It's Night Three of the Democratic National Convention and the time of decision has arrived.
It was after I returned home from an errand that my wife informed me Obama was nominated by acclimation after Hillary Clinton interrupted the roll call votes of states to ask the delegations to do so.
I have no doubt 18 million people that voted for her felt disappointed.
I find it interesting he has so drastically changed his tune in regards to Barack Obama's qualifications to sit in the Oval Office. Tonight he praised him to high heaven. Only a few months ago he was slamming him for being so inexperienced.
Bill Clinton did bring up the Republicans claims during the 1992 campaign that Clinton was too inexperienced and too young to be President. Obviously Clinton was not. But Clinton was the governor of Arkansas, the type of office that does give the kind of experience one needs to become President.
Barack Obama has none of that kind of experience. Not one bit. Clinton was a font of experience in comparison to Obama. He's never had to run a state, never had to balance a budget, never had to make the tough decisions of the kind a governor makes. His time in the Illinois and US Senates adds up to less than 6 years. And in all that time he's done little in the way proposing and passing legislation.
That doesn't bode well for one aspiring to the highest office in the land.
Biden praised Hillary Clinton, graciously mentioning that she will continue to make great contributions.
He then accepted the nomination as Vice President, and did it with uncharacteristically few words. (He is known as a talker, being able to use 500 words when 10 will do.) He also made a Freudian slip, talking about the nomination of George Bush, then corrected himself and saying John McCain.
He then got into bashing John McCain, using the phrase "That's not change. That's more of the same!" He talked about some of the votes McCain made, not bothering to mention that in many cases he himself made the same vote.
Basically it was the same liberal tax-and-spend blather, saying black is white, up is down, Left is right and Right is wrong.
Will an Obama administration stand up to Russia as Joe Biden claimed in his speech? Or will they merely make strong sounding noises, yet do nothing? I believe it will be the latter and not the former.
Biden is claiming Obama was right on withdrawing the troops from Iraq, and John McCain was wrong. Biden conveniently forgot to mention that Barack wanted to surrender two years ago when withdrawal meant a bloodbath and the need to return at an even higher cost. Now that conditions have changed in Iraq after the surge, a staged withdrawal makes sense. Yet Biden is claiming Obama was right all along?
Tomorrow night is going to be interesting.
My wife was telling me a number of her clients were opining the Republicans shouldn't even bother to hold their convention because the Democrats have blown them out of the water. My words to them: Remember that the Democrats were preaching to the choir, a Democratic choir. Do they really think there won't be similar actions and speeches at the Republican convention?
It was after I returned home from an errand that my wife informed me Obama was nominated by acclimation after Hillary Clinton interrupted the roll call votes of states to ask the delegations to do so.
I have no doubt 18 million people that voted for her felt disappointed.
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Hillary's speech on the behalf of the New York delegation, and her motion to suspend the convention rules and allow nomination of Barack Obama by acclimation, certainly seemed to bring the party together. But I wonder how many of the die-hard Hillary faithful will actually vote for Obama come November? Some polls suggest 20% or more will not vote for him. That's a substantial number. However it doesn't automatically mean the disaffected will vote for John McCain.****************
The headliner tonight was former President Bill Clinton.I find it interesting he has so drastically changed his tune in regards to Barack Obama's qualifications to sit in the Oval Office. Tonight he praised him to high heaven. Only a few months ago he was slamming him for being so inexperienced.
Bill Clinton did bring up the Republicans claims during the 1992 campaign that Clinton was too inexperienced and too young to be President. Obviously Clinton was not. But Clinton was the governor of Arkansas, the type of office that does give the kind of experience one needs to become President.
Barack Obama has none of that kind of experience. Not one bit. Clinton was a font of experience in comparison to Obama. He's never had to run a state, never had to balance a budget, never had to make the tough decisions of the kind a governor makes. His time in the Illinois and US Senates adds up to less than 6 years. And in all that time he's done little in the way proposing and passing legislation.
That doesn't bode well for one aspiring to the highest office in the land.
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Joe Biden's son gave a rousing introductory speech for his father. I have no idea if he has any political ambitions, but he could certainly follow his father into office. There's some talk that if the Obama/Biden ticket wins in November, Beau Biden could be appointed by the governor of Delaware to fill his father's Senate seat.Biden praised Hillary Clinton, graciously mentioning that she will continue to make great contributions.
He then accepted the nomination as Vice President, and did it with uncharacteristically few words. (He is known as a talker, being able to use 500 words when 10 will do.) He also made a Freudian slip, talking about the nomination of George Bush, then corrected himself and saying John McCain.
He then got into bashing John McCain, using the phrase "That's not change. That's more of the same!" He talked about some of the votes McCain made, not bothering to mention that in many cases he himself made the same vote.
Basically it was the same liberal tax-and-spend blather, saying black is white, up is down, Left is right and Right is wrong.
Will an Obama administration stand up to Russia as Joe Biden claimed in his speech? Or will they merely make strong sounding noises, yet do nothing? I believe it will be the latter and not the former.
Biden is claiming Obama was right on withdrawing the troops from Iraq, and John McCain was wrong. Biden conveniently forgot to mention that Barack wanted to surrender two years ago when withdrawal meant a bloodbath and the need to return at an even higher cost. Now that conditions have changed in Iraq after the surge, a staged withdrawal makes sense. Yet Biden is claiming Obama was right all along?
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The night closed out with the surprise appearance of Barack Obama after Biden's speech. A nice finishing touch.Tomorrow night is going to be interesting.
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A closing observation:My wife was telling me a number of her clients were opining the Republicans shouldn't even bother to hold their convention because the Democrats have blown them out of the water. My words to them: Remember that the Democrats were preaching to the choir, a Democratic choir. Do they really think there won't be similar actions and speeches at the Republican convention?
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