Several speeches and a speech via satellite to George W. Bush returned normalcy to the event.
The policy again this Tuesday at the Republican convention with several speeches and a speech via satellite from President George W. Bush, after the change of agenda decided on Monday by Hurricane Gustav.
According announced the campaign manager of Republican presidential candidate John McCain, Rick Davis, the day will include, besides the usual political speeches, allusions to the tasks of emergency deployed after the arrival of Gustav Monday at the southern coasts of the United States.
Republicans decided to dispense with the political speeches in his first day convention, on Monday, due to the uncertainty about the damage that would leave the hurricane, which finally hit in LA but caused less damage to the dreaded.
Given these changes, the agenda has undergone substantial changes. Bush, who according to original plans should have spoken on Monday, will meet on Tuesday via satellite from Washington.
Although his speech it is scheduled within the prime time TV will have a reduced format, just six or seven minutes, as calculated by the organizers, and will not be the closure that day (the segment with more weight of the meeting) . After Bush will speak his wife, Laura, that it is present at the convention in St. Paul.
Then speak Fred Thompson, who was a rival of McCain during the primaries and is a renowned actor who participated in the TV series Law and Order.
The next speaker will be Senator Joe Lieberman, who recently left the Democratic Party to become independent and that is a great friend of John McCain. In fact, McCain was raised very seriously propose the vice-presidency, but the alarm that it created among the Republican base did dismiss the idea and eventually offer the post to the governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin.
He was scheduled to speak the former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, in what would be the keynote address of the convention, but his speech has been postponed.
According to Davis, the purpose of this day is trying to delineate the human side of the Republican candidate to the public. For example, Lieberman to define McCain as someone capable of working with representatives from both parties to achieve the outcome that he seems fair. A family friend McCain also will speak at the meeting to remember how the candidate and his wife, Cindy, adopted an orphan originally from Bangladesh.
According to what has admitted, the McCain campaign in a hurry. Gustav made them lose a day's convention to convey their message and sell their candidate.
Since the parties have conventions to raise points in the polls, is essential for them to recover in time to describe McCain as seeking: an independent man, not marry anyone who puts the country at everything else and that knows collaborate with the Democrats.
In this sense, Republicans have encountered a setback: Palin admitting that her daughter Bristol, aged 17, is five months pregnant. This has focused media attention on the governor and has subtracted from the convention.
As Davis explained, the decision to resume the political agenda at the convention was taken at the last minute this morning after finding that Gustav had not left as much damage as feared consideration.
The agenda for the remaining two days is still in shape. In principle, the day on Wednesday will feature speeches by Cindy McCain and Palin, who will deliver his acceptance speech as a candidate for vice president.
It also will produce a live voice vote of delegates, grouped by their state of origin, to hail McCain as a presidential candidate.
On Thursday, the day of closure, will be the day of stellar McCain, who will present his acceptance speech for the nomination.
