LanceOregon
Moderator
Some people seem to think that both the Democratic Party and the Police are "Holy Cows", too high up on pedestals to be able to be criticized.
Perhaps this is why I am so eager to criticize them both, myself.
Neither are demons. But both have their bad sides.
The ABC News Investigative report sure was eye-opening, though. The common ordinary delegate at the convention was left with hardly any food options available to them. They showed that one black woman delegate being forced to eat an $8 Hot Dog, even though she disliked hot dogs, simply because the regular convention center vendor had nothing else of substance to eat. You would think that the party would have arranged for some additional food services for the average person attending the convention. Somehow their $80 Million dollar budget for the convention did not include that.
And that was such a huge contrast when they showed that reception room for their VIP's, with those gigantic prawn cocktails sitting amid a table full of gourmet food. I've never even seen prawns that huge before myself, much less eaten some.
We all just need to remember that it is only the Republicans that pander to the rich.
I really do have to give a lot of credit to Howard Dean for having changed the Democratic Party so much since he became Chairman of the Democratic National Committee in February 2005. A lot of people gave him credit for the success that the Democrats had in 2006. And if Obama wins, I think that many will give him partial credit again.
For it is he who developed this new strategy of going after donations from big business and the wealthy. It has been under his leadership that the party has been able to finally pull ahead of the Republicans, and be able to raise far more money.
He has done far more harm to the Republican Party as chairman of the DNC, than I think he could have ever done running for President in 2004, if he had won the nomination in the primary.
Just wait until the election gets underway full swing. All of this money that has been raised is going to buy loads of TV time for Obama. I predict that none of us will be able to turn on the TV near election time without seeing Obama's smiling face on the screen.
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Perhaps this is why I am so eager to criticize them both, myself.
Neither are demons. But both have their bad sides.
The ABC News Investigative report sure was eye-opening, though. The common ordinary delegate at the convention was left with hardly any food options available to them. They showed that one black woman delegate being forced to eat an $8 Hot Dog, even though she disliked hot dogs, simply because the regular convention center vendor had nothing else of substance to eat. You would think that the party would have arranged for some additional food services for the average person attending the convention. Somehow their $80 Million dollar budget for the convention did not include that.
And that was such a huge contrast when they showed that reception room for their VIP's, with those gigantic prawn cocktails sitting amid a table full of gourmet food. I've never even seen prawns that huge before myself, much less eaten some.
We all just need to remember that it is only the Republicans that pander to the rich.
I really do have to give a lot of credit to Howard Dean for having changed the Democratic Party so much since he became Chairman of the Democratic National Committee in February 2005. A lot of people gave him credit for the success that the Democrats had in 2006. And if Obama wins, I think that many will give him partial credit again.
For it is he who developed this new strategy of going after donations from big business and the wealthy. It has been under his leadership that the party has been able to finally pull ahead of the Republicans, and be able to raise far more money.
He has done far more harm to the Republican Party as chairman of the DNC, than I think he could have ever done running for President in 2004, if he had won the nomination in the primary.
Just wait until the election gets underway full swing. All of this money that has been raised is going to buy loads of TV time for Obama. I predict that none of us will be able to turn on the TV near election time without seeing Obama's smiling face on the screen.
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