DNC: Is it over yet?
On the day after Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered her end of the Obama appeasement arrangement in the guise of a support Obama speech at the Democratic party convention is Denver, just the titles of some reports on that and similar topics provide some comic relief in this political season. That one suggests Clinton urges unity in tightening race emphacizes no suspension of disbelief required in other works of fiction. It is more believable that Hillary Rodham Clinton would adopt one version of PUMA’s acronym description; either People United Means Action or Party Unity My Ass……you decide (wink, wink).
Eighteen million votes and you have to wonder how HRC did not end up on the ticket. It demonstrates how much animosity has developed within the Democratic Party over the years. By comparison the voting public offered a luke warm if not coldly indifferent attitude toward Senator Joe Biden in the primaries yet he becomes this tickets number two. How’s that for a slap in the face to the party’s second place finisher?
As for the title of another report, to suggest that Barack Obama has a challenge to clarify his message is a bit ahead of the game. One must have a message before a need to clarify it exists. The audacity of hope, the world there is and the one that should be as well as I ask you to believe is marketing not a message for a political campaign or evidence of one’s qualifications to be President. Joe Biden’s tendency for plagiarism compliments Barack Obama’s use of Deval Patrick’s words and suggests the message of their campaign is listen to us we have no original thoughts but like to use everyone else’s.
There should be no wondering why ‘He Didn’t Pick Hillary’ with all the bad blood their is between the Obama and Clinton clans. And in the evening following Hillary Rodham Clinton’s speech at the convention, Bill is now expected to tow the party line and add his two cents on Obama’s behalf. It should also be the day a roll call vote ‘honors’ the campaign of HRC as the 2nd place contender for the Democratic Party nomination for President. The anticipation of calamity between the warring factions in the D party at the convention has not materialized. The last chance would be the floor vote about which there has been continuous speculation. As the HRC speech disappointed it is likely the floor vote, present or not, will follow suit.
Other report titles like: ‘It’s Time to Put Aside Hurt Feelings’ or ‘Obama Needs More Than Change’ or ‘High Anxiety in the Mile-High City’ only serve to repeat the sensationalism distributed throughout the MSM leading up to the convention. The lackluster performance of the D party’s convention have disappointed both in terms of providing the media with outrageous spectacles or the opposing political spectrum with satisfying evidence of a pre-election implosion of the other party and its candidates. But there is still time for that.
With only Bill and Joe and, okay, Barack remaining as the headliners for the rest of the D convention it is really already over or it may have been before it started as the anticipation regardless of the expectation exceeded the reality. Nothing to get excited about before, during and probably after the door’s close. And the door that may be closing for the Democrats leads to the White House later this year.
Stanford Matthews
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