The theme of this year's RNC convention is "We Built This!"

[JaneyVee]

Only one problem with their individualistic bullshit mantra: The RNC convention was completely built using taxpayer money & will be guarded by Unionized police officers & Unionized firefighters. Their flights will arrive safely thanks to TSA pat-downs and their bussing in of nut-jobs & hyper-fundamentalists will drive on collectivist roads. Still trying to find out if the convention was built using Union labor.

Oh, and the "fiscally conservative" GOPers are spending $2.5 million on a fancy stage.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. that stage is going to give epileptics fits

it's so LOUD. I hope those aren't actual screens. well, I won't be watching anyhoo...

[NYC Liberal]

5. Let's hope they go with the screen screen again like they did with McCain.

[GoCubsGo]

10. I would love it if someone would hack into the video and post this:

[NYC Liberal]

14. LOL you should post that graphic as an OP (if it wasn't already)

[napkinz]

15. you didn't build that ...

[Berlum]

2. "We built this with Tax Breaks for Fatcats." - Republican Tax & Draft Dodgers, Inc.

[longship]

3. Plus, in the event of Isaac showing up at the convention...

They can claim that they used no government to evacuate the thousands of delegates. If I were Tampa, I would say, "Fine! You're on your own."

Not really. But just to illustrate a point to the Ayn Rand and tea bag cults.

[JaneyVee]

4. +1

[Coyotl]

6. What happened to Bush's legacy? "We Bankrupted the Nation"

OR "We built a few millionaires by foreclosing a millions of American homes"

[Bluenorthwest]

7. More than half the money that built the arena was public, ie government money

I learned that on DU...http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021180395

[IggleDoer]

8. Yeah, they built this ...

... a house of lies.

[cali]

9. actually, it's the theme for one night of the convention.

[Enrique]

11. extraordinarily divisive

Obama's statement was unifying, it was reminding people in the private sector of the contributions of the public sector.

By making this their theme, they are rejecting people in the public sector. Romney did this very explicitly in some speeches, he singled out school bus drivers and DMV workers as not deserving credit. Now are we going to hear speech after speech at the convention telling various other occupations how little the GOP values them?

[renate]

18. yup, that's exactly what they're doing

It's so sad and little and anti-American.

[Initech]

12. We built this city on rock n roll?

[Blue Idaho]

13. Well in a way they did...

They built a minority party filled with fear, sexism, racism, and class warfare with their own chicken shit grubby little hands.

They did build that.

[tanyev]

16. I guess nobody's asked Hurricane Isaac what his theme is going to be.

[Raine]

17. Well there's a few days before the convention. The conventioneers can all get together

and have an old fashioned type barn raising and put up a building to hold their convention. Just don't use the public streets etc to get the site.