{"id":190,"date":"2004-08-31T23:35:56","date_gmt":"2004-08-31T23:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2004\/08\/more_politics_y.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:48:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:48:41","slug":"more_politics_y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2004\/08\/more_politics_y.shtml","title":{"rendered":"More politics (Yeah, I know I said I wouldn&#8217;t)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s an election year and the Big Day is only about two months away.  Absolutely <b>everything<\/b> on radio and TV is election related.   So I&#8217;ve succumbed to Election Fever.  I&#8217;ve actually watched some of a convention.  I managed to avoid the Democratic convention, but we were watching the Amazing Race and the convention came on next.  I wasn&#8217;t intending to watch it, I just failed to leave the room or change the channel.  Arnold, governor of Caleefornya and Mrs. Bush spoke.  Some random thoughts on the night&#8217;s event:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t these people have lives?  I have a real hard time relating to folks who would go to a political conventions and stand up and hoot and holler at these speeches.  They are nearly all <i>sooo fake<\/i>, how does one get excited about them?<\/li>\n<li>There seemed to be a co-ordination of signs.  When Arnold was speaking it was the tall, &#8220;4 More Years!&#8221; signs that kept popping up and down.  During the First Lady&#8217;s speech it was &#8220;W Stands For Women&#8221; signs primarily.  Did they even give out instructions on what sign to use when?<\/li>\n<li>Arnold&#8217;s speech was better than Laura&#8217;s and the Bush twins&#8217; (they introduced the President, who introduced Laura, via satellite from a softball game)  I think it was that the twins&#8217; and Laura&#8217;s speeches came across as so deliberate and careful.  They spoke in loving terms about their family, but it was obvious that it was carefully written and carefully delivered.  I understand that one cannot afford to have folks speak carefully at events like this, but the effect was to dilute the desired &#8216;warm and fuzzy&#8217; feeling you were supposed to get for the Bush family.  What does that say of the system when even the man&#8217;s wife &#038; children have to watch their words carefully?  I don&#8217;t necessarily doubt anything said, it was just too stiff and cautious.<\/li>\n<li>There was this strange crowd dynamic going on.  I guess it can happen in any sort of crowd, but it seemed that the spontaneous standing and applauding at every point was almost robotic for some.  There&#8217;d be these shots of folks staring blankly off into space but clapping none the less.  Other times you&#8217;d see people rising to their feet, obviously not moved in themselves to do so, but because the crowd was.  The power of the crowd.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Yawn)  That&#8217;s it.  Can you sense my political fever?  I think I ought to lie down.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s an election year and the Big Day is only about two months away. Absolutely everything on radio and TV is election related. 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