the romney speech..scattered observations..

(ed:..i saw the latter part of romneys’ speech…and this is what i scrawled at the time..)

..promises to repeal obamacare..

..no gay marriage.

..fuck the planet..!..(american self-interest over-rules all..)

..cites american exceptionalism..(to a rising/rousing chant of ‘usa..!..usa..!’..from the audience..)

..promises to deal to iran..and pledges alliegance to israel..

..trots out some retro-cold-war rhetoric..

..promises ‘more backbone’ against putin..(to rapturous applause..)

..anti-china rhetoric..

..more exceptionalism..america is ‘saving the world from incredible darkness’

runs-up/cites ‘the flag’..

..promises ‘a military so strong nobody will dare test it’..

(..ed:as i said..i missed the first bit..

..but that lot is scary enough to be getting on with..eh..?..

.and if you too feel like getting scared..google it..

..but be with someone you ‘trust’..eh..?..

..and have comfort-food to hand..)

(and a funny tweet from bob newhart..about clint eastwood citing him in his speech to the convention..)

“..Bob Newhart Tweets Eastwood Joke
BobNewhart @ BobNewhart : I heard that Clint Eastwood was channeling me at the RNC. My lawyers and I are drafting our lawsuit… #RNC #ClintEastwood #rnc2012..”

(ed:..heh..!..eh..?.)

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