Rudy Giuliani, “America’s Mayor”, gave an excellent speech last night.

Wow, what a speech!  I am speechless!  I am in awe.  Literally, I don’t know what to say.  I will be back to add Sarah’s speech in case you missed it, and to give credit to the person who gets speeches up on YouTube faster than anyone I know.

Sarah spoke clearly, with poise, never cowering under all the attacks she has received in the press, and clearly showed her experience and that she is the right person to stand beside John McCain when THEY BECOME President and Vice President of the United States.

History has been made again this week as Sarah Palin is the first female Republican Vice President to ever be nominated.

Wonderful, brilliant evening…and Fox News, I did watch it on your station, your still my favorite in spite of my earlier post.

I’ve had to change to MSNBC so I can listen to Mitt Romney give an excellent speech because you, FOX NEWS, are to busy keeping up your usual programming.  I love FOX, but you’re disappointing me tonight….and now here’s Mike Huckabee, and you’re skipping him, too!

There’s more to the Republican National Convention than Sarah Palin!!

Independent/Democrat Joe Leiberman’s speech at the Republican National Convention:

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Part 2:

Here are some videos from Fred Thompson’s speech last night at the Republican National Convention.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

As I’ve said before, you don’t have to be a Democrat to be moved by the significance of this evening.  As I type, Barack speaks as the first African American to be nominated as a candidate for the presidency 45 years to the day after the great Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech. This is a big night, a wonderful moment, a huge crowd in Invesco Field/Mile High Stadium listening to the man they hope will be the next President of the United States.

Tonight Barack is speaking out against the present administration, McCain as our future President, and the usual litany of things that he believes is wrong with “the present administration” we’ve come to expect, so it is time for me to say yes, this is a wonderful, historic night, but this is not my party and unless something changes between now and November, will not be the man I will be voting for.

Now, for the record, here are most of the promises Obama is making, typed quickly as he speaks:

• Eliminate Capital Gains taxes for small biz.
• Cut taxes for 95% of all working families
• Clear goal, 10 years end dependance on oil from the middle east.
• Tap Natural Gas Reserves
• Invest in clean coal tech
• Fuel efficient cars built here in America
• Easier to afford these cars
• Will invest 150billion in affordable renewable sources of energy, leading to new industries, new jobs that can’t be outsourced.
• Provide children a world-class education
• Higher salaries for teachers, new teachers, more accountability
• If you commit to serving your community or our Country, will make sure you can afford a college education
• Affordable, accessable health care…lower premiums if have insurance, if none, same kind as members of Congress, care for those who need care the most.
• Change bankruptcy laws
• Protect Social Security
• Equal Pay for Equal days work, woman as men
• Many of plans will cost money so will close corporate loopholes and…
• Line by line through federal budget and eliminate those things that don’t work
• We must all do our part in caring for our children,

War: and here is where I just have to stop, because I don’t agree at all with Obama’s ideas on the war.  So much is left out of what he is saying.  As for the things in the list above, many are the same as Republicans have been saying.  And on he goes with a list of the things we don’t necessarily agree on…abortion, gun control, immigration, gay & lesbian couples…complicated issues with a lot more behind them than a sentence or phrase can cover.

But it is a good and motivating speech.  The crowd is phenomenal.

It will interesting to see the Republican convention….come on my Democratic friends, I spent a week watching your Convention, take some time to watch ours, and lets compare notes.  My husband watches with his mind made up, I watch with an open mind, and we, for the most part, come away feeling pretty much the same.

September 11th is right around the corner, the big turning point in our Country, a big part of what has brought us to where we are today, I almost wish the Republican Convention was going to take place on that week.

Good night.

I just finished watching the video honoring Hillary preceding her speech, and wow, after the build up today, it really is all about her tonight. The video brought all the memories and feelings back of her campaign, I don’t know how those who voted for her, and still want her to be the Democratic Candidate can come away not being recharged. There’s Bill, in tears in the audience, and saying “I love you”, the applause is not stopping!

It’s a bit hard to read Michelle Obama, she stands to applaud each time the mention of uniting the party is given, but I haven’t seen a smile yet. Ah, there it is, she smiled at “Barack Obama is my candidate”. Now it’s back to “you and me”, focusing on herself. Oh my, is it ever about herself, all the “I will always remember…..” memories from her campaign. Then back to Barack. I guess you could say she’s flip-flopping back and forth between promoting Barack, and herself. Well I suppose she has a right, she did win many, many delegates, and even if I don’t agree with everything, she is a gifted speaker.

Well I’m going to take in the rest of the speech now, and we’ll see how tomorrow night goes…will the 100’s of Clinton supporters that are outside the Pepsi Center holding Hillary signs and saying vote McCain cause a little trouble during the delegate count? Stay tuned…this is getting fun! Oh, the hubby-into-politics I’m married to? He went to bed, has to get up early, and will listen to the details tomorrow on Rush Limbaugh.

One more thing, hubby had a few good laughs at the following video…lines from Hillary that just keep on giving if you’re a Republican: