I only got to see the last part of Ex-President Clinton’s speech last night – so I didn’t get the full blast.
The first part – according to a report I got, was good – acknowledging the former President that went before and doing a good job of praising the “other side.” I got about the last 2/3 of the speech which was still over 52 minutes total I’m told. Even at that I’m surprised at how much he put in there – and if I didn’t know better I’d be tempted to say it was a good speech.
But it wasn’t. I’m reminded of the midway game of chance barker who invites the unsuspecting midway walkers to guess under which shell the peanut is hiding. After a couple of correct guesses, he takes his ‘winnings’ and spends them all in trying to continue his string of luck. Of course he walks away having lost his ‘winnings’ and the shell-master entices someone else to try their luck.
I’ve never seen such a pile of “luck” lined up in 40+ minutes in such a believable way and to such uninterrupted cheering. Experienced newsmen said they began to sense a certain ‘tiredness’ in the clapping and cheering as the end neared but the master of the midway left a cheering crowd all happy and willing to follow their leader over the cliff if necessary. I even noticed the hardened Rahm Emmanuel cheering and clapping although I know he knew a lot of the stuff Mr. Clinton was saying wasn’t demonstrably true.
Frankly, It’s not my game. I don’t know how you take such a mound of half-truths even empty non-truths to which people crowed and cheered and clapped into the night. It’s a losing game for the inexperienced and that’s what we have here in this election. I remember four years ago on election night seeing some visibly poor people dancing into the night believing their debts were paid and now they would be able to get a shiny new car in a more desirable neighborhood. How sorrowful those people must be now (or they might be ready to be taken to the cleaners again) when they find there’s no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Is the Romney/Ryan team up to the task of straightening out the ‘yellow-brick-road’ and its deceptive promises of lots of lucre and riotous living when you just ‘hit it rich’ as promised by the shell game masters. In a way it’s sort of sad – indeed sorrowful – seeing the same type of crowd being taken in again and again by the same speeches and promises. I just hope and pray the ‘spell’ may be broken – and by God’s grace possibly this time it will be and we can begin to see light at the end of the tunnel. Last night it was discouraging.
Cordially, IN HIM
Goodnight everyone!
Jack
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“JUST A MINUTE”
CAN THE DEMS SURVIVE THEIR OWN CONVENTION?
Just a Minute: Yesterday’s DNC Convention in
On Tuesday, I had witnessed a conversation between Sen. Dick Durbin and Fox New’s Correspondent Bret Baier. The conflict came when Bret asked the Senator ‘Why was the language describing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel left out of the Democrat platform; also the name of “God” was removed from the same document after it had been in previous editions of the platform in 2008 and before. Durbin took umbrage at the suggestion Baier voiced about it being a change made for no apparent reason.
Doing further research on the Internet I found there’s a raft of people playing in the comic drama: “Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?” There are at least two dozen TV comics stacking up cordwood on that phrase… so I decided to ignore it. Pay attention to news media if you will -- but you’ll be far better off answering the question yourself with your Bible rather than David Letterman. <> I’m Jack Buttram. (END)
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