So did anyone else watch McCain’s speech last night? Strangely, I watched it with Boot, just because well, there was nothin’ else on if you ain’t got cable and…..know thy enemy.
It was very bizarre.
There were brief flashes on the protesters who had signs and stuff (from CodePink—it’s been noted in news reports) but they were ejected within the first 15 minutes. I am really quite sure that other stuff was going on, though, throughout the remainder of the speech. They kept flashing to crowd shots where angry republicans were craning their heads in unison at something. There were various shots of women looking like they were on the verge of tears. Not the "oh I love my candidate so much" type of tears…more like a crestfallen cheerleader at a game where her team is getting totally creamed by the poor kids’ school and she can’t believe that they’re totally ruining Homecoming.
Also, there was a bizarre variety of misspelled homemade signs in the audience. "Raisin McCain!" and "He’s a MAVRICK!!!" as well as some enthusiasm at weird points that sounded, well….almost sarcastic. Could there have been additional protesters who were pulling a sort of "billionaires for bush" type of protest where they act so enthused that nobody can quite put their finger on why they seem wrong and disruptive? There was something very Magic Christian about the whole thing.
Of course, I suppose it could just be that the Republicans attending the convention really ARE dreadfully bad spellers and that the people in the audience were so freaked by the first initial protests that they were paranoid and jumpy during the duration of the speech and it’s just my projection that there was "something else" going on.
Well, that and the speech was just abysmal. I kinda felt bad for the guy.
I was too busy...
I was too busy praying for pipe to be laid.
look buddy
I don’t need your bathroom stories! Save it for goldenshowers.edu.
Progress in the GOP
It’s nice to see the Republican ticket has 3 boobs on it this year instead of its usual 2.
Walter Reed
I think it was a Stephen King movie.
I started watching just in time to see a closeup of a red-and-green (huh?) sign that read "VET’S FOR MCCAIN!" [sic], and a few minutes before Cindy gave her speech, at which time I started to feel scared. She’s like some kind of alien-Children-of-the-Damned-raptor creature. Who lives in Stepford. Aside from needing to utter speech sounds, and possibly to respirate (I’m not sure), she did not move at all, throughout the entire speech. It was creepy. I felt like she was going to morph into some terrifying Ralph Steadman drawing and crawl through the TV and suck the soul out of me with her inhuman eyes. My soul and my vote. I also think she was medicated. Or, I hope she was — I hope what I perceived as medicated related is not anyone’s natural state of being. She did say something that I thought was peculiar, but that I think went over most heads, and I don’t think she or anyone else found it odd, which is worse than what she actually said. I have to say I’m paraphrasing, because it took me about 30 seconds before I realized what she’d just said, so I might have written it down not exactly right, and what else is weird is that what I heard and wrote down is not in the trascript at the NPR Web site, and what’s more weird is that this text is at the top of that transcript: "The speech as delivered may vary from the following text." Huh? So, she is talking (or, rather, reading out loud) about her wonderful husband, who "encouraged (her) to do things she didn’t know (ed: or think?) she was capable of doing." I think it makes their relationship and themselves individually look, well, bad. What do you think? Am I making this up? Dadmin and I started giggling and then tuning out when she said "Ronald Reagan was fond of saying, ‘with freedom goes responsibility — a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.’" We wondered what else Ronald Reagan was fond of saying, and how his saying it somehow makes it more relevant, like "Gee, I love pancakes." Or "Where am I?" You can imagine it went downhill from there. Because we are going to hell.
Now THAT is hilarious.
[quote=Criswell]John Sidney McCain III proudly showed his support for the brave men and women who suffer in the Walter Reed Middle School.[/quote]
Seriously? You must click through that link.
Country First my ass
I have so much to say about all the speeches I’ve seen in the last couple of weeks, and so little time to write about them during hours I’m in service to my country. By the time I have time to write, I’m lookin’ at Glen Campbell videos on YouTube.
I did find it interesting that both Obama and McCain were each able to lay claim to a Roosevelt.
Republican convention delegates are super scary. Noted these stats (mainstream media stats, beware) - 93% are white, and 51% have net worth of $500,000 or more.
"Some people call you the elite. I call you my base." - W.
Still - Obama and his crew better get their asses in gear, that’s all I’m saying.McCain is no great speech giver, but Palin’s as good as Martin Sheen in The Dead Zone.
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—your radio friend, Bat Guano
A MAVRICK I can believe in!
The possible scenario is this: Rove and Steve Schmidt (Schmidt is now a major player in the McCain campaign; he worked with Rove, maybe even back when they spread the rumor about McCain’s negro baby in 2000) could see that McCain was not up to their hopes and dreams. He’ll try to run as a moderate, try to run away from the stances (which he voted for 90 per cent of the time) of the Bush era, and that will just not excite the real Republicans (the rightwing freaks).
Meanwhile, that uppity Obama was getting attention from independents and an energized following. It’s a CULT! And the Republican elite viewed it with jealousy and wished desperately they had their own cult. But they checked, and found that Reagan was still dead.
And here McCain wanted someone like Lieberman for VP, but a pro-choice former Democrat non-Christian Jew wasn’t going to do it — especially since he has all the verve of a moldy damp mop.
So they looked for a charismatic fresh face, someone who would shake things up but still believe in the same old shit that would yank all the chains that needed yanking. Someone who hunts, loves Jesus, hates abortion, and someone like Bush, who people can point to and say, "That somebitch is jus like me!"
How damn fresh is it that they found that person, and she’s a she? "ALL THE LADIES IN THE HOUSE SAY GUNS!… GOD!… GAS!…"
So they worked on the hockey mom for around a week, wrote a speech for her to read, kept her from any contact with the press while manipulating the press (constant reply to everything: How DARE you spread such rumors, misogynist!).
And John? Oh, yeah, you’re still here. Go do your thing, baby. POW story, yeah, that’s the ticket.
McCain does his thing, and it’s pretty blah. Talks about the time when he had to wear an onion on his belt, and lead the crowd in a chant of "GET! OFF! MY! LAWN!" (that explains the giant photo of a lawn as a backdrop)
Now, those behind the scenes are wondering if they’re going to have to trigger a health event. As soon as they’re done educating Palin, they’ll decide.
John McCain is not a
John McCain is not a Maverick, I used to watch that show and as far as I am concerned James Garner is the only Maverick. I miss 1960’s TV
Humphrey or Nixon?
GIVE 'EM HELL, JOE!
Hold It Buster!
Wait a Minute!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Biden knows
[quote=Criswell][/quote]
Biden knows an awful lot about how the Republicans operate. Oh, that’s right. He’s a career politician who voted for both the War in Iraq and the Patriot Act. Awesome!
USA USA USA...
is that what they were chanting? I have many things to say about the convention, but like Kapn, time is at a minimum. I do have time to say that I completely agree with Dingey, it was weird. It was like watching a kung fu movie, somehow it just didn’t sync-up. There seemed to be a lot of booing, I realize they were doing it in response to comments he was making about the democratic party, but it came across as them booing him. Really, if you want to win voters, booing during your convention, for any reason, just seems like a bad idea.
Angie, thank you for that eloquent description of Cindy, you are right on!
Miss Info and I caught most
Miss Info and I caught most of McCain speech while at the local watering hole. The watering hole also had the DNC speeches too. I personally liked the USA! USA! USA! chants. It really works. I mean if the jabrowskis in Madison Square Garden wouldn’t have been chanting USA!USA!USA! when Hulk Hogan was on the verge of tapping out because the Iron Sheik’s camel clutch was about to break his back then terrorism would have been running amok in our country 20 years early than it did. But Hulk Hogan took inspriation in that chant, fought back and took the championship belt back from foreign hands and gave it back to USA. Hey, if the Kerry/Edwards party needed a shitty Sammy Hagar era Van Halen song to lift their party’s spirits then I’m cool with USA!USA!USA!. In retrospect, maybe Kerry and Edwards should have co-opted USA!USA!USA! instead.
What I did find grody and disturbing was the DRILL, BABY, DRILL! chants. There really is no pretense nor coding to that. The crowd might aswell have been chanting "WE WANT MONEY" because that’s what it boils down to. Yikes.
My mom just sent me this
My mom just sent me this link to a letter from a Wasilla resident who apparently knows Sarah well.
http://community.adn.com/adn/node/130537
man!
#1: TimH, will you marry me? I mean, you know, in the platonic sense? you just made me snort coffee through my nose. It was very cleansing.
#2: here is a link to a nice article in the L.A. Progressive all about what a great person Sarah Palin is. I think the words are "mean and vindictive." I am so amazed by the her comment: "So Sambo beat the bitch" that I can’t hardly say nothin’ nohow ‘bout it, hell. I mean, seriously. Seriously?! What year is this? I grew up in a town where they didn’t stop donning blackface for the annual rotary event until the 80;’s, and even I’m a little wigged by that statement.
http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/05/alaskans-speak-in-a-frightened-whisper-palin-is-%E2%80%9Cracist-sexist-vindictive-and-mean%E2%80%9D/
Barackrolled
Fux News
I had a tooth filled yesterday–it had been a while. I forgot about the loathsome death’s head scent of grinding teeth–anyhoo, my dentist has a TV above the "procedure" chair. I noticed it was tuned to Fox News. Before I had a chance to say anything, I was stuck with my gaping maw, numb cheeks and spinning devices. The next thing I realized was that I was listening to some honyock refer to NBC as "The National Barack Channel", and describing how NBC had hired some "flaming lesbian" to host a talk show on the network, all the while interviewing Chuck Norris as if he were an expert on national defense–not to mention being abused with snippets of the Bill O’Reilly "interview" with Obama which consisted of him screaming ignorant kneejerk epithets at what appeared to be a rather nonplussed candidate.
Seriously… what the fuck?
I just stumbled across this thread....