Thus far this convention looks just like '04, just more lavish. As Carville said he had not heard either of the words war,gas(there was plenty from the podium),mortage, bankruptcy, etc. Just change change and more change. Change what and change it to what. Does the average American living hand to mouth care that the bigwigs sit in massage chairs? Who pays for this extravagance? Who is the gaudiness supposed to impress? Michell looked kind of foolish trying to explain how they were just ordinary folk running for president. I guess DKos is impressed since most nouns are preceeded by at least five meaningful adjectives such as wow and absolute most, and a sentance not ending in !!! is considered meaningless.
Lets review a little,
The Boss, Pelosi when given the big stick, immediatly forgot about riening in the current adminstration and instead concentrated on building a legislative record that her great grand children could be proud of. Was she a success or what? Her speech was riviting to say the least.
She and searchlight Reid never had enough votes, were constantly foiled by the evil GOP which constantly threw sand in thier eyes, and used all the arcane legislative tricks which must have only recently been discovered since our heros did not use them during the past six years.
Considering how the democrats have done in the past two years with control of the house and senate, do we need to give them a bigger majority and a president to boot? What evidence do we have that a single promise made will be kept? If indeed the election is a clean sweep then we are making a generational decision.
I did not hear the theory proposed that Obama voted for FISA because if elected those powers would be hisn. Did he consider what McCain would do with them? Given the survelience powers and Homeland Security powers the next president will start out with we are electing a dictator. How likely is he to relinquish any of those. When has a president voluntarily given up any powers. If McCain or Obama misbehaves will Nancy impeach?
If we are trying to unify the party, then why the hell dont we tell Joe Sixpak what we are unifying against. I heard none of that. If we are trying to put the lie to the GOP claim that Obama is eliteist, is this the way to do it? This whole damn mess looks like a rock concert, not like the serious business of selecting our canditate.
I like Mischell, I think she is smart, an excellent mother, pretty and could be replaced by lots of folk. I like Obama, I do not worship Obama!!! I hope Obama turns out to be irreplaceable. I think the tone of this convention is a mistake and a turn off to many.I think his vote for FISA was a mistake. I think his statement that he knew who his VP pick was but he was not going to tell was childish.
If I like McCain's VP then maybe I will go that way and give Nancy a chance to make him President thru impeachment.I look forward to the flames and !!! As a famous person once said " Bring em on" and they did.