Posted on 08/26/2008 12:24:31 PM PDT by Schnucki
Somewhere in the midst of all the carefully choreographed razzmatazz, security scares and psychobabble about the Clintons’ state of mind, Barack Obama has an important message. The trouble is, some worried Democrats say, it is not getting through.
The party is palpably paranoid about the prospects of snatching another defeat from the jaws of victory. Delegates are eyeing every new poll showing Mr Obama is locked in tight fight with John McCain even though voters are more hostile to the incumbent Republicans than at any other time in recent history.
Inside the Pepsi Centre where the convention is being held, the atmosphere is a mixture of theme-park gift shop Americana and a sales conference. Hawaiian delegates wear flower necklaces, Texans sport cheap cowboy hats, Alaskans are in embroidered Eskimo outfits. The suits are too busy flicking business cards at each other to listen to most speeches. Every 20 minutes or so, a live band strikes up and everybody gets up to dance or wave their placards in listless fashion.
But the opening night is being compared with the last Democratic convention in Boston four years ago when more time was spent on feel-good personal biography about John Kerry than hammering the Republicans. Talkshow schedules asked: "Did Democrats waste first day? Did Bush get free pass?" The big star was Senator Edward Kennedy, who arrived on stage eight weeks after his operation for a incurable brain tumour with patches of hair missing in his famous white thatch and a large bandage on his left hand.
Delegates were shown spine-tingling images of the Kennedy brothers before the liberal lion himself brought the convention to its feet with an emotional vow that he would be in the Senate to see "the torch passed again to a new generation of Americans" at Mr Obama’s
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There is no message. There’s nothing to say about Mr. Obama.
Obama doesn’t have a message. He has an image.
good grief, how many ways can he get his boring message out:
hope and change and change and hope and hope and change and change and hope and hope and change and change and hope...blah, blah, blah....
Maybe he lost it in Hillary Clinton’s pantsuit.
That’s certainly my impression.
Cause he cannot afford to have the American people look at this agenda. Obama’s plan is a repeat of Jimmy Carter's. There is nothing in his policies statements any different then what Carter did in his 4 years.
Obama’s message “Back to the 1970s”!
Yeah, but image sounds kinda like message.
Yes there is!
He's Black!....well, sort of...
and also, er....umm.....err....oh, forget it..
Yeah that Republican majority in congress explains the 9% approval rating. /s
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=empty+suit&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2
Google images for “empty suit” and who shows up? Heh heh...
It wasn't lost. It was text-messaged.
Barry has a message? Who knew?
The party is palpably paranoid about the prospects of snatching another defeat from the jaws of victory.
NOPE...he lost it when he announced Joe Biden as his VP choice....for being so smart and wanting to tell US how we should live our lives, they are surely screwing there’s up....hahahahahaha
The message is:
I am for hope and change. And by the way, I’m a normal guy, so ignore Rev. Wright, Davis and Ayers and all that other stuff, OK?
Oh, and try not to pay attention to Hillary either.
And McCain is Bush III
Got it? End of message.
Exciting, isn’t it?!
That's absolutely right. And it turns out that now he's got an image problem.
Message? Do they mean socialism?
No, I’ve got that message.
I think that’s their point. Don’t make this election about Obama or he will loose. Make this election about Republicans and George Bush. Do it quick before ‘hate fatigue’ set in.
(I keep hoping that it’ll wear off.)
He has a message?
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