cynicism, or...?

Okay, is it just me, or is anyone else thinking that canning the RNC for one night was less about Hurricane Gustav (though I suppose some speakers might've been rushing off to secure their vacation-mansions, after poor Trent Lott lost his porch to Katrina) but more about a really convenient way to get out of having Bush speak in person at the convention? Because they couldn't tell Bush not to come without alienating the rabid Republican block that still thinks Bush is great, but having him appear and speak would only add weight to the Democrat claim that McCain is just four more years of Bush.

ack!

Regard the sentence:
The finework was a shambles, unfinished strings shedding little shiny seed beads all over the alley where they glittered in the dim, stuttering light.

Is that too alliterative, or too much of a tongue-twister?

ETA:
I'm just too damned tired to be writing tonight.

ETA2:
Okay, for now I'm leaving it at:
The finework was a shambles, unfinished strings shedding little seed beads all over the alley. They glittered in the dim, stuttering light like teardrops or refugees from a long-forgotten rain. Grimacing at the time and effort lost she tugged at the thread, snapping it and letting the remainder of the beads fall away.

Better, at any rate. Good enough to stand until the next revision pass through the whole MS. Thanks folks. (-: