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Friday, September 05, 2008

Convention Night

I’m back at the hotel.  I have some pretty cool video that I’ll get up when I have time.  Unfortunately, I have a real life (“unfortunately”!?!?) and I have a meeting at 0900 tomorrow 111.4 miles away from my hotel, so I’ll have much more tomorrow evening.  Couple of quick notes….

- McCain’s speech was…. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…  sorry, dozed off for a sec.  What was I saying?  Oh yeah… it was a good speech.  Good content.  Good delivery.  McCain just isn’t the barn-burner type of speaker and never has been, so it was about what I expected.  On the content, I thought it was good.  I squirmed in my seat a bit when he spoke about school choice because it isn’t a federal issue, but appreciated the sentiment. 

- I hooked up with Lance Burri.  No, literally “hooked up.”  We didn’t use protection, so I think he’s going to have my baby.  These conventions are wild. 

- OK, just kidding on the last one.  We spent some chatting and discovered that we’re practically twins.  He got a picture of us, so I’m sure I’ll be called the “short one.”  Smart guy.  Nice guy.  A true asset to Wisconsin. 

- I also met Mike Schramm from WisPolitics.  We’ve emailed for years now, but this was the first time we met in person.  Great guy. 

- We had some protesters that crashed McCain’s speech.  I don’t know how they got in.  I have video of it that I will get online eventually.  I thought it was pretty classless.  Why is it that lefty protesters are so afraid of free speech that they have to interrupt others?  Jerks. 

- OK, I need to get some sleep.  More tomorrow.  Oh…. so much more…. stay tuned!

(4) Comments
Posted by Owen at 0003 hrs
Politics + Politics - General + Politics - Wisconsin

  1. Good point about the school, Owen.  McCain would have you believe that he wants government out of our lives and yet wants the Fed o be involved in hiring and firing teachers somehow.  Did he ever explain how he’d pay for that?

    OTOH, did you really try to make a point about free speech while applauding the arrest of people exercising theirs?  Can you reconcile that for me somehow?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 05, 2008 at 0538 hrs


  2. School choice definitely not a federal issue.  Not surprising it would be brought up since the feds already have their nose in way more than they should.

    As for the protestors they have 1st amendment rights and right or wrong it was good to see they were allowed.  I don’t recall seeing any on TV inside the events at the DNC last week - probably because Obama and the D’s like to squash free speech.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 05, 2008 at 1012 hrs


  3. It’s a credentialed event so the RNC can pull your credentials at any time.  Are you really suggesting that they should have just let them sit there the whole time yelling like an ASM rally?  That’s just dumb.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 05, 2008 at 1135 hrs


  4. grumps, read the First Amendment. It says Congress can’t pass laws to do certain things, not that you have a right to be a douchebag in a private assembly. But it’s nice to know you really like the idea of intrusions to private assemblies on private property for purposes of harassing and belittling others. Perhaps we should send the Hell’s Angels to your living room this Saturday to discuss Vikings football. After all, they’d only be bravely exercising those First Amendment rights.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 05, 2008 at 1143 hrs


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