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Republican National Convention

RNC and McCain's speech: responses roundup

By tigtog on September 6, 2008

John McCain made his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, and others watched it so you didn’t have to. Some of them even liveblogged it.

Posted in Blogging, Foreign Elections, Media, Policy, USA | Tagged acceptance speech, backlash, Culture Wars, despair, disgust, ezra klein, Glenn Greenwald, iteration, jesse taylor, John McCain, mccain obama, obama convention speech, obsidian wings, presidential elections, reality check, Republican National Convention | 1 Response

If Sarah were Steve Palin…

By Mercurius on September 4, 2008

…could John McCain have selected for his running-mate a mid-40s former small-town mayor and State Governor for 20 months, loudly insist such a person is the best available Republican VP – and avoid gales of laughter and general ridicule? Why [...]

Posted in Foreign Elections, USA | Tagged american election 2008, GOP, Republican National Convention, Republican party, sarah palin, US election 2008, veep, vice-presidential candidate | 103 Responses

Rumble at the RNC

By Mark Bahnisch on September 4, 2008

I was going to write a post last night about the demos in Minneapolis during the Republican National Convention and the extraordinary levels of repression and police violence, but tiredness got the better of me. But never mind, tigtog’s been [...]

Posted in Activism, Blogging, Foreign Elections, Media, Photography, USA | Tagged american election 2008, blogosphere, citizen journalism, civil liberties, freedom of speech, Glenn Greenwald, GOP, Lindsay Beyerstein, photojournalism, police violence, political blogging, poor people's march, protest march, protests, Republican National Convention, state repression, US election 2008 | 44 Responses

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