Has it all felt just a little too perfect to anyone else?
Don't get me wrong. I've enjoyed the pieces of the DNC that we've watched this week, and I've verged on "emotional" a time or two during a speech or introduction. Bo Biden - who I couldn't help comparing to Chip Esten from "Who's Line" - gave a particularly nice intro for his father.
And I'm confident Obama's speech has the chance to be "semi-old-school-rapper-makes-a -video" worthy once again (yes, it can).
But the staging, the speech-reading by some, and the goofy crowd chants and silly attacks on anything un-Liberal was tiring. I couldn't imagine sitting through the entire broadcast. And don't get me started on the "Hi, I'm Barack Obama, and I happened upon some nice folks' home in Kansas City (or St. Louis, or Kansas City) to watch TV and say hello via satellite."
Joe Biden was interesting, and I'm becoming convinced that he knows as much about US-Foreign policy as anyone not named Leo McGarry.
I'm more confident than ever that Bill Clinton is one of the best communicators of our (well, my dad's) generation. He's as likeable a speaker as I've ever seen. If he ripped on the Republicans I don't remember it, and if he's not truly an Obama fan he hid it perfectly. He had a couple pieces of paper with notes, but we never saw him look at them. He didn't read the teleprompter, and he seemingly looked at each of the 16,000 people in the audience individually at some point during his speech.
I'm looking forward to seeing how the RNC responds with their own convention, and who they'll be able to trot up their to compete against Billary and the Obama kiddos. My fingers are crossed for McCain's mom.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
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Nice observations, and thanks for adding me on the sidebar. In light of the week, I feel a speech thanking you is in order, describing my midwest upbringing and how proud I am to join you in bringing change to BloggAmerica. But I'll spare you that.
Thankfully, McCain has now given us a reason to watch next week by picking someone as veep we've never heard of!
God love the GOP; they don't have anyone that can hold a candle to the DEMs on speech making. JC Watts was good; what happened to him? W is actually good in a good ol' boy kind of way. McCain is a trainwreck.
The convention gets old to me as well; the speeches not so much. I can't imagine actually attending. I don't think I'd be up for watching the State Comptroller from California talk for 15 minutes (maybe it's riveting).
I think McCain just threw out the inexperienced argument because now we have the governor of Alaska just one heartbeat of a 72 year old man who is going into probably one of the most stressful jobs on the earth away from the Presidency. Great, I'm sure she has all sorts of foreign policy experience; economic abilities; etc.
By the way great reference to Leo McGarry. I loved that show.
Hey, I'm a new reader and I enjoy your writing - FYfizI
I do think we'll have something to watch tonight, as Palin gets her chance to fight back a little.
She deserves a shot. I hope she takes it.
FYI - I enjoyed Carrie's take on the Palin situation. Check it out: http://carrieroark.blogspot.com/2008/09/headline-headache.html
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