11 Comments

• 1. Rasmus  |  August 21st, 2008 at 5:52 am

  I wonder how many times Giuliani will say “9/11”…….his favorite topic.

  The theme is a joke. The Grand old Party has just had 8 years to promote peace, prosperity, reform and Service, and as far is I can tell they haven’t done a very good job. Now they want another 4/8 years? Forget it. People are waking up and won’t be suckered into voting for another trigger happy, lobbyist loving guy who has sold his soul to the oil companies.

• 2. DM  |  August 21st, 2008 at 8:57 am

  Interesting that Lieberman will also join Bush, Cheney, the First Lady and Schwarzeneger to open the Republican National Convention.

• 3. DM  |  August 21st, 2008 at 9:00 am

  Sorry - didn’t realize it was part of another post.

• 4. Timothy Horrigan  |  August 21st, 2008 at 10:02 am

  I am amazed they picked Giuliani after what must rank as one of the most futile Presidential campaigns ever. He spent as much money as anyone in the primaries, was leading in the early polls…. and got one delegate. The only reason he wasn’t the worst candidate of all the 2008 candidates was because Fred Thompson and (I hate to say this, because I voted for the guy) John Edwards were also in the race.

  Even his brave performance during 9/11 may backfire on the party… because it will remind the home viewers of Bush and Cheney’s disastrously incompetent performance. Aside from the war in iraq Bush and Cheney have been unable to smoke Obama out and they haven’t even been able to get the World Trade Center rebuilt. (Yeah, I know it’s not the President’s job to rebuild the property… but he has some influence over this process, influence which has not been exerted.)

• 5. '08ama  |  August 21st, 2008 at 10:31 am

  Actually, Guilliani did not even get ONE delegate.

  His platform of FEAR, FEAR, FEAR was overwhelmingly rejected by REPUBLICAN voters. And now McCain wants to continue the tradition. Good, let’s see how that works out in November.

  Hopefully, his 3rd (or is it 4th??) wife wont call him on his cell phone in the middle of his address just to check up on him.

• 6. Doug  |  August 21st, 2008 at 12:44 pm

  What do you know, the Republicans allow a candidate who didn’t even get one delegate to be the keynote speaker at the convention. They then get a democrat/independent to be one of the top speakers, yet the socialists in Denver have to wage an all out fight just to allow speaking time for the candidate who received nearly half of their delegates. Who would have thought the true nature of censorship lies with the Democrats - okay, put your hands down.

• 7. '08ama  |  August 21st, 2008 at 1:26 pm

  Doug:

  what ‘fight’ do you speak of ?

  Your (not so) secret obsession, Hillary, has had a prime time spot at the Dem convention allotted to her for quite sometime now, and it wasn’t ever in question.

  Perhaps you dont understand the meaning of the word ‘censorship’. Here, i’ll give you an example…

  You know how the Chinese governmnet is being criticised for provding tiny little ‘free speech zones’ for protesters located far, far away from where anyone can see them ??? well, guess what current executive administartion, those commies got their idea from ?

  Hint…… the leader of said executive administartion was recently seen holding the American flag backwards at one of the propaganda events the Communist Chinese government is currently disguising as the Olympic Games.

  Perhaps he was ordered by the commies to hold the flag backwards ??

• 8. Retired Spook  |  August 21st, 2008 at 2:20 pm

  Who would have thought the true nature of censorship lies with the Democrats

  Shhhh, Doug. Carefully put the curtain back and pretend you didn’t see anything.

• 9. Doug  |  August 21st, 2008 at 6:11 pm

  Sorry Spook, I’ll go back to my little caged up cell - oh I mean “free speech zone” the dems put me in last time I picketed their convention.

• 10. sunrunner  |  August 21st, 2008 at 9:08 pm

  Swing to the right, swing to the left, swing back to the right and swing back to the left; so is the McCain lead Republican Party of 2008. Where are the conservatives at this convention; in the back rooms plotting for 2012? Even Laura Bush is a closet liberal.

  I estimate Rudi will use those that died on 9/11 in his speech for pure political purposes at least 14 times. I am certain Vegas has the spread.

• 11. Timothy Horrigan  |  August 22nd, 2008 at 11:55 am

  I see some unexplained references to “free speech zones.” Free Speech Zones (designated areas outside a venue for counterdemonstrators) are nothing new, but the term entered the political lexicon after the Democratic National Convention in Boston 4 summers ago.

  The “free speech zone” was a pathetic area behind a subway station a full city block from what is now known as the new Boston Garden. It even had barbed wire around it. It did look bad.

  I don’t want to blather on too much about the facts, since the facts are of little significance here. But it is worth reminding everyone that it was the state government, not John Kerry or Mayor Tom Menino, who picked that site. (The governor was at the time a notorious Liberal Democrat named Mitt Romney.)

  The “free speech zone” was not the only site where free speech was allowed. Free speech and even demonstrations were allowed just about anywhere else in the city (with the exception of the Boston Common which is owned by the state), and there were in fact quite a few demos and quite a lot of free speech.

  The security was even tighter in NY City at the Republican Convention.