The GOP Convention gave me
goose bumps because I didn’t expect it to be so raw in terms of outright hatred for President Obama;
outright disrespect for the Office of the Presidency, and
outright disdain for the
truth. That surprised me because I thought the GOP would at least pretend that the Tea Party wasn't running the show being in the national spotlight but, sadly,
that wasn’t the case. It’s a shame that Romney, Ryan and their Super Pacs crucified the few remaining moderate Republicans who
were willing to compromise with vicious
ads and robocalls in the GOP congressional primaries. Now the Party of Lincoln no longer exists and the Republican Tea Party reigns supreme! .
Another aspect that gave me
goose bumps about the GOP Convention was how they cold-heartily dismissed President Bush particularly since he gave them everything they asked for - a war, deregulation, tax breaks for the wealthy, conservative Supreme Court and federal justices. I am no
fan of President Bush’s economic or commander-in-chief policies, but I respect President Bush for refusing to stoop to the gutter politics of the Republican Tea Party since leaving office. By not allowing President Bush to speak at
their Convention, the GOP committed another assault on the Office of the Presidency and on convention protocol – it was the first time in history that a political
party, deliberately, dismissed the most recent, living past President from their speakers’ podium!
During the GOP Convention, a
lot a time was spent on the past going back to the Founding Fathers and how
great Republicans got along with President Clinton. As a matter of fact, they got along so well with President Clinton that they impeached him!?!? - One more fact the Convention
speakers forgot to check! The truth of the matter is that patriotic Republican leaders of the past fought long and hard for
their beliefs but when it came down to what was best for their country
– regardless of race, religion, party affiliation, gender, age or financial
standing – they pulled up their sleeves, made tough decisions that might not
make them popular with their base, and they compromised! That was not the
tone of the GOP Convention.
Pundits from all the major networks,
openly admitted that the GOP Convention was rather low-keyed. My
impression is that the GOP Convention was dark.
That reality gave me major goose
bumps!
The DNC Convention gave me
goose bumps because it was lively, enthusiastic and the participants were charged
up! That surprised me because the general
consensus of all media pundits was that Democratic voters showed a “lack of
enthusiasm for Obama”?!? The standing
room only crowds inside and outside the Convention Hall along with their passionate
response to Convention speakers and the truth proved those pundits wrong!
Another DNC Convention aspect that
gave me goose bumps was that the DNC, finally showcased everything that was
accomplished by the President since coming into office; finally exposed the GOP’s massive voter suppression
fraud, and finally exposed the Tea Partied
Republicans’ Block Obama campaign started the
night of his inauguration! (huffingtonpost.com – dailybeast.com – Do Not
Ask What Good We Do Inside the U.S. House of Representatives by Robert Draper)
Some of the Obama
Administration’s accomplishments noted throughout the Convention were the President's executive order allowing women equal pay
for equal work; passage of the Affordable Health Care Act after a 90 year battle to do so; the nomination of two
women to the Supreme Court including the first Latino member of the Supreme
Court; the elimination of don’t ask don’t tell; saving the country from a full-blown economic
depression; reversing a 750,000 a month job loss to a 4.5 million jobs gain in two and one half years; the elimination of Bin Laden; weakening the strength of Al Qaeda across the globe;
bringing our troops home from Iraq; setting a timeline to bring our troops
home from Afghanistan; eliminating the back-breaking burden of getting student loans and facilitating the means of
paying back those loans. The list goes on and on, but you can view a more
comprehensive summary of those accomplishments from President Clinton’s presidential nomination speech at http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7420710n or www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUZuEbZ6lOU
Note: I
searched and searched for a comparable GOP Convention link, but I couldn’t find one GOP speech that outlined
what the GOP has, actually,
done to uplift the women,
children, the middle class and the poor since 2009 or any speech outlining the
specifics of what they would do over the next four years to uplift women,
children, the middle class and poor. The only GOP Convention speeches I
could find were based on attacking President Obama and on what they would
repeal?!?!
Another Convention aspect that
gave me goose bumps relates to Convention coverage by news networks.
During the Conventions, I switched from channel to channel to compare how the
conventions were being covered by varying networks. The best uninterrupted coverage for both Conventions was on C
Span. The network with the most interrupted coverage of the Democratic
Convention was not FOX as I had anticipated - it was CNN!?!? If you
watched the DNC Convention on CNN, you missed out on a lot of coverage of
everyday people, veterans, and small business owners who talked about the
benefits they received under the Obama Administration from affordable health
care, educational opportunities, veterans support to tax relief, but CNN kept
on interrupting that coverage with attacks on President Obama
and commentaries defending Romney,
Ryan and Tea Partied Republican political principles. CNN even interrupted
Democratic Convention speakers with an actual real
time interview with Paul Ryan – another Convention first!
In conclusion, the GOP and DNC
Conventions convinced me that this election will definitely be an election of choice. Join voter registration drives and exercise
your right to choose at the
polls on November 6th.
It will be your one and only
chance to do so for the next four years!
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