A Quick Take on Hillary's Convention Speech
As much as I wanted this Democratic Convention to be all about Barack Obama, there were early indicators that every underlying storyline this week would be about one of the most famous pant-suit wearers ever - Hillary Clinton. If the American public wasn't getting bombarded with stories about disgruntled Hillary Clinton Supporters who crossed their fingers every time they claimed that voting for a man who they fundamentally disagree with on every level wasn't racism, the constant accounts of feuding between the Clinton and Obama camps on some West Side Story shit, Bill Clinton not wanting his speech to be about national security, the constant soap opera surrounding Hillary's roll call vote. Truly depressing if I say so myself, but then again there are worse things in life - I could have been forced to cover the proverbial wackness that was the Ozone Awards. Seriously, if there is one thing that has momentarily tempted me to squat and take a healthy shit on top of history, gleefully usher in another republican clusterfuck of an administration, and join my revolutionary(real and fake) brothers and sisters and support Cynthia McKinney - is watching all the crap Obama has had to take from Team Clinton since he won the nomination. It seems that every story since then has been about Hillary's feelings, Bill's feelings, why Obama hasn't done more to reach out to the Clintons. Only a black man, while running for the highest office in the land mind you, is supposed to go out of his way to console a group of people who spent the better part of a year calling him an empty suit, saying that John McCain would be a better president, and subtly suggesting that he was some sort of crypto-Muslim. Suffice it to say, I was skeptical of the speech she was about to give at the Democratic Convention.
On the Speech: Many years ago I was intimately involved in throwing a basketball game for money, not exactly my finest hour I know. Anyway, because I knew that I could get in serious trouble for being involved in such an unsavory scheme, and because I was such a horrible actor, I decided to play my naturally black ass off while quietly hoping that we lost by the desired amount. Hillary Clinton's speech last night brought that incident to mind. She's not stupid, she knew that her political career as a whole, and her presidential aspirations specifically - hinged on her Convention speech being both convincing and a shot across the bow of John McCain. Even though I feel that her motives are somewhat suspect, she said all the right things - in a fashion that I'm confident will sway many of the fence-sitters who don't get aroused while watching "Mississippi Burning". Sure, it would have been nice if she added some personal touches to the oratorical rhetoric, something like: "I ran against Obama and got a chance to see him up close - and let me tell you America, he will make one hell of a president!". That being said, she did a decent job, but it won't mean shit if she doesn't campaign her ass off for Obama from now until November. Who knows, my effort in that basketball game actually won us the game, she might accidentally win this election for Obama as well.(Lets just hope that she doesn't have to lay low for 6 months like I had to)
*I'll be live-blogging Wednesday's night events*
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