Alternate headline: Columnist teeters at edge of suicide after listening to shrieking, insincere, awful speech.
Five in the morning. No, I did not watch this oratorical abortion live. You kidding me? Who could sleep peacefully after an hour of this?
Democrats never really change. Sometimes their nominee is more corrupt, dishonest and self-serving than others. Sometimes their nominee is pretty good at giving speeches, and other times the nominee sounds like the fingernail-on-chalkboard disaster you hear below. But what they always come back to is the notion that Republicans want to tell everyone, "You're on your own," whereas they, the virtuous Democrats, declare, "We're all in this together!"
And what they never fail to assert is that pathetic Americans everywhere would have no hope if not for Democrats' successful perpetration of big-government power politics. Hillary would have you believe that all these normal, desperate Americans are "what keep me working," and not her own sheer, self-interested ambition to vindicate her entire life.
I actually wondered if a woman who has wanted this her entire life would somehow manage to put a lid on the shrill, shrieking horror and sound halfway decent in the biggest speech she would ever give.
Nope:
I'm not going to claim to be objective here, because if you've read me for any length of time, you know well the subterranean opinion I have of this woman. But tell me: Is there anything here that really represents a compelling case for her as president? "I believe in science"? Seriously? That's an argument?
The laundry list of liberal platitudes - standing up to corporations, equal pay, women "making health care choices", etc. - is nothing you haven't heard from any Democrat nominee since Mondale. Every Democrat wants to make "the biggest investment in good-paying jobs since World War II." Obama blew up the budget in his first year with an $862 billion "emergency stimulus" that was subsequently baked into the budget baseline and spent again every year since.
Oh, and apparently no one in America is going to have to pay off their debts anymore. I can't wait to see what that does to the credit markets. "Way too many dreams die in the parking lots of banks." What?
"Wall Street, corporations and the super rich are going to start paying their fair share of taxes." Oh. Great. More than the highest corporate tax rate in the world? Fantastic.
The one part of the speech that might have been somewhat effective was the part where she painted the picture of the impulsive, maniacal Trump with his easily provoked finger on the nuclear button - if only because it comports to the false image of Trump her media allies have already painted for her. The truth, of course, is that the woman who blew off the security pleas coming out of Benghazi can in no way be put forth as some sort of paragon of responsibility. But you have to know what's actually happening to recognize how fraudulent this case is.
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By the way, when Hillary vows to "stand up to divisive and hateful rhetoric" - the very same woman who wants to change the Constitution to water down the First Amendment - are you sure she's only talking about Donald Trump?
Obviously nothing Hillary said last night could have swayed me, so maybe my perspective is already too set in. But I would feel concerned if I thought she had given a speech that might persuade some undecided voters. I feel no such concern this morning. Am I giving people too much credit in thinking that they will find this speech as insincere and unappealing as I did? You tell me, because I can't imagine anyone wanting to listen to this horror for four years.
Alternate headline: Columnist teeters at edge of suicide after listening to shrieking, insincere, awful speech.
Five in the morning. No, I did not watch this oratorical abortion live. You kidding me? Who could sleep peacefully after an hour of this?
Democrats never really change. Sometimes their nominee is more corrupt, dishonest and self-serving than others. Sometimes their nominee is pretty good at giving speeches, and other times the nominee sounds like the fingernail-on-chalkboard disaster you hear below. But what they always come back to is the notion that Republicans want to tell everyone, "You're on your own," whereas they, the virtuous Democrats, declare, "We're all in this together!"
