Posted by
beltway girl on Thursday, August 28, 2008 2:26:27 AM
Tonight's convention festivities seemed especially marked by good will. Anyone unaware of the various strains of soap opera lurking beneath the surface would have received all of this as being completely authentic; but such a person, unaware of the intrigues at this point, would be very difficult to find, indeed. Bill Clinton was his usual chipper, average guy, happy-go-lucky self. Joe Biden seemed positively tickled to be on that stage, the arguably unlikely recipient of so much confidence from another, a vast reservoir of confidence himself. The Democrats put on a happy face today. The problem is that so much of the audience knows it's put on.
If you had to look at any single speech or event thus far in this spectacle to get a handle on what really is the story here, it would have to be the roll call vote. It showed a steady rhythm, with Hillary Clinton garnering about a quarter of the vote so long as it endured, which was until it reached New York. Then, it fell squarely in Mrs. Clinton's lap.
It was obviously fully choreographed, a gratuity for Clinton, one that actually was more of an insult to her campaign than a compliment. But she appeared gracious at the end of it all, and waved her fairy godmother wand over the name of Barack Obama.
In the meantime, interviews with furious Clinton supporters were letting pundits know they'd be walking to the McCain camp come this fall.
Leaving The Reservation.
Could it be happening? Is the Democratic Party falling apart?
The Democratic Party will never "fall apart." There will always be a Democratic Party in the United States of America. However, the party may finally have been forced to come to grips with the price of its radicalism.
Democrats like to look at themselves as dreamers and utopians. They
care. And this, more than anything else one could imagine, is what they think they do better than
anyone else. They
care.
What types of things do they care about?
Wars. Wars are bad. They kill people. So no more wars. (Wars=Bad)
Ask a Democrat if WWII was "bad." Wailing results, and, with the more shrewd Dem, the response is that you are a demagogue and a warmongerer, trying to justify all escalation of conflict on the spine of the only justified war, ever. Okay, and maybe WWI. But only maybe.
What other types of things do Democrats care about?
Trans-fats. And cigarettes (particularly cigarettes). Cigarettes kill people. (Cigarettes=Bad)
Okay, but shouldn't adults be allowed to smoke a cigarette if they like to do so? There is wailing again, and people just don't know what's good for them.
Okay.
So do Democrats care about premarital sex?
Oh, yes, of course.
Well, since people don't know what's good for them, do you tell them not to have it?
"No. We give them condoms."
Why condoms?
"Well, we know they're just going to do it anyway."
But they won't just smoke cigarettes anyway, or join the military in peace, evidently.
And of course, where all this merry discourse always leads back to is abortion.
If a tree falls in a forest, but no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
If a pregnant woman smokes a cigarette, does it matter?
Guess it depends on whether she's on her way to Wal-Mart to pick up a crib or on her way to Planned Parenthood.
The Dems' embrace of radicalism may prove rather expensive, as every presidential election since 1973 has proven. And you'll find the most eerie reflection of this embrace in the McCain ad, "Tiny." Just this little country that means no harm.
"The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion, because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between." -Mother Theresa.