Okay, maybe I am overly cynical and all for helping the people on the Gulf Coast (this time) but really, the RNC “has to” continue the convention but will conduct admin business only tomorrow and then “we’ll see” from there?? Really? Does anyone else think this was a nice way to turn this tragedy into an advertorial press conference?
Sigh.
P.S. Huffpost commenters agree. (Check out the rest of their coverage too)
UPDATE: well whaddya know? The offending site has closed registration. hmmmm, cause that convinces me the posters were legit.
As a former journalist, and current federal government employee (for an organization respected for its non-partisan nature), I generally keep my politics to myself and I definitely try to keep them off the blog. It’s one of the reasons I’ve kept this blog quasi-anonymous. [1. I think of my blog as one-way anonymous. kinda. If you know me in real life (IRL) you know this blog is mine, but if you come to washwords, you probably don’t know who I am, or at least you have to work a little to find it.] Probably the closest I’ve come to politcal posting is linking to other folks’ political posts or maybe my convention haikus.
But one thing (okay two things) I do feel free to rant about: 1) word abuse and/or 2) people who use words to try to manipulate. (See, for example, “Toxic”.[2. Toxic told me within minutes of my joining a work organization that certain people were “toxic.” Not only was this a neon site that the toxicity lay within the toxic-citer (it did) but it told me she didn’t respect or think very much of me to presume that I was so blindly trust her take and cruel words at face value.]
And when I hear people calling Sarah Palin a feminist or a choice for the Hillary-supporters, I feel angry, politicized. When I see folks, my SISTERS and fellow women (presumably) [3. It IS the interweb – so who knows how many of these peeps are real/unique users/female/Hillary supporters, etc,. etc.] writing pages and pages and PAGES of vitriol anti-obama and pro “lady VP at all costs, yay!” I feel sad. Really sad. Read the rest of this entry »
Disclaimer: These are non-partisan haikus, just observations of things I saw at the conventions
Campaign conventions
better than olympics, yes?
or is that just me?
VP announcement
on its way, remember folks
all “girls” not the same
Let the sunshine in
“Believe me, if I were prez
things would be different”
I want a prez for
Barney Smith not Smith Barney
wow. Barney seems nice
Wolf Blitzer, really?
“Heh, I used to play keyboard.”
click, ahh, P.B.S.
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