I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

bluedahlia

They are all living in lalaland if they actually believe the lies!

otter

Well, I'm watching college football on ESPN. 

otter (trying to be difficult, as usual)

bluedahlia

The only sport i watch is soccer and then the Super Bowl!  Not into athletics but they do have nice bums.  Night all.  Time to rest my back in bed.  Gonna watch TV up there.

RetiredLibby

And I'm watching "Mona Lisa Smile" and getting ready to go to bed. Last night I watched "The Help," so I was particularly militant and angry all day today. Hmmm. Maybe watching a movie portraying restrictive 1950s life at Wellesley wasn't the best choice for this evening, but I am pretty sure it was a better choice than the CONvention.



;-)

1Athena1

Just read the speech. No specifics, very generic - could almost be given by a democrat too. Very "this is the land of promise" - the classic American speech, if you will.  Maybe that's the strategy - to appeal to everyone - but then why would people pick him? We shall see what he actually says.

(Still roaming plains, looking for dropped jaw - it fell off last night on me, HL, when Huckabee suggested Obama would favor infanticide).

208sandy

Let's face it people it is the party of OLD WHITE MEN - understand Honey Boo Boo's ratings were better than the convention last night - interesting.  I am watching college football (with Otter).

1Athena1

Watching the convention video about Romney - really - he "saved" the Salt Lake Olympics???? As though the world's richest country were unable to host an Olympics???

1Athena1

Nothing about his greatest achievement in MA - how sad! And this is his show-and-tell video. I won't say anything about the misfortune of having to sell one's crown jewels to conform to an ideologically bankrupt club's coda, because that would sound "partisan." 

ETA: George Romney - far more of a presence! Boy Clint Eastwood is getting old.

Chickadee

He's preaching to the choir and hoping the folks in the pews drink the kool aid.

Anonymous

Sorry, Athena, but Willard, "achievement" and MA aren't allowed in the same sentence.  ASK anyone who lives here!  All computer hard drives were TAKEN when his administration left - all left were INCREASED FEES for everything ( a sneaky way to say, "well, we didn't raise taxes" - AND tremendous financial burdens shifted to communities - instead of State.

TRULY A HORROR STORY.  Ask anyone in MA, really.

1Athena1

Goodness, Clint Eastwood is embarrassing. He's half gaga. (Of course, the crowd roars, but some crowds are deluded) - may as well put George Burns up there.

1Athena1

Nice jingoism ride from Marco Rubio - who opens by asking us to pray for Cuba's freedom (er - aren't we supposed to be living under a "socialist" dictatorship here in the US because of Obama? Really, my man, charity begins at home <end sarcasm>) and then says the rest of the world should be more like America.

1Athena1

"Faith in our creator is the most important American value of them all."

Yikes - that must be some Islamist extremist right? Nope. It's still Rubio.

Don't think I will find my jaw tonight.

YramAL

I'm watching "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo". Mom is revealing her "forklift foot" tonight. 

Mary 

GatorGal

Do you think Romney, the good Mormon, actually approved Clint eastwood's reference to Obama "f'ing himself"? I have good friends who are Mormons and they might like Romney, but they would never approve of that type of "unspoken" innuendo.

1Athena1

I think Rubio is making a play for 2016 (like Christie). The GOP is being uncharacteristically undisciplined. They are promoting just about every major politician they can - such is their lack of real faith in Romney. It's almost as is they are trying to say" we are a great party - don't worry if our candidate isn't great." I can see the strategists squirming at Rubio's self-promotion, though.

AnneW

OMG!!! I missed Honey Boo Boo last night???

As for Jeb, I respect him to date, more than the other of his clan, but make no mistake, if he ever gets his party's nomination, he won't be the same guy he is now. He will be forced into denouncing a woman's right to choose 9as has Mr. Etch A Sketch) and he will succomb to all the vitriol and hate and lies from the teanut gallery. Because that's what politics does to a person.

I'm gonna find Honey Boo Boo on demand. I need to laugh at people who speak a foreign language and need subtitles while taking care of their pet pig.

1Athena1

Glenna - I think Eastwood seriously went gaga - he went way off script. It was quite bizarre.

1Athena1

I can picture some old time GOP strategists having a hernia. Not the tight coherence and perfect timing of yore that always made the democratic convention look like a college party in contrast. This is a mess.

GatorGal

Athena - I think Eastwood should've stayed in Hollywood .... But oh well, he only helps us!

IllinoisLady

Wow!!!!What I missed.

Jackie

YramAL

It just doesn't matter. No matter how bad it is, the sheeple will think it's great, and that every word out of the speakers' mouths is God's truth. It's sad. If you repeat a lie enough times, it becomes truth.

Mary 

1Athena1

Romney's speech is now sounding deja vu - like an amalgam of what others have said before him on the podium. He is essentially echoing Rubio's theme of the promise of America., the toil, the hard work, etc... The speech gets more and more generic, and even the crowd seems a bit tired. 

1Athena1

IN a sense Romney is saying what Obama said about Bush: "things are bad, we work hard, we deserve better." No original thought.

He will not win in November, though. His will be the least memorable candidacy - after John Kerry's.

Noe he is talking about Armstrong on the Moon, JFK.....

He should just break out into a yankee doodle dandy dance and lead a parade out of the convention for a well needed drink.

A total yawner.

To me, the nicest part of the night was the testimony by the Mormon pastor and the family of the boy who died of cancer. Those were moving moments. Mitt should have walked on right there.

Chickadee

I'm watching Claudette Colbert cruise down Da Nile with Marc Antony. Circa 1934.

1Athena1

Lie alert: Obama "attacking" success??? Romney's nose should start growing. OBama personified success. Romney only personifies opportunism. Obama rescued the auto industry. Romney rescued hs money and shipped it oversees.

Ok, and on it goes. I take me to bed.

crazy4carrots

Reminds me alot of the AZ Senator who told an outright lie about Planned Parenthood on the Senate floor, and then his aide told reporters that it wasn't "meant to be a factual statement".  Guess his colleagues took that to heart......

Anonymous

I wanna watch movies at Chickadee's house...I'll bring the popcorn.  Remember The African Queen, Bringing Up Baby,

As we were saying yesterday, about the wonderful people we miss: Ed Brooks, Jacob Javitts, Ben Gilman, and soon the women from Maine, well, once again, this group of WISE women was prescient, for your reading to start the day:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/opinion/party-of-strivers.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1346412082-fxQi6oVQwQRHA1EYykqDtQ

Again, we are not alone in hearing "WHOPPERS"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/we-are-all-fact-checkers-now/2012/08/30/b019fc26-f300-11e1-adc6-87dfa8eff430_story.html

and another one:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bitter-campaign-and-its-rhetoric-bring-fact-checkers-to-the-center-of-debate/2012/08/30/23a117b4-f2bc-11e1-a612-3cfc842a6d89_story.html

New York Times, again, seems we aren't the only ones, ah, noticing LONG WOODEN NOSES:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/opinion/the-hidden-subject-in-tampa.html?_r=1&hp?hp

Fact Checkers are having to work overtime this time:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/fact-checking-mitt-romneys-acceptance-speech-at-the-gop-convention/2012/08/31/70c3d8de-f31f-11e1-adc6-87dfa8eff430_blog.html

pupmom

Santorum was also definitely running for 2016. It's like they all know 2012 is a lost cause and are focusing on the next election.

Listened to Morning Joe (I know, I know) this morning. Commentary was all about how stupid it was to show Clint Eastwood, instead of the video, during the 10 o'clock segment, and that most of the speakers said little about Romney and lots about themselves. 

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