Message DAY ONE: It’s all about us DNC Elites!

I didn’t watch the DNC coverage from start to finish.  It was mostly a big yawn and there were a lot of good Law and Order re-runs on also.  I did channel surf enough to hear a few commentators discuss it as a missed opportunity.  Rove, Gergen, and Carville all said that if there was any message in the four hours of tv coverage, it was buried.

I’m going to have to disagree here.  I heard a message loud and clear.  The message was this: “We are the elite of the Democratic Party and it’s all about us!”

They could have spoken eloquently and fiercely about how the economy under this President has languished. How financial markets and housing markets are failing ordinary American because no one stepped up to find ways to monitor new fangled debt instruments and the risk they entailed.  They could’ve said, look, folks are losing their homes but the biggest cheats of the system get a bail-out with your tax money.  But instead, it was all about Pelosi.

One of them could’ve spoken about a war and a commitment of resources and human lives based on lies.  How America the hero of World War 2 is now seen more as America the Torturer.  How the current President has used the War on Terror as an excuse to strengthen executive power with a third finger raised to the Constitution.  How he has made our military so tired and overworked, we have few responses to the re-awakening of mother Russia.  How his judgment of Putin was flawed and dangerous.  But instead, it was all about Teddy.

They could have talked passionately about how ordinary Americans are struggling to fill up their gas tanks, pay their electric bills, and make do on incomes that are losing purchasing power every year.  They could have spoken fiercely about how terrifically underfunded their retirements will be or how their primary savings vehicle-their homes and social security-are jeopardized on many levels.  They might’ve mentioned how Dubya has worked hard to pass laws that will leave a crushing debt to our grandchildren.  How we cannot leave a legacy that sees our kids and grandkids as the first Americans to say they are worse off than their parents.  That is all are worse off but the hyper wealthy who are doing just fine as the rest of America takes on huge debt to pay for medical bills and their childrens’ education. But instead, it was all about Claire, and Michelle, and Jim.

This is the new DNC folks.  A group of folks so taken with themselves that they think the votes of 18 million are unnecessary.  They’ll just find some more some where. They’ll find them in folks that will worship them and their stories.  They’ll find people who don’t raise their eyebrows at arugala or buying just one pair of earrings with their rebate checks instead of paying for their electric bill.  They will find some one who wouldn’t care if some fat cat who is now sitting in jail help you purchase your home.  There has to be some one out there that will overlook the reality–their reality–for the reality of the DNC elites.

If there was ever any doubt in my mind that I’m now an independent it was extinguished last night.  This is not a government of, by, and for the people any more. It’s a government that enriches a pantheon of life time suckling pigs who think only of themselves and protecting their status.  They’re not even hiding it any more! Bring on the vibrators!  Bring on the lubricant!  Bring on the dildos!  Last night was one huge public display of self-love!  I need a shower.  Somebody pull the plug on this thing!  There might be children watching!