It’s not about ‘unity’, it’s about HIM. As Barry says, “Get over it”.

$1000 for the concession pantsuit.

Chuck Schick on August 27, 2008 at 12:00 PM

Too funny Chuck! Could ya see Hillary puttin’ her pant suit up on E-Bay to help pay off her campaign debts?

Maybe he will just tell the people that don’t agree with him or support him to just “get over it” and fall in line.

Mugabe lite.

Watch the crowds in the Pepsi Center on Thursday. Count the empty seats in the arena before Obama gives his Invesco Field acceptance speech. The more empty seats you see, the more the unity attempt failed.

We’ll never see those empty seats. The networks will do everything they can to focus solely on the filled part of the arena. And they’ll flog it, too. “The excitement is palpable”; “Obviously, Obama and Hillary have patched things up, as you can see by the cheering throngs”, etc, etc.

It’ll take bloggers on the floor to give us the reality. I’m looking forward to Lilieks, Michelle and company revealing the truth.

So, when all this is over, questions will remain: Did Bon Jovi give Obama the convention bounce he needed? Did Hillary’s “check” clear prior to her speech? Did the last Democratic President do all he could to heal the wounds or is his check still in the mail? Did the Invesco Field stage (turned into a Greek Temple) remind us that a new God has emerged to save the planet? Will any of this help Michelle’s children?

Celebrity——thy name is Obama.

Meanwhile, John McCain’s lead in Florida surges to seven points.

Do you think Bill Clinton’s speech on Wednesday will do it, after what he said Tuesday?…

Beautiful!

Riveting and emotional. I almost feel sorry for them except that their ideology and politics are such crap.

Quisp on August 27, 2008 at 9:15 AM

She is more qualified than Obama. Not that that’s saying much.

Last night was the unofficial launch of the Hillary 2012 campaign, setting Chelsea up for a go as soon as she’s old enough to run, say 2024?

Frankly, Chelsea looks much more together than her parents have ever looked. Scary, that.

What happened to all of the fainting fans? Seems after McCain nailed him as a rock star, the fainters disappeared.

volsense on August 27, 2008 at 9:19 AM

I’m waiting for one (or more) of the “fainters” to come forward and admit that the Obama campaign paid them. All that stuff (the fainting, almost on cue, and Obama parting the crowds and “rescuing” the fainter with a bottle of water) was so contrived.

Maybe after Obama loses in November, some of them will see the light and ‘fess up.

This is bad because when Obama loses, the Democratic party will likely blame the Clintons (justly or not) for not bucking-up the support for Obama the way that they should have. Hillary is in a lose-lose situation. Which means we are in a win-win situation.

thePajamaPundit on August 27, 2008 at 9:11 AM

You’re dreaming if you think anything but racism will be blamed for Obama’s loss. It will just confirm every white person in this country is “scared of people with funny names who don’t look like the guys on dollar bills”.

My guess would be they’ve already laid the groundwork for new affirmative action type programs that will be justified by an unqualified, inexperienced half-term senator losing the election.

I realize, I’m just a screaming racist since I support the idea of merit over quotas, but I’m just a typical white person so what do I know.

NO WAY
NO HOW
NOBAMA

Anyone notice how Hillary described herself as a proud mother, a proud senator and a proud democrat, but NOT a proud wife.

Bob L on August 27, 2008 at 8:56 AM

I noticed it too. I kept waiting for her to work “proud wife” into it. Intentional, subliminal, or forgetful?

Star20 on August 27, 2008 at 9:24 AM

Intentional. Bill was barely in the video tribute, either. The theme of Hillary’s speech was Woman Power, so she minimized Bill. She didn’t want to remind people that she would never have gotten as far as she has without riding a man’s coattails. There’s no way she’d be a senator if not for her husband, the former President. Remember that, for hard-core feminists, being a “proud wife” is not in the equation. One’s identity cannot be defined by a man, you see.

Is there any way we could track that?

Hillary Clinton gave a good effort in trying to close the sale for Barack Obama last night in the convention’s most anticipated speech.

She damned Obama with faint praise IMO. She never got around to really selling the idea that Democrats should get out there and get Obama elected. Oh, she said all the right things but she just never really got around to making us believe she means it.

Obama really made a big mistake in picking Biden.

Listening to Hillary last night, I might have considered voting for her over McCain.

I don’t think there is much Obama can do at this point to assuage the Hilary folks short of becoming a woman and having about a decade’s worth more experience.