Sorry, but the GOP suddenly being concerned enough about the soggy citizens of N'awlins to cancel their Convention seems a bit shady to me.
The Republican National Convention has suspended all but the most necessary activities to constitute a convention Monday and then will adjourn until further notice, John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, announced Sunday.Go ahead and call me a hater. I've been called worse. But I call em' like I see em', and I smell a rat here.
No evening session will be called and no speakers will offer speeches on Monday night. President Bush and Vice President Cheney had both canceled their Monday night appearances at the convention earlier in the day.
The convention “will suspend all activities except those that are absolutely necessary,” McCain said late Sunday afternoon. “We hope to resume some normal activities but frankly that is the hands of God.”
McCain Campaign Manager Rick Davis said that additional activities will be determined on a day-by-day basis. He added that all activities at the convention will be procedural and not political.
Are we seriously supposed to believe that the very same cats who told Negroes in the 9th Ward to Swim Or Die! just 3 short years ago are so humbled that they're calling off 4 days of Prime Time Obama Bashing? I think not.
Let's keep it 100. The GOP wants no part of President Bush, especially with the spectre of one of his most momentous failures looming simultaneously on the Gulf Coast. It's just bad politricks to have a party to bash your opponents when people's lives are theoretically hanging in the balance.
But this by not means indicates that these folks give a sh*t about New Orleanians. This is little more than a political ploy to allow the GOP to put it's best foot (compassion for others, faith) forward, while keeping it's club foot (lack of compassion for minorities, a very unpopular incumbent President) hidden in the attic.
I know better, I sure as hell hope ya'll do.
Kanye was right.
Question: Do you think the GOP is genuinely concerned about the plight of Gulf Coast residents, or is this little more than politricks as usual?
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I'm glad that I wasn't the Republican advisor who had to make that decision. It is a no-win one for sure.
If they had continued business as ususal the Dems would have seized on the split screen of Bush being cheered on the podium, on one side, and New Orleans houses being swept away (worst case scenario) on the other.
The Katrina response was such a disaster that I don't think there was any way the GOP could have emerged unscathed, however they handled their convention plans.
That being said, it appears that everybody is stepping up and doing it right this time. Bush is where the buck stops, but I'm also refering to the governor, the mayor, and the residents who obeyed the mandatory evacuation.
Inevitably, I'm less concerned with why something is done than how and if it is done. For whatever reason or reasons, things seem much smoother this time (including the storm itself), and that's something for which to be grateful.
Politicks as usual. I swear, I heard some reporter on CNN make the suggestion that the GOP should turn the convention into a fund-raising drive for potential victims of Gustav, and within the hour I hear reports of convention attendees putting together care packages.....
I'm sure there is some concern, but it's evident that they are going to use this as an opportunity to drum up support.
Love that Kanye clip, BTW.
Do you think the GOP is genuinely concerned about the plight of Gulf Coast residents?
HELL TO THE NAWL
no more needs to be said :-/
I'd like to see some coverage of the Democratic politicians filmed laughing about the political upside of the hurricane and how great it was for them. Classy.
Politically motivated or not, at least they're trying to do some good and get it right this time. I suspect the people of Louisiana will take care packages over joy at how a disaster hurts their opponents politically...
... especially since threw out the Democratic governor in favor of Bobby Jindal, after Katrina.
I swear... apart from New Orleans, Gulf Coast residents ARE the GOP! They're solid Republican voters year after year.
You people amaze me sometimes.
When did the GOP tell the people i the 9th ward to swim or die? I could have sworn they had a Democrat mayor and a Democrat governor.
Oh, you must be talking about when Dick Cheney risked his life to personally blow up the levies?
Katrina was yet another instance of government bungling and nothing more than that.
From a political standpoint the GOP had no choice. However that doesnt show a lack of concern for minorites.
For that matter, whenever Barak(tm) is not 100% focused on black people everyone gets mad at him too.
Jindal, who's lookin pretty tan to me these days, seems to be on top of things.
My prediction: As sonn as black people go back to New Orleans, they will blow the levies then to maximize the black killing... Yeah, thats the ticket.
@ spool:
"You people amaze me sometimes"
who and what are you speaking about specifically?
There may be genuine concern, but it does appear overshadowed by politics. It was very convenient to not have Bush or Cheney around; and not to address any real issues.
Everything the DEMS and the GOP do are politricks and this is no exception. This also happens to be the smart move on the GOPs part based on all things considered. Louisiana is a GOP State and they would have to be stark raving crazy to go on with the convention when the Gulf coulda been tore up again....
I'm just glad the good people of New Orleans and the Gulf region are generally ok. I took my girl there last June (07) for her Bday and the people there are GREAT.
I wonder aloud, what did Kanye say when the levies burst in the midwest? "George Bush doesnt care about white people?"
Cosign huntdaddy.
@daedalus
You're VERY interesting to say the least. Sometimes I wonder if you live in the same country as the rest of us.
And from someone who lived in New Orleans I'd suggest you get ya facts straight before your mouth starts writing a check your ass can't cash.
Anywho...
I'm with chris n. and spool32 on this one. I don't think there was much that the GOP could have done on this one but do what they did. Cuz I know if they didn't I would have been the first one to say "Wtf?!?" Moreover, even if it was a publicity stunt, most Republican commentators I heard were stopping one sentence away from saying that the GOP party (ie Bush and the Feds) dropped the ball with Katrina.
If it all goes to the good, far be it for me to be the dissenter. I'm certainly not about to write a check or go down there to help with clean up, so why I should prevent someone else from doing it.
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