As always, thank you AB for doing this thread. Gotta couple comments this morn, nothing major but to get things off.
First, what's this weekend?
Labor Day!
It's like Christmas around these parts because the tourists shall go home.
Choir began anew last week so I shall be singing on some Sundays but I like choir so another change I like.
Even my daughter came down this weekend all like a tourist. She, husband and grandkid stopped by, mowed my lawn then went down to daughter's mother-in-law, who lives downey ocean on the Merryland side. Her MIL is in Cancun, right in the middle of hurricane season, man that's brave. So daughter and a bunch of her friends have entire place to themselves, all acting like tourists, I want to smack them silly.
I absolutely loved the Republican convention, every minute of it. Loved Clint Eastwood though at first I was averting my eyes for fear he would be a geezer and embarrass himself.
I thought Romney's speech was terrific. He matter-of-factly dealt with Bain Capital and his Mormonism. I got only one comment about Romney's Mormonism…..he's probably known since a child that this is viewed as an odd religion by many and, indeed, one time my daughter got involved with a bunch of Mormons. To this day she considers them a cult.
I'm also quite sure that Romney's had big ambitions for much of his life. As such, if he thought his faith would harm him in pursuit of the presidency, for example, he could have changed his religion, or completely dropped out from it. But he's still a faithful Mormon and my guess is he's devout. Like he so matter-of-factly said, most times those around him wanted to know his sports affiliation rather than his religion.
Loved, loved, loved Paul Ryan's speech.
None of them took it easy on President Obama. There were rumors all around that the "consultants" are advising all GOP convention attendees to "talk about the future"-code for don't talk bad about Obama. Bill Kristol advised this and right there you have it right from the mouths of the Democrats, as is his wont.
Anyway, more to come. Below a couple of my Blog posts in case anyone is interested.
Republican Convention 2012, Isaac, Akin, National Politics, Comments, Opinions, Snark
Delaware Primaries Coming Up; Let's Take a Look at Some of the Local Races
Great comments.
I too thought Eastwood was genius!
He got the point across....EMPTY CHAIR!
In a way that no amount of speeches ever did!