{"id":68,"date":"2008-08-27T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2008\/08\/27\/quick-convention-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2008-08-27T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T18:45:00","slug":"quick-convention-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2008\/08\/27\/quick-convention-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Convention Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A month ago, I <a href=\"http:\/\/thickculture.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/denver-airport-blogging.html\">posted<\/a> that the Democratic convention had a great story to tell in Barack Obama.  But two days in, where&#8217;s the story?  I imagine political consultants earn a great deal of money, but I am amazed at the undisciplined, uncoreographed nature of this convention.  Where are the anecdotes from his youth?  Where are the connections to the progressive tradition?  Hillary Clinton&#8217;s effective but bloodless support for Obama is a great example of the Democrat&#8217;s opportunity squandered.  She hit all the right notes, but said nothing about why this Democratic nominee is distinctive.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, where are the efforts to define McCain?  Why shouldn&#8217;t I vote for this guy? If this framing process doesn&#8217;t happen soon, the Republicans will get a free shot to continue to define Obama and they will, and should, paint him in a way that will guarantee them the election.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that Democrats, for whatever reason, fail to take power seriously and as a result, lose.  I&#8217;m afraid that we&#8217;re headed down that track again.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month ago, I posted that the Democratic convention had a great story to tell in Barack Obama. But two days in, where&#8217;s the story? I imagine political consultants earn a great deal of money, but I am amazed at the undisciplined, uncoreographed nature of this convention. Where are the anecdotes from his youth? Where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}