Random thoughts on RepCon
Watching the U.S. Republican National Convention on CNN, some random thoughts went through my head, such as-
*Sarah Palin looks just like how I would imagine Britney Spears would look like at that age.
*And her son's being shipped out to Iraq on September the fecking eleventh?? Can you say "blatant publicity stunt"? Are the Iraq war veterans and 9.11. victims and their families letting them get away with this?
*True, regarding the Iraq occupation, McCain seems to have better understanding; and if the U.S. pulls out troops from Iraq, at least some of them would have to be redeployed to Afghan sooner or later.
*The audience is strikingly dominated by the white- and the old.
*I know I'm seriously misguided here, but somehow any version of Star Spangled Banner other than the way Jimi Hendrix played at Woodstock sounds weird to me (which, after all, is the only version that I know and have been listening to). No machine-gun sound at the end? Meh.
*From what I have seen in the last couple of occasions, the U.S. presidential election is probably becoming more about demography than about political debate. Being born into what kind of environment seems to be a big deciding factor- such as, your family goes to one of those fundamentalist mega-churches or your family lives in coastal states and so on. I mean, whoever gets picked as candidate, there don't seem to be big swing in support rate; seems to mean that, ultimately, people are already predisposed to either party no matter who's going to represent that party.
*At least, whoever's going to win won't suddenly abandon his office in a year, which is apparently the new trend in the Japanese politics... (> x <)
Comments
I am consulting the dark forces or the Ouija Board to see who I should vote for....
Too much contraversy surrounding this election and everyone is up in arms over the candidates.
I don't know much about her son's deployment, but I have a really hard time believing that a) Sarah Palin had much control over when (or whether) her son would be deployed and b) that she would send her son off to war as a publicity stunt. I could be wrong on both counts, of course, but it seems unlikely. Is her son the only soldier being deployed on that date? When he volunteered, did he specify that he wanted to be shipped on that date? And what does it have to do with the 9/11 families or Iraq war veterans, other than just being a continuation of a senseless war?
Even more reason to do it that way!!! Muahahahaa!!!
You could be right, but I don't know who would have orchestrated this. If you have a conspiracy, you need conspirators, and I don't know who they would be in this case.
And, incidentally, unlike McCain so far as I know, Palin supports a deadline for planned troop withdrawal. What I've seen her say about it is quite similar to what Obama supports.