The Republicans' Bush problem?

Sean D, WI — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:53:48 GMT

The only reason why the Democrats are so mad at Palin is because she stole their thunder from the DNC. and she did not even have to say a word. From the moment she was anounced on the VP ticket, all attention left Denver and was concentrated on her. Now the corporate hard line DNC members are getting their torches and pitch forks and running after Palin in an odvious state of envy

The Republicans' Bush problem?

Jay Atlanta Ga — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:55:16 GMT

Bush is a coward. he sent his wife to go speak for him. hes at the white house drinking writing his speech

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Jill former republican now proud democrat — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:56:02 GMT

This is your typical GOP trickery. and its the only thing they are good at. They sure can't run the country. Watch the speech tonight, you will see Russ Limbaugh behind the curtain pulling the strings like they are puppets. Thats how he got Palin on the ticket.
Time for all us democrats how a real campaign is run!!!! WE are a party of ALL just the Russ Limbaugh chosen
NO MATTER WHAT THIS IS GOING TO BE A WAR ABOUT WOMENS RIGHTS. GET OUT AND VOTE DONOT LET THESE PEOPLE PICK OUR SUPREME COURT JUSTICES.

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R I K — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:58:00 GMT

Gov Palin's name just keeps popping up everywhere on every blog since her appoinment as running mate on the republican ticket. Her Appointment on Aug 29 has completly erased all the hupla and fireworks of the entire DNC during that same week and continues today. She completely put Joe Biden in the background and her popularity is rising every day. The Democratic party is both outraged stunned and confused and believe that they have to attack her if they are going to survive this election. They are stretching now and realy digging to get dirt on this person, but it's only making her name more and more likely to get elected. Both Hilary and Obama have accepted her name on the ticket and are reacting as the republicans did when Joe Biden was made Obama's running mate. However because of the media and the constant coverage that the democratic party is puting on Palin, it's creating an underdog umbrella around her and starting a wave of conservative independent and liberal hero statis for her and her attempt to make it to executive office. In other words for every person that attacks her she gains 10 people who are considering her for office

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Roamer12, Denver CO — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:59:31 GMT

Many thanks to the Democrats for releasing to the public Sarah Palin's home phone number and her social security number. Nice job dirtbags. Maybe someday soon we can return the favor.

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Laughing my ass off, in the mountains, Colorado — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:00:00 GMT

Please, can we implement an IQ requirement for all those seeking political office.

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ali francis brooklyn n.y — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:00:05 GMT

Will the three rug rats:BUSH MC.CAIN AND THEIR CHAIN LINK start going to every state where a huricane is about to make land fall?

The Republicans' Bush problem?

ali francis brooklyn n.y — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:00:22 GMT

Will the three rug rats:BUSH MC.CAIN AND THEIR CHAIN LINK start going to every state where a huricane is about to make land fall?

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Oil E. Wagonwheel — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:02:33 GMT

Price of a barrel of oil dipped below $100/barrel. That's a Democrat problem.

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call a spade a spade — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:03:35 GMT

For those of you who are sticking spears al Palin's record. Are you the same ones who backed up Al Gore who's own son was busted for useing and distributing drugs

The Republicans' Bush problem?

John Lemaster — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:08:26 GMT

His line during the speech about "trading up" (getting Laura instead of George) is funny considering McCain's trade billion dollar trade-up.

He is so out of touch. joking about trading in wives is not funny.

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voter — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:09:27 GMT

Palin is not for women's rights. Her record speaks for itself. She is aganist a woman's right to choose and equal pay. Just because she is a woman does not mean that she is for women's right. It is patrionizing and insulting to assume that women will vote for McCain because his incompetent vp nominee is a woman. I am speaking as a woman.

The Republicans' Bush problem?

Brad Parish, Kingston, TN — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:09:43 GMT

The Reagan video is good, but it highlights that the Republican only have the past to run on and that past is getting old, as the video shows how long ago it's been since they have been great. This video basically showed the past and how old John's been involved in politics.

The Republicans' Bush problem?

Dave, Tn — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:12:05 GMT

Any wonder why this president's speech was conveniently set for 10 minutes before the networks go live with their coverage?

7-1/2 years of network nitwits running video of him speaking while you tell people what he's saying? Just a guess. PBS rules!!! :-)

The Republicans' Bush problem?

Pat, Boston, MA — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:20:06 GMT

Everyone's got problems these days. And I don't particulary like to post this, but I can't stand the hypocrisy with GOP/FOX Propaganda.

Author: Steven Benen:

(Political Animal) THE ALASKA INDEPENDENCE PARTY.... What may prove to be the single most damaging angle to Sarah Palin's role on the Republican Party ticket? There are quite a few contenders (ethics scandal, earmarks, inexperience, outside-the-mainstream views), but following up on Hilzoy's item from last night, Palin's association with the Alaska Independence Party might be the most politically detrimental.

It's practically impossible to make a "Country First" argument when your running mate is affiliated with a political party that puts country second.

Officials of the Alaskan Independence Party say that Palin was once so independent, she was once a member of their party, which since the 1970s has been pushing for a legal vote for Alaskans to decide whether or not residents of the 49th state can secede from the United States.And while McCain's motto -- as seen in a new TV ad -- is "Country First," the AIP's motto is the exact opposite -- "Alaska First -- Alaska Always."

Lynette Clark, the chairman of the AIP, tells ABC News that Palin and her husband Todd were members in 1994, even attending the 1994 statewide convention in Wasilla. Clark was AIP secretary at the time.

"We are a state's rights party," Clark -- a self-employed goldminer -- tells ABC News. The AIP has "a plank that challenges the legality of the Alaskan statehood vote as illegal and in violation of United Nations charter and international law."

For all the talk about Barack and Michelle Obama's patriotism, John McCain's running mate was a member of a political party that liked the idea of seceding from the United States altogether. It's the kind of idea that would have been more common in the 1850s.

Advocating secession is, practically by definition, un-American. How does the right go after Obama's patriotism while supporting a ticket with a candidate who joined a secessionist party?

We are, after all, talking about a party founded by a man who said, "I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've got no use for America or her damned institutions." The same man, AIP founder Joe Vogler, also said" [T]he fires of Hell are glaciers compared to my hate for the American government."

How is this any better than Jeremiah Wright? Why would Sarah Palin voluntarily join this man's political party?

Complicating matters, Marc Ambinder has a video of a AIP leader explaining that party members "must 'infiltrate' -- his words -- the other two parties and push for the cause of Alaskan independence."

I suspect McCain and his aides didn't know about any of this. Indeed, they couldn't have -- they didn't vet her. But now that this revelation has come to light, what's the defense?

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Compasionate Conservative my tailbone. — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:20:20 GMT

What a tool. If either of these bone heads had given 2% effort three years ago one would give them some clout on these matters. Going thru the motions just because its an election years is a disgrace to common sense.

Katrina was not our first natural disater in this country and these idiots ack as if is was. Reaction -vs- Proactive. Bush is more concerned about politics, oilrigs, and the convention than the human lives that have been effected once again.

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john E smoke — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:20:46 GMT

ahem.... wasnt it his daddy who took the offshore drilling off the "books" only ratified by congress in 1990?!? i wonder what his dad thinks of his flunky son. his dad who had enough smarts NOT to invade Iraq after Kuwait... enough smarts to put a moretorium on offshore drilling in the first place.

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Gorefan — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:21:35 GMT

Between vettinggate, troopergate, earmarkgate, and babygate, it appears that McCain has added a new word to the dictionary.

Palin (pay lin), verb, palined, palining. – 1. to make career ending mistake thru shear stupidity, laziness or lack of attention to details: example - The senator palined his presidential bid with his v.p. pick. syn. senile
2. to fire an employee for refusing to do unethical or illegal activities; example - The Attorney General palined the eight federal prosecutors.
3. be against government programs from which you previously benefited; example - The governor now palins earmarks. – syn. hypocrite.
4. to force abstinence education instead of realistic sex education on high schools students; example - The teenage pregnancy rate in Alaska skyrocketed after the governor palined the local school board. -syn. Delusion.

The Republicans' Bush problem?

MIKE NARDINE — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:22:22 GMT

I AM TRIED OF HEARING THE COMPARISON BETWEEN BUSH AND MCCAIN. MCCAIN IS HIS ON MAN PLUS A MILTARY HERO. I AM TRIED OF SOUR PUSS KEITH OBER. ON MSNBC IF HE DOESN'T LIKE COVERING THE GOP THEN GET SOMEONE ELSE TO COVER IT.

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Dennis C, Monroe, NC — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:23:16 GMT

Wow. How in the world did he get elected and re-elected? And they want 4 more years?!?!

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Can't pay me to watch the republican convention — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:23:24 GMT

Let's see, I have turned the channel from 'America's Got Talent' to 'Funniest Home Videos' just to tune out the rep. convention. Now I have to look at bush's picture here on your site and I think to my self- What a disgrace and shame he is as a president. How does he sleep at night. How must it feel to be the commander responsible for thousands of dead and maimed soldiers while your own personal financial wealth has increased.
Does money really ease a conscience? Does he have one?
I'm so thankful for the end of bush regime. I absolutely will not vote for anyone who resembles him in anyway.

The Republicans' Bush problem?

Can't pay me to watch the republican convention — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:24:20 GMT

Let's see, I have turned the channel from 'America's Got Talent' to 'Funniest Home Videos' just to tune out the rep. convention. Now I have to look at bush's picture here on your site and I think to my self- What a disgrace and shame he is as a president. How does he sleep at night. How must it feel to be the commander responsible for thousands of dead and maimed soldiers while your own personal financial wealth has increased.
Does money really ease a conscience? Does he have one?
I'm so thankful for the end of bush the regime. I absolutely will not vote for anyone who resembles him in anyway.

The Republicans' Bush problem?

Can't pay me to watch the republican convention — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:25:24 GMT

Let's see, I have turned the channel from 'America's Got Talent' to 'Funniest Home Videos' just to tune out the rep. convention. Now I have to look at bush's picture here on your site and I think to my self- What a disgrace and shame he is as a president. How does he sleep at night. How must it feel to be the commander responsible for thousands of dead and maimed soldiers while your own personal financial wealth has increased.
Does money really ease a conscience? Does he have one?
I'm so thankful for the end of bush the regime. I absolutely will not vote for anyone who resembles him in anyway.

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ken, nashville TN — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:26:25 GMT

what a turd - no republican president for me!

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LSharpley, Spring Hill, FL — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:27:56 GMT

I can not understand how any thinking American, could be proud of the mess President Bush has created. This nation is in serious trouble. We can not elect another person like him. Senator McCain, is a war hero;however he has the same plans as President Bush. I should say the people behind the scene has the same program. Senator McCain, reminds me of a person that wanted to be President so bad that he sold his soul. He is not the same person he was in 2000. To be President he gave up everything that made him a good person. He is now just a front for the Karl Rove gang, which is not good at all. I feel very sorry for him he has losed who he was.

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Michelle, Denver — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:28:10 GMT

Apparently the Republicans think the rest of us Americans are uneducated and easily swayed. They are unable to answer the nagging question of: HOW would drilling now help us lower gas prices NOW?! They are unable to answer because it wouldn't. This is a nod to the oil industry which helped get Bush and Cheney into the White House. That's all it is. Oil is a finite resource, it WILL run out. When it does, do we want to have resisted change and be at the bottom of the heap in new energy technology...or leading the world in new energy technology? Drilling for oil will not help us do that, especially when you consider the oil companies already HAVE permits to drill in places where they aren't drilling yet. Perhaps we should demand that they drill there first.
Bush honestly believes he knows more than the average person (nobody has clued him in over the past seven years that most Americans are able to complete a sentence), so he feels the need to TELL us what we should want.
I'm done being told what I should want, and as far as I'm concerned, Bush should have been BANNED from Louisiana after Katrina...sort of an order of self protection. "Brownie...you're doing a great job."
Please, this man and his evil cronies can't leave office fast enough for me...and he certainly isn't doing McCain any favors by speaking at the RNC. Not so long ago, Bush was denying any changes in the world's climate and refusing to fund any renewable energy development, and now he's blaming CONGRESS? Please.

The Republicans' Bush problem?

Vicki Hughel Arlington Texas — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:29:06 GMT

I am so dissapointed about your coverage this evening of the President's speach at the convention! You say that the media is not bias but you made him look rediculous during his speech. Even Channel 13 got it right. Are you that concerned that Obama can't win without your HELP? Why not play fairly. I do not believe you did not know what you were doing! I have NEVER written a network in my life but I am beginning to believe that I can't trust the media to be fair. I am a Journalism major from a Texas University and am appaled at what you have done. Shame on you NBC! I will not trust your channel for news in the future. You were disrespectful to show the President thanking his parents without a response. It was like watching Saturday Night Live.
I was horrified. When people like me start writing news channels for the first time you have a big PROBLEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Chuck Drobena, Fort Worth Texas — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:29:46 GMT

I feel NBC should not have had to make excuses for the poor live feed without an audio link to the audiance.
There were excuses made as to why, but I think NBC News should organized and have the production controls to have our President not look as if we were gettting a production from a 3rd world country.
No excuses! You guys FAILED. Or did you, maybe this is just another way to attack our sitting president. Way to go NBC.

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Counting Down SD — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:32:05 GMT

It's just not the Repukes problem it is the whole USA's problem.

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Jim, Santa Cruz — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:38:01 GMT

Look at the crowd in the arena - they are old and white. Also notice how the theme is to look backward not forward. These people are living in the past when the world was a far different place. Their policies are royal, their ideas are childish, their morals are confused and their candidates are not going to Disneyland.

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CA Conrad, Erie, PA — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:39:00 GMT

Yes George, screw the people, secure the oil. That's leadership for you.

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Joe, White Bear Lake, MN — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:39:07 GMT

The Republicans (and unfortunately, the rest of the counrty TOO) have had a "Bush Problem" since 1980. It's been awful! They are like leeches that we just can't seem to pull off the collective leg of the American people.

* There must be a bunch of right wing thought police making sure that the posts that make it up here lately are "too hard" on dear sweet little Sarah Palin....how sad for journalism.

The Republicans' Bush problem?

Joe, White Bear Lake, MN — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:39:42 GMT

The Republicans (and unfortunately, the rest of the counrty TOO) have had a "Bush Problem" since 1980. It's been awful! They are like leeches that we just can't seem to pull off the collective leg of the American people.

* There must be a bunch of right wing thought police making sure that the posts that make it up here lately aren't "too hard" on dear sweet little Sarah Palin....how sad for journalism.

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American Voter — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:40:45 GMT

During the Dem's Denver Convention, you tried everything you could do to bring negativity into the event (even though it didn't work.) You interviewed wacko PUMA's, had more Republicans on to interview than Democrats, talked through almost all of the speeches given except for one per night, etc. It was embarrassing how destined you were to have it fail. And it was amazing in spite of your sorry coverage.

But this week, I do not see a reversal of fairness in your coverage at the RNC convention. You have let almost all of their speeches be shown in entirety from mid-day on. You hardly have any Dems on to discuss and dispute. You let the Republicans go on and on about nontruths and silliness like..one of the Republican talking heads was comparing Sarah Palin to Theodore Roosevelt and Harry Truman. Give me a break! Your job as a news organization it to tell the truth - the facts - the news. Not to sit hour after hour and let talking heads spout their partism nonsense without challenge I might add and give that to the American people as coverage. It is not sexist to question someone judgement, experience, policies, and ethic and criminal issues if they are on this national playing field. Yet, you are caving to the GOP talking point that you are being sexist because you are not just accepting Palin at face value because McCain says she is fine. McCain and his campaign are acting like children. There is no sexism here Carly Fiona. There is no sexism here Lindsay Graham. The GOP have just run out of good arguements and talking points to sell Palin and they don't have anything else left but to attack. That is all they have fear and attack.

There are so many start differences between the two conventions. The Dems was extremely diverse, healing, empowering, organized, and inspiring. It was about the future. The RNC Convention is about a bunch of old white people talking about the past, revealing in the glory days. It is not diverse, fear mongering, disorganized, and divisive. I heard Bush slam over half of the nation he is President over. Graham's nation of whiners apparantly according to the GOP does not include those who support John McCain. And the other divisive slam to Americans was that Fred Thompson portrayed anyone who did not buy what the Republicans are selling for the last 8 years are angry. You bet we are angry. And Fred, George, Phil, John - we are taking our country back - in spite of the media and how it serves as lap dog to the GOP!

MSNBC/NBC you should be ashamed of yourself.

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Kimberly - CA — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:40:50 GMT

Roamer12, Denver CO (Sent Tuesday, September 02, 2008 9:59 PM)

Nice try! More like repugs released the info and are blaming the DEMS - you're all liars!!!!

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Gotcha, South Carolina — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:41:25 GMT

How do republicans sleep at night?????

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Rebecca Conti-Cole, Buffalo NY — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:44:15 GMT

I am a republican and a NBC viewer that watched the Democratic Convention on NBC. I am now trying to watch the Republican Convention on NBC and instead of being able to listen to the speeches, I am listening more to the commentators. I had to switch to ABC to listen to former Senator Thompson. Please let the public listen to the speeches and save the comments for when speeches are over or just limit the amount of time. The thrust of President Bush's speech was already compromised. Please give equal time. Thank you.

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twocanpete — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:46:12 GMT

Bush problem? Are you kidding me? It's a Palin probem that they should be worried about!
http://twocanpete.blogspot.com/

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ya know — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:49:15 GMT

was Fred Thompson constipated? What a toolshed.

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FL — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:50:02 GMT

McCain is not who he claims to be. The POW’s and military despise this man. See for yourself at:

http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/

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Geoff Smith, Clovis, CA — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:51:31 GMT

Bush can't even show up for the Republican convention?

There's no other way to explain that except that McSame knows that Bush hurts his chances of being president. Or maybe he's just still upset at Bush for saying that he had an illegitmate black child?

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Steven Los Angeles Ca. — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:51:36 GMT

I can not believe the stupidity of the Rup poster. They think that the Dem are mad because all anyone is talking about is Palin. Well guys I can remember that when Johnnie Mac was a boy all anyone talked about was the black death. Hey it is not helpful if most people talking about Palin think it is a crazy pick. Obama's number have gone up not down. He just broke through 50 for the first time. Good work John keep up.

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A.Brocco,Albuquerque,NM — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:53:05 GMT

What a lame excuse for a so called convention. Two Barbies, a lame duck, and the three speakers who have day jobs as clowns.

Palin has an understanding of foreign diplomacy because she knows Alaska is close to Russia.

To think the Republicrooks probably could have come up with better choices, but gave up when they had to reach into the bottom of the barrel.

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Chaco NC — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:54:51 GMT

I am so sick and tired of having fear and war shoved down my throat by the GOP that I could literally scream! Does the RNC really not get it? We regular people are out of work, out of savings, out of patience and out of time. Losing homes and deciding between groceries and medicine should be what they are talking about - NOT the war and how we need to be in a perpetual state of FEAR.

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Ben, Princeton, NJ — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:54:56 GMT

Man, this convention is not watchable!!! The tributes made me puke almost. They had nothing useful to say about Reagan or Bush 41st. It was like a soap opera. Watching Lieberman talking is completely mad, what he says is completely empty, there's no fact to support his sentences. I don't understand how Palin has become the savior of the Republican party.. They're trying to enforce the message so people finally think it's true..

Man, I don't understand why there are people at their convention...

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Brenda — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:55:27 GMT

Yo jerks, Palin stole no thunder you stupid morons, every poll was up by more than five in Obama's favor. Palin stole he own dirty secrets thunder hallejuah, we we get anymoe luckily McCain made once agian a screwed up mistake. I thein this was the biggest polical blunde sine suuni and shite, border issues. I think I will throw my name in the hat in 8 years, hell you sure don't need experience!!!

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Stephen, Charlotte North Carolina — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:58:18 GMT

It is amazing that here is a party who is said to represent America. I struggle to see any representation of the multitude of races in the crowd. it seems that here we are in 2008 and the Republicans are the RNOCP (Republican National One Color Party). How amazing is that.

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Mark Thieme — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:00:13 GMT

The wheels are in motion: look for a "change" agenda at the RNC...

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Mark Thieme — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:00:38 GMT

The wheels are in motion: look for a "change" agenda at the RNC...

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Brenda — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:01:17 GMT

Keith get off of the covering of the convention, at least he tells the truth and always has eveidence to proof it, please don't be nice Keith, they deserve every bit of thrashin they get, a 72 year old senile man and an unqualified moose hunter. slam them kieth since they all cry when Biden did but hey it's ok for Schmidt and Rove, the will loose money, I expect nothing more oil, more oil and moose burgers!!! Hit them hard they deserve it, bring brintney and paris to the outside show you doing, maybe they have some petinent info because the RNC sure doesn't

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James Paese, Sparks, NV — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:02:10 GMT

I'm just sitting here stunned at the sheer volume of talk about war. Bush 41's war record, McCain's war experience, and carting veteran after veteran in front of the cameras at a time when 82% of our country is much against our current situation. Why would you play the fear card and don the war-monger mask at a time when war is so unpopular?

As an aside, I found the Republican party's dance around Bush 43 tactically sound, but brazenly obvious. It's also sad that the only speaker tonight who really addressed real issues was Democrat (well, let's be honest, he's not really a Democrat anymore) Lieberman.

Oh, and Bush using a natural disaster to push his agenda can't possibly surprise anyone by now.