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Thanks for the mention Al

Submitted September 5, 2008 - 1:27 pm by CarolDuhart (not verified)

And were worried about the Democrats screwing up this year?

While issues are nice, some people (maybe all people) react to the atmospherics and the totality of an event. Bad folks like Hitler knew it. Good people like Martin Luther King knew it. They knew that visuals and audio amplify a message, especially in settings where some folks may only experience the event second-hand by viewing pictures, newsreels, and sometimes listening to audio. I didn't listen to the speech, but just saw clips on tv and the Internet along with bits of prior tv coverage. It was bad-I remember a loud pink screen behind one speaker, and when I briefly saw the aftermath, the crowd itself looked gray, the posters flat, the whole atmosphere dragging. While I'm already an Obama Aunt, what does that do to people who respond to visual cues and are undecided?

The culture gap again: Maybe you can't get the kind of people who in their sleep put together those massive settings for rock tours because the two cultures can't even speak to each other, and the prejudice just seeps out when the fundi organizers talk to the hard-drinking, hard-toting pros. Maybe they are afraid that if they hoosh it up too much they will irritate the crackers that attend the convention, those who simply hate the cultural revolution of the 60's and would be freaked out at anything more colorful or daring than a Jetson's style backdrop. I mean, the average age there was at least 65-if there were more kids than Palin's there I didn't see them. The result of that is a drab, joyless extravaganza that simply didn't communicate to anyone younger than this 51 year old who remembers the lavish backdrops of the glam rock groups of the 1970's and the colorful psychedelic posters of the 60's.

Not only that, but I believe the Republicans are cheap-too cheap to hire people that can really pull it off. So they rely on the cheapest,most desperate talent they can find to do a quickie job. I remember watching tv last week and they were still building the set, and even then it looked plain and not very bold at all.

These people had months to do a much better design, to do a walk-through for the cameras, to have everything just so. Furthermore, since they were the later convention, they needed to be sure they could one-up the prior convention.

They did none of the above.

 

 

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