We're All in Love...
Well...I have to admit it: After the fear and loathing of the campaign trail, the recriminations, the hatred, the fear, paranoia all around...the dems pulled it together. Holy mother and father, they really pulled their shit together...
But that's the thing with the Clintons: They are like lotharios. They break your heart with their bullshit, then come back in, and sweet talk you, leaving you to wonder why the hell you got all mad in the first place.
Falling in love again.
First, Hillary inscribes this night in history by personally calling for the nomination of. This was a huge deal. Like a lot of us who have worked on Obama's campaign, experienced the kind of weird and virulent hatred from the 44'ers, I could not shake the feeling that some kind of weird bullshit was going to go down, that, somehow, the true progressive cause who get mugged, and, in its place, so kind of triangulating simulacra would get put foisted on us.
This was not to be: She did the right thing-and with a dramatic flourish.
Then Bill came out, and sweet talked his way right back into my kitchen. If people wanted red meat, he was tossing the empty carcasses of 25 years of GOP bullshit lies, corporatism disquised as "conservatism", hatred disguised as "family values":
Joe Biden, who I wanted as a Secretary of State, came out, and kept it Irish real for everybody: The future that George...er John McCain wants...
Finally, Barack shows up,and thanks everybody, and winds us up for tonight!!!
I remember watching the '92 Convention, and, in some way, the combination of speeches and ceremony, I dunno, it felt like the prelude to a victory.
Maybe I'm too far in to be objective, but this feels like we've turned a corner.
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