Story here; an excerpt:
The Democratic party bills itself as an advocate for the common man, but here, the lobby was suffused with the balm of power and money. Justified or not, their sense of entitlement, a confidence that the wheel of government will be back in their hands soon, was manifest. Important men and women came clomping by, trailed frantically by their posses, a cloud of badges, officiousness and fealty. Physical movement, ingress and egress, is how dominion is expressed and these people stepped aside for no one, save Chelsea Clinton and her coterie on their way to the Pepsi Center to make ready for the speech from the second most popular Democrat in the land.
Meanwhile, we get a fine picture here of the deep commitment to social justice (or at least to their own vanity) of Clinton supporters:
Significant number of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s top fund-raisers remain on the sidelines and unwilling to work for Senator Barack Obama....
The lingering rancor between the sides appears to have intensified at the Democratic convention, with grousing from some Clinton fund-raisers about the way they are being treated by the Obama campaign in terms of hotel rooms, credentials and the like....
My God, if you don't get the hotel room to which your sense of entitlement leads you to expect, then by all means you should support a far right war-monger like Senator McCain.
“I’ve had more contact from the McCain campaign since the nomination than from the Obama campaign,” said Calvin Fayard, a New Orleans lawyer, major Clinton fund-raiser and longtime Democratic donor who is not in Denver this week.
Mr. Fayard said he was considering supporting Senator John McCain, the Republican, citing what he perceived as Mr. Obama’s inexperience....
Perceived snubs leading up to the convention have not helped. Only a handful of Clinton donors got rooms at the coveted Ritz-Carlton, where the biggest Obama fund-raisers are staying.
I guess this is a case study in the decadence of empires in decline. For the first time, I'm living somewhere that has basic cable TV, so have been watching, for amusement, bits and pieces of the Prudent Wing of the Republocrat Party's annual convention in Denver on C-SPAN. It really is an amazingly substance-free zone, in which people are packaged by advertising pros like new automobiles, and talentless speaker follows talentless speaker. Last night featured former Virginia Governor Mark Warner, who has the dubious distinction of sounding even more like a total fake than Senator Clinton. Meanwhile, Senator Clinton was celebrated as a great feminist trailblazer without any mention of the most relevant fact about why she's a Senator, let alone a national candidate, namely, her husband. (There are some actual feminist trailblazers in the Prudent Wing of the Republocrat Party, one can only imagine what they were thinking watching this spin job.) I am told that the speech of the Iowa Republican Jim Leach, who is pro-Obama, is already being marketed by sleep disorder specialists for those suffering chronic insomnia. The one bright spot was the funny, and unpolished, Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer, who delivered a few good populist punches that were otherwise sorely missing. But overall, the whole thing was so bland and dreary that one almost wishes they'd retain George Galloway to deliver a thirty-minute address to say something substantive about the war criminals in Washington, D.C., and their annointed successor, Senator McCain.
Maybe Senator Biden--chosen as the Vice Presidential candidate, I suppose, for his ability to appeal to Catholics and working-class voters, to pretend to foreign policy expertise, and to deliver some good zingers--will liven things up a bit.
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