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Notably absent from Walz’s speech was any real substance on foreign policy
It's not the VPs place to introduce policy proposals, that's the job of whoever is at the top of the ticket.
That said most Americans rank Gaza low on their list of priorities, so expect Harris to focus on issues they find important like women's rights and housing.
That said most Americans rank Gaza low on their list of priorities, so expect Harris to focus on issues they find important like women's rights and housing.
It’s either important enough to take seriously, or not important enough where it can be ignored, but then you can’t complain to the people you completely dismissed when they don’t vote for you.
Not American, btw
It's not completely ignored. Several speakers have mentioned Gaza in their remarks, including high profile speakers like AOC.
It's not important enough to get a speaker dedicated to the issue. The same is true of most other issues.
I turned it off last night when they had someone on talking about their son who was one of the hostages.
All this time to put a name and face to one victim but not to discuss the overall tragedy that has happened and is still happening to tens of thousands.
It was extremely tone-deaf, and if they were going to represent one side of the victims they really should have done so with the innocent Palestinians caught in the middle as well.
This is very obviously a GOP strategy, to divide the dems base.
The left criticising the left, what a great idea.
How dare anti-genocide protestors demand their representatives to end support for a genocide?
This is not a 'GOP strategy,' these are dedicated Democrat voters that want to see the genocide in Gaza end. That's a position that can only come from the Democratic Party.
LOL. What a strange, out-of-touch take. You're just proving that person's point.
How? The notion that anti-genocide protestors are somehow a GOP Strategy is completely untrue and is just used to discredit the protests
Time and place. At one time, the conventions were a great place to try to affect policy. Hasn't been like that since..oh... I guess around '80. A little before I became aged enough to vote. Every thing about conventions now are sound and fury, signifying nothing. Protestor efforts there are just wasted effort, or seemingly self-serving attempts to "look at me!! I don't have a lot of respect for people that care more about a religious war that isn't going anywhere, than defeating the fascists at home. I hate the DNC specifically, and most Dems in general, for multiple perceived or real slights on my sense of righteousness. But that's nothing for what I see in that other party.
That said, it just seems like obnoxiously farting on your 30 year old cousin, in a decades long game of fart payback, at a birthday dinner for your 90 year old grandma. Sure, I guess, go ahead and fart at your grandma's birthday, but I'm not going to respect you for it. Even if I would in just about any other situation. Farting on your grandma is probably just going to piss off your family.
Since a rational person wouldn't fart at the party, or try to undermine the Dems so uselessly, it must be some GOP/Russia fuckery. We know people are easily mislead, so it's not a jump to feel bad for these so-called leftists who are perfectly happy trying to undermine the country.
I can't say I can think of any examples of Vice Presidents introducing foreign policy proposals at the nominating convention. So I have trouble understanding why they think it's significant that Waltz isn't.