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The Democrat National Committee opened it's nominating convention with a DAY OF THE WOMAN at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California on Monday August 14, 2000. Looking to cement their self-perceived images of themselves as the party of ethnic and cultural diversity, the Democrats wanted to make sure their convention had a more culturally diverse visual look; SO THEY INSTITUTED RACIAL QUOTAS FOR THEIR DELEGATIONS. Yes, you heard it right, folks!
Into this phoney manufactured, wag the dog, Hollywood scripted envirnoment dove the collected news media. I guess there must be some reason why FOX and MSNBC are covering the DNC event even before it starts and they only covered the GOP sporadically, only after it began in earnest. So much for FOX's contention about being " fair and balanced "? C-Span and PBS were the viewer's only choices if you wanted continuous coverage of the speaker at the dias.
Prior to the opening of the event, the FOX and NBC cable news channels conducted some rather innocuous interviews, politically correctly so.
There was the Rita Cosby, Hillary Rodham Clinton lovefest showing her practising at the podium ( sans knee pads? ).
On FOX, we had:
Ex-president Jimmy Carter was interviewed by Paula Zahn at about 10AM Los Angeles time ( not Times ). He volunteered, " Everyone knows the Republican party has always been oriented toward the richer people in America and Democrats the poor ". Huh? Remember, I voted for Jimmy Carter once. I would ask, what about the Hollywood elite giving millions to Bill and Hillary Clinton's coffers ( campaign or otherwise )? I guess the Democrats consider anyone with less than a billion dollars in their bank account, as being poor?
Next came ' Princess Quid Pro Quo ' Alexis Herman of Energy Department security badge color discrimination fame, to talk to Zahn. She lied, " He ( Gore ) fought in an unpopular war ". The only way this is not an out and out direct lie, is if her definition of the word ' fought ' is, ' smoked marijuana in a Saigon bar ', because that is exactly how close to combat Al baby got in Vietnam on his short timer tour of duty. The march of unelected political appointees from the most corrupt administration in the history of the United States continued with Rodney Slater, Secretary of Transportation.
Cruz Bustamante, California Lt. Governor ( and head of the Mexican fifth column? ) preached that we should not, " beat up on immigrants ". Sadly, he was talking illegal aliens guilty of federal felonies, not legal immigrants. Our ancestors came here legally and I would like to know why the Mexicans think they don't have to go through the legal process like everyone else?
Energy Secretary Bill Richardson began to take credit for everything except giving away nuclear secrets to the People's Republic of Red China, with, " Gas prices are going down and I am proud of that ". Can you say, WAG THE GAS PUMP? I knew you could!
On (DN)CNN, there was Representitve Harold Ford Jr. appearing with Wolf ( in Democrat sheep's clothing ) Blitzer. Ford exclaimed, " Our party is not about lip service ". Oh yeah; ask Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky about that!
The convention opened it's official festivities with a tape featuring JFK and a speech by National Chairman of the DNC, Joe Andrew. He began, " We celebrate the prosperity and progress of the last eight years ". I would ask, whose ' prosperity ' and I guess the ' progress ' is that of micro-minorities advancing their morally bankrupt or relativistic selfish agendas?
Am I wrong to think it is pandering to the California Democrat vote for the DNC to have an eight year old child of Hispanic descent, Juan Carlos Hernandez, sing the national anthem in a nominating convention held in Los Angeles?
I hope I am wrong about this, but I don't think so. While I was getting a condemned man's last cup of coffee, I heard Cardinal Mahoney of Los Angeles delivering the opening eulogy, say, " Don't discriminate against people on the basis of their immigration status ". This is sickness; they are felons!
Governor Gary Locke of Washington State pumped up the partisan Commissar of Czechsofornia with, " Gray Davis of California has ended years of neglect...and made it the golden state once again ". I guess over turning the majority of KKKalifornia voters, who passed Propositions 187, 209 and 229 to deny welfare payments and services to illegal aliens and end the discrimination of minority quotas, is what he was elluding to?
Steny Hoyer is the Parliamentarian? Whoa man, that is like putting the fox in charge of the hen house. I suppose, in a party where their leader doesn't even know what the meaning of the word is, is; it makes complete sense?
Governor Paul Patton of Kentucky, obviously no relation to General George S. Patton, began the democRAT attack on George W. Bush with a misleading half truth, supposedly attributed to Bush, " Higher education is not my priority ". He used this to illustrate that Mr. Bush doesn't really care? It is possible that Bush was asked about where in the education system he thought the biggest problem was or something like that, but it was quite obvious that Patton's motive was to mislead!
I gotta' give (DN)C-Span some credit where credit is due. During a Leon Trotsky-like speech by Representitive Patrick Kennedy where the foam flowed freely from his mouth, the camera feed momentarily changed to that of two women laughing ( and what Kennedy was saying was not in the least bit humorous )!
Linda Chavez-Thompson ( and not Hunter S. ) got to croon, " Thank God for the Democratic Party and thank God for all of you ". Just a little bit hypocritical, wouldn't you say? Speaking of hypocrisy; remember that C-Span covered the guy hand painting all those signs which look so spontaneously done!
The festivities began in earnest with the two female United States Senators from Czechsofornia, The Bobsy Twins, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer ( left and lefter ). Boxer tried to emulate George Bush from the GOP convention with a chant of the, " We had our chance; we led ", mantra. She brought back and trotted out the latest golden oldie talking points memo fax subject of abortion ( if only these clowns were as enthusiastic about cutting taxes, cutting the size of government and strengthening the military ). She may have made a mistake in bringing up this without her Buddhist monk robe on, saying, " We need campaign finance reform ". She better not say that around Al Gore on Thursday night, unless she has a pocket full of blank ten thousand dollar checks from folks who all took a vow of poverty!
Dianne ' Is it a male or a female? ' Feinstein had visably gained quite a few dress sizes since her media covered stint on the Senate Judiciary Committee during the impeachment procedings of Bill Clinton. She continued to take all the credit for the DNC for all the so-called prosperity we ( who? ) have had since 1992, saying, " We have turned around the lives of eighteen million American families. The economy wouldn't have turned around without the administration of Bill Clinton and Al Gore ". Yeah right, sure, whatever. The GOP Congress presided over the budget balancing and not the Democrats, and that is a fact that they cannot deny. The budget was not balanced ( like it is now, sure man and I got a bridge over here for you real cheap as well ) until 1999. She hit on tax relief for families and the " patient's bill of rights ". Funny, I thought I saw Willie veto that legisation just last week? Closing, she did a sticky " John Kennedy ", mantra.
ON A NIGHT FEATURING DEMOCRAT FEMMES POLITIC', IT WAS TYPICAL LIBERAL STYLE TO HAVE THE FIRST PHILANDERER BE THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER?
Oh yeah, it bears repeating that the Fox News Channel again reported that the DNC has a quota system for delegations to make sure they look diverse.
No doubt having a bout of temporary amnesia, Representitive Lynn Woolsey said, " Fortunate for us Bill Clinton and Al Gore have been on our side cleaning up welfare ". She was followed by DNC operative Lydia Camarillo getting her chance at the C-Span cameras.
Democrat National Convention Chairman Terry McAuliffe ( doesn't he pay Bill and Hillary's mortgage? ) led the last few men of the night, chanting another tired DNC mantra, " We will always fight for the people not the powerful ". Excuse me, how much was that mortgage again and just who did you get that money from? He opened the wholesale attack on the GOP, calling their convention, " the Republican happy talk ", featuring, " a show...a shell game...a sham ". This kind of baloney only made me think; who were all those Hollywood fatcat millionaires giving piles of cash to the Democrats last night, chopped liver?
Next they trotted out the pastey white and cardboard replica looking, Mayor Richard Riordan ( He had me fooled ) of Los Angeles. This guy was only a Republican so he could run against a Democrat in the race for major. He gave something that was supposed to be a speech, but it lasted too long with nobody listening and nobody caring. Oh, he exposed his Democrat clothing under all that GOP make-up and introduced his registered Democrat wife!
Not to be out chanted by other mantra-wielding Democrats, the Commissar ( Governor? ) of Czechslofornia Gray Davis ( I voted for this clown once ) who graciously overturned the will of a vast majority of his state's voters in not implementing Proposition 187, rhetorically questioned/mantraed, " Are we all better off than we were eight years ago "?
Alexis Herman ( not Goering ) made a return visit to the podium of habitual falsehood and exclaimed, " We cleaned up their economic mess ". Oh, I guess by " their ", she means the Democrats who were thrown out in 1994? Obviously taking some of Barbara Boxer's ammunition, Herman elluded to the GOP convention with, " Forget lost opportunity, try memory loss ".
YOU KNOW, THESE DEMOCRATS ARE DOWN RIGHT VICIOUS...
Jeanne Shaheen, Governor of New Hampshire led the final all female march of speakers leading up to the First Womanizer. She ran a panel of ' real ' people, including David Robar, who was shown in a video tape going off a ski-jump with a voice over talking about the Olympics and his carreer ending spinal injury, giving the impression he was injured practising. When it was time for him to speak, he said it was a motorcycle accident and they quickly took the camera off him and moved on to the next person. It was sort of like the snake oil selling religious ceremony with people testilying?
Dianne Feinstein ( She commands respect from an audience like a female Herman Goering. ) introduced a video tribute to Jimmy Carter, which they got the idead for from the GOP convention presidential tributes. You know, I voted for him once; or did I say that already?
United States Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland declared that Al Gore is, " the greatest Vice President America has ever had ".
( I MEAN HOW MANY WOMEN DO THEY GOT? THEY GOT A LOT. )
The march of female Democrat United States Senators continued with Blanche Lincoln from Arkansas doing social security and medicare, and Patty Murray from Washington State doing schools, while Mary Landrieu ( The will of Landru? ) did welfare. Landrieu said, " We ( women? liberals? ) have the will and the Democrats know the way ". Candidate for United States Senate, Representitive Debbie Stabenow from Michigan did the " Family medical leave act " thing.
DOESN'T IT SEEM FUNNY TO ANYONE ELSE; OR IS IT JUST ME, BUT THE BROADCAST MEDIA IS COVERING THE THE DNC CONVENTION LIVE FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, WHILE THEY ONLY COVERED THE VERY LAST DAY OF THE GOP? Either way, C-Span and PBS had continuous live coverage, while other channels did interviews between key speakers.
To finish off the evening, and probably the DNC's chances for a Presidential victory or regaining their majorities in Congress, which are now just a bad memory, came a double dose of doubletalk from Mr. and Mrs. Clinton ( their history lessons conveniently ending in the year 1993 )?
Feinstein got to spout her socialist gun control line and then all the women lined up on the dias. ENTER THE HILLARY BEAST TO BE ANNOINTED SENATOR FROM NEW YORK ( We are all secretly, and some openly, laughing at New York State ).
Hillary; oh man, she's got some teeth on her. This women is a real Smokey The Dolphin. " Thank you, thank you all so much ". How many times can one person say, " thank you "? She unholstered the horn and blew away, " My husband's visionary leadership has led us into the 21st Century ". Is this one drunk with political power or what? After tooting Bill's horn and her horn un-countable times, she finally came to Earth for a moment and said, " I admire Joe's work to reduce violence in the media ". Is this pandering or what; she knows Bill can't say a thing about that! C-Span cut to kids and moms in the audience; boy they love Hillary at C-Span! She finally began to sink to her traditional Fabian Socialist level, mentioning her own extremely socialist world model with, " I certainly believe it takes a village " ( plugging her own socialist bile book at the same time ). She then seemed to remember actually what Bill ordered her to do and got back to the criticize Hollywood sham/scam, calling ours, " a culture that too often glorifies violence ". Having done her duty, she then got arrogant and threw her failed Hillary-care fiasco in the viewer's faces, with, " I had a few ideas about health care and I have learned a few things since then ". Oh, please, she sunk back into the old campaign mode by insisting not to, " burden the children with a big debt they didn't create ". She finally fell back on cliche's, " Leaders that walk the walk and not just talk the talk.
HILLRY'S SPEECH WOKE MY DOG UP AND IT LEFT THE ROOM. I think people should remember that Bill Clinton never got nearly fifty percent of the popular vote!
Preceded by a series of pictures of events, the vast majority of which happened before his time, as a video production with a voice-over ( How dare they play a tape glorifying what they did to the Serbs in Kosovo ), the giant screen television monitor displayed the image of President Bill Clinton strutting down the hallway on his route to the stage. It was like a combination WCW or WWF wrestling event intro, or the Men In Black movie, but Clinton mugged his way out. Thum(s) up, he began, " Thank you, thank you, thank you ". This really was, how many times can you say ' thank you ". It was the old forty years ago JFK for president and this year Al Gore for the first president of the 21st Century thing.
Clinton lauded his job as President, ofcourse. He seemed to forget the help he got from a compliant GOP Congress ( though I violently disagree with it, NAFTA would still be just a concept were it not for the GOP majority in both the House and Senate ), saying, " Let's remember how we got here ". Clinton then gaffed, something he very rarely does, saying, " responsibility from all ". What the heck does that mean? Is that a Fruedian slip for not taking responsibility for one's own actions? Citing the predictions of gloom and doom rought by the GOP members of Congress after Al Gore cast the deciding vote in the Senate on the largest tax increase in history, but not giving them credit for the prosperity after the 1994 GOP landslide takeover of Congress, Clinton preached, " Time has not been kind to their predictions ". He took credit for what the GOP led Congress has done since 1994, but had no specific examples to offer after 1993, naturally ( but that was to be expected ).
According to Clinton, we have the lowest level of everything that you want low and record new highs where the greater the number is the better ( Everything that was supposed to be low was lowest and everything that was supposed to be high was the highest ). Can you say GOP CONTRACT WITH AMERICA?
Clinton claimed lower roles on social benefits programs ( Did you ever see a social program Teddy Kennedy didn't like? ). I got it. Let's elect a Democrat president, House and Senate majorities; then see how long the budget stays balanced. Clinton then went through a list of every federal program and took personal credit for it. I always knew this guy had no shame. After this embarassing over-stating exaggeration-fest(sic), he actually invoked Sargent Joe Friday from Dragnet with, " Just the facts ".
NOTICE HOW THE SPEECH IS ALL ABOUT HIM, AND THERE IS NO OR ONLY EXTREMELY LIMITED MENTION OF THE VICE PRESIDENT?
He finally jumped on the DNC ( his? ) mantra, " Are we better off today than we were eight years ago "? Speak for yourself. I don't remember any Prozac powered teenagers with guns assaulting their school eight years ago! You have to respect the way Clinton works the moment as he closed strongly and arrogantly, finally mentioning Gore briefly. " We built that bridge to the 21st Century and we are not going back. Thank you. Thank you. We are not going back ". He tried to link up Al Gore, saying, " I can tell you personally, he is one great leader ". Obviously Clinton couldn't mention anything specific after 1993 about Gore, though I still can't believe they use the tie-breaking vote Gore cast to raise taxes as the beginning of the move to balance the budget. Fleetwood Mac got some royalties ( and you thought the Clintons and Prince Albert were the only ones in the can ), as the old tired, " Don't stop thinking about tomorrow " line and song made the rounds ( hopefully for the very last time, ever ).
You gotta' give it to him. Even if you know he is distorting the truth, it is still scarey. The way he works the crowd, it is amazing.
Just about when I thought the lights would go down and the curtain would finally fall, the dog drug in Barbar Boxer and the Broadway Cast of " The Music Man " ( loudly declaring, " they were all Democrats " ) to increase the embarassment level of the crowd. Somehow, having the flim-flam man doing " 76 Trumbones " right after Clinton was mildly amusing on a level not intentionally done. I believe they would have been better served had Bill Clinton closed it out, though I did expect Clinton to come out playing the saxophone during " 76 Trumbones "!
One of their other mutual mantras was the decades old and still just as tired, " If you want to live like a Republican; vote Democrat ".
In one phrase; I would describe the performance as, milking it for absolutely all it was worth.
George Bush hit a homerun with his acceptance speech at the GOP convention and we will have to wait until Thursday to see how Vice President Al Gore does. One thing is for sure, Bill and Hillary both hit foul balls, though you wouldn't know it from the reactions of the Democrat faithful and Hollywood fatcats in the audience, including those patiently waiting like lemmings to fill their coffers ( campaign or otherwise )!
- Bongo ( Pass some gas? )
