Politics of Hope vs. Politics of Fear
by Brian Reich | 5 Sep 2008, 5:51pm
I posted a comment last night on my Twitter feed, as the balloons fell at the XCel Energy center in Minneapolis/St. Paul marking the Republican Convention, that read: “Our long national nightmare (read: two Conventions in two consecutive weeks) is finally over.” I wasn’t joking.
The Conventions have passed, the 60-day sprint towards the Election in November is underway, and I need this campaign to be over. This campaign season, no matter how it turns out, has already failed to live up to my expectations. Instead of a spirited debate about the issues and an open dialogue with the American people, the two parties have set up a battle between the politics of hope and the politics of fear. Sadly, there seems to be very little backing up either strategy that, in the end, will benefit the voters, or our country.
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Women Troubles
by Brian Reich | 4 Sep 2008, 7:00am
Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska and newly minted nominee for Vice President on the Republican side, rocked the house at the GOP Convention in Minneapolis/St. Paul last night. She ripped into Senator Obama for being inexperienced and naive, took on the ‘elite’ (read: liberal) media for dismissing her candidacy, and she gave her Conservative base all the red meat they could handle on issues like energy (oil), security (terrorists), and family values.
A star was born.
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What’s in a name?
by Brian Reich | 2 Sep 2008, 9:16pm
What’s In A Name?
About half-way through his speech tonight at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Senator Joe Lieberman uttered two words that no Republican had been willing, or able, to do in the first two days of the Convention. Those two words: Barack Obama. In fact, he used the Democratic nominee’s name twice, in two consecutive sentences.
Compare that to last week’s Democratic Convention.
Barack Obama used John McCain’s name four times in his acceptance speech. Joe Biden used John McCain’s name more than a dozen times in his speech at the Democratic Convention, even going out of his way to call the Senator his ‘friend.’ In fact, with the exception of Bill Clinton’s speech (which focused far more on bolstering Obama’s candidacy than breaking down McCain’s), I can’t find a major speaker at the Democratic Convention who didn’t mention John McCain by name
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