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laurel says
Og used it just a few short months ago. Funny the globe didn’t remember.