This is from Micah Sifry, via Twitter, putting in words something I was thinking:
“comfort the oppressed” but don’t do it in an organized way, because that would make you a community organizer. #rnc08
You know, teach an illerate adult to read, join the military, etc., but don’t become a community organizer in a poor urban neighborhood.
Someone understands what it is the Republicans have been doing.
President Bush canceled his trip here to supervise the response to Hurricane Gustav and addressed the delegates only by video hookup Tuesday, before the broadcast networks began their coverage for the night.
Heading into the final evening, Mr. Bush’s name had not passed the lips of any of the marquee speakers since his image faded from the screen. Indeed, a computer count showed that Democrats mentioned Mr. Bush’s name five times as often at their convention as the Republicans were doing at theirs. And delegates on Thursday were shown a video about the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that included a picture of Rudolph
W. Giuliani and Donald Rumsfeld but none of Mr. Bush, whose presidency was singularly shaped by that day.
I’ve run out of things to say about this speech — but I have to remind everyone that McCain is not a saint just offering to do his selfless duty. He’s been running for president for eight-plus years and has shown himself willing to do or say almost anything to finally gain the keys to the White House.
It’s nice to know that the Republicans are so into the notion of change. Haven’t they run things for the last decade?
I think I have convention fatigue.
Hank Kalet 