| The first full day of the red team convention was nothing special. Bush did speak from the White House – not sure I agree with that. I don’t think the White House should be used as place to play politics.
Thompsons speech was OK, he is a decent story teller and that’s how much of the speech came across. I was a bit distracted by the fact he kept clearing his throat.
Lieberman also was only OK. He was a bit more on the attack than I expected. I thought he would focus more on just McCain and his (Lieberman’s) relationship and knowledge of they type or man/ politician that John McCain is. I did not expect the praise of Palin that he gave, nor the comments about Obama. But once he did mention Obama, I expected at least one comment on Biden – which did not come.
It will be interesting to see what happens politically with Lieberman from here on out. Before he causused with the blue team, and has been allowed some decent positions - wonder if that will continue?
Also the speakers (Thompson and Lieberman) kept trying to balance comments between giving the far right what they wanted to hear, with giving something for the independents to listen to. This did not help with how the speechs flowed - and kind of kept them from maintaining a single focus of the speech.
All in not a bad showing. A few too many old white guys (speaking and in the crowd), and they broke into the “U” “S” “A” chant a few too many times.
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