This posting was to have been about the first day of the Republican National Convention but there were a few snags. First, the everyone felt it would be unseemly to carry on convention activities as planned with Hurricane Gustav threatening the gulf coast, so actual convention activity was limited to just 2 1/2 hours of routine business and nothing much happened. Apparently, the rest of the country is now required to walk on eggshells when New Orleans is threatened by hurricanes.
As a result, the convention coverage I recorded on CBS turned out to be mostly Gustav and New Orleans related. What little there was concerning the Republican McCain and his VP nominee-to-be, Sarah Palin, concerned itself with Palin’s pregnant, unmarried 17-year old daughter.
Attitudes towards the pregnancy were mixed with some teenager saying, “If she can’t control her daughter, how is she going to control the nation” or some such while the opposite view was: She’s a fine example because she didn’t have an abortion and hide it but instead is having the baby and will raise it, plus marry the baby’s father.
Barack Obama, unlike liberal bloggers, had the good sense to say that the pregnancy is none of our business — that family is off limits.
I also learned that six hospital patients died while being evacuated from Gustav’s path.
And that wraps it up for today’s RNC coverage.