I was watching the Republican convention last night – listening to Romney, Huckabee, Guiliani and VP nominee Palin. Just a few quick observations – I really should take notes of the things I want to say, but that is hard when you have toddlers to watch at the same time. I’ll just write about what stands out at the moment.
First, can Guiliani go one speech without mentioning 9/11 or will he just explode if it isn’t mentioned? And they had the background of NYC skyline behind him the whole time. I suppose that was to remind us about it as well. I used to think he was o.k. – he has some viewpoints that are similar to my own particularly on social issues – but the guy just bugs me now. I just think he’s an ass – who tells their wife they want a divorce in a press conference? There’s more to it than that, but we’ll save that for another time (maybe I’ll get around to writing it).
Second, Palin was a good speaker. She knows how to deliver her speeches. However, she could be just mean with her little “jokes”. Both Guiliani and Palin attack Barack and other community organizers. What the hell? How stupid was that really? There are a lot of community organizers throughout history that had responsibility – that made tough decisions – that made a difference, and they put them down? Is that supposed to attract voters? In a comment to one article I was reading, someone said that it made it seem as though they think elected officials are the only ones of any value.
Then, one of the speakers, can’t remember who, said at least she has experience at the executive level so they didn’t have the final decision on something (there is no “present” button) – Obama and Biden can’t say that. Well, guess what, neither can McCain. So are they attacking him too? So that really isn’t much of an argument in my opinion. If the past (nearly) 8 years has taught me anything – executive experience doesn’t have anything to do with having a competent administration. So let’s just take away the experience argument on both sides.
I read an interesting op-ed piece from Gloria Steinem about Sarah Palin that seems like a good read.
Oh, and Huckabee saying that Palin got more votes in her run as mayor in her hometown than Biden got at all in his run for President. What a lie.
