Commentary
DNC Day 1: 'The Best'
- by Joe Mandese @mp_joemandese, August 20, 2024
Until Jan. 6, 2021, America had experienced the peaceful transfer of power. Last night, it witnessed the start of its first altruistic, patriotic transfer during the opening night of the Democratic National Convention.
"America, I gave my best to you," President Joe Biden said capping off his keynote endorsement of Kamala Harris to succeed him.
I have put together images of the other "best moments" -- and captions -- below, but my personal favorite didn't come from one of the convention's speakers, but from its audience, when Hillary Clinton sparked some karmic retribution during her keynote, noting that Donald Trump made history by becoming the first president convicted on 34 felony counts.
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No primary.
Annointment.
"Saving democracy."
Agree with the above quote and adding another "If you’ve managed to avoid all the gushing media reports about last night’s buzzword-loaded but calorically empty speeches at the DNC in Chicago, you missed nothing. A series of far-left speakers pandered to the party’s partisan activists, including the vegetative Big Guy, there to get his 10%. The speakers studiously avoided every single issue regular people care about: the economy, the border, Ukraine, Iran, Israel, and barely even mentioned Gaza. Maskless, they repeatedly retconned the pandemic, bizarrely claiming to have fought lockdowns and mandates." Jeff Childers
@Dan Ciccone: You should read up on the history of primaries in the U.S. For most of our democracy, they were not even a factor in presidential party nominations.
That said, primary voters voted for a ticket (Biden/Harris), Biden stepped down and endorsed Harris, as did a majority of party delegates. The delegates will cast their votes during the convention, as they always have since we began electing presidents.
Any other talking points?
Now if you really want to kvetch about democracy, let's dig into the Electoral College.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_election
@Joe - you clearly have zero objectivity when it comes to the media and how it's covering this election. The overt left leanings of the stories, the staff, the commentary -one cannot read MP any longer trying to gauge the real state of media in the U.S. and feel like we are getting objective reporting.
I hash on you because you are editor in chief and should hold yourself to a higher standard of objectivity.
That ship sailed a long time ago.
@Dan Ciccone: This is a personal opinion column titled "Red, White & Blog: Truth, Mud & The American Media." It's supposed to be subjective.
I write and edit plenty of MediaPost' straight news coverage that strives to be objective
They are two different things.
That said, I subjectively disagree with your assessment of American media coverage of the elections. If anything, I think most media outlets have given Trump a free pass and would go ballistic if any normal candidate did, said or dog whistled what Trump has done
I mean just look at how the White House press corps has treated Biden pressers vs. Trump's. There's no comparison.
But you're entitled to your opinion and welcome to post comments on anything we publish.
It's still a free country.