Winners and Losers of the 2012 DNC
Bill Clinton President Obama has been officially christened the Democrats’ 2012 presidential nominee. Who earned their party stripes this week, and who’s slinking home from Charlotte?
Winners
Bill Clinton – Who says you can’t go back? Sure, his speech was long, but nobody was going to pull the red light on Bill. Especially since he was hitting all the right notes that the Democrats wanted the TV audience to hear in an engaging way that now eludes the current Orator in Chief. When you have an advance copy of an Obama speech, you know that just a few words might change through the delivery. With Clinton’s speech, prepared remarks were basically useless as he ad-libbed his way through nearly half of the 48-minute address. Plus, Clinton easily pulled off a key aspect that fell short for the current president: He looked like he was having a blast up there. He notably turned the Bush blaming into Bush praise while lauding his allying in global AIDS initiatives. Even those who are not fans of Clinton wanted to hear what he was going to say, and despite the length I’m guessing he had a much higher retention rate than Obama. He branched off on tangent after tangent and paused for multiple self-backpats, yet viewers still hung in to see where he’d go next. Clinton upstaged the guy he supposedly came to help, and their stiff hug afterward said as much.
Hillary Clinton – Where was the former first lady during her husband’s remarks? A world away from the Democratic National Convention, missing the event for the first time since 1968, the secretary of State watched the former president’s speech from East Timor. The next day in remarks with Timor-Leste Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao, Clinton said it was “a good rule” for the country’s top diplomat to skip such affairs “because of the nonpartisan nature of our foreign policy.” Even with the geographical disparity, Bill Clinton kept hope alive, so to speak, and excitement high for his wife’s future goals of running for office. “My husband read parts of his speech to me over the last few days. I received the as-prepared version, which I’m anxious, when I can, to compare with the as-delivered version,” she quipped to reporters on Thursday.
Joe Biden – The unthinkable happened last night: While most were just hoping the vice president didn’t merrily dance into a minefield, mirroring multiple recent gaffes and verbal diarrhea on the campaign trail, Biden outshined his boss on the stage. He played well upon his strength — while definitely not in Bill’s league, Biden has the Clintonesque quality of the “real guy” charm, being able to give a speech like he’s pulled up a chair in your living room, raided your fridge, and rifled through your CD collection. He recycled lines, too, but his earnest delivery and enthusiasm made them feel dusted off and ready for primetime. Biden did so while managing to keep a lid on quips about lube or 7-Eleven employees, and even opened with a sweet tribute to his wife (in keeping with the “I love my spouse the most” theme of both conventions).
Emanuel Cleaver – The chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus not only gave the hope and change mantra a 2012 update and revarnish, but his impassioned address managed to blend a call for congeniality in Congress with a full-throated defense of liberal beliefs. If there was a speech to rally the base and make undecideds sit up and listen at the same time, it was wrapped up in the Missouri congressman’s infectious tone and accessible wording. In some ways, he was also schooling Obama on the message the president himself used to get elected: “I want to encourage our president and all of us to continue to hope for an America that remembers, recognizes, and fervently protects its greatness. …As long as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob sits on the throne of grace, hope on!”
Deval Patrick – The current governor of Massachusetts used every weapon in his arsenal to try to discredit his predecessor, and did so in a way that could prove damaging in the eyes of an average undecided voter. He’ll be remembered most, though, for rallying the base in a way that perhaps Obama should have tried: Patrick famously told Democrats to grow a pair, or “grow a backbone and stand up for what we believe.”
Lilly Ledbetter – She’s been mentioned by President Obama and Michelle Obama on nearly every campaign stump. But most Americans weren’t able to put a face to the policy on women’s equal pay for equal work until she spoke before the convention. A former supervisor at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Ledbetter blasted her message from the podium like the Erin Brockovich of the “war on women.” By putting her front and center, Dems were able to make the first bill signed by Obama come alive.
Julian Castro – I wouldn’t put the San Antonio mayor’s keynote speech at the level of stunning anticipated on the opening night of the convention. But Castro did come off poised and talented at politics. Expect him to be poised for higher office, as the Democrats clearly intend by giving him the up-and-comer prime speaking slot. And imagine, if you will, a face-off for the White House someday between Castro and Marco Rubio.
Ted Strickland – The former governor of Ohio offered the amendments, with impassioned arguments behind them, to put God and Jerusalem back into the Democratic platform. The ordained Methodist minister will always be able to put that on his resume.
Abortion – It was actually surprising to see how much play this got in a nationally televised convention, including speeches from Planned Parenthood and NARAL chiefs. The DNC was expected to hit hard on women being able to get birth control without a co-payment, but the messaging went many steps further into the territory of abortion rights. A striking example that highlights the truth of both conventions: While ostensibly intended to lure undecideds, they were each really about rallying the base.
Clint Eastwood: “President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know. I may have irritated a lot of the lefties, but I was aiming for people in the middle. I had three points I wanted to make. That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.”
http://www.pineconearchive.com/120907-1.html
“President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.”
There have been others, but Barack takes the cake.
Obama tops even me.
And you were one tall dude, long lasting hoax
I’m Barry’s other brother from a different mother. He’s good, but I’m better.
Isn’t Obama more like the cherry on top of the hoax that is the Democratic Party?
The Dems say they’re for the “working man” but Unions, Environmentalists, and fiscal policy are all against the “working man”
The Dems say they’re for the Environment but only a rich nation can afford such luxuries and runaway social spending and Public Unions have bankrupted the country
I could continue but for every special interest they’re “for” the Dems seem to have several special interest groups aligned “against”. Obama’s fault is that he’s not smooth enough, like Clinton was, to keep all of the balls in the air.
Bridget wrote: “Jimmy Carter – What did he say in his video? Precisely. The former president’s message was as forgettable as his term.”
That’s all Mr. Peanut could say, Obama had stolen Carter’s copyrighted 30-year-old material for Obama’s own speech. Don’t miss this one:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/09/07/it_s_uncanny_obama_copied_jimmy_carter_s_convention_acceptance_speech_from_1980
The thermometer is going lower, more than it went higher before
Time there was warmth and plenty, but that cup soon runneth no more
Though we could not caution all, we still might warn a few
Dont lend your hand to raise no flag atop no Ship of Obama Fools
Ship of Obama Fools on a delusional cruel sea
Ship of Obama Fools sail away from we.
It was later than we thought, when we still might have had some hope as you
Now we can no longer share your delusions, Ship of Obama Fools
Obama-Biden 2012: An Expressway To The Third World
It is rather stunning to learn that access to contraceptives is the most pressing issue for many supporting Obama. Oh well, at least I know what to buy a certain niece this Christmas: Condoms. Really folks, I strongly recommend it for family members and coworkers who won’t shut up about contraceptives. Birthdays, Christmas and any other occasion when a gift is expected, give them condoms.
So if that vapid ‘law stoodint’ is coughing up $3k/yr on condoms to get her phreaque on perzacktly when is she finding time to attend class? Mebbe if she stuffed her head in a paper bag and kept her mouth shut her booty call mates might be more inclined to spring for their own.
Yeah, 4R, but you don’t have to buy them. They’re free! Why do you think so many voted for the Big O in the first place. Surely so many Ami’s couldn’t have bought that hope and change nonsense.
WINNERS:
1.
“Clinton said it was “a good rule” for the country’s top diplomat to skip such affairs “because of the nonpartisan nature of our foreign policy.”
Um, sure she does. She wanted to stay a million miles away from this bomb of a convention. If she wants to run in 2016, Hillary Clinton doesn’t want to be associated with the Obama administration. Pity Obama’s foreign policy is as bad (if not worse) than his economic policies, so she won’t be able to run away from that. But since Bill Clinton doesn’t have to run for anything, he can take the hit instead of his hyper-ambitious wife. What a pair.
It’s actually a law:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/05/politics/dnc-no-hillary/index.html
Nice theory you have there, though.
Or not:
http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/315804/hatch-act-isnt-keeping-hillary-charlotte
Anyway the Hatch Act certainly doesn’t specify that the Secretary of State must be 10,000 miles away from her husband.
Yes, a possible loophole exists, but do you honestly think that the Democrats would want to distract from the convention by having to defend that loophole? If she had decided to be the first secretary of state in decades to attend a party convention, the NRO would not have written that article defending her choice. They would have accused her of violating the Hatch Act.
In any case your point is still absurd. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum was scheduled independently from the convention, and were it not for the convention, Obama would have probably attended. Hillary had to attend in his place.
WINNERS:
1. Satan,
2. Satan’s minions
LOSERS:
1. America (no matter how you slice it….)
amen
The biggest winner from this week’s DNC is going to be: Mitt Romney.
Between the Jerusalem/God fiasco, the doubling down on unrestricted abortion at a time when Americans are moving in the other direction, Obama’s lackluster speech and today’s disappointing jobs report.
This DNC may be the first Dem convention since 1968 in which the nominee (Obama in this case) gets a *negative* bounce. (What’s an antonym for “bounce”?)
In the above context I’d go for “flop.”
How Will You Answer?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwFIEprF_9Y&feature=player_embedded
I’m sorry Bridget, but an entire party that:
1)Can’t produce a single budget from either the White House or the Senate that they control, for more than three years;
2)Has no jobs plan whatsoever;
3)Doesn’t know if they want to be on record and have repeatedly tripped all over their tongues when it comes to the Jerusalem issue”
4)Apparently has a problem with God being part of their party platform;
5)Has an illegal immigration policy that does nothing about it being illegal and does nothing about immigration;
6)Runs guns to drug cartels;
7)Then invokes an executive privilege that does not exist as part of a coverup
8)Can’t tell an ally from an enemy
9)Doesn’t know the difference between a tax and a penalty
10)And has open hostility toward success
Could not have a successful convention by any traditional measure. They could have a cult meeting or a protest rally…but based upon the above, they cannot be trusted with fiscal policy, domestic policy, border policy, foreign policy, tax policy, Constitutional protection, or checks and balances.
They are the Protest Nation, that’s what they do. They can’t make anything, create any wealth, run any business enterprise, devise any foreign policy, even SUBMIT a budget.
They know how to insult, tax, protest, complain, divide, march, threaten, propagandize.
If a national party convention is intended to present a platform to the American people to witness, by all measurable accounts, EVERY speaker failed at the DNC. They have nothing to say if they are not against something. They were even protesting having to run on their record. They protest having to answer mildly inquisitive questions. They picked a fight with God.
There are no winners in that sewer. Only rats.
Clinton said it was “a good rule” for the country’s top diplomat to skip such affairs “because of the nonpartisan nature of our foreign policy.”
Take notice, this is why some Republican presidents still behave like dems (like Bush refusing to act against Siria’s nuke plant in progress), because some time ago some lefty started putting nonsense as “foreign policy” and declared it to be nonpartisan.
Slick Willie rides again!
Yea, the liberal convention was a riot.
Sandra Fluke begging for free birth control pills.
Jennifer Granholm having a mental breakdown. (she forgot to tell people how she destroyed Michigan’s economy)
Liberals booing God in front of the whole world.
Then there was the Catholice Priest who included unborn babies in his prayer while being amidst thousands of people who promote the slaughter of them.
Let’s not forget Michelle Obama promoting gay marriage in her speech. (I guess the priest said a silent prayer for her.)
Did you see all those democrats acting like they were praying when the Priest was giving the benediction? Heads bowed and some even had their hands folded.
Unreal…… I think an exorcism would have been more appropriate. Not often do you get to see so many master deceivers in action.
Government workers are the middle class that Obama refers to in his speeches. He is not talking about the true and the productive free market middle class! He uses word games designed to be confusing for those who do not understand the truth!
Unemployment Drops to 5.1 Percent—For Government Workers; Lowest Among All Industries By Terence P. Jeffrey September 7, 2012
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/unemployment-drops-51-percent-government-workers-lowest-among-all-industries
Jimmy Carter : Crisis of Confidence Speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCOd-qWZB_g
Historic Baths: Cleopatra’s and the 2012 DNC’s!!! After this week, Team Obama’s poll numbers will be going down the drain.
They’re creepy and they’re greedy,
Race baiting and spooky,
They’re all together icky,
The Obama/DNC Adams-Mason Family.
Their back yard is an aborted baby museum
Where people come to see ‘em
They really will a scream
The Obama/DNC Adams-Mason Family.
(They’re not Neat)
(They’re not Sweet)
(And their appetite is sure not Petite!!!)
So get a givers shawl on
A collection plate you can put a big $$$ contribution on
We’re gonna pay a call on
The Obama/DNC Adams-Mason Family.
Let us not overlook Sebalius’s contribution of the glories of Obamacare. You can keep your doctor,it will lower costs,and there will be free stuff. If ever a hack promises free stuff, be afraid then angry.
Her icy best quip was about Obama being raised by a good strong Kansas woman, and “You know about strong Kansas women.” There has to be a draconian award for her performance.
Thanks – Ms Johnson – for an interesting piece that avoids snarky attacks. For those of us who dont live in America but are interested in what goes on there, relatively objective analyses of both the conventions and parties is
very helpful. If I want attacks and put downs – by the liberals of the
conservatives or vice versa, I know where to find them. But after reading a few(from both sides) they really become quite tiresome.
You’ve seen the winners; Only a select few at the upper levels of the Democrat Party.
The LOSERS are all women, and anything else with a lick of common sense and responsibility.
Sandra Fluke is the precise female bimbo the Democrat Party wants all women to be. After all, isn’t Debbie Wasserman Schultz their Party Chairperson?
Democrat women are required to be from another planet, just like Janet.
There’s no end to the examples.
The apparent winners: Dead people and felons. They get to vote.
The apparent losers: Our military who are stationed away from home. They are not receiving the absentee ballots they requested. This is due to a technical oversight by our brilliant military minds, who demand that every one of them have a photo ID.
According to posthumous polls, dead people overwhelming vote Democratic. Polling of our military above the grass indicates less than unanimity with their Commander-in-Chief. Maybe Obama’s speech can raise h*** and reverse the trends.
This is what those in the halls of our government want! Unemployed activists and union members stormed into two supermarkets, one in Sevilla and one in Cadiz to fill up trolleys with basic food supplies in order to feed the disadvantaged. This act was organized by the Sindicato Andaluz de Trabajadores. teleSUR Published on Aug 8, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kebtviaGMMwfeature=player_embedded#!
President Carter speaks to Americans about the “crisis of confidence” in American government, values, and way of life, as the public expresses doubt in a better future for their own children. Carter challenges citizens to unite and address the problems in America by first addressing the energy shortage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCOd-qWZB_g
Carter was (and still is) eons more articulate than Obama.
There’s nothing you can do to hide a BONA FIDE LOSER.
Obama is going to be the poster boy for every worn out whore in the USA. It’s always the end result of giving “your loyalty” to the Democrat Party.
Here is another take on what really happened at the Dem convention:
http://takimag.com/article/an_overdose_of_hope_takimag#axzz25wIMoWTu
You forgot Corey Booker. I tell you what that man had to go through to get where he is; all the corruption he had to take and he stood there like a good little soldier for a campaign just as corrupt as the one he took over. That to me is just tasteless.