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    What NOT to expect at the DNC.





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    Re: What NOT to expect at the DNC.

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    The title is a riff on a column by Matt Vespa that provides a likely glimpse of the big doings at the Democratic National Convention, which begins the day after Labor Day. Vespa offers intimations on the agenda (income equality, the war on women, abortion) and the speakers list (Sandra Fluke, the 1/32-Cherokee Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren). He also predicts commiseration over the addition of $5 trillion to the national debt (which will roll over to $16 trillion during the DNC), the 42 consecutive months of 8+% unemployment, and the anemic economic recovery. That strikes this columnist as unlikely though Vespa seems on point in his guess that “the mess we inherited” will be a theme.
    Those are some of the sights and sounds one can reasonably expect to emanate from the Time Warner Cable Arena, in Charlotte, N.C., at least during the first two days of the convention. There is no official word on what to expect on the final day, which will be held in a different (read: larger) venue.
    As in 2008, Barack Obama will make his acceptance speech in a sports stadium. This time around it will be the ironically named Bank of America Stadium. The irony is that in 2008, candidate Obama was only too happy to accept $421,242 in campaign contributions from Bank of America, which a year late became one of the targets of his crusade against big money, punctuated by his amusing warning to Wall Street that he alone was standing “between you and the pitchforks.”
    In 2008, it was decreed that a space as big as all outdoors (the approximate size of Obama’s ego) was needed to accommodate the overspill of worshipers there to kiss the hem of his gown. To emphasize the godlessness of the moment, Greek columns limned the podium. The speech itself echoed the solemnity of the trappings, with its grandiose promises to stem the rise of the oceans, heal the sick, and employ the unemployed.
    This time the thrill is gone, for many if not most. Quite a few top Democrats have chosen to steer clear of the convention, among them Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose husband is one of the speakers.
    A possible preview of Thursday, the night Obama accepts his party’s nomination for a second term, was offered in May, when he officially kicked off his campaign—to a half-filled arena. The New York Times, in a rare moment of candor, reported that the event “had the feeling of a concert by an aging rock star”:
    A few supporters were wearing faded ‘Hope’ and Obama 2008 T-shirts, and cheers went up when the president told people to tell their friends that this campaign was ‘still about hope’ and ‘still about change.
    It is doubtful that there will be the same pomp and circumstance as in 2008, nor is it likely that the acceptance speech will be interrupted repeatedly by long bursts of thunderous applause. The speaker, after all, no longer mesmerizes or transports his audiences. Something else there won’t be is the same level of intensity in the “fact checking” that followed the RNC speeches, though Obama’s speech will be liberally peppered with half-truths and out-and-out fabrications.
    One last thing there won’t be is a mention of the president’s dark week in October of 2011, when 55% of those polled expressed the belief he would be limited to a single term. In an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Oct. 3 (video here), an ever-so-slightly humbled Obama went so far as to describe himself as an “underdog,” conceding that the American people were “not better off” than they were four years ago. Although he quickly turned the blame back on the GOP (as one senses he is hard-wired to do), he seemed in that exchange to evince a glimmer of humanness, a recognition that he was a mere mortal like the rest of us. By October 10, the panic was over and Obama was back to his usual overbearing self-importance.
    Too bad he has never reprised that posture and won’t on Thursday. Admittedly it would have done little to change the opinion of those who regard his presidency as the worst ever, worse even than that of Jimmy Carter (who will also be speaking at the DNC). But it might have diminished the bitterness and polarization that have rent the country the last four years. Striking that he has denied himself even that small accomplishment.
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    Re: What NOT to expect at the DNC.

    Another thing that won't be heard: "I take full responsibility."

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    Re: What NOT to expect at the DNC.

    Quote Originally Posted by fansince'76 View Post
    Another thing that won't be heard: "I take full responsibility."
    With one exception: "I take full credit and responsibility................for Osama bin Laden's death"
    Fire Goodell

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