People were anticipating the speech of former President Bill Clinton on Wednesday night more than Joe Biden’s.
All day on the cable news networks reporters were asking, “What will he say?” “Is he still mad at Obama for not giving his two terms as President some love in his speeches?” “Will he hold back since he wants his wife to become President?” “Is he mad about the race issue?”
Bill Clinton did a fine job in toeing the party line and promoting Barack Obama and Joe Biden. It must have been a tough thing to do when you know your candidate has more experience than the one who won the nomination.
The Wednesday convention started with a “staged” roll call vote from the states for the nomination of President. Montana’s delegation was very long-winded and the Montana Democratic Party Chairmen mixed up which side of our state has mountains and which side has the prairies. He then corrected his mistake.
Then Hillary walked onto the floor and went to New York’s spot and ended it all. Nancy Pelosi had a vote, but cut short the “Nay” votes of people who might have been against the stopping the process. I’m sure some Hillary supporters were not too happy with Nancy’s actions. But this is nothing new for Pelosi, as she hasn’t allowed a vote on drilling in the House, either.
Several Democratic Senators (most with less seniority) than Max Baucus have spoken at the convention, but no Max Baucus (or Jon Tester). Powerful? The Montana media has not taken the time to ask Baucus why he was excluded from the stage.
Joe Biden’s speech was good, but it contained many false statements. Biden has a nice family and his story is impressive. But everyone who watched the speech had to be thinking that Joe Biden does not believe that Barack Obama is ready to be President. He said that during the primary. Biden also said would have been honored to run on the same ticket with John McCain. Man, how times change since Biden started drinking that party kool-aid!
The video about veterans was impressive. The democrats have started cutting into the Republican’s power with the veterans (but not with me), and the Republicans need to improve on their work for veterans. We vote.
So now we head into the finale at Mile High Stadium tonight. Mile High is now being called the “Temple of Obama” or “The Barackopolis” by the McCain campaign since it resembles a Greek Temple. They even gave some examples of what to wear to the event. Funny stuff.
It looks like it will be big. Obama will surely give another great speech – because his strongest asset is giving good speeches.