I honestly haven't really had the stomach to follow the Repuglicans Convention too closely this week. I expect they're saying and will continue to say exactly what I assume they'll say, and I'm working on a pretty good no-vomiting streak here that I don't want to blow.
One of their major themes, of course, is president Bush's leadership in the War on Terror! Last night he was praised for putting "all his heart and soul" into fighting terrorism. That's all well and good, you know, but it would be better if it was working at all. I'm not sure the families of the thousands and thousands of dead will take much comfort in his good intentions. I know I don't.
A sampling of headlines appearing right around the time they were praising Bush's leadership against terror:
Twin Blasts Kill 16 in Israel; Hamas Claims Responsibility
Talks to Disarm Rebel Shiites Collapses in Iraq
7 Killed in Kabul as Bombing Rips a U.S. Contractor
Well done, old boy. Your leadership is simply amazing.
I also find it repugnant and sad that they have continually invoked 9/11 during their convention. Obviously New Yorkers are not their target audience, but to basically stand right next to the site of such a terrifying and deeply personal event for the people of that city and suck it up into their heartless noise machine, using it to impugn John Kerry's hypothetical leadership, and somehow arguing that the 9/11 attacks should make us want to vote for George Bush is just sick.
Damn it, there goes my no-vomit streak.
