Cap’n AMatrixca
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Don't ask us to grow up and out of it...
This has been, for me, the best week of Lit ever, as I see that the boys are back in town.
We began the week fighting over Obama's "experience" and the looming spectacle of the greatest speech ever made. The problem in attacking Obama's experience, the Constitution, which specifically says, over 35 and a natural-born citizen, was that the Democrats were rightly rejoinding with, stick to the issues, we're voting for his ideas and his life story and the history of the moment.
By Wednesday, the Democrats were slightly giddy and very pleased that Biden went out and promised, he was going to get up and he was going to go bloody noses, this being an even year (and in even years, Democrats talk real tough on things like crime, corruption, and national security), because in the last odd year, they were saying, "Don't get up! Take the count!" On Thursday night, it was finally real, we had witnessed history, the Democrats did a brave and noble thing, they nominated a black man to lead this country. What a proud, happy moment for all of us, and with a flourish of "Mission Accomplished" he gave his "I have many Dreams" speech on the day Dr. King gave his "I have a Dream" speech. The feeling was, now that America could finally see the real Barack, we would be as sold on him as much as the united, happy, fresh voice of the new Democrat Party.
So why, by yesterday morning, were they in a frothing rage?
The Republicans named a woman to the ticket.
"SHE'S NOT EXPERIENCED ENOUGH?"
Was she born in Panama?
This has been, for me, the best week of Lit ever, as I see that the boys are back in town.
We began the week fighting over Obama's "experience" and the looming spectacle of the greatest speech ever made. The problem in attacking Obama's experience, the Constitution, which specifically says, over 35 and a natural-born citizen, was that the Democrats were rightly rejoinding with, stick to the issues, we're voting for his ideas and his life story and the history of the moment.
By Wednesday, the Democrats were slightly giddy and very pleased that Biden went out and promised, he was going to get up and he was going to go bloody noses, this being an even year (and in even years, Democrats talk real tough on things like crime, corruption, and national security), because in the last odd year, they were saying, "Don't get up! Take the count!" On Thursday night, it was finally real, we had witnessed history, the Democrats did a brave and noble thing, they nominated a black man to lead this country. What a proud, happy moment for all of us, and with a flourish of "Mission Accomplished" he gave his "I have many Dreams" speech on the day Dr. King gave his "I have a Dream" speech. The feeling was, now that America could finally see the real Barack, we would be as sold on him as much as the united, happy, fresh voice of the new Democrat Party.
So why, by yesterday morning, were they in a frothing rage?
The Republicans named a woman to the ticket.
"SHE'S NOT EXPERIENCED ENOUGH?"
Was she born in Panama?
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