Opening night at the RNC
I'm watching McCain's speech and am impressed that he's maintaining such a calm and courteous demeanor - knowing how much he dislikes Bush and his policies. [Cheney the Vulture stands up to take a nod] What absolutely disgusts me is that 15 minutes into the speech and all he's talked about is Sept 11th and the resulting war(s).
HOLY SHIT - he actually mentioned Michael Moore (disingenous filmmaker) and F9/11!!! I can't believe he actually brought it up! What GREAT publicity - Moore must be a MUCH bigger influence than they'll openly admit if the speechwriters feel it's necessary to try and discredit him at the RNC!
20 minutes in and still no mention of anything other than war, defense, wmd, and the threat Saddam posed. So far, the mention of F9/11 has drawn the biggest response - much more than any mention of Bush's decisions or tactics. Another observation - there's NO discussion of policy, either current or proposed, just a great deal of description and praise for the decision to go to war. After listening to both speakers, I still didn't hear anything about either future policy plans (even regarding the war) or about ANYTHING other than 9/11.
McCain:
Defense must be our first priority
Winning the war against terrorism is our govt's first priority
War is about right/wrong, good/evil
Expect solidarity from other countries b/c we've shared their times of peril (?)
Democrats should not doubt our sincerity
America as the world's only superpower
Our fight wasn't against [missed this] but against war and a greater threat.
We're safer now than we were on 9/11 but we're still not safe.
We're still closer to the beginning than to the end of this fight.
The 'pResident' is the first to observe that most of the sacrifices [of war] are suffered by our [soldiers].
Our soldiers fight to prove that
We are Americans first, Americans last, and Americans always.
Our adversaries are weaker than us in causes. They fight to express a hatred of all that is good in humanity. We fight for good, freedom, etc...
Guiliani:
I missed the vast majority of his speech because I was on the phone with jneal discussing him and McCain. Watching his speech was both sad and encouraging. Sad because he was making all these sorry, lame jokes and encouraging because he took a great deal of time to take cheap shots at Kerry's voting record.
"Why is that encouraging?" you may ask... Well, taking cheap shots at the opponent during such an important event seems (to me) to indicate just how threatened the Reps are feeling. If you don't see your opponent as a serious threat, you don't pay that much attention to them. Especially not at your party's big, important, morale-raising convention. Taking potshots at Kerry's voting record seems to me to be an error in judgement but we'll see.
Here's the only line of Guiliani's I could remember:
pResident Bush can see into the future and he has a vision of a safer world
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