Take Me To Post Comment Form It’s too bad Hillary’s run for the White House is about to end.
Not that I was going to vote for her — but after all these primaries, after all the months of ads, debates, Sunday morning news shows, etc., wouldn’t a convention that actually mattered be fun again?
The conventions have become droll and mind numbing at best. They have lacked drama and intrigue for nearly a generation now. The last good one centered around who the vice presidential pick was going to be, and I think that might have been Reagan choosing George H.W. Bush in 1980.
It’s bad enough we’re already a year into the presidential campaign. That’s right — remember last summer, when all the pundits and experts were writing off John McCain as dead in the water? Now he’s only 2 percentage points behind Barack Obama in some polls.
But after more than a year of the campaigns, the twists of facts and statements, the supporters once embraced now kept at more than an arm’s length, a great political fight at a convention would have made it worthwhile. There probably isn’t a lot that separates Hillary and Obama ideologically, but to watch the two camps go at it would have been great. Sure, it wouldn’t have been Chicago in 1968 but it would have been better than 1988 in Atlanta when the most entertaining things were something that happened away from the convention floor with a participant (Rob Lowe’s taped hotel room romp) and the People With Boxes On Their Heads.
The Democrats had a little roped off area for protest groups and the like near the convention. The proceedings in Atlanta were going along rather slowly and quite boring when a handful of guys with boxes on their heads got into the protest area. The reporters were asking them who they were. They were just people with boxes on their heads. What do you stand for? Nothing, we’re just people with boxes on their heads.
Turns out they were other writers seeing how much interest they could drum up by putting boxes on their heads.
With the races now over, maybe we’ll need those guys to get some new boxes to liven up Denver and the Twin Cities later this summer.