Tuesday, August 26, 2008

There Has To Be A Better Way

Were all conventions this... boring? Admittedly CSPAN is showing EVERYTHING, but still.

I just can't get over the fact that there has to be a better way to spend some of this time than watching a poor factory worker read a teleprompter. [EDIT: just to be clear, I don't mean he's poor, just that he's clearly out of his depth giving a speech to a national convention]

Rahm Emanuel is giving a nice speech. The one great thing about him is that he is not afraid to throw a partisan punch. He deserves a lot of credit for the Democratic gains in the 2006 elections and did a good job in creating party discipline as the [head of the DCCC]. Sadly, as [house caucus] leader in the house, he managed to cave on pretty much every major Republican initiative. That or there is a really big constituency in his district of people who believe in retroactive immunity for telecom companies.

Ah OK, now this is what you want. Speech by Emanuel, segue into a video of Barack speech, and then a musical act. More like this please.

UPDATE: my original post had his leadership roles wrong. Corrections are denoted by brackets

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