Hurricane Isaac and The Republican National Convention

As the hurricane completely missed the Republican National Convention, and as the one-day delay caused by the impending weather allowed the networks to change their minds and show more of the speeches than they had planned (including Ann Romney's), I would say it must be an omen. God obviously detoured the storm to avoid the Convention center.

As far as I'm personally concerned, the convention is a waste of money when the candidates are so obviously already selected. The convention is merely a formality. They could cancel it, and I wouldn't care. And I say the same thing about the Democratic convention too. Unfortunately, I will have to decide at some time who I am going to vote for, or if I am going to vote at all. As far as the questionable hurricane and convention is concerned, I don't see where there is any omen involved. I do see that when people should be leaving an area due to a storm, instead, they are flocking to the area that is most likely to be in the path of the storm. Makes me think none of those going to the convention use good sense, and the convention itself needs to be adjusted to keep attendees out of harms way. It will be interesting to see how it all turns out in the end, but as far as the results from the convention, it appears to be a given, other than how many people may get injured from the journey to it. Thanks for the discussion.

And Issac means laughter and that is what I have been doing ever since I heard the news. Talking about bad timing!

winds of change gonna blow.... I do not find THIS as ominous or eerie...as the DNC refusing Cardinal Dolan but asking a member of radical Islam to speak the opening prayer. YOU really should see THAT as the OMEN.

On the one hand, this does look like some kind of an omen. On the other hand, it really seems to me that the republican party was asking for it. The reason that I say that is that we are right in the heart of the hurricane season. It is not uncommon at all for Florida, the Atlantic Coast and even the Gulf Coast to be impacted by hurricanes during this time of the year. Remember, it wasn't all that many years ago that the Gulf Coast of Mississippi and Louisiana was decimated just following Labor Day weekend.

Florida, along with rest of the Gulf States, is still in its hurricane season, so the hurricane itself is not much of a surprize. The surprize is the Republican National Committee which oversaw most, if not all of the plans for this convention almost two full years ago. In fairness, it makes good political sense to have the convention in Florida since many of its senior and Cuban residents tend to lean republican, but this may be a case of the risk being greater than the reward... A statement supported by the loss of the first day of the convention already. So whether it was by intelligent design, a random or predicted weather cycle or just a badly timed coincidence, the mistake lies with choosing any Gulf State during its hurricane season, including and especially Florida.