Republican National Convention Thread (September 1-4, 2008)

What gamble?

 

Since I'm sure alot of you didn't see it because it was around the 8PM mark, it was just a montage of extreme islamic militants chanting with their guns in the air. It started with a montage of the iranian hostages and moved through very graphic images of different attacks (ie us cole) and alot of the pictures of the damage and people running around in the wake of the 9-11 attacks. it was a pure scare tactic and even though i'm not a big olbermann fan he was the only journalist who called them out for its graphic nature.

 

Some would say mentioning Bush is a scare tactic Obama is using.

 

some would say this is a stupid analogy

 

I caught some of the protests last night near the State Capital and the police were using snow plows.

Before people get all excited, either way, they weren't plowing protestors but were blocking off bridges over I-94 from the Capital to the Excel with them. The police ended up herding the protestors around Capital using concussion grenades, smoke grenades and tear gas until they cornered a couple hundred on a bridge and arrested them. I wasn't marching but was watching from a sidewalk and for my trouble I got a concussion grenade thrown at my feet. Didn't really hurt but my ears are still ringing.

 

/raises hand

 

There's a difference. When referring to more Bush, 4 more years, McSame, or whatever is similar, people can actually research McCain's record, proposals, proposed policies, etc. to see if they match or are in the same line as Bush and then make a decision based on those findings.

How can they do the same for terrorist attacks? That's the scary thing, they can't. They don't know when or if another one is coming. There's no way they can get any kind of good idea, unless of course they want to use the Skittles chart. Republicans use that to say they can protect you from them and keep them from happening in a slick kind of way. The truth is nobody can. If terrorist or anybody wants to prove their point or make their mark or whatever, they'll do it regardless.

 

I saw that guy's speech at the Rally for the Republic. Pretty incredible speech. Basically a call to arms.

Hey Wes, it was good seeing you yesterday and glad you liked your visit to the Twin Cities.

 

There is no way to be perfectly safe in a free society, it is just not possible.

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."


DD

 

Somebody's getting fired...



John McCain Proud to Stand Before Random California Middle School For Some Reason
POSTED BY: Dennis DiClaudio

Hey, remember that green screen John McCain was standing in front of in his memorial speech of John McCain last night?

Okay, once we all stopped laughing at the lime green background he's so fond of, we realized that it was just a very-well-planned-out close-up image of grass in front of what we could only assume to be one of his 22 unknown homes.

Well, that's not what it was. It was an image of Walter Reed Middle School in North Hollywood, California.



Why would he be standing in front of a picture of Walter Reed Middle School? It's possible that that's one of the twenty different schools he attended while following his father around from military base to military base, but that seems unlikely.

So, why choose that school?

Well, because Walter Reed Middle School sounds an awful lot like Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

And somebody's not very well-versed with the Googles.
http://blog.indecision2008.com/2008...dom-california-middle-school-for-some-reason/

 

oh my god, that is too funny

 

Maybe the one 8 years ago that changed the focus from international terrorism to missile defense for a few months.

 

i saw that and i was like, "what the hell is that"

 

It's not my first and certainly won't be my last. My track record speaks for itself.

 

Here's the 9/11 "tribute":

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And here's Olbermann's take on it:

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the nerve of these guys to flash bin laden across the screen, you had seven years

 

If only Clinton had gotten him when he had the chance. If only...

 

The sad thing is that Clinton got much closer to getting OBL, despite spending a fraction of the resources and time.

 

Why bother catching him?

 

I'm more impressed with Olbermann's work every day. He's gone from Edward R. Murrow to Howard Beale to now, Tom Grunick.