RNC: This Was Day 1

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The convention in St. Paul kicks off with a bang and a whimper as protests hit the streets but many first day speakers cancel out of concern for the effects of Hurricane Gustav.
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  • thorstein
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      thorstein  

    • The woman in the cowboy hat is smokin' hot!! She probably parted the crowd of protesters!

      Ah, but if you were a cop or a newspaper dispenser!!

    • 1 year ago
  • GlobalPunditOrg
  • wakinglife11
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      wakinglife11  

    • The protest vid was great, love the shot of the dark vigilante knocking over the officer, but i think ppl like that just use these protests as an excuse to be reckless and mask it with "passion"

    • 1 year ago
  • simonedward
  • thornman
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      thornman  

    • I don't get it... They're anarchists? So they want smaller government, preferably no government. Logically it seems they would protest the DNC because democrats are based on larger government ideas. I think Minneapolis/St. Paul just has a large underground anarchist scene, and they just lucked out the republicans came there.

      So don't try and make it seem like there were lots of passionate protesters for the republicans. If the democrats were there, they should have been just as passionate.

    • 1 year ago
  • Path_o_Logic
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      Path_o_Logic  
    • thornman:

      Maybe they understand the reality of politics as they actually are instead of basing their political activism on hypocritical political slogans.

      Anyone who thinks the Republican party stands for small government is in serious denial about reality.

      No one grows government faster than the Republicans.

    • 1 year ago
  • RudyRudell
  • curiouscabaret
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      curiouscabaret  

    • While I do not wish in any way to downplay the damage that was done by hurricane Gustav, it does seem to me that the RNC blew the whole thing a bit out of proportion. Had the same convention fallen during Katrina, I would have applauded their relief efforts and their putting on of their "American hats." But this? This just seemed...a bit overboard. Something about all of the compassion and relief efforts just seemed a little....melodramatic....fake....ridiculous....

      Am I alone in thinking this?

    • 1 year ago
  • lfm
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      lfm  

    • if you pray for some good rain on "obama's night", and the precise opposite happens, to the 4th power, a hurricane hits the cost close by...

      what does that tell about what it was prayed for?
      is that "the one you pray to" talking to those who pray through coincidence and water?

      the ones that prayed must be more puzzled than the rest of us who did not

    • 1 year ago
  • rube
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      rube  

    • I endorse all my fellow Americans who know the history for the past 8 years of our nation to galvanize your butts, get out the vote and kick these neocons back into the hole they came from!

      I do realize that the American middle class is the great blessing of our country. “The great story.”

      With out a healthy middle class the nation is a shadow of its former self!
      Yet the working class has been stiffed for the past 8 years.
      The GOP has socialized the debt as they continue to privatize the wealth!

      I believe that the middle is where our nation will rediscover its potential! There is little to believe that the nation was managed and run from the middle by the GOP! Their results are indisputable…

      The economy is in shambles, lack of vision regarding energy policy, foreign policy is in shambles, lack of political oversight regarding the sub-prime crash, katrina, record federal debt, health care and education in shambles. Lose of home equity and record job loss! arbitrary war, I could go on and on…

      What is not to understand about this fiasco!
      The GOP took our great nation and in eight years ran it into the ground!
      This is not subjective hog wash this is the reality we Americans now live in!

      No more self-righteous callous conservative rhetoric will save our union- we just had two terms of it!

      Senator Barack Obama represents new blood, a turning of the page…
      Intelligence over egocentrism…
      Substance over vanity…
      Union over divisiveness…
      Inclusion over narcissism…

      I recently read an article that made me proud!
      Since 1940 the GNP
      of our nation was 15% higher during liberal presidencies than conservative!

      Obama will be a great president!

      He’s all apple pie with a little chocolate pudding on the side!

    • 1 year ago
  • suetiggers
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      suetiggers  
    • rube:

      I hope there are enough Americans who are not deceived by the swift-boat tactics of the Repubs...that's all they have...but fear, like sex, sellls.
      I loved the stat quoted that the GNP rose !5% under liberal presidents... Take that Repubs....
      Looks like all that we won't tax and you'll make more money stuff are air....
      And lying about Obama taxing tells me
      a. somebody isn't listening to what he's actually saying
      or b. they hear but don't care and want to deceive
      It's like religious fanatics who just keep repeating a mantra trying to brainwash anyone weak enough to buy it. Obama isn't a "rock star"...He's just a different type of candidate...he's a decent man and he isn't just a good speaker. He's smart ,sincere and very committed and we haven't had enough of these things in our political system, so I guess many people don't know what to make of it.
      ps I've been listening to Ron Paul and even though I don't agree with a few of his ideas, he is a good person, a smart person and someone who I think has ideas that both parties should consider, esp. the privacy ideas, the drug war ideas and the anti-draft ones. I think he's too rigid on his economics and doesn't take into consideration the good things government has done and can do that states either can't or won't.

    • 1 year ago
  • wholefreespirit
  • BuddyP
  • swedutch
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      swedutch  
    • BuddyP:

      i find it quite hilarious, especially after seeing the videos of far right super conservatives praying, and asking others to pray, for rain during barrack speeches/rallies.

    • 1 year ago

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