Republicans Kick Off the Convention by Showing They’ve Failed to Reduce the Debt

Today’s only official business is at 2 p.m. That’s when RNC Chairman Reince Priebus will call the convention to order, then click the start button on a giant ‘national debt clock.’ (After that, he’ll call a recess until tomorrow.)

Mounted above the main stage, the clock will start at $15.9 trillion, and tick…tock…tick…tock … count out how much the national debt grows during the four-day convention.

……Convention stagecraft is carefully calibrated to convey a message about the state of the country, and show how the nominee will fix the nation’s problems. If the debt clock is supposed to remind Americans of why Republicans are in Tampa, as Priebus says, it may also help people remember the party is partly to blame.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-08-27/republicans-kick-off-the-convention-by-showing-theyve-failed-to-reduce-the-debt