DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION --
DAY ONE

MICHELLE'S EXTREME MAKEOVER
PRONOUNCED "COMPLETE"

Banal and corny, soft and sweet, standard laundry-list, anger more-or-less in check, more about the promise of the future than the stale tale of our common victimization (or the perpetual whine about their damn college loans)....... who was that woman anyway??!!!

A little kiss-up to Hillary, a good scrub-a-dub for Barack, a little fog-machine on her own previous declarations.

Oh, and note to file, Mrs. O: I really don't want to hear you talking like you can relate to the military families with the empty chair at the table. Spare me -- I'm not buyin'.

Anyhoo -- she did her job. Moving on........


UNDENIABLE: TED KENNEDY LOOKED AMAZING
FOR A MAN FACING DEATH.

Maybe that's just the natural effect of being in a room where he could suck up the narcotic of public adulation with which he has benumbed the nerve-ends of basic humanity all his life. His words were the usual windbaggery; the video made unfortunate reference to his way of sailing over waters in which the innocent have drowned. He was treated with a fawning deference which mocked the tremendous damage his career of corrosive demagoguery and way-out leftism have inflicted upon the body politic (not least upon the bodies of the defenseless unborn).

Unfortunately he hasn't figured out why he's still thumping for the same government health care he has promised for the past 40 years or so: because year in, year out, so many many people know it just won't work.

I have written my anticipatory obituary for him, which will be food for another day. Sufficient unto the day is to remark that he did well and looked well in coming to the gathering of his tribe.


NOT WANTED ON VOYAGE:
THAT LUMPY OLD BAG

Speakress of the House San Fran Gran Nan Pelosi (whom I watched for a minute or so till I could watch no more, averting mine eyes from the train wreck) was particularly wooden and vacuous. E-e-e-e-w-w-w-w.


OTHER REVOLTING BAGGAGE: JIMMUH.

The Worst President of the Twentieth Century, if not All of History showed his face. I didn't stick around. Rosalyn was wearing a nice pant-suit.


Counting down the days.