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Labor Day at the DNC; Wasserman-Schultz Addresses Faith Council

Most of the Delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte have arrived and are wandering around downtown Charlotte in an effort to acclimate themselves to the events of the next three days. Although it’s Labor Day in at the DNC, you won’t see a big union presence because North Carolina is a right-to-work state and the AFL-CIO reminds the Democrats of that fact every chance they get. A handful of big labor bosses will be in town but they won’t be spending big labor bucks on the convention. The highlight of the day is the Carolina Fest being headlined by James Taylor. My only other major convention experience was attending the 1996 Republican Convention in San Diego. If you can’t remember that far back, Sen. Bob Dole and former Secretary Jack Kemp were the party’s nominees. And in case you are wondering, they didn’t win but it was fun nonetheless. I drove in and parked as close to downtown as I could this morning but still had to walk about 15 blocks to reach the convention center. I picked up my credentials (maybe I’ll write a separate post about that process) before finding the media center. All the big [...]

By Paul Stanley|2012-09-03T15:17:37-05:00September 3rd, 2012|My Blog Post|2 Comments

Heading to the DNC in Charlotte

As I write this post I’m sitting in the Nashville airport on my way to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. Only as a child would I have thought I would find myself attending a gather such as this since my parents were involved in Democratic Party politics during my formative years. Many of my friends and their parents found themselves in the same situation, especially if they grew up south of the Mason-Dixon line. But I am not covering the event from a partisan perspective; instead, I will be covering it as a journalist. Besides my parent’s political involvement, my great uncle, Jess Lanier, was the mayor of Bessemer, Alabama and also served as the chairman of his state’s delegation at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, Illinois. This is the same convention that saw multiple protests over the Vietnam War and where police roughed up a number of journalism including Dan Rather when they attempted to interview delegates who were being escorted out of the building. Hoping that doesn’t happen to me in Charlotte. My objective will be simple: I’ll be covering how religion and faith are presented at the convention and what themes the Democrats [...]

By Paul Stanley|2012-09-02T19:06:32-05:00September 2nd, 2012|My Blog Post|Comments Off

CORPORATE WIFE? GIVE ME A BREAK

Below is an outstanding piece written by my friend Penny Nance, who heads up Concerned Women For America. It addresses Fox News correspondent Juan Williams comments about Ann Romney coming across as nothing more than a "corporate wife" during her speech at the Republican National Convention. No further introduction is needed since Penny sums it up so well. Maybe it's the fact that we just have too many professional commentators who simply must comment on every little detail at a moment's notice, but the comments by Fox News' Juan Williams following Ann Romney's speech yesterday were just not appropriate and, as a woman, I feel must not go unaddressed. I like Juan Williams as a commentator, he's a really nice guy, but I think he got this one wrong. Commenting on her performance, Williams said she looked, "like a corporate wife." A corporate wife? What in the world was he talking about? What could Ann Romney have done not to look like a "corporate wife?" Would a little less make up do it? Maybe if she would have worn her hair in a pony tail? I've got it. Maybe she could have worn jeans and a Planned Parenthood t-shirt. Would that have done it? [...]

By Paul Stanley|2012-08-31T10:24:40-05:00August 31st, 2012|My Blog Post|Comments Off

Did Labeling FRC a ‘Hate Group’ Prompt Shooter to Target Christian Nonprofit?

There has been much written about the unfortunate shooting Wednesday at the Family Research Council offices near the nations Capitol in Washington, D.C. The gunman, Floyd Corkins, entered the lobby with a bag that held about 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches and a 9mm handgun. Corkins shot FRC's building operations manger Leo Johnson in the arm. Johnson the subdued the shooter until the police arrived. Honestly, I don't know if I could have exercised that much patience if I had been shot. But Johnson's decision was the right one. I'm sure we'll get more details in the coming days but one remaining issue that warrants discussion is why the Southern Poverty Law Center classifies FRC as a "hate" group, along with the KKK and other neo-Nazi groups. Really - a "hate" group? Comparing FRC to a group that wants to exterminate non-whites is like comparing Billy Graham to Charles Manson. It is simply hard to wrap your mind around the similarities shared by the two. But one of the best op-ed's I've read on the issue is by one of The Washington Post's more liberal writers, Dana Milbank. Just as he makes the point that he doesn't see eye-to-eye with FRC's Christian [...]

By Paul Stanley|2012-08-16T22:23:39-05:00August 16th, 2012|My Blog Post|Comments Off

Biden Warns That Romney Will ‘Put You Back in Chains’

Speaking to an audience in Virginia on Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden told a crowd of about 1,000 – half of whom appeared to be African American – that Republican Mitt Romney would unleash Wall Street and put people "in chains." The comment drew an immediate response from the Romney campaign, saying the comment was a "new low." Biden's comments came after he took a swipe at what he said would be Romney's policies during his first 100 days in office if he were to be elected in November. "[Romney] said in the first hundred days, he's going to let the big banks write their own rules – unchain Wall Street." Then the vice president offered an even greater prediction. "They're going to put y'all back in chains," said Biden. Romney spokesperson Andrea Saul jumped on the comments, referring to them as "slanderous" and demanding that President Obama confirm if he indeed supports the vice president's remarks. "After weeks of slanderous and baseless accusations leveled against Governor Romney, the Obama campaign has reached a new low," Saul said in a statement. "The comments made by the Vice President of the United States are not acceptable in our political discourse and [...]

By Paul Stanley|2012-08-14T16:54:37-05:00August 14th, 2012|My Blog Post|Comments Off

Yearly Archives: 2012

Labor Day at the DNC; Wasserman-Schultz Addresses Faith Council

Heading to the DNC in Charlotte

CORPORATE WIFE? GIVE ME A BREAK

Did Labeling FRC a ‘Hate Group’ Prompt Shooter to Target Christian Nonprofit?

Biden Warns That Romney Will ‘Put You Back in Chains’