Obama Speech
So I watched the Obama speech that everyone has written about today and figured I’d throw out my two cents.
I was underwhelmed.
I don’t know how to better put it. I am sure if I had a different political philosophy I may have gotten some semblance of optimism from it but as it stands, the speech simply bored me to death when it came down to the reason he was giving the speech. I don’t think this was a Kennedy moment or anything along those lines. I honestly haven’t read any commentary on it yet but it lost my interest early and often.
What if Hillary is better?
It looks as though that, if no candidate drops out, that Superdelegates will be the deciding vote on the Democratic nominee. I have to ask though: what’s the problem? The same people that complain about rule changing in regards to Michigan and Florida revotes are the same one’s often backing rule changes in the way Superdelegates vote for and nominate their preferred candidate. The ground rules were set in 2004 and people knew that this was a possibility. If you have a problem with it, change it at this convention for future conventions.
The reason this rule was implemented was because Democratic leadership wanted more of a say in the process because they felt they made better decisions for the future of the party. Now what if Clinton is the best candidate for Democrats (both present and future) and the superdelegates make that decision? Would Democrats accept that or would they move to change the nominating rules?
Old dogs, old tricks
A common theme that seems to be popping up in the DNC’s criticism of McCain is associating him with Bush (a.k.a. the boogie man). Are we going to have another election against Bush and not for ideas? Seriously? Because, this is going to be like the third one in a row and it is getting really old. Bush hasn’t even run in the last one and won’t be running against him. Nor is McCain a member of the Bush administration nor has he ever been considered to be a crony (unless you are a DNC staffer who came to consciousness about three months ago).
Democrats have to be big fans of Bush at this point as they use him in every one of their advertisements. It is just getting old. It was one thing when he was in the election, it is quite another now that he is on his way out.
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