The First Part of Our Summer Democracy Events
The first
event of our nation’s ongoing march to democracy began yesterday in
Cleveland. The Republican National
Convention for 2016 started off with conflict in the afternoon. The Dump Trump wing of the convention tried
to get a rules change, but they were promptly crushed by the Republican
convention establishment. (As opposed to
the Republican Party establishment who have chosen to stay away from Cleveland:
a number of Republican members of Congress; Mitt Romney and the entire Bush
clan.)
The day
culminated in a series of speeches by D-list celebrities. We here at Arteejee
are hoping that Clint Eastwood’s chair from the 2012 convention will return for
an encore performance. Clint himself can
stay home for all we care.
This morning
members of the left-leaning liberal media are delightfully ticking off all the
missteps and snafus from yesterday’s events:
Campaign
manager Paul Manafort started the day with a round of talk show interviews
trashing Ohio governor and former nomination rival John Kasich;
A “Women for
Trump” event which attracted maybe 12 women, and most of those were journalists
covering the event for their papers;
The
discovery over the weekend that one of the elevators in the convention hall was
labeled “White Elevator”, the sign has since been removed;
Kansas GOP
Representative Steve King making a jaw-dropping accusation of ethnocentricity
at its worst on live national
television, when he questioned what other cultures have contributed to Western
civilization more than white/Christian people*;
The Donald
upstaging the convention himself by conducting a call in interview with Fox
News Bill O’Reilly at the same moment that the mother of a victim of the
Benghazi attack is pouring her heart out to the convention and a
nationally-televised audience;
The main
speech by Trump’s wife Melania was a stirring appeal to patriotism and the
American work ethic, but WHAT’S THIS?
This morning there are credible charges that Melania lifted several passages
for her speech from a speech which First Lady Michelle Obama made in 2008;
And the
circus goes on and on and on…
All of these
events just convince me more and more that when it comes to the Republican
Party, I firmly believe that “I wouldn’t want to be like you.”
But why should I plagiarize the Alan Parsons Project, when I can play them:
*MSNBC
interview with Chris Hays.
(Thank you
for reading. And next week the Democrat
circus comes to my town.
Yayyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
posted by todd gunther | 8:23 PM
3 Comments:
I'm puzzled by the 'again' bit of "Let's make America great again". Exactly which time does it hark back to? Eisenhower? Nixon? Surely not Bush(es)? I'm guessing it's most likely to be Reagan, though that's only my guess. I'm not sure there'd be much consensus about it anyway. Strikes me as being similar to present day attitudes towards the British Empire, some thinking that those were our glory days whilst others of us prefer to draw a veil over the exploitation and ruination of other peoples and countries purely for profit, and would rather such times weren't mentioned at all. Attitudes change over time (at least for some of us), though others still live in a fictional world where the past was totally rosy and was only lost because of changes imposed by the follies of others - never their own. Thus I get the notion that the Republicans blame all that's gone wrong on the Democrats - though I'm quite certain that that can't really be the case. ;-)
Anyway, when it's the turn of the 'blues' I'm sure you'll get some mileage out of that convention too, though I doubt if it's going to be quite as much 'fun' as is now happening in Cleveland. Such a shame that the latter can't seem to see the joke.
Raybeard - I suspect 1814
Thank you Raybeard and Spo. The darker, cynical side of me thinks that the Republicans may consider America lost its greatness when Obama took office. They don't have the balls to say this, as they don't want to appear looking racist...which doesn't explain the events of this last week at all!
No, you are correct about the Republicans blaming all the ills of the world on the Democrats. To be fair we do the same thing to them.
I'll try to get some mileage out of the Democrats this week just to be fair and balanced, but we'll see what happens.
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