In an Asian Times article that’s already old (Sept 3) Spengler looks at the Democratic National Convention from a different perspective than most of whats been passed around the blogosphere. He was there, for one thing. I know nothing about this writer, so I can’t tell if his critique of Obama is newly realized from his experience at the convention, or if he dresses right to begin with.
How Obama lost the election
By SpenglerDENVER - Senator Barack Obama’s acceptance speech last week seemed vastly different from the stands of this city’s Invesco Stadium than it did to the 40 million who saw it on television. Melancholy hung like thick smog over the reserved seats where I sat with Democratic Party staffers.
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On television, Obama’s spectacle might have looked like The Ten Commandments, but inside the stadium it felt like Night of the Living Dead. The longer the candidate spoke, and the more money he promised to spend on alternative energy, preschool education, universal health care, and other components of the Democratic pinata, the lower the party professionals slouched into their seats.
Granted, he was sat with Clinton staffers. That can’t be much fun even under the best of circumstances.
This is really worth your time to read.
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“I know nothing about this writer. . . .”
‘L, pay attenshun to th’ feller-att goes by the “nom de cyber” of “Spengler.” He’s one of th’ best writers in th’ whole blogos-fear.
Do tell. I like him already.