The Best of the Bore

Hillary Clinton gave a pretty darn good speech last night. Sure, it had plenty of dumb things in it that aren't true, but it is a convention of Democrats, and her ratio of stupid wrong things was much lower than the others. And you have to laugh at things like "The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pantsuits." In fact, even the horrible sounding choppy build up things as the crowd starts to cheer- that was at a minimum, thankfully.

I don't buy the CW that she has 18 million zealot followers. Not one bit. Maybe there were some people who would have found it nice and neat to have a female President, maybe 280 million or so of those. But she does not have some cult followers who are angrily heading to McCain. (There may be a few million backwoods hicks in West Virginia and Kentucky who won't vote for a black though, that may be what we are talking about).

I am always amazed at how many of the 2nd tier national figures- the Janet Napolitano, Bob Casey, Mark Warner, Debbie Stabbenow, Kathleen Sebelius, etc.- those people, who me and 2% of America know... I am amazed at how poorly all of them always do. I can't help myself from thinking "How the heck did anyone think Mark Warner was big time? He has more teeth than David Bowie in that freaky movie, and he's so boring that he's more likely to be headed for a High Council near you than a national candidacy. Napalitano is always spoken well of- but eecchhhh! I heard her on the radio and at home and it was quite disillusioning.

Do they censor anything interesting out of the non-prime slot speakers?

Mark Steyn in National Review had it straight when he said today "The truth is, from the standpoint of style and oratory, this Democratic convention has been a bust. From Virginia Senate candidate Mark Warner's poorly-received keynote address — with lines like “You know, America has never been afraid of the future, and we shouldn't start now” — to Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer's inspiring declaration that “We're pursuing coal gasification with carbon sequestration,” the Democratic delegates who pay any attention to the podium have been forced to wage a constant battle against boredom."

2 Complaints

1- "John McCain voted with President Bush 95% of the time" is not accurate- because Bush doesn't vote. If Bush has a stated position on Legislation, which I doubt he does on EVERY piece of legislation, then maybe you could revise the phrase. It doesn't bother me when little things like this get wrong- except when they become the repeated 400 times phrase- then get the phrase accurate, especially if it is supposed to be a statement of fact.

2- If the glass ceiling has 18 million cracks in it, it is one hell of a strong ceiling.