The Republican National Convention Megathread: Cleveland rocks!

[Valmy]

Is the average age of Democrats Abroad nine? 

There is a bit of a 'attend our fun activities and get free orange slices' tone there isn't there?

[garbon]

The Democrats better have a damn fine convention. I want to see Bill bite his lip and feel our pain.

I think the Democrats just need be vaguely human, no?

[garbon]

Is the average age of Democrats Abroad nine? 

There is a bit of a 'attend our fun activities and get free orange slices' tone there isn't there?

Oh that's definitely the tone of all of their emails. I ignore it. I was only registered so I could vote in the primary. Suppose I could unsubscribe now.

[Legbiter]

The Democrats better have a damn fine convention. I want to see Bill bite his lip and feel our pain.

The DNC and, er, Lena Dunham will have to step up their game. 

[CountDeMoney]

Now let us consider the state of affairs abroad.

Not only have our citizens endured domestic disaster, but they have lived through one international humiliation after another. We all remember the images of our sailors being forced to their knees by their Iranian captors at gunpoint.

This was just prior to the signing of the Iran deal, which gave back to Iran $150 billion and gave us nothing – it will go down in history as one of the worst deals ever made. Another humiliation came when president Obama drew a red line in Syria – and the whole world knew it meant nothing.

In Libya, our consulate – the symbol of American prestige around the globe – was brought down in flames. America is far less safe – and the world is far less stable – than when Obama made the decision to put Hillary Clinton in charge of America's foreign policy.

I am certain it is a decision he truly regrets. Her bad instincts and her bad judgment – something pointed out by Bernie Sanders – are what caused the disasters unfolding today. Let's review the record. In 2009, pre-Hillary, ISIS was not even on the map.

Libya was cooperating. Egypt was peaceful. Iraq was seeing a reduction in violence. Iran was being choked by sanctions. Syria was under control. After four years of Hillary Clinton, what do we have? ISIS has spread across the region, and the world. Libya is in ruins, and our Ambassador and his staff were left helpless to die at the hands of savage killers. Egypt was turned over to the radical Muslim brotherhood, forcing the military to retake control. Iraq is in chaos.

Iran is on the path to nuclear weapons. Syria is engulfed in a civil war and a refugee crisis that now threatens the West. After fifteen years of wars in the Middle East, after trillions of dollars spent and thousands of lives lost, the situation is worse than it has ever been before.

This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton: death, destruction and weakness.

[The Brain]

Cherchez la femme.