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Sesame Street Convention
By Michael Reagan
Desperate to look like sensible,
middle-of-the-road moderates, the Democrats have managed to put
on one of the most boring political conventions in history.
Why anyone would bother to watch
it is a puzzle there's no fire, there's no brimstone, there's
no fireworks, just a lot of far-out liberals trying to convince
the voters that deep down inside they're really moderate conservatives
who share the values of the majority of the American people.
In the past, Democratic National
Conventions were almost always real down-in-the-gutter slugfests.
This time around the people running the show have gone out of
their way to make the gathering look like Sesame Street.
You can just imagine the frustration
of the feature speakers at having to have every single word in
their speeches carefully scrutinized so they won't give voters
the impression that they are the left-wing bomb throwers that
they have always been.
As they stand on the podium uttering
their sanitized, pre-approved remarks one can imagine what it
is costing them to suppress the urge to let fly with the angry
rhetoric that is their stock in trade. It must have been boiling
up in their guts and it had to have taken an extreme effort to
bottle up the suppressed bile before it boiled over.
In the end, they were forced
simply to recycle all the usual Democratic claptrap and flat-out
lies that underlie their party line and everybody has heard a
thousand times. As a result, those masses of delegates who came
to Boston hungry to satisfy their need for raw meat are finding
themselves being fed a diet of political fat-free yogurt.
Take for example the appearance
of Mrs. Heinz Kerry on the same platform as Senator Kennedy who
she once called a "perfect bastard," and insisted he
is not to be trusted.
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