Cliff LyonLive Blogging: Stupid Things Overheard at The Republican Convention
Updated throughout the evening:
Oh great. Their gonna intersperse lip-synced pop tunes throughout the speeches. How Entertainment Tonight/Idol-esque.
…and promos about past Republican Presidents. This one us that Lincoln was a republican. As if todays ‘pubs’ would have freed the slaves.
Hi, My name is Tommy Espinoza. I am a Catholic, Hispanic, Democrat. And I am proud to call John McCain a friend.
You are probably asking, how can a democrat support John Mcain? Faith.
Somebody remind me to check what they’re paying these people to chirp like parrots.
They just showed a promo honoring George Bush for “strengthening the Clean Air Act.” No one mentioned that Jr. has ignored the Supreme Court’s order to enforce it
This is getting really boring. Some UPS guy on valium is reading the teleprompter.
I don’t know how much more I can stand.
Oooh. Hot looking ex military chick with EXCELLENT silicon implants! Just when I was about to change the channel. Sucked back in…
Some wanker put the teleprompters too far apart.
Pretty subdued crowd compared to the democratic convention.
Now a promo about a young military hero that was really disciplined and obedient and got killed and a Medal of Honor.
Laura Bush on lithium.
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Laura Bush says: 50 million people across Afghanistan and Iraq are living in freedom.
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:01 pm
I like the unseen dude close to the microphone who sounds like “Timmy” on South Park every time he cheers something stupid that comes out the speakers’ mouths, which is often.
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Has anyone told Laura Bush that her husband is near universally hated around the world? She cannot be as stupid as she sounds, can she?
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:14 pm
The looks on the delegates faces speaks volumes. These folks are NOT happy with McCain or Palin, and they know they are going down in flames come November.
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Laura Bush is an embarrassment all women. Not because she is not a good woman, but because she falls into line like an obedient little dog every time she is confronted by a man.
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Ok. How many more times do we have to hear about McPOW?
The level to which Fred Thompson is telling the McPOW story is disgusting.
Now Fred is moving on to the surge and the crowd goes wild!
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Albert,
How many times did we have to hear about Kerry’s Vietnam experience?
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Bob:
Every time the SBVT brought it up!
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:16 pm
My wife left the room because Grandpa Fred was too gross with his descriptions of broken bones. Thompson forgot to mention that even after all he suffered, Senator McCain went against everything he knew to be true and voted for the torture bill because President Bush told him to. He was more afraid of Bush than the North Vietnamese. That’s scary.
Then we got Joementum, if anybody was still awake he put them to sleep. I switched to Comedy Central for the re-run of last week’s “The Daily Show” from Denver.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Richard:
I watched a rerun of Cops; I needed a reality-based dose of security for me and my family. But I am sure the Daily Show was equally as interesting - Lieberscum has reached a new level of whining panderism. Indeed, Lieberscum sounded just like a crying republican - he wrote his acceptance speech and is was relegated to fodder padding the 5 minutes that McSame gave Bush to speak.
All in all, a pretty pitiful night for the repugs - we’ll see what the morrow brings.
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:42 pm
I was waiting for someone to jump on Liebermann… I can’t help wondering how many Dems that were showering him with platitudes when he was toted as the best thing to ever happen to the Gore ticket, just changed their tune…
I still think my Obamessiah name slam blows any of the name slams coming out of here… I ROCK! Ya know, I think I’m starting to figure out this game… cool… Obama-mama… Obama-rama… AlaBAMA…
Oh crap with a last name like Okelberry, I should shut my trap…
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Richard O. Says:
But, Richard, so did millions of Americans change their tune toward George Bush. So just what is your point?
And yes, you are a right-winger. Congratulations!
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:06 am
Listening to the multitude of stories about John McCain being held captive at the Hanoi Hilton makes me wonder just how many future presidents in Middle Eastern countries US are now creating at Guantanamo, Bagram and all the various secret institutions run by the CIA around the world.
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:11 am
PS
Did anyone else notice how red-colored Bush’s nose, forehead and cheeks were on the video screen tonight?
What’s with that?? Is he back on the bottle??
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:45 am
Albert, You simply take me too seriously… Perhaps it is your anger that causes you to imagine me pounding out my little posts with similar vitriol. You need to start reading posts like my last one and imagine us sitting around having a beer and giving each other grief. Come’ on… Seriously now… You don’t find it even a little funny that a bunch of grown men are sitting around watching political convention and tossing out every little negative observation they can think of into a blog, funny? This is like a drinking game where everyone has to down their beer if Bush says, “terrorist” or something. If you all were sitting in the same room, you could play a game of D&D afterwards…
September 3rd, 2008 at 6:10 am
Let’s say we down a beer if a Republican convention speaker mentions an issue that middle-class Americans care about. I don’t like to drink beer, but not a problem.
September 3rd, 2008 at 6:24 am
Now that’s the spirit, Richard W….
September 3rd, 2008 at 6:38 am
“Obamessiah.” I love it. And he’s the right color too! For you Bible thumpers out there, I refer to the fact that Jesus was a black man by New York cab standards.
September 3rd, 2008 at 6:52 am
You are right, Cliff… if one thing is certain it is that Jesus certainly wasn’t the white guy that most people see in the painting on their church walls. That depiction is generally attributed to Leonardo Da Vinci and many have speculated that the model for the illustration was possibly his gay lover. We may never know the truth about that but we can use anthropologic evidence to divine that Jesus was certainly not of Northern European decent. On the flip side, he was likely not Congoid either. Because the Jewish communities of old were so tightly wound, they would have not seen much intermingling of race. Therefore if Jesus was a “typical” Jew of the area he would have been olive skinned with a slightly rounded face and possibly curly black hair. Popular Mechanics has an image of what Jesus might possibly have looked like. The beard also is missing because it was the trend of Jesus’ day to go without one.
By the way Cliff, are you implying that Christians should take offense to the possibility of Jesus being dark skinned? Also, thanks for having a sense of humor about “Obamassiah’
September 3rd, 2008 at 7:18 am
Okelbuddy,
Do you have a subscription to Popular Mechanics? They sure do have a wide breadth of expertise. In addition to expertise in homemade gadgets, they appear to be experts in everything from FEMA to Anthropology.
Anything about UFOs in that magazine?
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:25 am
Time’s Joe Klein sums up GOP Convention Day 2: