Historical moments brings out the Greatness in everyone. Hillary showed us the Greatness. In case you missed it, or if you're like me and you want to watch it a few more times, Hillary's speech at the Democratic National Convention last night....
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In TheAtlantic.com, there's a writer there, Marc Ambinder, I'm reading lately. He writes a Blog called 'A Reported Blog on Politics' here.
Here's a recent entry called A Socratic Dialogue About The State Of The Obama Campaign. It hits home for me.
" Herein, a fictional conversation between two supporters of Barack Obama's. Call them "Ax" and "Rod." One is concerned about Obama's campaign. The other isn't. I suspect that a dialectic like this is taking place in the minds of many politically engaged Obama supporters right now. Should they panic? Or be patient.
Rod: I'm getting worried. I know you told me not to worry, but I really can't help it.
Ax: What worries you?
Rod: I know it's early. I know we don't know what the tickets will look like yet. And I know that Obama has the money and the staff to really put together a field operation the likes of which Democrats could only dream about. But what worries me is that, in this environment allegedly so favorable to the Democrats, the dream candidate of the party looks as if the wind's been knocked out of him.
Ax: Well, he's doing fine. He's leading or tied in just about every single poll that's come out over the course of two months. He is tied in states like Indiana, for Charlie Crist's-sakes. He has solid, outside the margin of error leads in other states bordering Illinois.
Rod: But he should be doing better. Michael Dukakis was up 17 points before the convention. And I heard this from the mouths of senior Obama campaign operatives. They assumed that he would be doing better by this point.. and did not roll their eyes at talk of a solid lead. True, it was ridiculous for McCain to try and lower expectations and insist that they'd be down 15 points.. but Obama hasn't cracked 50. He wasn't able to crack 50 even when the more weakly partisan Republicans weren't behind McCain.
Ax: Why should he be doing better? Maybe the Obama folks bought some of their own hype, but a solid three point lead in a 50/50 country against a universally known, well-respected war-hero Republican isn't "doing bad." And he's leading in enough states now to be in a great position for the electoral college.
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I was insulted when McCain ran that advertisement that made the claim that Barack Obama was more celebrity than candidate. Honestly, I didn't think about how Paris Hilton must have felt. So she tells us....
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Hey, as a friend of mine and I often say, "you can't just make this shit up". So imagine that you are a part of this flock, and that you are praying for rain, the "rain of biblical proportions" kind of rain. Pray for Rain - Biblical Proportion Rain - coincidently on the night of the Democratic National Convention. Stay thru to the end..... and as he says, 'would it be so bad?'
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