Live from DNC: Hillary the Angry Populist, Part II (Day 3)
Sen. Hillary Clinton’s big speech Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention had a familiar ring to those who covered the former First Lady during the primaries.
Once she had name-checked Barack Obama, Stephanie Tubbs Jones, and Bill Gwatney, Hillary said, “I ran for President to renew the promise of America,” and then went into a laundry list of promises recycled from the latter phase of her campaign.
After falling behind Obama in the delegate count, Hillary ditched her above-it-all demeanor and resorted to a fiery populist style that recalled Hubert Humphrey during the 1972 campaign, when the Democrat’s shameless promise-a-minute rhetoric caused gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson to dismiss Humphrey as “a shallow, contemptible and hopelessly dishonest old hack.”
Philip Klein of the American Spectator called it Hillary’s “Say Anything” campaign. By May, Klein observed, Clinton was “staking her candidacy on a barrage of policy proposals that are completely untenable, and focused mainly on inciting middle class anger toward a carefully chosen list of enemies.”
This neo-populist message was what Hillary recycled in her speech Tuesday: “a clean energy economy that will create millions of green collar jobs … a health care system that is universal, high quality, and affordable … a world class education system and make college affordable again … an America defined by deep and meaningful equality … promoting unionization … bring fiscal sanity back to Washington … end the war in Iraq, bring our troops home and honor their service by caring for our veterans.”
By the way, I missed a few minutes of Hillary’s performance here and there. Did she ever say what the “millions of green collar jobs” are going to be? (Millions?!??!)
Will green be the color of the uniform for Obama’s new Civilian Defense Force? And will their job be to travel house-to-house ensuring that everyone’s thermostat is set properly, they’re driving an appropriately flex-fueled vehicle, trigger-locking their nasty firearms, visiting only government approved web sites, etc.?
Or is green the color of the uniform to be worn by the millions of professional spinners who will generate America’s electricity through hours of pedaling stationary bikes?
Bueller? Anyone?
Do these people even listen to themselves?
Clinton’s speech was very environment-friendly: it was all recycled.
Boilerplate.
I believe the traditional color is brown. At least for the shirts….
So… ‘green’ is the new ‘brown’?
That’s good to know.
Watermelons: Green on the outside, Red on the inside.
I AM AMUSED BY THE SPIN, THAT THE SPECIAL SARA VP IS JUST A HEARTBEAT AWAY FROM THE PRESIDENCY.
WHEN OBAMA, IS THE BIG BEAT. A ROOKIE PRESIDENT AND THE ROOKIE VICE PRESIDENT, WHICH ONE NEEDS THE EXPERIENCE THE MOST? YEP, SHOULD SARA HAVE TO TAKE OVER MCCAINS JOB, SHE CAN DO THE SAME THING OBAMA DID AND FIND HER A FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAN LIKE JOE BIDEN TO LEAN ON. HA!