Listening to the convention on the radio. Some thoughts.

[(vikm)]

The kid had a gummy bear on his head? What culture is that?!?

[Black]

Leno:

Clint Eastwood . . . finally a senior citizen that scares Paul Ryan.

[Lemon Drop]

Clint Eastwood on the phone with Obama now: "It all went according to plan, my lord." #RNC
— @EliBraden via Echofon

[Lemon Drop]

"The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"

Eastwood had some of all that tonight.

(Brian Williams NBC)

[J Marston]

Eastwood was bizarre--it was curiously entertaining.

But addressing an empty chair? Hasn't anyone at the convention read Ralph Ellison? Are they actively courting charges of racism?

[GGD]

Black wrote:
Almost everyone I know is better off today than they were 4 years ago.

AAPL certainly is.

8/29/2008 AAPL $169.53 (this is before the sub-prime downturn)
10/8/2008 AAPL $88.74 (after the fan encountered manure)

8/30/2012 AAPL $663.87 Four years later.

[Dennis S]

Charles Pierce said (I'm not sure which night he was refering to):

"It was an entire evening based on demonstrable lies told in service to the overriding demonstrable lie....The Republicans simply don't care. They don't care that they lie. They don't care that their history is a lie and that, by spreading it, they devalue the actual history of the country, which is something that belongs to us."

[RgrF]

$tevie wrote:
I switched over at the end of a disheartening Ravens game just in time to have Rubio brow beat me about God. Buh bye.

Watching "fake" (read pre-season) football may be a worse offense than watching scripted convention speechs. Both should be banned.

The days when a convention really meant something and the 3rd and 4th ballots decided things were really interesting. Todays homogenized extravaganzas are like watching Arena Football games. Speaking of which, if the Ravens were to move to the Arena League they might have a shot at a championship.

[RgrF]

(vikm) wrote:
[quote=Lemon Drop]
He was really wobbly, for sure. But he's 82, after all.

Vin Scully (Dodgers baseball announcer) is older than Eastwood and is as eloquent a speaker as you will ever hear, even today. Considered by most to still be the best in the biz. Age is no excuse in this instance... he's a professional conveyor of messages.
Viv Scully is is himself scripted but far too much of a gentleman to get anywhere near the third rail of politics. Eastwood, to his credit, put himself in the political arena and from all reports did a quite competent job when administering a microcity town village hamlet. Carmel's a nice place for those who can afford to live there.

[graylocks]

Black wrote:

Don't rehearse defeat.

what a great mantra! i love it! you reading self-help books again?