Republican National Convention - First Night - Part II

The Republican National Convention convened briefly today, with a very low key ceremony and brief speeches by Laura Bush and Cindy McCain. Both cited the events along the Gulf Coast caused by Hurricane Gustav and efforts to help the displaced evacuees. Said First Lady Laura Bush:

Like all of you, George and I were planning to come and enjoy this convention, to have a really good time. We would have been here tonight speaking, but of course as we all know, events on the Gulf Coast region have changed the focus of our attention. And our first priority now, today, is to ensure the safety and wellbeing of those living in the Gulf Coast region.

From that point on the attention of the convention shifted to fund raising for relief efforts.

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Plans are still uncertain for Tuesday's convention events as the conditions along the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Gustav are still uncertain. On top of that Tropical Storm Hanna has become Hurricane Hanna, which is expected to make landfall somewhere on the Atlantic Seaboard somewhere between Cape Canaveral, Florida and Charleston, South Carolina sometime in the next day or two.

It could be the convention will yet again postpone or cancel planned events when Hanna hits the Atlantic Coast. We'll just have to wait and see what transpires.