Election Countdown: Volunteer Opp in Fla 10/29

[WenD08]

i watched some of it last night. i saw the folks of color, thanks to the camera folks i'm trying to stick w/it for the rest of the week but i don't know...it's not terribly exciting...
and now for today's Bushism...the "war on terrorism may not be won". so, why are we to support this military exercise in futility? enquiring minds want to know...

[AKA2D '91]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...mu/cvn_outkast

[TheEpitome1920]

Originally posted by AKA2D '91
If anyone saw any coverage. I felt as though they were trying to keep the camera on someone of color.

I noticed that too. I 've been watching snippets of the speeches and listening to the commentary on what Republicans have said about Democrats. I personally wish they would stick to the issues and stop bashing. I thought it was interesting that they would have a Democrat speak out against Kerry. Don't know what that was all about.

[AKA2D '91]

Lynn Swann, ex-NFLer will speak today.

I think Donnie McClurken was to address the body this week.

[Steeltrap]

Originally posted by TheEpitome1920
I noticed that too. I 've been watching snippets of the speeches and listening to the commentary on what Republicans have said about Democrats. I personally wish they would stick to the issues and stop bashing. I thought it was interesting that they would have a Democrat speak out against Kerry. Don't know what that was all about.

Zell Miller? Zell, an outgoing senator from Georgia, is making a personal name for himself as the Demo who bucked national Demos and voted for the war.

Remember, Ron Reagan, son of the late president, was featured at the DNC. So I guess the GOP thought turnabout was fair play.

And of course GOP's gonna bash. It's just politics.

[Love_Spell_6]

Originally posted by TheEpitome1920
I personally wish they would stick to the issues and stop bashing.

So only the Republicans are bashing??

[AKA2D '91]

This week...yes.

[TheEpitome1920]

Originally posted by Love_Spell_6
So only the Republicans are bashing??

My comments were in reference to the RNC. So I am talking about Republicans. Never said anything about them being the only ones.

[Love_Spell_6]

I love reading the posts in here..yall really crack me up LOL

[Steeltrap]

Andrew Sullivan, conservative blogger, rips Zig-Zag Zell a new one:

THE MILLER MOMENT: Zell Miller's address will, I think, go down as a critical moment in this campaign, and maybe in the history of the Republican party. I kept thinking of the contrast with the Democrats' keynote speaker, Barack Obama, a post-racial, smiling, expansive young American, speaking about national unity and uplift. Then you see Zell Miller, his face rigid with anger, his eyes blazing with years of frustration as his Dixiecrat vision became slowly eclipsed among the Democrats. Remember who this man is: once a proud supporter of racial segregation, a man who lambasted LBJ for selling his soul to the negroes. His speech tonight was in this vein, a classic Dixiecrat speech, jammed with bald lies, straw men, and hateful rhetoric. As an immigrant to this country and as someone who has been to many Southern states and enjoyed astonishing hospitality and warmth and sophistication, I long dismissed some of the Northern stereotypes about the South. But Miller did his best to revive them. The man's speech was not merely crude; it added whole universes to the word crude.

[Sistermadly]

The NY Times put together a little graphic that shows the difference between the speeches delivered at the DNC and the RNC - if you want an encapsulated version of each party's platform, this is probably the best one I've seen: http://graphics7.nytimes.com/images/...0902_words.gif

(need a NYTimes login? http://www.bugmenot.com, enter http://www.nytimes as the address)

[TonyB06]

Originally posted by Steeltrap
Andrew Sullivan, conservative blogger, rips Zig-Zag Zell a new one:

THE MILLER MOMENT: Zell Miller's address will, I think, go down as a critical moment in this campaign, and maybe in the history of the Republican party. I kept thinking of the contrast with the Democrats' keynote speaker, Barack Obama, a post-racial, smiling, expansive young American, speaking about national unity and uplift. Then you see Zell Miller, his face rigid with anger, his eyes blazing with years of frustration as his Dixiecrat vision became slowly eclipsed among the Democrats. Remember who this man is: once a proud supporter of racial segregation, a man who lambasted LBJ for selling his soul to the negroes. His speech tonight was in this vein, a classic Dixiecrat speech, jammed with bald lies, straw men, and hateful rhetoric. As an immigrant to this country and as someone who has been to many Southern states and enjoyed astonishing hospitality and warmth and sophistication, I long dismissed some of the Northern stereotypes about the South. But Miller did his best to revive them. The man's speech was not merely crude; it added whole universes to the word crude.

I saw excerpts of Miller's speech (dude, try de-caf). Just 3 years ago he was propping Kerry during his Senate race vs. Weld. ...so wtf? I view quasi-party switchers (which I consider Miller) with a high degree of suspicion anyway.

the D/R propaganda conventions are now safely put away, so it's on to the debates....

[DIVA1177]

Originally posted by Love_Spell_6
I love reading the posts in here..yall really crack me up LOL

Well put it out in the open. Why don't you tell us why you support Dumbya and Cheney.

[Steeltrap]

Originally posted by TonyB06
I saw excerpts of Miller's speech (dude, try de-caf). Just 3 years ago he was propping Kerry during his Senate race vs. Weld. ...so wtf? I view quasi-party switchers (which I consider Miller) with a high degree of suspicion anyway.

the D/R propaganda conventions are now safely put away, so it's on to the debates....

Yup, now hopefully we see the meat of these guys' issues and such. I didn't catch a lot of the conventions because they were propaganda, and served to firm up a lot of the base. Now, it's time to hit the center for Kerry.
Zigzag Zell just is weird. He's not running for re-election, so maybe that's why he hasn't officially switched parties.

BTW, AfAm moderate Denise Majette, who took out Cynthia McKinney in Congress a couple of years ago, is running for Miller's Senate seat. She's facing Johnny Isakson (sp?) who beat ultraconservative GOP AfAm Herman Cain.

[Munchkin03]

Originally posted by AKA2D '91
If anyone saw any coverage. I felt as though they were trying to keep the camera on someone of color.

During W's speech, the Mr. and I counted the plans on people of color. It was insane. They found all 5 black people there and kept on showing them.