GOP Con, Day 2

I didn't really watch the GOP Convention last night, I listened to part of McCain's speech. The theme of the night was obviously exploitation of the 9/11 trajedy and trying to pretend that they didn't take advantage of the nation's grief to carry out the neocons long standing agenda / obsession to remove Saddam Hussein by force.

Afghanistan I thought was a justified but way too reserved counter attack. We were afraid of putting in large numbers of ground troops outside of special forces because of how it'd anger the Arabs, so we had the Arabs of the Northern Alliance do all of the fighting and dying, with our Air Force providing high-tech support, even when Bin Laden was cornered at Tora Bora. But yet we had no problem marching thousands of troops into Arab land, which has had very bad PR reprecussions with a majority of the Arab world.

Erm.. slight tangent from the main ramble. Oops. Anyway, it seems just like the Democratic Convention -- an orgy of self-aggrandizement to try and convince the naive that they are worth putting faith in. And with the GOP one I am just laughing my ass off at these text book answers and ignorance being played upon.

I couldn't help but notice that one of the themes of the GOP convention seems to be "America Can Do Better". That would have been more appropriate for the Democrats to have used in reference to Bush. But for Bush's own ass kissers to say we can do better by electing him seems like almost an admission that the first four years of his presidency have been shit. But, to be more accurate, too, shouldn't it be read like how Bush would say it: "America can do gooder"