I Nearly Fell Off My Chair
I nearly fell off my chair! It’s true! The most absurd moment in tonight’s DNC proceedings, I must admit, caught me by surprise. It came toward the end of Elizabeth Warren’s diatribe. She had been prattling on for some time in the manner of a school marm lecturing her hopelessly dimwitted pupils, when IT happened.It’s difficult to believe, but it did happen. Ms. Warren, with a STRAIGHT FACE, said we should vote for Hillary Clinton so that she (Clinton) would: “GET BIG MONEY OUT OF POLITICS AND RID OUR GOVERNMENT OF CORRUPTION.” That’s the truth! She said that! She really DID! THAT’S when I nearly fell off my chair!
It’s actually hard to respond to IT, but I’ll try. With Hillary’s massive and illegal influence pedaling, favors to foreign donors, consorting with numerous individuals that have been CONVICTED of crimes and perhaps even more that will be, and numerous episodes in which she broke the law or danced around the law, all while becoming extremely wealthy, to hear Warren make that statement was enough for me to have a stroke. Fortunately, it was only a TIA. After I recovered I realized that Ms. Warren’s statement WAS emblematic of the democratic party’s current strategy and modus operandi. They KNOW that to win they must: speak in flowery platitudes, deflect all attention away from their actual record, and barrage the populace with “newspeak” in the hopes of producing mass amnesia. And the must convince the American people that good intentions are more important than actual achievements. It is a sad state of affairs that it has come to this, but it may be the only strategy that the Democrats have at their disposal. They certainly can’t run on their record: after nearly eight years of Democratic leadership, the world is a mess, our economy continues to flounder, and race relations have hit a new low. Neither can she run on her own record: as Secretary of State she was a major part of the disaster that has been our foreign policy. Her “contributions” to her husband’s presidency were abject failures, going from “travelgate” to “Hillarycare” and many stops in between.
Tonight’s democratic minion speakers, however, gave it their all. Cory Booker did add some energy with an inspiring speech. He delivered many promises, stirring rhetoric, but, unfortunately, little in the way of reality. Michelle Obama was as self-serving as ever. God, she is difficult to watch!
Finally, Bernie Sanders made an appearance. He tried hard, and, unlike many other speakers this evening, did not lack for sincerity. He struck me as being 1/3 Moses, 1/3 Karl Marx and 1/3 Mr. Magoo. All his programs and initiatives sounded wonderful, but he did not seem, at ANY point during his speech, to have even a basic understanding of economics. A serious deficiency in a major democratic firebrand and co-author of the current democratic platform.