EDIT: Should have mentioned this before. Reason's convention blog is in top-form tonight.
Just so you folks don't have to wade through two extremely-long posts, my end-of-the night thoughts on foreign policy night at the DNC:
1) "Hope for change in the glass ceiling won't happen with four more years of McSame hurting the middle class and shipping our jobs overseas to terrorists in Afghanistan who hate freedom and apple pie unless tough Joe Biden who is tough gets to bomb the s*** out of them."
Seriously guys, repitition is important but please think up a few more lines.
2) Having Hillary move to suspend the rules was brilliant. She's the hero of the night, and the PUMAs have nothing to complain about. Bill thinks he's carrying 18 million votes for Obama, and if they keep going with what they did tonight he might just be right.
3) Wexler's speech on Israel was downright creepy. I also found waving the flag of a foreign nation which has committed multiple acts of espionage against us at an American political convention to be very odd. Imagine the outcry if Mexican-Americans were caught waving Mexican flags at the DNC, and Mexico hasn't dragged us into a war since 1917.
4) Reed, Reid, and Daschle were abysmal. Bayh was the worst of the night. Not choosing him to be VP is looking like a better and better idea.
5) With apologies to Matt Welch, Albright's speech was probably the best we could hope for; and certainly better than any other speech we're likely to hear from either convention.
6) Bill was enormously self-obsessed, but still more charismatic than anybody who'd spoken so far. Seriously, I thought politicans were supposed to be good at rhetoric. The DNC should hire some speaking coaches. Also, he cleared up any doubts as to the meaning of Hillary's speech.
7) Did you know that Joe Biden is tough? Like, seriously tough. I'm talkin' punch you in your big, fat mouth tough. Okay, okay we get it already. Also, Biden definitely upstaged Obama. Maybe Obama was put off by the thinness of the air.
8) I am allergic to video tributes, heartrending anecdotes, and lifelong Republicans who are voting for Barack.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
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