Their convention coverage is just pathetic, as they like hearing their own pundits talk endlessly about the Clinton drama instead of actually airing the speeches.
Montana governor Brian Schweitzer is giving a pretty good speech ripping McCain on his energy proposals. CNN is showing it. MSNBC has Andrea Mitchell conducting an interview and saying that none of the speakers are going after McCain.
Just pathetic.
The speeches are getting much tougher tonight at the Democratic convention, though so far the cable networks haven’t been showing all of them.
Bob Casey actually introduced a pretty good line. After pointing out that John McCain voted with George W. Bush over 90% of the time, he said that McCain shouldn’t be referred to a “maverick,” but instead should be referred to as the “sidekick.” Frankly, if this was written by the Obama campaign, they probably should have had a better speaker deliver it, but at least Casey did a decent job with it.
Going back to last night, I disagree with those who feel that the Democrats blew it by not attacking McCain. It’s important to attack John McCain, but last night wasn’t the night to do it.
Michelle Obama gave a great speech, which was capped off with a great moment when the Obama daughters came onstage. Michelle needed to soften her image, and she accomplished that last night. I suspect the speech went over very well with Hillary’s female supporters.
I know he’s not speaking in prime time, so the crowd really wasn’t ready for a big speech, but Ed Rendell laid an egg with his speech on energy.
The substance was great, but the delivery was terrible. He rushed through it, and didn’t give the crowd a chance to get involved.
He made some great points that hopefully he’ll repeat in interviews. He focused on John McCain’s record of voting against initiatives for clean energy or energy independence. These themes need to be repeated over and over again. Hopefully other speakers will pick up on the theme and do a better job.
For example, McCain keeps saying that he favors a strategy of “all of the above,” meaning that he favors drilling and all other approaches. The problem is that he has consistently opposed ALL of these in the past. He’s a total fraud on this issue. On this point, Rendell’s speech just didn’t go far enough.
Pretty impressive for a man with brain cancer. Ted Kennedy rose to the occasion and gave a great speech at the Democratic convention. His signature cause has always been universal health care. If voters care about that issue, the choice is clear in this election.
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