CHARLOTTE THE HARLOT
Sep. 10th, 2012 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogI suppose in the interest of fairness, I should post something about the DNC convention in Charlotte, NC.
Obviously I didn’t watch it for the same reason I didn’t watch the RNC convention. But I’ve seen the highlights and the YouTube clips and Daily Show/Wonkette coverage. And I guess it says a lot about me that I have less to say about the convention content itself than I do about the batshit conservative commentary directed at it. Both are pretty predictable, but I got a blog to run here and I’m required by law to say something. So…
1. SPEECHIFY!
It’s fair to say Bill Clinton and Presidente Obama killed (though maybe that’s a bad choice of words). Republicans hate to admit this, but both of them owe a lot of their success to the fact that they give good speech. They both know how to get their message across, and they know how to beam charisma, work a room and rally the faithful to the cause (just like, you know, CASTRO, STALIN AND MAO).
And fact-checking aside, I think both of them made as good a case as you can make for giving Obama another four – namely, the fact that while Obama admittedly hasn’t quite got America out of the mess it’s in, do you really want to replace him with the party that got America into it?
2. FLOTUS!
I hear Michelle Obama’s speech got good reviews (even the Chinese were impressed, which I’m sure for some people will prove that she and Obama are Communist agents).
While I don’t think there’s any more reason for her to pitch Obama than there is for Ann Romney to pitch The Mitt, I do find it grimly hilarious that conservatives have been falling over themselves to point out what a big fat self-hating-rich liar Mrs Hussein Obama is – to the point where John Sununu is demanding to see the receipt for her convention speech dress.
Becayse, you know, the fate of America hangs in the balance and crap.
It doesn’t get much weirder than that. But of course it will.
For example, if my Facebook page is anything to go by, the only thing that made conservatives’ heads explode more than Michelle’s “we know poor” speech was:
3. SLUT!
Sandra Fluke’s appearance evidently touched a nerve with a lot of (male) conservative friends who swear blind that every female they know hates Fluke with a vengeance. (Which is funny because every female I know thinks she’s made of awesome. So it goes.)
The FlukeHate is a sideshow, of course, but I’m both impressed and puzzled by just how much energy conservatives waste just hating the holy hell out of her for becoming the poster child for covering contraceptives under ObamaCare.
4. Obama’s post-convention bounce
Unlike Mitt, he has one.
Granted, it’s not a very big one, and it does depend who you ask, and whether by “Obama bounce” yr talking about voter support or gun sales.
Still, at this rate Romney/Ryan have a busy two months ahead of them – especially when Ryan now has to explain why he’s spent his political career voting for stuff Romney has been campaigning against.
What?
It’s on,
This is dF
Obviously I didn’t watch it for the same reason I didn’t watch the RNC convention. But I’ve seen the highlights and the YouTube clips and Daily Show/Wonkette coverage. And I guess it says a lot about me that I have less to say about the convention content itself than I do about the batshit conservative commentary directed at it. Both are pretty predictable, but I got a blog to run here and I’m required by law to say something. So…
1. SPEECHIFY!
It’s fair to say Bill Clinton and Presidente Obama killed (though maybe that’s a bad choice of words). Republicans hate to admit this, but both of them owe a lot of their success to the fact that they give good speech. They both know how to get their message across, and they know how to beam charisma, work a room and rally the faithful to the cause (just like, you know, CASTRO, STALIN AND MAO).
And fact-checking aside, I think both of them made as good a case as you can make for giving Obama another four – namely, the fact that while Obama admittedly hasn’t quite got America out of the mess it’s in, do you really want to replace him with the party that got America into it?
2. FLOTUS!
I hear Michelle Obama’s speech got good reviews (even the Chinese were impressed, which I’m sure for some people will prove that she and Obama are Communist agents).
While I don’t think there’s any more reason for her to pitch Obama than there is for Ann Romney to pitch The Mitt, I do find it grimly hilarious that conservatives have been falling over themselves to point out what a big fat self-hating-rich liar Mrs Hussein Obama is – to the point where John Sununu is demanding to see the receipt for her convention speech dress.
Becayse, you know, the fate of America hangs in the balance and crap.
It doesn’t get much weirder than that. But of course it will.
For example, if my Facebook page is anything to go by, the only thing that made conservatives’ heads explode more than Michelle’s “we know poor” speech was:
3. SLUT!
Sandra Fluke’s appearance evidently touched a nerve with a lot of (male) conservative friends who swear blind that every female they know hates Fluke with a vengeance. (Which is funny because every female I know thinks she’s made of awesome. So it goes.)
The FlukeHate is a sideshow, of course, but I’m both impressed and puzzled by just how much energy conservatives waste just hating the holy hell out of her for becoming the poster child for covering contraceptives under ObamaCare.
4. Obama’s post-convention bounce
Unlike Mitt, he has one.
Granted, it’s not a very big one, and it does depend who you ask, and whether by “Obama bounce” yr talking about voter support or gun sales.
Still, at this rate Romney/Ryan have a busy two months ahead of them – especially when Ryan now has to explain why he’s spent his political career voting for stuff Romney has been campaigning against.
What?
It’s on,
This is dF
