I couldn't bring myself to watch Bush's speech.Follow

Hmmm, I at least watched Kerry's speech. How do you expect to discuss knowledgably on tax code reform, welfare reform, etc etc if you don't even know what the platform is?

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You didn't watch Kerry's speech. You didn't even read it.

At least I have the decency to admit that I didn't watch it.

Allthough, unlike Kerry who never mentioned Bush, I'm sure Bush mentioned Kerry at least once by name. It's not like he was going to highlight his accomplishments or anything.

I didn't see it, i watched a repeat of giuliani's *shudder*, "we're america!" applause "we will not give up!" applause "they will!" applause (whoever "they" are) "i'm glad president bush is our president" applause "and d1ck cheney is a good guy aswell" applause

basically he took about 30 mins to say, america is generally really nice, bush is good, john kerry changes his mind a lot, and all of europe and the middle east is either funding terrorists or letting them free

I just saw it, (6 hour tape delay in Hawaii) and I have to say, I was impressed. Impressed at how angry I got at GWB and his "agenda."

First of all, I watched the coverage on CBS. Second of all, it seemed like during the beginning of his speech, they had trouble finding the token black people, so they showed token asian people. The crowd shown on TV was as white as a goth person's make up. After about half an hour, CBS started finding out where all the balck people were hiding and even had to cut back to one black female twice to show some minorities.

Other than that, it was pretty much the same old bull you would expect from Bush. He announced several agendas that the crowd cheered for which just basically are wrong - ie We don't want activist judges who reqrite the laws from the bench. Of course, nominating judges who will do exactly this, but with a conservative agenda does not apply apparently.

He promoted his health savings accounts, which if you have not realized by now, would be a haven for really rich people to store their funds in tax free accounts.

He of course politicized 9/11, talking about in the beginning, middle and end of his speech - as a way to rally the troops behind him.

He insinuated ties between 9/11 and Iraq, he attacked Kerry several times through mockery, and again insinuating that he was a flip flopper, (making no mention of his little flip flop on the war on terror 2 days earlier - because according to his handlers, he mispoke, not flip flopped).

But one piece of brillance was that he tried to make fun of his lack of skills with the English language - that was a great piece of political work.

Ugh, I can't wait until he is out of the White House.

Delivery was distracting - it was obvious that there were 3 teleprompters set up, so that he could look like he was looking at the crowd, but was obviously going from teleprompter to teleprompter.

During the beginning of the speech, he would make statements and then attempt a smile, but the smile was as fake as Pamela Anderson's boobies.

Other than that, it was a typical GWB delivery, say a sentence, pause for 3 to 4 seconds, continue speaking, repeat.

No, only when he was making fun of Kerry and acting like invading Iraq made the world safer - a point that that he reiterated several times - which as you know is not true.

But at one point, he did struggle with the word struggle - which was quite funny.

Oh yea, and during the middle of the speech, a protester was removed from the convention hall, with lots of pubbies booing her of course.

One other thing that I forgot, at one point GWB stated that several Iraqis came to his office one day, Iraqis who had been tortured by the Hussein regime and had hands cut off.

He stated that at one point, one of these Iraqis wrote out, with his prosthetic hand, May God Bless America, or something close to that. Which struck me as nauseating.

CBS then cut to Barbara Bush and some woman sitting next to her, who I could not identify, and the person sitting next to Barbara had a look on her face similar to what I was feeling - "Oh Brother" and then rolled her eyes. CBS quickly cut away, that was awesome.



Edited, Fri Sep 3 06:01:22 2004 by kundalini

Nope

that wasn't what he was saying, he was saying "i'm the one whos carpet bombed civilian arabs for the past 3 years, so i should be the one who everybody feels patriotic about."



i think you'll find it is

It's a 6 point bounce speech.


I don't think there's even 6 points to get, but if so that would be pretty impressive.

It's on TiVo, but I haven't watched it yet.

I can store a few days worth of TV, but I think the Discovery Channel has some specials on ninja coming up, so I might have to delete it to insure enough space for the ninja.

I thought it was fairly well-written and his delivery was the best I've seen from him yet.
Apart from xenophobia, taking credit for things that have happened despite his policies, cashing in on casualties in the WTC and Iraq, it was effective.

If I were a US voter, it would probably push me to vote for Charles Manson if he were the alternative.

So long as the pretend Soviet tanks don't get me, I'm okay with that.