Obama needed to leave it to others before him this week to attack McCain and the Republicans. He needed to come out looking presidential with a positive message of change. He did neither.
He gave a stump speech and sounded angry the whole time. Great backdrop. No substance. Typical Democrat.
Hillary begins her much anticipated primetime DNC speech by highlighting her years of experience working for the American people – a subtle slam at Obama’s inexperience? “I haven’t spent the last 35 years in the trenches fighting….”
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Argh…could she have skipped the tired stories about the people she’s met along the way who don’t have no health care (sic)? “Left out and left behind by the Bush Administration”
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Nice touch…mentioning the Arkansas Democrat chair who was murdered two weeks ago, and the Cleveland-area congresswoman who died suddenly last week of a brain aneurysm, but true to form she quickly connects their deaths to George Bush!
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She’s giving her stump speech now. Health care, jobs, end the war, bring home the troops, educate our children, make college affordable, etc. “I ran to stand up for those who have been invisible to their government for eight long years….”
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“We’re you in this campaign just for me?”
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This is actually an excellent speech, notwithstanding the ideological differences I have with Senator Clinton. She has given some very compelling reasons for her supporters to support Obama. She has said everything she needs to say, all of which will be answered ably by the McCain campaign.
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She’s now doing an excellent job of misrepresenting John McCain’s record on the economy, on healthcare, on women.
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This is an excellent speech from a rhetorical and political perspective. Who wrote it?
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When you get beyond the soaring rhetoric, you’re left with the feeling that no matter how much progress women and minorities have made and will make, it will never be enough progress. It’s as if the Democrat party needs to perpetuate the myth of the oppressed minority to maintain their funding.
A closeup just now of Bill Clinton repeatedly mouthing, “I love you” as Hillary took the podium. Reminiscent of his “tear-wiping” episode walking away from Ron Brown’s funeral laughing with Tony Campolo until he looked up just in time to see a camera and quickly changed to weeping mode.
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I know I’m biased, but the Democrats have done an embarassingly terrible job of staging their convention. Why would they put up the governor of Montana just before Hillary Clinton? The guy looks and sounds like a yahoo, plus he is eating into Hillary’s time. She was scheduled to be up at 10:31 pm EST. It’s now 10:33 pm EST and the governor is still rambling.
UPDATE: 10:35 pm EST and he’s still rambling like a high school cheerleader.
UPDATE: Turns out the DNC DID hire a Hollywood producer! Scrap the headline and make it read, Memo to DNC: Next time, use your Hollywood connections and hire a GOOD producer.
Barack Obama shocked America by choosing a running mate that screams liberal Democrat. We’re shocked not because Biden is an outstanding choice, but rather because Biden is a status quo choice, not at all equal to the “change” mantra we’ve been hearing from the O-Ba-Ma camp. Senator Evan Bayh of Illinois would have been the daring choice for Obama VP because he is moderate and from the midwest, the antithesis of northeastern establishment liberalism soldified in the Biden pick.
John McCain needs to counter Obama’s safe pick by doing something truly daring: choosing a VP whom voters would not traditionally associate with the Republican Party who is at the same time committed to conservative principles.
Listening to the ranters at the podium at the DNC it seems that what Democrats are most angry at Republican’s about (when you take the Iraq war out of the equation) is the misperception that Republicans want to keep women and minorities down.
What if John McCain really upset the apple cart, countered the falsely created perceptions of Democrats that Republicans hate women – especially successful women – and tapped not a politician, but a successful female business executive to be his running mate who could speak to America’s economic and energy crises?
How ’bout these possibilities:
Patricia Woertz, President of Archer Daniels Midland, and former executive vice president of Chevron with previous executive positions at Gulf, she hails from the rust belt state of Pennsylvania with a degree in accounting, beginning her career as a CPA at Ernst & Young in Pittsburgh.
Meg Whitman, former CEO of eBay, who is contemplating a run for governor of California, and led eBay for the last ten years. In a 2005 feature, US News & World Report said,
Since Whitman joined eBay in early 1998, its revenue has exploded–from about $5.7 million to an expected $4.3 billion this year. The first global online marketplace to connect buyers and sellers 24-7, eBay conducts more transactions every day than the Nasdaq Stock Market. It started out as a quaint digital auctioneer of collectibles like Pez dispensers, but this year Whitman’s company will enable the sale of over $40 billion worth of cars, clothing, and computers.
UPDATE: Opps, I left off Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard.
Of course, there are also women in politics as possibilities:
Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska
Condolezza Rice, Secretary of State
Choosing the right woman – one who has not yet been painted as an ideological extremist by the MSM merely because she is a conservative – might go a long way to woo Hillary Clinton supporters who now feel disenfranchised by the Democrat Party.