Bill Clinton speech at DNC invokes velvet demagoguery; Hillary Clinton speech imitates John Kerry's speaking style; Peanut King Jimmy Carter shows affinity for nuts by having Michael Moore sit with Rosaline and him.

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Bill Clinton speech at DNC invokes velvet demagoguery; Hillary Clinton speech imitates John Kerry's speaking style; Peanut King Jimmy Carter shows affinity for nuts by having Michael Moore sit with Rosaline and him.·

Early ratings indicate that fewer Americans than expected turned-in last night for the latest screening of the long-running cult-movie, the Clinton Horror Picture Show [here], at the Democratic Convention in Boston. Perhaps the old cult movie is losing its grip on some previously addicted to it. While Hillary Clinton's speech imitated the speechifying tone of John Kerry, Bill Clinton's speech predictably invoked the velvet demagoguery at which he's unsurpassed. Al Gore feigned humility even though he still doesn't understand that he has so much about which to be genuinely humble. Jimmy Carter, the former Peanut King, showed his affinity for nuts by having Michael Moore [see Drudge photo (on right below main Drudge logo)] sit with Rosaline and him.

Although Bill Clinton rightly invoked John Kerry's swift-boat heroism in braving enemy fire to save a crewman in the water, he incorrectly equated such heroism with wisdom and vision. George McGovern, who repeatedly demonstrated heroism in World War II as a bomber pilot, lacked the wisdom and vision later shown by Ronald Reagan in predicting the fall of the Soviet Empire and demanding the dismantlement of the Berlin Wall. Despite Kerry's demonstrated capacity for heroism, he suffers the same lack of vision as did McGovern (and Dukakis and Mondale). Kerry's capacity for personal courage has not translated into political courage. His demonstrations of political "courage" seem to be limited to courageous hindsight as a substitute for lack of visionary foresight [link].

Bill Clinton's speech invoked velvet demagoguery predicated upon one of the Democratic Party's most cherished articles of faith that earnings of individuals belong to the government so that a reduction of their taxes is the equivalent "taking" money from "the poor" and giving it to "the rich." This was merely a softer, more velvet reprise of Clinton's themes in the 1990's that Republicans wanted to take food and shelter from the poor, the children and the elderly in order to "give" money to "the rich." Given the dramatic growth in the percentage of families owning stock and beginning to learn the realities of free-market economics, such velvet demagoguery is likely to fall on more deaf ears than in the 1990's.

The content and tone of the speeches last night highlight a fundamental reality: That the Democratic Party recognizes that to have a hope of winning, it must feign centrism to mask the far-left-of-center posture of the vast majority of those now holding most sway over the Party. The Lieberman/Bayh wing-- heir to the Scoop Jackson wing-- is at its nadir. The Democratic Party's Nader wing, which is currently conducting a diversionary campaign [here], is at its zenith. One can assume that Nader will stay in the race even if near the election it were to appear that his doing so would prevent Kerry from winning. One could likewise assume Michael Moore would retract the lies and distortions in Fahrenheit 911 [here and here] a.k.a. FareInHypeNeinEnleavened.

Despite the ostensibly warm (but stilted) support for Kerry expressed by Hillary in her speech, it was insufficient to answer the intriguing question about the extent to which Kerry's Achilles Heel [here] will contribute to his defeat. One can assume Hillary wants Kerry to win, but, of course, one can also assume aliens visited Roswell.

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