Surprise, surprise! Hillary whole-heartedly endorsed Barack.
Yeah, it's a surprise because for three whole days, all the journalists and commentators of all TV channels were wondering what Hillary would say, whether she would gut at McCain, support Obama, invade Russia. They were really scaring the crap out of me. I really thought she was going to say, at the Democratic Convention, that McCain would be the greatest president ever, that the poor guy had been a POW so he deserved to be in the White House for eight years, that the Constitution should be amended to allow him to run again and again.
Some even went as far as speculating that she wanted Obama to lose and McCain to win, because then it would give her a sure opportunity to be elected in four years. Oh, and that her middle name was really Machiavelli.
But no, 20 seconds in a speech, she said "I am proud to be a supporter of Barack Obama."
I was so relieved. I don't know what the journalists are going to talk about now. I guess they are not going to show up on TV today.
The thing is, apparently, according to some polls, a huge proportion of her supporters are not ready to vote for Obama and had rather vote for McCain.
Hm, I'm sorry, dear Hillary-supporter, but what the heck is wrong with you. I don't quite fathom the depth of your stupidity if you vote for the guy who is simply antithetical to what your beloved Hillary believed in. Sure, Hillary and Barack slightly disagreed on a few issues, but fundamentally, they want the same thing. Sure, they were opponents within the same party, but that's because they are both ambitious and megalomaniacs (just like any other public figure; yes, you have to be a little bit ambitious and megalomaniac if you feel you have something to say to huge audiences; come to that, I am a megalomaniac -- okay a small one -- because I feel bold and confident enough to address the two readers of my blog, my wife and my mommy).
But now, it's over, Hillary lost, get used to it, swallow the pill, and listen to her: "Were you in this campaign just for me?" If you were, you do not deserve a good leader, you deserve a monster-demago-megalomaniac who will put his portrait on huge billboards at every street corner. And, every time you see a portrait, you can kneel down and worship it.
Hillary-supporter, voting for John would offend the one you supported. So come on, listen to her and be proud of her. You can be, because last night, Tuesday 26, 2008, she delivered what was probably her best speech ever.
And she'll be president in eight years.
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Ha! I always say my blog has five readers. I'd say you have at least as many. : )
Salut Lionel
Bon tout d'abord je lis ton blog donc pas de fausse modestie :-)
Sinon par rapport à ce que tu disais sur la charge emotionnelle de la convention démocrate: vu qu'en gros ils emploient les même méthodes que les publicitaires ça m'étonneraient pas qu'on aient du cul dans les meetings politiques d'ici pas longtemps! ah ah ah
et puis j'ai été frappé par le discours du fils biden qui insistaient bien pour dire que meme si son pere travaillait à washington, il n'avait jamais été 'de' washington. On voit que la méfiance envers l'état fédéral reste un argument porteur!
Allez la bise
Pierre
Salut Pierre,
I am writing in English because I don't have the accents on the keyboard and it is annoying me.
Yes, it is significant how they insist -- Biden's son but also everybody else in his team; it is one of their leitmotivs -- that Joe Biden is not corrupted by Washington. The man was first elected senator in 1972, at the age of 29, and yet they want to convince the voters that he has remained Washington-proof. I think it is a hard trick to pull. That's why every speech by or about Biden mentions at least once that he comes back home every night by train. It is quite strange to hear that point so much at the forefront of a political campaign. At the same time, it is a way to emphasize how much of a family man he is, which is of prime importance for many American voters.
Merci de lire.
Lionel
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