Live Thread: Final Night: RNC Convention: Bush Speaks

http://gopconvention.com/schedule/ ^ | September 2, 2004

[Howlin]

Primetime

"A Safer World,
A More Hopeful America"
7:45 p.m. to 11:15 p.m. EDT

Convention Call to Order
Representative Henry Bonilla (TX)
Deputy Permanent Co-Chair

Presentation of Colors
New York Port Authority

Pledge of Allegiance
Mary Lou Retton and Kerri Strug
Olympic Gold Medalists

National Anthem
Nicole C. Mullen, Nashville, TN

Invocation
Bishop Keith Butler, Southfield, MI

Lynn Swann
NFL Hall of Famer

Dorothy Hamill
Olympic Gold Medalist

The Honorable Michael Williams (TX)

Music
Donnie McClurkin

Music
Michael W. Smith

Governor George Pataki (NY)
Biography

President George W. Bush
Biography

Benediction
Cardinal Egan

[alwaysconservative]

ROTFLMBO!

[alwaysconservative]

Kerry should just give up on talking *L*

I told my hubby that, and he said he should, because everybody has given up listening, LOLOLOL! How can dumb can he and his staff be to get a simple baseball score wrong? What? They can't read? And he wants to be in charge of "intelligence". Yeah, right.

[prairiebreeze]

great pix!!

[7.62 x 51mm]

I didn't say he was.

"...but odds are Rove had it written for him."

And I, too, appreciate the W-Rove partnership relationship.

[Maigrey]

More like a reminder, to where I need to finish up, and also to finish my article research.

So, I guess that would make you a human post-it-note.

[Bushite]

Well...All the reviews are in and all I can say is WOW.....I thought it was a good...not great speech....his Sept. 20, 2001 speech was a memorable and historic speech....IMO.......

But I seem to be in the minority....Everybody...even in the media is saying that it wasn't only a homerun.....he then did a homerun trot on Kerry's face......

I suspect that the Kerry campaign is on it's way to the trash heap along with memorable losers like DuKakis, Mondale, Carter.....

[Right_in_Virginia]

on President Bush, I saw NO SWEAT!</b?

Great point!!!

[Salamander]

I have finally found my purpose in life....;)

[Toddsterpatriot]

You must be very expendable. If you can not convince your employer that you are a more valuable employee than some uneducated Mexican, you should join JF'nKerry's cabinet.

He shoots, he scores!!!

[Havoc]

Well, it's a math issue, spanky. If they were judging on productivity and statistics, my job would be safe. As it happens, they can pay a Mexican 1/6th of what I earn to try and do my job. They didn't like working within the market they are producing the product for. Supply and demand wasn't making them happy, so they jumped the market for another one where they can pay workers beggers wages for skilled/semi-skilled labor. And as the report that came out a few days ago indicates, the outsourcing has been good to the execs - while our payscales drop, theirs have seen a 46% increase. Gotta do something with all that money they're making off of slaves, right..

[OESY]

"Here buildings fell, and here a nation rose."
-- George W. Bush, September 2, 2004

[Richard-SIA]

Yaaawn, not impressed with your diatribe.

You are free to have your opinion, I am free to have mine.

Too bad you don't understand that, I guess honest disagreement is too much for you.

My original post was a short note on my honest immediate reaction to the speech, but according to YOU no one is ALLOWED to be disappointed with a Bush speech!

The party can continue frustrating the delegates with insincere dog and pony shows if they wish, I don't control that, and neither do you.

But if they continue on that road the party hiarchy should stop complaining, and asking why it is that each convention has fewer in attendance than the last!

It has become my belief that the current clear efforts to force a "moderate, centrist" position are weakening the party.

I am young enough that time will tell if I am right, in fact we will see some clear indication in November, and more at the midterm elections of 2006.

Thanks for your attack, at least it proves some one read the post.

[Richard-SIA]

Downright scary to see how many here blindly and unquestioningly lash out at anyone who even fractionally fails to salute smartly at anything and everything that the Republican party of Bush does!

I will restrain myself from offering the appropriate German style salute that this calls for.

[Richard-SIA]

I never said I would even consider voting for Commie Kerry!

I am disappointed that we are not concentrating more fully on the W.O.T.(to include controlling our borders), economy (at ALL levels), and American self sufficiency (energy, minerals, food production).

The line I liked best was the one about eliminating lawsuits, but I am wondering if Bush will lend his support to passage of the bill to end the HCI lawsuits seeking to bankrupt the firearm industry?

Overall I would have been much happier with a firm commitment to a much narrower list of goals.

I appreciate your civil discourse, you are in the distinct minority there! ;-)

[Eastbound]

Just needed to correct my mis-quote of President Bush. It was actually,

"Like generations before us, we have a calling from beyond the stars to stand for freedom."

(According to the speech transcript.)

[nopardons]

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn back at ya.When you finally manage to grow up,get back to me and hopefully,by that time,you will have gotten some remedial help with reading comprehension and a class or three in logic and politics and manners. :-)

[Timeout]

Just want to say thanks to everyone who contributed to these threads. It was a blast "watching" the convention with you! And a BOUNCE to boot!

Note: If the GOP campaign team were really smart, they'd have someone monitoring FR for funny lines to insert in their speeches. (Maybe they do...conservative candidates are definitely funnier than libs.)

[A Jovial Cad]

*I appreciate your civil discourse, you are in the distinct minority there! ;-)*

And I, yours. I believe it is quite possible to disagree over issues without things breaking down into an all-out flame war, as we've managed to do here. I deplore some of the nasty, uncalled-for "replies" I saw you receive in this thread--those folks don't speak for me. Thanks for the courteous back-and-forth; take it easy. :-)

[F16Fighter]

"Kerry just said: "The Red Sox are now only 2 1/2 games behind the Yankees."

Really, Johnny? Look at the standings again. The Yanks won tonight and retained their 3 1/2 game lead. But what do you expect from someone who said that his favorite Red Sox player of all time was Eddie Yost. .......yep the Washington Senator Eddie Yost (who never played for the Sox)."

Heh -- yeah I caught that too. 2 1/2 games? I was thinkin', "nitwit."

Kerry was sooo proud that he thought was on top of things.

I hadn't heard about his "favorite player" Eddie Yost gaffe. I wonder if Yost running around the bases in a Red Sox uniform is "seared" into his mind?

[tame]

You're a tough customer. :)

I watched the speech again. In all fairness, the first time I saw the speech, I was doing several things at once and I didn't really tune in like I did the last time I saw it.

Same thing happened during Zell's speech. But Zell's speech was so powerful that it grabbed me even while I was doing other stuff.

Anyways, after watching Bush's speech more closely, I make the following observations:

It was fair-to-good speech for it's intended purpose. But the first half may have been a missed opportunity in that it could have been much better in terms of catching, and holding your average undecided-non-political-junkie. But, I could be wrong.

In the second half, the humor was great, and Bush's words on terrorism were solid.

All in all, I still think it was not as powerful as his first acceptance speech in 2000.

I also disagree that in order for the speech to be more powerful and interesting that it would have do be "red meat" or that it would have to sacrifice what he was trying to do.

Still, depending on the soundbites, it could help. And I don't think Bush hurt himself at all.