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Bucky B. Katt is shocked like the rest of the world that McCain picks the less experienced of the famous Palins for his running mate.
Not to worry, Buckey like any good Republician no matter how uninformed on the subject at hand will just follow the party line. Satchel changing up Michael Palin lines from Monty Python made me laugh out loud.
I admit have not watched much of the Republican National Convention being held in the twin cities but like I said in a previous post would just be hearing the same speeches of the last eights years. The Republican party is just not in a state of change.
What I have seen has made me kinda sad. The Republican convention’s non ending theme is we are the red, white, and blue party of God fearing patriots. The problem is when I look at the crowd at the less then capacity convention seating area is that it’s all white faces. I heard someone on the radio say that on day one out of a crowd of over 6,000 there were only 36 non-white faces counted! I hope none of the non-whites were Native Americans because on day two the gentlemen giving the opening prayer mentioned something about “God gave us America…”. Worse, the attendees seem to be disproportionally people of advanced age. On day three when Sarah Palin gave her speech she must have felt right at home since the crowd must have looked like a snow covered landscape from her native Alaska.
CNN to their credit or not, has zoomed in on every non-white face they could find on the floor to try to make it not look so bad.
Only the eight original Republican candidates running for President until McCain won out were less diverse then this crowd since all of them were older well off white men. Republicans still sometimes refer to themselves as the party of Abe Lincoln but we all know that has not been the case since the civil rights era.
In contrast when I watched the Democrat National Convention last week the crowd was as diverse as our great country really is in the real world. The people in attendance looked as a whole no different then the people I see when walk down the streets in my hometown of Buffalo – white, black, brown, yellow, red, older, younger, straight, gay, men and women. The Democrat candidates that had ran for the Presidential nomination were no less diverse.
I fail to see why “America” would want to keep Republicans in office who simply couldn’t possibly relate to them. America needs Barack Obama and the Democrats to win back the oval office but I think maybe the Republicans need to lose just as much. Maybe in defeat they will look at themselves and realize they need to adapt to this rapidly changing world and become more like America of today. I think the Republicans would be well served to go back to their roots and became the party of fiscal responsibility, individual rights, and of Abe Lincoln once again.
Ok, I have been told the Republican National Convention is going on this week in the twin cities. The first day never really happened because of Hurricane Gustav but check out this photo of Cindy McCain who made an appearance with Laura Bush…
What’s with the big bird outfit and the hideous make up job? Something about this woman has always scared me. Seriously, I doubt will watch much of the GOP convention myself since they will no doubt be spewing the same rhetoric of the last eight years so won’t be missing anything. I may watch the mid-day nobody speakers since they are most likely to have lose lips since only C-Span with be showing them. I like to see some good old fashion stare tactics even if based on nothing - Obama will surrender to the terrorists, Obama will tax you to death, and maybe even a reference to Obama being a Muslim. That may be entertaining…
What I really like to do with this post is open the floor to general political discussion. All discussion on this blog is usually tied to the topic at hand I am writing about but let’s travel off the beaten path. Any reasonable intelligent topics of political debate any of my readers would like to discuss is fair game. Let’s see where this goes so comment away…
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UPDATED 9/03 – Come on readers! I know there are people out there who want to discuss some political issues that are important to them. Please, just no Sarah Palin talk…
I will also say McCain was best served in picking Ms. Palin then many of the other choices that were being talked about. Mitt Romney? That ticket would have been called the flip-flopper unity ticket. Mike Huckabee? A preacher on the ticket? God, please say it’s not so. Condoleezza Rice? Anyone from the Bush administration would have been a mistake. I think it was about time for the Republicans to pick someone who was not a old white male on a Presidential ticket.
I will admit that I don’t know much about where Ms. Palin stands on issues so did a some research on her and little of it was good… She apparently has little regard for the Alaskan wildlife of her home state since she supports old ways of thinking on energy solutions in supporting drilling for oil. She appears to be social conservative who supports teaching creationism along side evolution in schools! Mix religion and science? This may be her Achilles heel. While she does not support same-sex marriage she did extend the same benefits everyone else has to them as Governor.
Did McCain pick Ms. Palin to try to convince hard core Hillary supports to vote for him? I doubt many real Democrats or woman will cross since Ms. Palin does not support some woman’s issues like reproductive rights. I would think McCain’s choice of Ms. Palin would end the experience question about Obama since he looks like long time political veteran compared to her. Remember the questions of whether McCain could finish four long stressful years as President. Could you see the young wide eyed Sarah Palin as President?
UPDATE – The choice of Sarah Palin has been a media coup for John McCain today. There is a buzz like I already have said would be that a woman who is a Washington outsider was a much more inspired choice then Obama’s pick of Joe Biden. Fortunately, I think the voters will see past VP choices and look at the issues and decide they don’t want four more years of Bush. Sarah Palin will have her 15 minutes of fame and be a historic footnote in Presidential campaigns but nothing more.
For those who missed it, watch on C-SPAN as Dennis Kucinich calls for the impeachment of George Bush just a couple of days before the President’s State of the Union. Check out the original story here.
