Pundits will be talking for weeks about what was said and done and written and served at the Democrat National Convention in Denver. But the real story, as far as I see it, is what you don’t see on the podium at the conference. For a campaign that has run on Change and Hope, I see none of either.
Where is the change? What I see is tributes to old insider politicians. Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton stood on the stage, all heavily networked insiders, familiar with the beltway. Where is this difference Obama was supposed to bring? Where is the change from business as usual? Look at the faces on the stage at any given time – how is this Convention different from ‘04, or ‘00, or ‘98? Where is the change?
And where is the hope? In 2004, John Kerry invited a brand new junior Senator from Illinois to deliver the keynote address of his convention. It was a look to the future, a symbol of hope in the future of the party. Four years later, that junior Senator is the party nominee, and where are the bright, rising stars? Nowhere near prime time, that’s a certainty. Where is the hope?
It seems to me that the Democrats aren’t trying to be “progressive,” they’re being regressive. They are trying to replicate Camelot and the Clinton years rather than building a firm platform and marching into the future.
It’s certainly not change I can believe in.
Well said!!!! What you have stated is what I have been focused regarding this campaign for the past several months. They talk about “change” but tell me what you want to change. As Charlie Gibson, anchorman for ABC News, stated on Monday was that he wanted someone to tell him in 10 words what the change would be. HELLO-we,as the American public, are not the only ones who are thinking this but also the media.