BY BILL JUNEAU
The four-day Democratic convention was a technological wonder, with remote speakers all over the country wired together like one big Zoom party. Only the content was sorely lacking.
It finished with acceptance speeches read by "Slow" Joe Biden and "Nasty" Kamala Harris in distant flag- bedecked rooms designed to look like stages. But like pro baseball and basketball games in this age of Covid-19, there were no cheering crowds, no waving banners, none of the excitement that usually defines political conventions. And with that 1-2 lineup, this convention is not likely to light up history books.
As proclaimed by the far left media, which is really an on-call army of the Democratic party, former First Lady Michelle Obama was the shining star of this virtual convention.
She was the keynoter and one of a number of speakers, all selected with care to administer a full shellacking of President Donald Trump while extolling the skills and brain power of the 77-year-old Joe Biden, the party's standard bearer. Michelle did her job, in her determined and polished way, and she stood out and shone probably because she told the biggest whoppers of all.
But all speakers, including nominees Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and the former First Lady, had their marching orders. References to the violence, lawlessness, arson, looting and shootings now sweeping the streets of cities in the hands of liberal Democratic mayors and governors, were not to be mentioned. It was to be "Hope and Love and Change" themes rich in make- believe patriotism, which had to be stressed. That was the DNC agenda and it was followed to a tee.
Other speakers included some disgruntled Republicans, such as former Ohio Governor John Kasich, along with former presidential nominees John Kerry, best remembered for throwing his Viet Nam medals in the trash and Hillary Clinton, long ago labeled as a "congenital liar" by a New York Times columnist.
And there was Bernie Sanders, the Marxist-Socialist who has been spreading liberal drivel around Washington and Vermont for 40 years. With Bernie was his distaff protege, Congresswoman AOC, the ex-New York bartender who wants to remake the United States from top to bottom, maybe even build a bridge to Hawaii. She only spoke for a minute or so, but apparently forgot where she was, and nominated Bernie to be the standard bearer for the Democrats.
But it was Michelle Obama who garnered real approbation for her praise of Biden, her husband's vice president for eight years. Her speech was called "historic" and unforgettable--one that will live forever, by liberal empty heads in the media. Many of her fans secretly wished the sincere and reality-twisting Michelle, and not the bull-tempered Kamala, would have been the vice presidential choice. . Mrs. Obama's task was two-fold. Rip apart the nation's president as an incompetent "racist" and praise Joe Biden for his masterful ways and recognition that America is a land of open borders and largess which can overcome its "systemic racism." And she performed admirably, as she read from her prepared script while relaxed and seated at home as her disingenuous words were streamed throughout the nation.
After touching upon her own background growing up on Chicago's south side and upon other memories, she got down to business. She excoriated the nation's chief executive for not being "up to the job" of running the country; and for allowing innocent people of color to "continue to be murdered." In Trump's world, she added, the very mention of Black Lives Matter continues to be "met with derision."
She blamed the President for mishandling the Covid-19 pandemic and said that Joe Biden is prepared to tackle it. We can do better, she insisted, and Joe Biden will do better.
She talked about the gaffe-ridden Biden's "clear-headed judgment" in contrast to President Trump, who "emboldens torch bearing white supremacists." She went on to define the job which Joe Biden will be undertaking even though anyone who has observed Biden attempting to put a sentence together knows that it is time for Joe to retire and leave the governing to others.
In her calm and genteel way, Mrs. Obama detailed the job of President and told of how "when they go low, we go high.
"The job is hard. It requires clear-headed judgment, a mastery of complex and competing issues, a devotion to facts and history, a moral compass, and an ability to listen—and an abiding belief that each of the 330,000,000 lives in this country has meaning and worth," she proclaimed.
"I know Joe," she stated. "And Joe Biden is ready for that job."
Joe Biden has these talents and skills? Who is kidding whom? Does Michelle Obama actually believe that? Biden is clearly losing it, if he ever had it. He tells crazy stories about his hairy legs and the legendary "Corn Pop" who confronted him with a knife when he was at some swimming pool.
Slow Joe Biden has been around Washington for 47 years as a senator and a vice president, but has nothing of substance to point to as his accomplishment. The Washington Post has dubbed him the "Lamborghini of Gaffes." At a rally some years ago, Biden called out to a supporter: "Chuck, stand up and take a bow." Chuck waved, from his wheelchair.
\ Biden once described Barack Obama when he was running for office, as " the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice looking guy. I mean that's a storybook, man." Michelle was not about to recall those Biden remarks.
It was a stellar if widely spaced crowd of Democrats and Trump hating Republicans trying to spruce up the image of Biden, their flagging leader. And they certainly couldn't do that by dwelling on the violence, looting and lawlessness on the streets of urban America under the guiding hands of Democratic mayors and governors. Much easier to trash Trump for a Chinese-created pandemic that took the whole world by surprise.
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