Hillary-Dillary rocks!
The game is on the clock,
With no guile or sass,
But with plenty of class
She did the job for Obama
With good cheer and no trauma.
Hillary-Dillary rocks!
McCain is taking stock.
Tuesday night belong to Hillary, as Monday night will be remembered because, against all odds, Teddy Kennedy showed up to rally the troops, 60% of whom are there for the first time. Both came through like the troupers they are. They aren’t party stalwarts for nothing. She was more a party regular last night than a defeated candidate. She spoke with class and authority, with force and directness, and with vibrancy and the wisdom of a resilient soul. She addressed the disappointment and resentment still boiling in the hearts of some of her millions of supporters. She framed the situation this way: Did you vote for the issues or for me? The issues are primary and now Barack Obama is the Standard Bearer and chosen vehicle of our hopes and dreams. He won fair and square, so let’s move on; we have a mountain to climb.
The betting among the Media after the speech was that she probably moved the great majority of the angry women to the party’s cause. If some remain recalcitrant, well, so be it. Many will turn lemons into lemonade. We will know in November how many stayed behind and what a difference that made
McCain was on the tonight show Monday night, all in an effort to counter balance the attention the Democrats were receiving in Denver. The first question Jay Leno asked him—surprise, surprise! —was how many houses do you own? Rather than answering the question he launched into his one-note discourse about being a homeless POW for five and a half years in North Vietnam, all of which he called a “moment of seriousness,” thus trying to trivialize Leno’s question. The man will toot that horn a thousand more times before we reach Election Day. As for houses owned, some say seven, others ten. In any case it’s a large handful, a lot more than people struggling to pay the mortgage on the one house they own. He also thinks the dividing line between the rich and the middle class is at $5 million. Whoa! Obama put it at $150,000, a more reasonable estimate. What planet does McCain live on? This is also the zealot who is willing to stay in Iraq for 10 years or more, if necessary, “depending on conditions on the ground,” as he is fond of saying. Americans need a fresh wind to blow through their politics, not the stale air of the tried and failed. Moving ahead is a better option than the status quo.
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