Just talked with my sister....

[patrice]

1. I thought it interesting in Ann Romney's emotionally shallow speech, though she went

through the motions of being "warm", you couldn't hear hardly any authentic feeling-tenors in her voice, except for 2 times that I counted:

1. She said something about her and Mitt's marriage being "a *R*E*A*L* marriage and you could hear her emphasis on that word "real" I guess in order to assure those Tea Partyers that she knows not only what a "real marriage" is, but also, and more importantly, what "not real" marriages are out there.

2. Later she brought her speech to a close by building somewhat tepidly about what a splendid person Mitt Romney is, with a capstone statement about how he is a man you can *T*R*U*S*T*, once again her pseudo-emotional tenor shifted into authentic emphasis on one word, "trust", because all of us know that other candidate cannot be trusted. Why? well since no facts supporting her implication that the-other-guy can't be trusted were presented, we are left with his most obvious trait being a high probability reason for why Obama, unlike her husband Mitt, cannot be trusted and that probable cause is, obviously, the color of his skin.

The two most authentic emotional moments in her speech were directed toward two groups of bigots: homophobes and racists. Those two groups have a common genealogy amongst the hate movement and here's some long-standing research on that family tree:
http://www.irehr.org/