I agree with you, David. This is more of a mega-Rotary meeting where they hand out awards for being Rotarians. In any of the speeches, especially Kucinich, I haven't heard anything worth hearing. I laughed so hard I had to pull over at Kucinich saying that the national debt was due to oil companies. Again, when he said that Wall Street was run by speculators. Duh! Wall Street is speculation?! Is he against people saving for retirements, buying homes, buying commodities in the futures markets, earning interest, etc? All of that is "speculation", which is how most people fund their retirements and make money besides from wages. Like most political discourse today, being against "speculators" sounds good to people who don't understand the term and are paralyzed from class envy, but it curbing it would overburden the government in future when people can't save enough for retirement. I mean, statistics show that over 50% of the country is currently invested in a 401(k), which is speculation. Where do these people come from?
Then again, this is the guy who claims to see UFOs.
Clinton went on about how her husband presided over 8 years of peace and prosperity. (conveniently not mentioning the run up to 9/11, the first WTC bombing, the numerous attacks on our embassies, the short Iraq war and missile strikes, the war in Bosnia and Kosovo, Haiti, and Somolia. As well as the recession of 2000, the dot-com bust, the lead up to the housing mess, etc. Granted none of that was Clinton's fault, but her description was a mischaracterization of her husband's presidency). I thought one phrase from her speech summed up the entire democratic party platform, "will you please help take care of me?"
No one has really addressed the experience deficit here. I mean, Biden or any other pick has a far superior resume. Seriously, this ticket should be reversed. I could live with Clinton, but I think Obama is dangerous because it seems he actually believes the redistributionist ideas he throws around. Clinton, at least, has been around long enough that she knows she has to compromise.