Posted on 08/25/2008 2:30:49 AM PDT by SmithL
It's time for the banners, the bumper stickers, the funny hats, the passion-fueled delegates and the parade of Hollywood stars - from Kanye West to Annette Bening - that signal the start of the Democratic National Convention here Monday.
But there is a Mile High City reality check for 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and his vice presidential choice, Joseph Biden: How high is the bounce?
Indeed, the drama and the diplomacy, the emotion and the calls to action that will percolate inside the Pepsi Center here at the four-day gathering of party faithful - 50,000 guests, including 15,000 media and 4,400 delegates - have the potential to influence how millions of Americans view the issues that are most important to the Democratic Party and its presidential ticket. The hope, in the end, is that it will boost the Obama-Biden team heading into the final post-Labor Day sprint of the election season.
"The goal for each of the parties at these conventions is to create a huge propaganda moment," said Democratic strategist Phil Trounstine, "that demonstrates the values they represent and the leadership qualities of their candidates."
University of Virginia political science Professor Larry Sabato said that if Democrats are successful, by the time it's all over "the candidate ought to be at his polling peak."
"The extra points added by the convention comprise the bounce - and size matters," he said. "Inevitably, someone has a case of bounce envy."
That means both the Democratic convention - and its Republican counterpart starting next week to formally nominate candidate John McCain - have for each political party the same bottom line: "It's a sales job," said author and business consultant Ruth Sherman. "This is their opportunity to close the sale."
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The Dems are trying so very hard to sound enthused about this blowhard, and they can't even fake it. Even Ellen Ratner is bringing up a comparison to Bush/Cheney--I love hearing the Dems, who have spent 8 years calling Bush a Fascist--now using a comparison to him to legitimize this boring, safe, and disappointing choice.
Obama's VP choice is the first action he's taken that shows people what kind of president he could be, and he blew it.
"Mark me down as one who says not being around a long time ain't a bad thing. There has to be change. There has to be disruption," she said. "You know ... I admire disrupters. Our founders were disrupters. Martin Luther King was a disrupter. Rosa Parks was a disrupter. Barack Obama will be an agent of change ... and the rest of us have to help with that disruption."
This might make a good commercial, if played over a scene from the Denver riots.
William Ayers was also a ‘disrupter’.
There is a term that comes to mind ... now what is it again ... oh yeah ... DEAD CAT BOUNCE. That might be the bounce they will get.
After a week of bashing Corporations, Bush, Cheney, hard working Americans,The Military and all the traditions that have made our country great, I expect just the opposite.
Well, I guess the circus clowns in Austin will have to compete with the clowns in Denver.
Stupidity piled a mile high for an entire week.
Isn’t it a little embarrassing for an upper-middle-class white hausfrau from San Francisco to have to make it seem that she’s, like down with da black people out dere in da streets of da hood, bringing “disruption.” Oh, sorry, I meant “change.” (Btw, MLK was NOT a “disruptor” as she means it.)
One thing that Jonah Goldberg points out in his excellent book is how the white liberals, in their increasing march towards radicalization, seized on black underclass behavior which the left was manipulating for political purposes, proclaimed it “political” in its essence, to the great delight of thugs everywhere (remember the “rape is a political crime” argument used by Eldridge Cleaver) and used it to justify their own increasing violence and storm-trooper behavior.
I think the other white upper middle class San Francisco hausfrau, Dianne Feinstein, opted out with a convenient twisted ankle because perhaps she had a little too much common sense to want to go to Denver and grovel to the anarchists and thugs who increasingly seem to be the role models for the Democrat party.
How high is the bounce?
How high the moon bats?
Yeah, let's cheer for the rioters. The nastier they get the better...
Three words. Paul Wellstone Memorial.
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