Bloodthirsty Liberal

Thanks to Aggie and David Brooks (see both below) for putting my feelings more articulately than I can manage this morning.

I just wonder what Obama’s running for. Isn’t President something of a demotion for someone already crowned sovereign—if not even greater (am I the only one to see the halos in his graven images)?

What effect would an election have? The mere will of the people is but a whisper on the wind to the acclamation of last night. Who cares what “the people” think, and when will they get over themselves?

But how much of a boob would he be if he actually did lose? Gods don’t lose. Messiahs don’t lose. Especially not to geriatric cripples with thinning hair, skin cancer, more homes than he can count, and a cranky disposition.

As much as I hope and pray for the sake of the country that he lose, I’m not sure I can see my friends and family put through the heartache—much less Barack himself. Have you ever seen a fallen idol? It’s not pretty.

PS: I think I’m going to be ill:

Ooh, baby:

And when we get behind closed doors
Then she lets her hair hang down
And she makes me glad that I’m a man
Oh, no-one knows what goes on behind closed doors.

Pardon the unpleasant images that may evoke, but it would appear that this convention won’t appear at all. Whether the rooms will be filled with smoke or with arugula we will never know. Cause we ain’t gonna see it:

Expect to see a roll-call vote at the Democratic convention tonight? Be prepared for disappointment, as Hillary Clinton’s delegates will have to do. Instead of a normal floor vote, the tallies will be taken before delegates arrive at the Pepsi Center:

Delegates to the Democratic National Convention are casting ballots for the party’s presidential nominee at their hotels this morning.

The vote, negotiated by the campaigns for presumptive nominee Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, is expected to speed proceedings from the floor of the Pepsi Center tonight, when totals will be read from the floor as part of a roll call vote.

But it is also leaving many delegates perplexed.

Some delegates were confused because Sen. Clinton was not expected to release her delegates until the afternoon.

“It doesn’t make any sense to me,” said Mary Sullivan, a Clinton delegate from Albany, N.Y. “I’m gonna vote for Hillary. I’m a Clinton delegate and she hasn’t released me yet.”

I heard a similar report about the Massachusetts delegation on the local NPR affiliate—and the reporter took pains to note that they weren’t too happy about the arrangement.

So what’s up with that? Does Team Obama fear embarrassment at the hands of the PUMAs? Perhaps they should, but rank cowardice is hardly the proper response. Why he can’t accept the truth of the historically close primary race as a strength, not a weakness, is beyond me. Locking Hillary and her supporters in the closet is hardly presidential.

I could fake it, I guess, and try to care what the Democrats are saying at the Convention. I’m sure they’re putting on a very good show, and Obama will get the bounce he so sorely needs, and which he so sorely blew by picking a nudnik like Joe Biden.

Ted Kennedy and Michelle Obama: wow. I gotta get me Tivo.

I’m a little maxed out on Hope and Change, I’m sorry to say, but I am a little more turned on by what’s happening outside the Pepsi Center:

Sweet. Nothing says representative democracy like a face full of mace.

Said one tender protester:

“I’m a little in shock,” said Joey-Kenzie, 21, of Denver, after spending about 90 minutes in the crowd of people pinned in by officers in SWAT gear.

Kenzie said she wanted to leave but police had surrounded the group and there was no way out.

“At one point we didn’t know what we were going to do, we were going to get arrested or maced,” said the recent Community College of Denver graduate.

Kenzie said police never asked for her identification.

“I haven’t been able to vote for a president yet, but this was an epiphany,” she said. “My freedom of speech was suppressed.”

That’s the degree from the Community College of Denver talking. Is it just my ignorance, or do we never see students from Cal Tech or Oxford or Heidelberg at these events?

Anyhow, I hope they recreate all the ‘68 they can. And ‘72, and ‘80, and ‘84, and ‘88, and ‘00, and ‘04.

Saleman Abdirahman Dirie, a Canadian was found in a hotel room, dead, with the poison.

About a pound of highly toxic sodium cyanide was found inside a hotel room where a 29-year-old Canadian man’s body was discovered, authorities in Denver said.

Police said foul play was not suspected and FBI spokeswoman Kathy Wright said Wednesday there was no apparent connection to terrorism.

I’m sure there are all sorts of pro-social reasons to keep a pound of cyanide around. Sometimes the neighbors drop by and a spontaneous picnic ensues.

- Aggie