2008 Democratic National Convention
2008 Democratic National Convention
- A View from Afar- Having chosen to watch the speeches and presentations on the convention floor on C-SPAN, rather than MSNBC or CNN (is Fox even covering it?), I'm not getting the "analyses" and "punditry," but just the unvarnished, unfiltered show. And having watched it for one and a half nights so far, I have come to one conclusion. It is excrutiatingly boring. There are exceptions. Tonight, for instance, David Paterson was very good. Dennis Kucinich was terrific. Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano is someone to watch; look for her to run for President some day. There was a woman from North Carolina named Gloria Craven, who talked about the textile mill closing in her town, and people with no education and no future being laid off, losing their pensions and being unable to afford health care. There were two Republicans -- Jim Leach, a former Congressman from Iowa, and Jim Whitaker, the current Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska. They are so much better than Zell Miller and Joe Lieberman. As I write this, Bob Casey has the crowd chanting "four more months." That's pretty good.
