Joseph A. Hayden (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} bearlawnyc) wrote,@ 2004-09-01 16:44:00 |
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RNC dribble (theirs, not mine)
The Republican Convention hasn't disrupted my life much, but it is sad to see them twist reality. Governator said last night that we should not be "economic girly-men". Besides smacking of homophobia, I think it's pretty damn easy for a multi-billionaire steroid-taking macho pig (regardless of the ideology of the family he married into) to make fun of those of us who are struggling through an oil-based economy during a time of war. I know he was used a tool of the far right fundamentalists to appeal to the moderates on both sides of the fence, but ignorance is bliss.
I was really shocked at how far Elizabeth Dole went with religion during her speech. She is more plastic than ever and avoided using the word "Jesus" because of the pandering the commentators were saying the entire convention was doing to court the Jewish vote. My deceased father used to admire Elizabeth Dole, his former boss as he was in the Coast Guard when she was head of the Department of Transportation. She later led the Red Cross, a conservative charity organization that has a bad reputation of charging for coffee that it brought to soldiers on the frontlines as if they were in a position to dig into their pockets when dodging bullets. The Red Cross also smacks of xtian-centricism and I believe is known as something else in the Muslim world, although I'm surprised it exists for non-xtians. My father had predicted that Lizzie would be the first woman president. As a PoliSci major I do see how the first woman president of this puritanical country would have to be conservative (as Maggie Thatcher had been the first female Prime Minister of England), because it takes a compromise, sadly, when appealing to the mainstream. The same would probably be said of the first non-anglo president.
The Republican Convention hasn't disrupted my life much, but it is sad to see them twist reality. Governator said last night that we should not be "economic girly-men". Besides smacking of homophobia, I think it's pretty damn easy for a multi-billionaire steroid-taking macho pig (regardless of the ideology of the family he married into) to make fun of those of us who are struggling through an oil-based economy during a time of war. I know he was used a tool of the far right fundamentalists to appeal to the moderates on both sides of the fence, but ignorance is bliss.
I was really shocked at how far Elizabeth Dole went with religion during her speech. She is more plastic than ever and avoided using the word "Jesus" because of the pandering the commentators were saying the entire convention was doing to court the Jewish vote. My deceased father used to admire Elizabeth Dole, his former boss as he was in the Coast Guard when she was head of the Department of Transportation. She later led the Red Cross, a conservative charity organization that has a bad reputation of charging for coffee that it brought to soldiers on the frontlines as if they were in a position to dig into their pockets when dodging bullets. The Red Cross also smacks of xtian-centricism and I believe is known as something else in the Muslim world, although I'm surprised it exists for non-xtians. My father had predicted that Lizzie would be the first woman president. As a PoliSci major I do see how the first woman president of this puritanical country would have to be conservative (as Maggie Thatcher had been the first female Prime Minister of England), because it takes a compromise, sadly, when appealing to the mainstream. The same would probably be said of the first non-anglo president.
