Kangaroo Convention
I’m not watching the convention. I can’t stand it. It’s embarrassing. It makes the Politburo under Brezhnev look like a beacon of democracy. It makes China’s National Party Congress look like an anarchists’ convention.
They’re laughing at us in Europe; you realize that. Here’s the Grundian:
Obama wins make-believe Democratic party vote designed to be won by Obama
…Aaaand we’re back, just in time to note that, pursuant to Section C8 of the Democratic Party Rules and Procedures, Barack Obama just won the convention’s very carefully choreographed roll-call vote, during which the representatives of many state delegations boasted that their state was better than all the others, until finally Hillary Clinton stepped forward to end the voting and award the nomination to Obama by acclamation, and Nancy Pelosi, who was overseeing the ceremonies, asked those who agreed to say “yay,” and those who disagreed to say “nay,” but cleverly left no time at all for anyone to actually say “nay” before declaring that the motion had been passed, making Obama the official Democratic party nominee, and then everyone burst into tears and they played Love Train on the PA system and everyone was very happy, the end.
Incredible. It wasn’t enough to have the usual fake roll-call vote; they had to interrupt it for a fake nomination-by-acclamation. And this after last night’s travesty of forcing the actual winner of the Democratic primaries — Hillary Clinton — to rally the party behind the crook who stole the nomination.
Possums on the scene in Denver are said to be wondering aloud why the convention doesn’t seem to be having an energizing effect on the country. Who in the hell do they think they’re kidding? Every sentient being in America knows that the Democratic Party is divided in half and that Hillary won the popular vote in the primaries. Tricking out the Pepsi Center to look like a Vegas lounge and having Nancy Pelosi lead the delegates in “kumbaya” is not fooling anyone. The only message the DNC is sending the country is, “We are complete and utter phonies.”
I hear they’re building a fake Greek temple in the middle of that stadium for Opossum’s speech tomorrow. Keepin’ it real.
8 Responses to “Kangaroo Convention”
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sister of ye says:
Count me as another not watching the Really Big Shew. (Kinda dating myself with that one.) Though I’m glad HRC gave a rousing speech. I plan to watch it this weekend online - after I refinish my bathtub, I have nothing else planned but resting my bum knee.
Funny thing is, from what I’ve read, her main point was that we should support the candidate who will push for Democratic values. Which most assuredly is not Obama. Yeah, she had to name him to keep some party cred, but those of us who have researched his record know better.
I’m shaking my head over the Greek pillars. I assume it’s to call up remembrances of MLK’s speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial. And here I thought the civil rights struggle was one of those “excesses of the 1960s” that Obama was insisting should be gotten past.
I remember watching the 1968 Dem convention with my mom on our old B&@ TV. There was a sense that it meant something. There was drama outside, too, with the Chicago riots. I wasn’t always sure what to make of things, but I knew it was history in the making.
Can you see Obama going to jail for his beliefs like King did? Going on trial like the Chicago 7? No, he hangs around with rich white boy William Ayers, who ran back to daddy to escape the consequences of his playing at being a radical. Obama is a similar kind of poseur. Dr. King will not be honored by his stunt.
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Happenstance says:
Beautiful article. I think Americans belittle and mock Europeans so intensely because we know they see right through us and our horses$#!.
Ah, it’s okay, if we live another four years. Just keep your ammo dry, whether Obama or McCain wins. It WILL be a massive clusterf%&#–albeit maybe not as bad as the past eight years–and another opportunity to pry things away from the fauxgressives and teenagers.
Hillary knows this.
In the meantime, we need to take the battle to the faux.
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Marge Twain says:
The fact that the world is watching embarasses me.
I watched for most of the day and although there was much that was utterly depressing, HRC held her head high and looked and sounded like A PRESIDENT. I was proud of her, then mad as the pundits said she wasn’t doing enough for BO, or that it was her best speech ever(It makes me livid that they like her as long as she’s not running)
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Briar says:
You’re right. What a pathetic excuse for democracy. But the media have settled on their narrative and their protagonist and it’s the guy who is their super-kewl brand-bearer, not the gal. Couldn’t ever be the girl, not in this gun-worshipping, violence-obessed, alpha male dominated culture - we’re all prisoners of the the story that has been constructed for us, and is constantly reconstructed in our fictions as well as our fake “news”. And in that story, women are the defenceless who must be defended and the helpmeets and sidekicks and supporters, not the heroes. If they step outside the bounds, so much the worse for them. And since we are deprived thereby of some of humankind’s greatest insights and talents and abilities, and stuck instead with brute male instinct, so much the worse for all of us.
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TheOtherDelphyne says:
“Can you see Obama going to jail for his beliefs like King did? Going on trial like the Chicago 7?”
I’d just like to see him go on trial and go to jail, Sister.
I did watch part of the convention and it was awful. I had to watch Hillary’s speech the next day - it was too difficult watching it live. And the acclimation? That disgusted me. I watched as the NY boyz (Schumer, Rangel, Cuomo, et al) chanted “Hill a ree - Hill a ree” - I think that they thought she would be so happy that she was now part of their club. She kept her eyes downcast most of the time during that give away of the nomination to Obama.
Sickening.
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Tabby Lavalamp says:
Hey hey hey!
There were UNITY signs in the audience! UNITY How can you not come together, get over it, and vote for Obama after that? UNITY signs, for crying out loud!
You can’t expect Obama to do all the work. Sheesh, he already picked Joe Biden as his running mate! What more do you want?!?! UNITY signs!!!!And after my eyes finished rolling, I was almost sorry I’m not American so I could come down and vote for Cynthia McKinney or write in Hillary’s name.
Really? Biden?
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julia says:
I wish I were on the outside.
I wish I were on the outside of the DNC, with the folks who know Obama and the Democratic Party are a farce.
But I stayed home. I can not see an Obama bumper sticker wihtout feeling sick.
I could not bear to her Hillary’s speech - that she did not even get her roll call is too much.
I hope he’s giving her one important advisory job
or making her Secretary of State for that one.
Even Mumia Abu Jamal praised her tonight on his radio minute “Live From Death Row’.I will never support another candidate, activist or political prisoner who does not take feminism seriously. Even Mumia! For these guys, women come last, and freedom means their freedom - not ours.
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Violet says:
I hope he’s giving her one important advisory job
or making her Secretary of State for that one.I don’t expect Obama to be elected.
