High Anxiety in the Mile High City

By MAUREEN DOWD DENVER I’ve been to a lot of conventions, and there’s always something gratifyingly weird that happens. +++Snip+++ But this Democratic convention has a vibe so weird and jittery, so at odds with the early thrilling, fairy dust feel of the Obama revolution, that I had to consult Mike Murphy, the peppery Republican strategist and former McCain guru. “What is that feeling in the air?” I asked him. “Submerged hate,” he promptly replied. ++++snip++++

She thanked her “sisterhood of the traveling pantsuits,” and slyly noted that Obama would enact her health care plan rather than his. ++++snip++++ Afterward, some of her supporters began crying, as they were interviewed by reporters, saying that her speech had proved that she would make a better president than Obama. Ed Rendell, the governor of Pennsylvania, compared Obama to the passive-aggressive Adlai Stevenson and told The Washington Post that Obama gives six-minute answers and “is not exactly the easiest guy in the world to identify with.” Obama’s pacification of Bill made his supporters depressed and anxious that he was going to be a weaker candidate than they had hoped and fearful that, as in Obama’s favorite movie, “The Godfather,” every time Democrats try to get away, the Clintons pull them back in. And Democrats have begun internalizing the criticisms of Hillary and John McCain about Obama’s rock-star prowess, ...

+++snip+++ They wondered why he wasn’t wearing a tie, fearing he looked too young, and second-guessed Michelle’s green dress, wondering if it clashed with the blue stage, and fretted that there wasn’t a speaker Monday night attacking McCain and yelling about gas prices. “I’m telling you, man,” said one top Democrat, “it’s something about our party, the shtetl mentality.”

I agree 100%. We had two of the finest black recon team leaders in Project Omega and CCS, MACVSOG in 68-69. Their actions in combat spoke for themselves. Never did either SFC say I am black.

One was hit in both arms and shoulders with seven AK rounds. He lost the use of both arms. He still does not bitch. Yes a so called southern redneck SGT E-5 carried his ass to a helicopter under fire in late 68. The other trained many a new man,too.

Frankly, I did not care if they were green, or whatever. I treat everyone the same. I have several black neighbors who always chat with me and my wife. Neighbors are neighbors, and; it is easier to get along. Not a damn one of my other neighnors ever said I am black or we are multiracial. Why even bring it up unless one has an axe to grind or wants to start trouble? I asked my wife why the lady brought it up? She warned me to steer clear of the lady. Their was no reason for the lady to state that. I had loaned them tools, given them plants, seeds, plus had answered her questions about previous work done to the house that I was aware of.

The lady about a month after the muliracial comment, came up to me while I was working outside digging up tree roots from a dead tree, and she asked me to point out the exact property line to her. I politely offered to give her a copy of my legal boundary line survey, a survey that is acceptable in our states Courts as surveys for closing ordered by title companies are not legal here. She did not want a copy. She wanted me to show her the actual survey markers, She said they should be painted on trees. I politely stated they put iron stakes buried just below the surface here. She next tells me to dig them up and show her. Go figure.

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