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(07-28-2016, 11:32 PM)Mav link Wrote:No doubt the Yanks are better at the preacher-style of uplifting and florid oratory. But I suspect that Australian audiences don't warm to it. You can imagine that attempts to duplicate this style in Australian politics would be met with blunt assessments that the speaker was being a wanker.
Got it in one! Words are maybe just about tolerated but if there's no subsequent delivery on them then the flak is merciless, and rightly so IMO.
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Not sure how the democrat elites can bash trump about his border wall to stop illegal immigrants when they have put up an 8 foot, 4 mile fence around their convention to protect themselves.
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(07-29-2016, 12:04 AM)madbluboy link Wrote:Not sure how the democrat elites can bash trump about his border wall to stop illegal immigrants when they have put up an 8 foot, 4 mile fence around their convention to protect themselves.
The planned extreme security measures for the Republican Convention were overturned as unconstitutional by a federal judge:
Quote:CLEVELAND—A federal judge on Thursday struck down the city of Cleveland’s rules limiting protests during next month’s Republican National Convention, finding the city’s strict security regulations violated the U.S. Constitution.
U.S. District Judge James Gwin ruled the city’s establishment of a large zone around the July convention site within which protesters’ ability to demonstrate would be strictly limited contravened the Constitution’s guarantees of the freedom of speech and assembly.
Given Trump's promotion of violence to his opponents and the prevalence of gun nuts, the Democratic Convention's security measures seem quite reasonable, particularly with the convention's strong backing for gun control . . . and their measures apparently don't contravene the constitution.
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So the choices are no security of any kind or ridiculously over the top measures? Pity there can't be a moderate response instead ...
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What about Trump encouraging a foreign "enemy" power to hack Clinton's/Democrats' emails?
You may be able to get away with that in the WWF but not as an aspiring president of the USA.
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And that's finally the end of 8 days of conventioneering. Now we have to wait to see who gets a bump in the polls.
No doubt the DNC convention was far more coherent and well stage-managed. It had a far more impressive list of speakers (if only we still had the vomit emoji which would be the best way of summing up Scott Baio). But will the shambolic RNC convention and fear-mongering appeal to those who are distrustful of slick politicians and value "telling it like it is"?
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