DNC Final Thoughts

Here are my final thoughts on the DNC. You’ll notice that I had reasonable bloggage on days one and two but didn’t even touch days three and four. I think day three was relatively uneventful. The only people I remember were Sharpton and Edwards (obviously).

Sharpton brought something that the convention was lacking in previous days – unscripted excitement. He was supposed to speak for about six minutes and ended up speaking for twenty minutes. The teleprompter was going nuts. I loved it. He actually spoke his mind and really excited the crowed. The media immediately jumped all over it and tried to pin a negative connotation to the speech for being unscripted and too long. The media doesn’t matter; people liked it, that’s all that matters.

Edwards’ speech was relatively uneventful; nothing unexpected here. Talked about himself, his father, and Kerry. He’s a good speaker but it wasn’t his best showing.

Day four was all about Kerry but I think Max Cleland brought overwhelming patriotism to his introduction and his daughters brought that personal touch that was very needed. Kerry himself seemed more relaxed than I have ever seen him and I think that was very important. A lot of people feel that the president has to be someone that you would like to “go get a beer with.” While I don’t think that’s the case at all, I think it is important that Kerry tries to win that group. Overall it was a great speech, he addressed almost everything that the president was criticizing him about. I think that he should have talked about his Senate record a little more, but he covered a lot in his fifty minutes or so.

In the end the convention only really matters to the people that are already decided on who they’re going to vote for. Adding to this, the networks this year decided to air more reality TV as opposed to a convention that happens once every four years. Way to go media. Anyway, I’ll be watching the RNC too, so until then, convention time is over. Word.