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The Democratic National Convention: Night One By: Carol Dunn  |
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 The first night of the Democratic National Convention and I have to admit that I’m impressed, but first things first. If you watched the Convention on one of the major cable news networks, then you really didn’t see the Convention. What you saw were a bunch of news readers and commentators pontificating if an effort to create division between Hillary supporters and Obama supporters. And despite all the effort, that had little to no effect. If you really want to see the actual Convention, I recommend watching it on CSPAN, where it is shown uncut and without commentator insights.
As for the night itself, it was electric. Of course Michele Obama was the featured speaker of the night, and she did a good job describing where she and her family have come from. I guess her biggest success was in not giving the Republican’s any sound bites to use against her. But all and all she made a very good, emotional speech, which I believe, went a long way to dispelling a lot of the rumors about her.
The highlight of the night was definitely the appearance and speech given by Ted Kennedy. No one really expected Teddy to make an appearance. And then when it was discovered he was at the Convention it was guessed that perhaps he would just come out on stage and wave to the crowd, but that wouldn’t be Teddy’s way. He instead hit the stage and delivered a power charged and highly motivating speech. A speech that brought tears to the eyes not necessarily based on the actual words he used, but because it seemed to implant the question in everybody’s mind of what this county could have been by now had his brothers not been assassinated.
As far as a first night at a Convention goes, this was a good one. It also featured labor people, people who had worked with Obama when he was an organizer in Chicago and the token Republican speaker, crossed over from the other side. All unified under one message, “this is our time.”
As an aside, if you did watch the coverage on the cable news, you perhaps caught the exchange between Chris Mathews’ of MSNBC and one of the supposed PUMA Hillary Clinton supporters, in which the PUMA made the claim that Barack Obama was a Muslim and then was unable to provide evidence for that accusation. If you had any doubt, that incident should have proved that the Clinton Supporter’s outrage is a manufactured outrage and the participants are either willing or ignorant pawns of the Republican Party, funny, but sad at the same time.
Can’t wait to see what night two brings. I know that Hillary is scheduled to speak tonight and I’m guessing she is going to have some words for the PUMA supporters who are out causing trouble in her name.
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