Democratic Convention Kicks Off Today
Posted by Michelle Moquin on 4th September 2012
Good morning!
I HOPE everyone had a good long weekend and you heeded my advice and took the day off.
I woke up this morning and in still my sleepy state the Democratic convention was on my mind. Wha’at? Okay, there has to be something slightly wrong with me waking up and the first thing on my mind is politics. Oh…the ooze of it just doesn’t stop these days. If you had talked to me 5 years ago, waking up with politics on my mind, would’ve made me think I was still sleeping and having a nightmare. But today it makes me smile. Well…sort of.
And then as I do every morning, I slip out of bed, shimmy into something cozy, grab my computer and head to the kitchen where the sun graces a small round table, and I plop myself down to read. The headline of the Huff Po is: RYAN GOES REVISIONIST: I WASN’T BLAMING OBAMA FOR GM PLANT CLOSURE
Oh yes, the ol, “I didn’t say that, I didn’t mean that” lie. Unfortunately for Ryan, his tossing of word salads with fact-free dressing has caught up with him. His new name? Lyin’ Ryan. Perfect since he is a LSOS member.
You know what I am sick of is slippery writing. Writing that tries to make it easy for candidates to come back and lie, saying that what was said was not what was said or meant. It allows someone to come back and lie, and say that they meant to say this…blah blah blah, if necessary.
If you are so concerned about getting it right…if you are so worried that people will not misconstrue what you are saying…if you are so caring about getting your clear message out, then articulate yourself in a way that does that, or fire your speech writer, because he is doing a lousy job of writing your speech and doing just that. And guess what? With a clear intentional message you won’t have to come back and CYA (cover your ass) with more lies.
But of course that is not the intention of many of the candidates and people in office, and most especially the republican candidates etc., who will stoop to unknown depths to make sure that this November the White House is white washed. No, they build their speeches peppered with lies and slippery sentences, HOPEing and banking on that their listeners will hear what they intend for them to hear: Lies as truths.
Their motto is let’s just blame those not responsible and lie about all we can get away with. And hey, if someone calls them on it, well then, this is what you say to CYA. A good political speech writer knows this and carefully concocts speeches this way. I call it slippery writing because the way it is written allows you to slip your way to safety if it works, or slip your way into CYA with more lies.
Unfortunately for Ryan, he got busted…so you know which way he is slipping.
Enough about Ryan. I just realized Obama is speaking right now. Here it is live:
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Democratic Convention Kicks Off In Charlotte
By CALVIN WOODWARD AND JULIE PACE, ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Four years later Democrats have gathered again, this time in support of a president who carries the power and the burden of incumbency, both in evidence as the opening gavel is struck at the Democratic National Convention.
President Barack Obama demonstrated the power Monday in a convention-eve visit to hurricane-stricken lands in Louisiana, offering aid and empathy. His burden is a ragged economy that is at the core of the hotly competitive contest with Republican Mitt Romney.
Michelle Obama’s speech Tuesday night is an early highlight of a three-day schedule that has drawn thousands of delegates to a state Obama narrowly carried in 2008. Although Obama no longer is the fresh-faced newbie who leveraged a short Senate career into an audacious run for the nation’s highest office, he still can excite partisans, and Democrats were counting on massive numbers to pack a stadium for his speech later in the week.
If hurricanes have no politics, the aftermath does. Obama’s visit to stricken St. John the Baptist Parish outside New Orleans after a spirited Labor Day rally in battleground Ohio demonstrated, if in muted form, the partisan divide that cleaves the presidential campaign.
Obama emphasized the government’s determination to lend a strong helping hand. Romney focused on neighbor helping neighbor in his visit days earlier, even though both support a mix of emergency aid from the taxpayer and volunteerism in response to natural disasters.
“We’re here to help,” Obama told residents during a brief tour Monday, going from lawn to lawn in a neighborhood of brick homes and front yards loaded with soggy but orderly piles of debris, the floodwaters receded. He told another family of the steps officials were taking to address the damage, adding, “I promise you that now that I’ve been here, they’re going to make sure that they do it right.”
On convention eve, Democrats released a party platform for ratification Tuesday that echoes Obama’s call for higher taxes on the wealthy and reflects his shift on gay marriage by supporting it explicitly.
In a nod to dissenters on gay marriage, the platform expresses support for “the freedom of churches and religious entities to decide how to administer marriage as a religious sacrament without government interference.”
As with the deeply conservative Republican platform, not all of which Romney endorses, nothing binds Obama to the specifics of the party’s manifesto.
The president rallies in Virginia on Tuesday before joining the convention a day later. With flourishes but no suspense, Democrats will march through the roll call of states renominating Obama for president and Joe Biden for vice president on Wednesday.
That’s also when the convention hears from Bill Clinton, whose 1990s presidency is being trumpeted by Democrats as the last great period of economic growth and balanced budgets – a further redemption of sorts, at least from his party, for a leader who survived impeachment over sexual scandal.
In a USA Today interview, Obama accused Republicans of building their campaign around a “fictional Barack Obama” by wholly misrepresenting his positions and words. He singled out Romney’s claim, widely debunked, that the Obama administration stripped a work requirement out of federal welfare laws.
********
Readers: I can’t wait to hear Michelle Obama speak tonight! Blog me.
Peace & Love…
Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.
Gratefully your blog host,
michelle
Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)
If you love my blog and my writes, please make a donation via PayPal, credit card, or e-check, please click the “Donate” button below. (Please only donations from those readers within the United States. – International readers please see my “Donate” page)
Or if you would like to send a check via snail mail, please make checks payable to “Michelle Moquin”, and send to:
Michelle Moquin PO Box 29235 San Francisco, Ca. 94129
Thank you for your loyal support!
All content on this site are property of Michelle Moquin © copyright 2008-2012
“Though she be but little, she be fierce.” – William Shakespeare Midsummer Night’s Dream
" Politics, god, Life, News, Music, Family, Personal, Travel, Random, Photography, Religion, Aliens, Art, Entertainment, Food, Books, Thoughts, Media, Culture, Love, Sex, Poetry, Prose, Friends, Technology, Humor, Health, Writing, Events, Movies, Sports, Video, Christianity, Atheist, Blogging, History, Work, Education, Business, Fashion, Barack Obama, People, Internet, Relationships, Faith, Photos, Videos, Hillary Clinton, School, Reviews, God, TV, Philosophy, Fun, Science, Environment, Design, The Page, Rants, Pictures, Church, Blog, Nature, Marketing, Television, Democrats, Parenting, Miscellaneous, Current Events, Film, Spirituality, Obama, Musings, Home, Human Rights, Society, Comedy, Me, Random Thoughts, Research, Government, Election 2008, Baseball, Opinion, Recipes, Children, Iraq, Funny, Women, Economics, America, Misc, Commentary, John McCain, Reflections, All, Celebrities, Inspiration, Lifestyle, Theology, Linux, Kids, Games, World, India, Literature, China, Ramblings, Fitness, Money, Review, War, Articles, Economy, Journal, Quotes, NBA, Crime, Anime, Islam, 2008, Stories, Prayer, Diary, Jesus, Buddha, Muslim, Israel, Europe, Links, Marriage, Fiction, American Idol, Software, Leadership, Pop culture, Rants, Video Games, Republicans, Updates, Political, Football, Healing, Blogs, Shopping, USA, Class, Matrix, Course, Work, Web 2.0, My Life, Psychology, Gay, Happiness, Advertising, Field Hockey, Hip-hop, sex, fucking, ass, Soccer, sox"
Posted in Lying Sacks Of Shit, Political Powwow | 44 Comments »



