Comments on: An Unacceptable Acceptance http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/30/an-unacceptable-acceptance/ Questions through the veil of ignorance Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:08:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: MikeR http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/30/an-unacceptable-acceptance/comment-page-1/#comment-225263 MikeR Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:45:30 +0000 http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=4854#comment-225263 MichaelW alludes to the root problem.  The Democratic rhetoric has worked.  They pounded the lies down the throats of the sheeple and now the lie has become the truth.  Strategically this is brilliant.  They have won.  They have caused the right to second guess its behaviour.  Remind me again who started using the "big lie"? MichaelW alludes to the root problem.  The Democratic rhetoric has worked.  They pounded the lies down the throats of the sheeple and now the lie has become the truth.  Strategically this is brilliant.  They have won.  They have caused the right to second guess its behaviour.  Remind me again who started using the “big lie”?

]]> By: Robby http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/30/an-unacceptable-acceptance/comment-page-1/#comment-225255 Robby Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:29:42 +0000 http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=4854#comment-225255 I'm sitting right in the current projected bullseye of this storm (about 60 miles northwest of New Orleans) and I say, have your convention as you planned it. The last thing we're going to need is a bunch of politicians falling all over themselves to appear concerned and getting in the way of the people who are actually working to clean up and fix things. That goes for Republicans AND Democrats--if you're just coming for a photo op, stay the hell away. Especially you, <a href="http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/08/michael_moore_gustav_proof_of.html" title="proof of god" rel="nofollow">Michael Moore</a>. I’m sitting right in the current projected bullseye of this storm (about 60 miles northwest of New Orleans) and I say, have your convention as you planned it. The last thing we’re going to need is a bunch of politicians falling all over themselves to appear concerned and getting in the way of the people who are actually working to clean up and fix things.

That goes for Republicans AND Democrats–if you’re just coming for a photo op, stay the hell away. Especially you, Michael Moore.

]]> By: MichaelW http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/30/an-unacceptable-acceptance/comment-page-1/#comment-225252 MichaelW Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:08:13 +0000 http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=4854#comment-225252 Meh. The problem is that, regardless of the lack of any merit in the accusations leveled at the Bush Adminstration over Katrina, the narrative has stuck. The Republicans are commendably cognizant of that fact, and don't want to be broadcast over ever major media network celebrating their largely ceremonial convention while New Orleans drowns again. Smart politics is all that is. Plus, they really don't need the attention after the Palin pick, especially since McCain has pretty much locked up the media cycle for the next few weeks even if the convention is delayed -- possibly even longer. Meh. The problem is that, regardless of the lack of any merit in the accusations leveled at the Bush Adminstration over Katrina, the narrative has stuck. The Republicans are commendably cognizant of that fact, and don’t want to be broadcast over ever major media network celebrating their largely ceremonial convention while New Orleans drowns again. Smart politics is all that is.

Plus, they really don’t need the attention after the Palin pick, especially since McCain has pretty much locked up the media cycle for the next few weeks even if the convention is delayed — possibly even longer.

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