Maybe you, too, are behind on work. But with me, the suspension of activity at the start of this week, which has put everybody at ADCO behind, was piled on top of two full weeks out of action.
So it is that, since coming back to work Wednesday morning, I’ve not had time to stop and pay attention to anything going on that I might have blogged about. That includes the inaugural activities yesterday for governor, constitutional officers and other officials. LAST time around, I was all over it on the old blog (as in years past, I just mention last time because that was the first inaugural when I had a blog). Back then, I had this post and this one and this one and this one, and probably more. THIS time, I not only didn’t get out to any of the events, I haven’t even had time to read any of the coverage of it. I mean, I glanced at The State this morning during a hurried breakfast (and didn’t see much worth commenting on), but was then in solid, back-to-back meetings from 9 until 5:30 today.
So… do any of y’all have thoughts on yesterday’s events — what was said or what was done? If you need fodder, here’s a story that was in The State, and here’s the text of Nikki’s speech, and here’s some reaction to it.
Maybe something y’all will say will inspire me to say something.
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Do y’all believe that Haley’s mother was one of the first females in India to be offered a judgeship? I would love to know if that’s true or just one more lie.
The music was some of the worst I’ve ever heard anywhere. Overall, exceedingly unimpressive ceremony.
Looking at your previous posts reminds me how excited many people were about Sanford’s first inauguration, and how disappointed at his second one. I hope that we won’t feel the same disappointment with Haley in four years, though a couple of her remarks don’t leave me terribly hopeful.
Also, I think she’s better when she doesn’t try to be funny — it always comes off as unattractively sarcastic. Other than that, the speech was just kind of there, not much to say.
Okay–cognitive dissonance time, here– I was miffed about the style advice given to Haley on the *front page* of The State a few days back–although I read it and agreed with it (her clothes hang too loosely on her) –did anyone give style advice to Mark Sanford? For realz!
Then I read about what her mother said she was wearing–the white overcoat did her no favors, imho, and I longed for the panache of Jenny Sanford and her hat–but then she redeemed herself with that gorgeous blue gown for the ball.
So I’m a lipstick feminist—whaddya want?
Kathryn asks, “did anyone give style advice to Mark Sanford?”
And the answer is, YES! Before and after his 1st inaugural, folks went on and on about how the cheap so-and-so didn’t own a suit…
… something that bothered me, too, even though I was a big fan of his at the time. To me, it was disrespectful not to show up for one’s inauguration for governor properly attired. And no, I didn’t write about it at the time. I wasn’t a blogger then, and didn’t get so much into trivia.
A lot of people didn’t notice, by the way, because he wore a dark jacket with dark pants. They had to be told it wasn’t a suit.
Ok, a dark jacket with dark pants doesn’t technically qualify as a suit. If the two match why does it matter? I’m just not that much into “proper attire”. If the governor wants to wear blue jeans and a sweat shirt to his/her inaguration I would actually find that refreshing.
Oh, and William… you’re not getting any of your comments approved the last day or so because you’ve fallen back into your old Michael P./Fred/Luke patterns of incivility.
You were on semi-good behavior there for awhile, but you’ve been on a bit of a tear lately. When you’re explaining why you hold your views on the estate tax, for instance, or when you give props to Doug as you did a couple of days ago, that’s cool. That’s the kind of constructive dialogue we’re looking for here.
But when you kick into your “I’m going to lash out and say something negative about everything” mode, it gets tiresome, and people get sick of reading it. Worse, when you get all ad hominem toward bud, or Kathryn, or me, or whomever, and write things like “That’s the problem with some people…,” then you’re really degrading the tone of the blog — MY blog — and I don’t allow that.
Just so you know. Since you seemed to be wondering.
@Brad
So Kathy calling Haley a liar is acceptable rhetoric in these days of peace and harmony?
Trust Doug to find a technical inconsistency to object to… or perhaps I should say, an erroneously PERCEIVED inconsistency.
No, calling people liars is not acceptable. But someone who has read my blog as long as you have SHOULD have noticed something by now: I bend over backwards. I give people lots and LOTS of leeway. They generally have to offend over and over, many, many times, before I even think about disallowing their comments, or banishing them from the blog. (Unless, of course, an individual comment is just SO out of line. And a reader calling another reader here a liar might cross that line.)
It’s a judgment call. I realize you probably don’t like that. And maybe you don’t get where the line is based on my explanation. I know “William” doesn’t, based on what he keeps trying to post.
I regret that, but have to live with it. Not everyone WILL get it. But bottom line, only I have to get it. It’s my blog, and my standard. A libertarian and lover of the prerogatives of private property should appreciate that.
So would you have gone to the event if Sheheen had won?
My money is on “absolutely”.
Who is “Kathy” and when did she call Haley a “liar”?
You’d lose that bet, William. Especially since I was well into that day — my first one at work since Christmas — before I even realized it was inauguration day.
It was hard enough to find the time to post this.
Speaking of which — I’m really getting kind of bummed at how little time I find for blogging these days. I was VERY frustrated when I was in England and had a thousand things I wanted to tell y’all every day. But that is the central enigma of blogging, as I’ve observed before: If you’re busy doing a lot of interesting things worth blogging about, you don’t have time to blog. When you’re experiencing nothing interesting to share, you have all the time in the world. It’s pretty maddening.
Now, I keep turning over in the back of my mind the issue of whether to bore y’all with stuff from my England trip now that it’s over (the blogging equivalent of making one’s guests look at one’s vacation slides), or move on and leave all those things unremarked.
I’ve hit on the idea of slipping in one observation from my trip every day or so, tucked in among other, more timely stuff…
Which is a neat idea. Trouble is, since I’ve been back, I haven’t had time to blog much at all, so there’s very little timely stuff among which to hide my vacation slides…
Don’t you have a Twitter account to report on your every move and observation? That’s kind of what it’s for.
Yep, and it drove me nuts that my Blackberry — the instrument I use for Twitter — was out of action over there. (Yeah, some people Twitter on their computers. But when I’m at my computer, I blog. Twitter is for when I’m away from the laptop.)
I actually DO plan to post something about my low-tech Twitter work-around — I wrote lots and lots of “Tweets” in my notebook instead. Trouble is, I need to find time to type them up now in order to share them…
Those who do not wish to view your vacay slides may quietly scroll to the next post. I, for one, would like to see some! This isn’t like we’re sitting in your living room and you fire up the old Kodak Carousel–we have a discreet choice to opt out…
I didn’t watch the inauguration. I think I was trying to ignore it – still in some sort of denial. But I did go just now and read the speech online.
I was struck by this story she told: “You see, my mother was offered one of the first female judgeships in her native country, but was unable to serve on the bench because of the challenges of being a woman in India. Now she sits here today watching her daughter become Governor of South Carolina, the state she proudly calls her home. When you grow up with a mom like that, the word “can’t” is not in your vocabulary.” I don’t follow her logic. Nothing against her Mom – she is quite likely a fine person, and it may well be that “can’t” is not her vocabulary – but I don’t see how the little bit of info Haley gave illustrates that point.
This snippet reinforces for me my gut impression of Haley which is something like she seems to think as long as she says things with a smile, it doesn’t matter if they make sense. Everything just feels thin. I continue to have the impression that she is out of her depth but doesn’t know it yet.
Maybe she will surprise me. That would be nice. A commenter on The State page said this, ”
She didnt say a whole lot when she was a candidate, and seemed to rely on that yesterday. Lots of people are hurting in South Carolina. It would have been nice for her to say something to acknowledge that, even though she has no real ideas about helping them.
I wish her the best, but rhetoric only will get her so far.”
I agree.