Sweet merciful God, is it over yet? Tonight was pure fluff from start to finish. Ted Kennedy tried to beat a few more flecks of pixie dust from Camelot’s rugs. Howard Dean played the good party hack. Barack Obama said little of any interest, but he benefitted from what the Prez used to call the “soft prejudice of low expectations” – his speech was alright, to be sure, but you could almost hear the talking heads thinking, “Gosh, he’s so articulate!” Ron Reagan spoke about stem-cell research – or rather, heavily government-subsidized stem-cell research. Finally, our potential first African-American first lady, Teresa Heinz Kerry, spouted more liberal cliches than the backside of a Berkeley Volvo.
Say, fellas, ain’t there a war on? You’d hardly know it from the speeches tonight. Of course, you’d think the evening was nothing but Quakers and Bush-haters if you watched it on Fox News (as I did). They’re still whining about the peacenikery/vituperation that my eyes and ears somehow missed in real time. Too bad they’re lying.
