Guardians of Grail

cheapbag214s · Posted: Wed 0:52, 21 Aug 2013 Post subject: Minnesota Public Radio

Minnesota Public Radio,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
The Republican National Convention, which is estimated to cost $84 million, was supposed to drop a pile of cash on businesses and the city economy. The cities and state were to reap the benefit of enormous international attention. That was the plan,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], anyway.
So far on Sunday -- and keep in mind in Denver one hotel official described Sunday as the "craziest" day of that city's convention activity -- if you take away the cops,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the legal observers, a few protesters, and MSNBC in Rice Park, you're left with St. Paul on a Sunday afternoon.
It's a whole different vibe. In Denver, police in riot gear and Secret Service agents in kevlar guarded the perimeter. In St. Paul,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], private security guards from Travelers are the front line troops.
I don't get it. How is it possible that a party at this end of the Mississippi is going to make displaced refugees as the other end of the river any better?
Sure, I understand the Pres/VP wanting to be seen to be less than callow disinterested observers this time. Can't see how their presence or absence immediately on the ground is going to help,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], either. Great PR? Bush/Cheney are assuredly *not* going to be wandering around in the storm area. It's not what a party at the other end of the river will do to HELP the people at the other end. It's about what a party at the other end of the river would do to HURT the political future of those at the party.
The Dems would most surely take the image of the people partying and pair it up with some person n New Orleans walking waste-deep in water,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], holding his sneakers or a puppy over his head,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and the deep voice would say, "which party do you think cares about you, America?"
This way, McCain gets to look presidential and hold a news conference as if he's running the government,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], rather than running a political party.
Politics is all about perception of reality; not reality,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
Bob Collins |
August 31, 2008 5:37 PM
Bob: Well,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I guess I just naievly (sp?) hoped that would not be the case. Yes, I know it is. Image is everything. We have gone from a culture of "it's written,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it must be true" to one of "I saw it,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it must be true". [just ask my brother, who does computer effects for movies, who assured me none of it's real.] I guess MPR might be "I heard it,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it must be true"?
And, Alison, I'm sure this wouldn't be happening if the Katrina response had not been botched. The Republicans would probably still have toned down the partying,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and still have made a big deal about being ready. But the President wouldn't be down there,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he'd be up here setting the tone of "we're concerned and ready to respond".
I'm just hoping that the emergency management/response folks have not only learned from the errors of the past (which I'm sure they have), but that they have adequately planned a new/different response, for which they are adequately funded/supported (of which I'm not so sure). [how's that for convoluted writing].
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