Republican Convention

Guiliani was priceless. He's always been very 'law enforcement'. ('Course, all GOPers are.)

Sofia wrote:

The woman 'reporter' giving 'on the spot commentary' when the Firefighters' Union endorsed Bush used the body language and facial expressions one may use in a remote report as Steve Erwin is squished, half-eaten and dragged under the Nile, by the largest snake ever seen in recorded history.

She was hopping, swivelling, pop-eyed, dancing, ...I've never seen anything like it. Except on Soul Train.

I don't care who you are or where you come from....that remark was uncalled for....you want to see some hopping swivelling pop-eyed dancing.....head out to an all white pentecostal holiness church.....and even then the real pop eyed dancing is after service while the good christians count the gate......damn sofia!!!! I'm really surprised you made that remark....I'd expect something like that from Karzak or something....

I thought the Repubs put on a very good show last night.

The one thing that I didn't like was those stupid Purple Heart band-aids that some were wearing to ridicule Kerry's Purple Hearts. Those are the people that make Republicans look like a**holes.

Sarah Childress: Today was known in protester shorthand as A31 ?-the main day for all direct action and civil disobedience. Protesters had planned to pop up in smaller groups all over the city, then converge on Madison Square Garden, but much of the demonstrations were hindered by mixed messages. "Detention march was from Columbus PARK, not Columbus CIRCLE," read one mid-morning text message, followed quickly by, "Where is Columbus Park?" Instead, police corralled most demonstrators in pens at Herald Square and the public library, and threatened to arrest any large groups leaving Union Square. At a "Shut-Up-A-Thon" in front of Fox News, police placed and replaced metal pens to keep protesters in line, but nobody seemed to know where to stand. By late afternoon, the masses of protesters who had planned to convene at several locations couldn't regroup quickly enough to avoid police blockades. "This whole big cat-and-mouse game is frustrating for all of us," said one protester earlier, as she dashed downtown from a demonstration in front of Sotheby's to a street party in Union Square. (When the party became a parade of bands marching down the street, police penned in and arrested an unspecified number for demonstrating without a permit.) In another large arrest, police agreed to allow protesters from the War Resisters League to march from Ground Zero to Madison Square Garden, but instead herded them into a pen near Wall Street and arrested most of the group. (About 30 white-shirted marchers reconvened away from the arrests, only to be stopped at 28th street hours later, where they perfomed a "die-in," lying in the street in protest. All were arrested.) By 10 p.m. only a handful had arrived at the main protest pen on 8th Avenue, wondering where everybody else was. One group was trying to reach them?-the exuberantly rag-tag Utopian Street Orchestra?-but they stopped their musical march around 20th Street when they learned, via cellphone, that police had made another spate of arrests, and this time had netted their friend.



Gersh Kuntzman: The folks from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are getting a reputation for being Klingons?-protesters who join other groups' rallies because they know they can't get any coverage on their own. So in the middle of a raucous, drum-beating, Bush-bashing protest in front of the Fox News Channel building in Midtown on Tuesday, there was a gaggle of PETA activists campaigning for their own presidential candidate, Chris P. Carrot (slogan: "It's a vision thing!").

Carrot dodged several of my questions?-and refused to comment on his relationship with a pudgy ear of corn that lingered on the edge of the rally (further research revealed that he was none other than Colonel Corn, his vice-presidential candidate.) A PETA campaign aide stood in for the candidate and handed out a pamphlet detailing Carrot's positions (strong on artery-declogging, weak on terrorism, except against animals), but it wasn't enough for me. "What's Carrot's position on ethanol subsidies?" I asked, eyeing that ear of corn. "Ethanol?" she
asked. "Is that a vegetable product?" When told that it was, the PETA person said, "Well, then, he's for it!"

Arian Campo Flores: Today is apparently the Republican convention's Hispanic Day, with numerous meetings and parties to extend an amorous abrazo to Latinos. It involved plenty of inspirational odes and occasional savaging of the Spanish language. At a gathering of the Bush-Cheney campaign's Hispanic outreach team at the Waldorf-Astoria, a few hundred raucous participants chanted "Viva Bush!" and vowed to galvanize the Hispanic vote in support of the president. Rosario Marin, the former U.S. treasurer, touted Bush's Latino agenda and contrasted him disdainfully with Kerry, "somebody who, like Cristóbal Colón [Christopher Columbus], just discovered that there were Latinos in the United States." She closed with a cloying performance worthy of a telenovela?-a Spanish-language soap opera?-recounting tearfully how the president honored her father, who was a humble custodian, at her farewell party after she resigned from the administration. "The most powerful man on earth paid tribute to this janitor for the work his daughter had done for the nation," Marin said. "That memory will last forever in my heart."

I don't care who you are or where you come from....that remark was uncalled for....you want to see some hopping swivelling pop-eyed dancing.....head out to an all white pentecostal holiness church.....and even then the real pop eyed dancing is after service while the good christians count the gate......damn sofia!!!! I'm really surprised you made that remark....I'd expect something like that from Karzak or something....

It's hard for me to answer this, not living in New York City lately, but do you know this wall to wall thing is geared to who is president, Sophia?