Hey..what about Rudy's speech?

[Anonymous]

Are we too busy picking apart Palin's speech, hair-do, crappy mom (how do we know that Dad won't be a Mr. Mom?), grandkid out of wedlock, etc. to forget the kick-ass speech from Giuliani last night?

It probably doesn't matter what I write on this post here about my opinion since it seems most readers are Dems and are already firmly decided to bash/dislike the GOP, so I'll keep it short and sweet in case any Reps. out there would like something refreshing to scroll through...

The most memorable part of the speech, for me, was his reference to Obama's lack of experience. "But he's never run a city, never run a state, never run a business. He's never had to lead people in crisis...Barack Obama has never led anything."

[Anonymous]

technically, mccain hasn't been an executive either.

[Anonymous]

I missed it. How many times his he manage to say 9/11? Did he work it in to every sentence? Or just every other sentence? Did he set a new record?

[Anonymous]

I found his speech to be the most offensive thing I have heard in a long time.

[Anonymous]

Rudy's speech was awesome!

[Anonymous]

I was disgusted by his mockery of Obama's work as a community organizer. Rudy was the mayor of New York City and he claims not to know what community organizers do?? He scoffs at them with merry amusement and belittles them?? In the early 90's I worked in the SE Bronx where children were not safe walking down the street, many had witnessed violent deaths of family members or parents. They lacked basic essentials like a safe, clean place to go to school and a stable place to live. People suffer every day and he scoffs at those who devote themselves to helping people in the community better their lives? In truth I had a soft spot for Rudy after September 11th... he did a terrific job handling the crisis and his presence was a comfort to me as a New Yorker... but last night he lost my respect.

[Anonymous]

Rudy was DIS-GUS-TING. At his mocking, snide, hateful, sneering worst. Lost any remnants of respect I had for him.

[Anonymous]

I agree with the previous poster 21-36. I thought his speech was pretty terrible. And I used to kinda like him.

[Anonymous]

I had seen him speak in person about a year after 9/11 and he was great. But last night he was whiney and distastefull and seemed unprepared. Kind of winging it at times. And very negative / bulldog. It make Palin seem uplifting after that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree with the previous poster 21-36. I thought his speech was pretty terrible. And I used to kinda like him.

Me too. Even though Palin made some of the same remarks, I loved her speech; it must have been something about the delivery. That, and she had something to prove and had no choice but to attach Obama's experience. I thought he was just awful.

[Anonymous]

Awesome! Using humor, a smile, a twinkle in your eye to attack an opponent is vastly preferable to shouting, using vulgarities, etc. that we see all to often. It is possible to disagree with class - I wish more on both sides would take lessons.

BTW, to disagree with someone doesn't make them awful - just a person with another POV. Seems a lesson lost here sometimes.

[Anonymous]

I didn't have an opinion about Rudy until last night, but he certainly highlighted the pr*ck that he is.

[Anonymous]

Agree it seemed kind of out of character and a bit sloppy Rudy.
Romney was his usual hypocrtical self (I'm from MA on the hated East Coast where he was billionaire governor).
Huckabee didn't do much to counteract the "hillbilly" label. (Ideas from Europe? Like, dunno, democracy?)

Not surprising that "executives" in public sector are hostile to people at non-profits who have to pick up the pieces on the ground for failed policies and services. Many of those "community organizers" are faith-based groups that have been actively supported by Republicans, no? Just isn't necessary IMO.

The woman guv of Hawaii was more interesting than Palin herself IMO. Not in charisma, but in believability and less ego-centric/judgemental quips.

McCain was so engaging when clearly being himself and not reading from the script. Had he run as an Independent, I would have dumped my Blue heritage in a second. (Assuming Ridge or Whitman were with him. Liberman? Eh, not so much.)

Watched the convention live on C-SPAN to avoid the endless stream of pundits and see it unfiltered.. Although coudn't help laughing at the guy with the hand-written sign spelling MAVRICK (sic) in big letters. Was it a MSM conspiracy? Perhaps. My DH at first thought it was on purpose, a maverick way of spelling maverick to make the point about being a Maverick.

Thankfully the debates will not include the three stooges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:McCain was so engaging when clearly being himself and not reading from the script. Had he run as an Independent, I would have dumped my Blue heritage in a second. (Assuming Ridge or Whitman were with him. Liberman? Eh, not so much.)

I'm a pretty hard core Democrat, and yet I have to agree with this. If the McCain of 2000 paired with Christie Todd Whitman, I may well would have voted for them. I have a lot of respect for the man McCain used to be (and saw glimmers of it last night in between the absurdity) and I admire Christie Todd, as well, especially for her early break with the Bush administration while at EPA.

It's so sad to see a good man like McCain choose to be a lesser version of himself.

As for Rudy, I thought he was the vicious bastard he's always been. I shudder to imagine him in the White House . . . or as Attorney General . . . or in any other role in the Federal government. What a hateful, awful man.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:McCain was so engaging when clearly being himself and not reading from the script. Had he run as an Independent, I would have dumped my Blue heritage in a second. (Assuming Ridge or Whitman were with him. Liberman? Eh, not so much.)

I'm a pretty hard core Democrat, and yet I have to agree with this. If the McCain of 2000 paired with Christie Todd Whitman, I may well would have voted for them. I have a lot of respect for the man McCain used to be (and saw glimmers of it last night in between the absurdity) and I admire Christie Todd, as well, especially for her early break with the Bush administration while at EPA.

It's so sad to see a good man like McCain choose to be a lesser version of himself.

As for Rudy, I thought he was the vicious bastard he's always been. I shudder to imagine him in the White House . . . or as Attorney General . . . or in any other role in the Federal government. What a hateful, awful man.

I think Mitt and Rudy were an inspired ploy to remind us how we had lucked out in getting McCain rather than one of them. My plan B is to hope that if Obama loses, then I pray four times a day for (a) the old McCain to be reborn and (b) for him to make it through the four years. Oh, and Ginsberg, Stevens, Breyer, Souter, and Kennedy also.