In conference

What's worse than a boring party conference? 2 boring party conferences, to which we have recently been exposed (as well as to an old joke). A better joker is Seinfeld, during whose hilarious takeoff of airline travel (pardon the pun) complains that the pilot always "tells you what he's gonna do" - ascend to 35,000 feet, go via this town and that, etc. "Just get me to where it says on the ticket, can you do that?" Not many conference speakers spent time telling audiences what they were gonna do, though they often bleated where they were gonna go (all the way!). But that's what I wanna know - what are you planning to do when you get to lay your hat in the White House? There was a lot of emphasis on What a Great Guy This Is - a hero of the underpriveleged here, a hero of the Vietnam war there, but you know I don't care, I care about what you're gonna DO, not what you may have done. In the same way I don't care whether Elton John is a saint or an unsufferable libertarian, I just want him to play Candle in the Wind.

And then, when someone did venture to actually say something, no one believed them! Hillary was very clear that it "wasn't about her" and that her supporters should transfer allegance to Obama forthwith. And the commentors worried about her sincerity (who cares, she was plain and unequivocal!). Obama said 90% of working people would get a tax cut, and yet the attack ads continue to harp on tax increases if Obama gets in. Of course, that's why I avoid politics in this blog. Oops. let me just say that our own Mile High Stadium (sorry "Invesco Field") filled to the gills on a balmy night with political groupies whooping it up over a presidential candidate was quite a sight!