RNC continues

I’m currently at a meeting in Louisville, and last night I didn’t get back to my hotel room until long after the main speeches of the convention were over. Today I’ve been trying to grab some sense of what occurred through the web reports and the newspapers. It appears that the Republicans went on the attack in a very strong way. Most of the reports I read suggest that the Republicans are once again hammering on the notion that Kerry is weak and a “flip flopper.”

I wonder why they're keeping at this theme? I think it's going to backfire on them. I am much more interested in having a president who can make nuanced judgments, and who takes seriously the context in which he's leading than I am in a president who can not admit to making mistakes. That's also a crucial theme for Christians: that we recognize our sinfulness and live from the understanding that we are broken beings in need of salvation. I also think that eventually it just won't feel fair to people that the guys in power are spending all of their time attacking the other guys, rather than talking about what they've accomplished with the power they've been given.

Oh well. In order for the Republican strategy to really backfire, however, people need access to accurate information to counter the mostly groundless assertions currently being made by the Republicans. Where can people find that? There's certainly a lot available on the web. The MisLeader is a site that regularly combs through news reports to collate such information. So does the Center for American Progress. Campaign Desk, run by the Columbia Journalism Review, is a site that specifically takes to task the media covering the campaigns. I always read CommonDreams, a site that brings together progressive writing from around the English-speaking world. Spinsanity.org is another site that takes a look at political "spin."

Now, obviously all of these sites, too, have their own "hermeneutic bias." The point is not to accept anyone's work without thoughtful critique!