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I can barely watch this thing. "Country First" signs? As if there's no world? Just watched Mitt Romney's speech. It was.... how shall I say it? Well, it gave me shivers. The ending of it was all about him saying that God chose America or something.... I'm sitting here shaking my head. The nationalism, the arrogance, the focus on terrorism and fear. It was just really hard to watch and listen to. Awaiting Sarah Palin's speech.

Please post your take on the speeches and atmosphere at the 2008 Republican Convention here.

I'm interested in hearing what you think.

The mocking, belittling arrogance of the ignorant. As a friend of mine points out, notice how alot of them have pudgy fingers? Heh.

They are liars and gamers and they use God as their weapon, even in war.

What really troubles me is that I don't think there are many Americans, (and I hate to say this but I am seeing it to be true), who are ready to vote for a Black man, and Sarah Palin may be the ticket out they have been hoping for.

I dunno folks. I'm worried. Prejudice is still rampant in this country, sad and stupid as that is....and I repeat, I'm not only worried, I'm scared that McCain and Palin will win because of it. Really scared.
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Idiots playing on the fear card because it's the only thing they know how to do. STAND UP TO THEM!!!! Tell them NO WAY!!!!
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I actually tried, I really did, to tune into the RNC show on Tuesday but failed when I saw the overstuffed assurances and confirmations by the pack as to their Americanism... at least their brand of it. How odd I find it that the stage(d) background flag waving is apparently used to reinforce what the Republicans seem to believe - that they are the sole bearers of the Republic. I can only see it as very divisive act.

Last night we were tuned into the new season of 'Bones.' I switched to the convention whenever a commercial break came on. I was disheartened to tune in when Guiliani was on a rant against Obama. It was almost endless these cutting remarks like gunfire, he thought he was a stand-up comic. His faithful audience was in agreement. They would laugh and cheer and applaud every negative remark about Obama that shot out of his lips. Good thing for me that 'Bones' came back on. I think I went thru at least to commercial breaks and Giuliani was still ranting away.

Then when 'Bones' had but yet another commercial break (it was a premiere 2 hour special), I again switched to the Republican Convention, only to see Sarah Palin and her chesire cat grin staring at me. That was uncomfortable. I heard her remark about “You know the difference between a hockey mom and a pit pull? Lipstick.” Then she lifted her skirt and pissed on the podium leg. She's a riot. Just what this country has been looking for - an affirmed bitch that will pounce at the first opportunity to give McCain a heart attack and become the first Bitch President with the full support of Jesus and God on her side.

I must have came back to this ranting, anti-Obama self-admitted bitch 4, maybe 5 times...? and each time I was awarded with her giving the finger to Barack Obama or a thumbs up to her old, cancer-cheeked slug of a Presidential candidate as being the greatest thing in American politics comparable only to the four time win of Susan Butcher in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 1990.

Seriously though, the Republican Party, this election in particular, is so uninspired as witnessed by their keynote speakers to make their convention nothing more than a Slam Fest against the Democrats... a preaching to the choir if I ever saw one. And how many times do we have to hear the toss-around phrase "liberal media" ? Please. That is such a hackneyed expression, worn out like McCain himself. Who is this 'liberal media' anyway?

I will say Sara Palin delivered her speech very well... a '10' for delivery. Content? a '6' at most. But I do admit I didn't have the cajones to sit thru her complete speech. And I'm surprised that even the Republicans in the audience were able to follow her for as long as her speech went. (Who wrote that speech, anyway?)

The Republicans are charged up. They needed this woman's words to instill excitement into their party and they got it, in spades.

Obama... after McCain's speech tonite, the ball is in your park. I trust you are confident and assured of the next step.

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Astute observations hest and cecil! thank you

Here are some excerpts from an email i received this morning (I only removed the sentences that asked for a donation )

Friend --

I wasn't planning on sending you something tonight. But if you saw what I saw from the Republican convention, you know that it demands a response.

I saw John McCain's attack squad of negative, cynical politicians. They lied about Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and they attacked you for being a part of this campaign.

But worst of all -- and this deserves to be noted -- they insulted the very idea that ordinary people have a role to play in our political process.

Both Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin specifically mocked Barack's experience as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago more than two decades ago, where he worked with people who had lost jobs and been left behind when the local steel plants closed.

Let's clarify something for them right now.

Community organizing is how ordinary people respond to out-of-touch politicians and their failed policies.

And it's no surprise that, after eight years of George Bush, millions of people have found that by coming together in their local communities they can change the course of history. That promise is what our campaign has been about from the beginning.

Throughout our history, ordinary people have made good on America's promise by organizing for change from the bottom up. Community organizing is the foundation of the civil rights movement, the women's suffrage movement, labor rights, and the 40-hour workweek. And it's happening today in church basements and community centers and living rooms across America.

Meanwhile, we still haven't gotten a single idea during the entire Republican convention about the economy and how to lift a middle class so harmed by the Bush-McCain policies.

It's now clear that John McCain's campaign has decided that desperate lies and personal attacks -- on Barack Obama and on you -- are the only way they can earn a third term for the Bush policies that McCain has supported more than 90 percent of the time.

David

David Plouffe
Campaign Manager
Obama for America