The Two Conventions: Night & Day

[BluegrassCat]

We're only one night into the DNC and Michelle Obama on her own has already bested the entire RNC, not that the RNC put up much of a fight. The RNC had angry old men yelling at empty furniture, Chris Christie reciting Machiavelli, and Anne Romney pandering to women all amidst Ryan & Romney's deep deep dishonesty.

Patrick Deval, Julian Castro and Michelle all had great speeches that spoke to the American dream but the DNC could quit now on the power of Michelle's speech and get a huge bounce. It's just not fair, Democrats have far better speeches and far more popular policies. And of course there's none of the hateful divisive rhetoric that dominated the RNC, the Democrats offered a powerful and positive message that Americans are hungry for. The rats over at Fox News will be drinking heavily tonight.

[buttslinger]

Chris Wallace on Fox was kind of excited, I didn't stick around long enough to hear what Rove said....he he.

[Ben]

What could Obama do? Well, according to the economist Dean Baker: "President Obama can actually push a free trade agenda that would mean millions of new manufacturing jobs. For example, he could pursue a competitive dollar policy that will push the dollar down to levels where U.S. goods and services are better able to compete internationally. This would bring our trade deficit closer to balance.This would be both good economics and good politics since it would have huge appeal to the bulk of the population, although it would likely lose President Obama many big donors."
Therein lies the problem.... Obama needs to get cash from the big corporate sector. So, he has to appease them. And not, say, appease the majority of the American populace.
Obama can't put in place policies which the vast majority of Americans want. That's called democracy....
I mean, corporate titans actively work to undermine democratic structures.
So, they repeat the mantra: government is bad, we should have low taxes on "job creators" and on and on and on.
Certainly the business sector, the large business sector, is in favor of big government to serve their interests. And why wouldn't they be? It's perfectly rational.
They're certainly in favor of a large military budget because the bad guys are coming.
No. It means a mass transfer of public wealth to the private sector. Which is perfectly rational.
Don't critique business executives. They're simply out to serve their own interests. It's logical....
I mean, it would be ILLOGICAL if they didn't use government for their own interests.
An executive would be lacking in lucid conduct if he or she didn't take advantage of the massive government that we have....

[Ben]

We're only one night into the DNC and Michelle Obama on her own has already bested the entire RNC, not that the RNC put up much of a fight. The RNC had angry old men yelling at empty furniture, Chris Christie reciting Machiavelli, and Anne Romney pandering to women all amidst Ryan & Romney's deep deep dishonesty.

Patrick Deval, Julian Castro and Michelle all had great speeches that spoke to the American dream but the DNC could quit now on the power of Michelle's speech and get a huge bounce. It's just not fair, Democrats have far better speeches and far more popular policies. And of course there's none of the hateful divisive rhetoric that dominated the RNC, the Democrats offered a powerful and positive message that Americans are hungry for. The rats over at Fox News will be drinking heavily tonight.

[Ben]

Obamobedience:

http://warisacrime.org/content/obamobedience

[BluegrassCat]

Man, Bubba dismantled the lies of Ryan and Romney. He talked policy in depth while always bringing it back to values. The crowd loved it. It was a much better speech than the one W. Bush gave at the RNC...oh wait, lol.

[Ben]

The wonderful whirling world of Obama and his drones:

[Ben]

What Dems don't talk about...

Who is held to account for deaths by drone in Yemen?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...=FBCNETTXT9038

[Ben]

Yeah, Palin is right: whatever happened to "hope" and "change" -- ha ha!

[Ben]

Elizabeth Warren correctly points out, in my estimation, that Republicans, the Party and not Republican supporters, believe in big government to help themselves and their powerful friends. And even Ron Paul believes that too.