HIS SAY ON THE CONVENTION: JAN MEL POLLER….SEE NOTE PLEASE
MY FRIEND AND E-PAL SAW THINGS DIFFERENTLY….AND I ALWAYS APPRECIATE HIS TAKE ON THINGS…..RSK
A number of people sent me messages to the effect that this speech or that speech didn’t cover a particular topic, particularly the infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood into our government.The speeches weren’t made for us – we are already against Obama and we know the hidden problems like the Muslim Brotherhood.
The speeches are aimed at the people who undecided or who are wavering in their support of Obama. As such, they have to hit the problems that people are having in their day-to-day lives. To emphasize the Jihadi problem would make it difficult to persuade many voters to come to the Romney side.
Foreign policy certainly was not the emphasis of the convention but it was not neglected. Quite a few speakers did mention Obama’s abandonment of Israel. They mentioned the loss of respect for the U.S., the diminishment of our power. Most of us are aware of Condi Rice’s positions on the Mideast and we don’t like them. But Condi’s speech wasn’t about foreign policy. Her speech was about the ability of a Black woman, raised in Jim Crow Alabama to rise up through the ranks of the Republican Party to become Secretary of State. She accomplished that. She gave that whole speech from a few notes and no teleprompter.
In this instance, we have to put aside her personal views. We have to consider how much she contributed to the fight against Obama.
The same themes, that minorities can succeed in America, that they can succeed in the Republican Party and that they can make difference permeated all the speeches by minority men and women. Another consistent theme was that Republican governors have taken terrible state financial conditions and turned them around.
What the campaign had and has to do is convince a few percent of voter here, a few percent there to support Romney instead of Obama. That Israel was mentioned by name by so many speakers is an attempt to increase Jewish support for the ticket. Already Jewish support for Obama has dropped from 78% to the low 60’s. Maybe it can drop down to the 50’s.
We will only know how successful these efforts were after the election.
Jan
PS: The irony of this campaign is the number of anti-Racist, non-Racist people who voted for Obama because of his race.
Jan Mel Poller
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