The Democratic National Convention

I didn't bother with the Republican convention, but I watched  the Dems. They were well worth the
time. I wasted a lot of the time watching cable, so I missed  many of the speeches I wanted to see. I should have stayed with C-SPAN.
One of the best speeches was Governor Granholm's. She said later that all the speakers had a job to
do, and hers was to get the base excited. She did exactly that. She remarked on her CURRENT TV
show, Politically Direct, Friday the 7th of September, that she was given her job, and she did it. She surely did do her job.
Of course FLOTUSA and vice President Biden gave the most moving speeches.
Tammy Duckworth and Eva Longoria were also tremendously warm and intelligent. And Cecile Richards actually did seem to channel Ann Richards.
Our President was marvelous. The best part of his speech for me, was when he said he was no longer
just a candidate, "I'm the president", he asserted. I loved it.  He isn't supposed to do what surrogates do any longer. He is supposed to run on his record, and to let us know that if we don't know him by
now, we never will.
Movie producers pretend to know him, but naturally, they are suffering from stringing together known facts with a narrative fed by their own furtive imaginations. They do not know President Obama.
People say we should have discussed the poor. However, when politicians bring up the poor, the middle class thinks they are going to come up short. The opposite is true, yet people don't have
their eyes widely opened enough to recognize that.
The thing I did feel disappointed about was that we didn't mention our Native American brothers and
sisters. We never seem to do that, and so many of us have Native American blood, even though it may not be documented, ignoring them seems a national disgrace. At least one of them should always
speak for their nations. By keeping them prominently silent we may be neglecting some of the proudest and wisest Americans in the land. All of  North and South America nurtured Native American civilizations before any other groups settled these continents. Studying their history through their ancestors, as a matter of fact, might even help us with climate change.