Now that the Tea Party National
Convention (TPNC) has concluded (thankfully), let us turn our attention to the
Democratic National Convention in Charlotte North Carolina. I just witnessed
the "worst" political convention in modern history; a convention that
was deceptive, angry, combative and oozing with cartoon characters so bad that
I longed for my Saturday morning line-up of "Muppet Babies" and
"Thundar the Barbarian.”
During the pointless and vague
diatribes during the convention, someone forgot to tell “wanna-be-Tony Soprano,”
Gov. Christie that this was the 2012 presidential convention. During the
remainder of his fifteen minutes of political fame he spent 1800 words out of
2600 words giving his acceptance speech for the 2016 presidential nomination.
Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney's speeches were baseless, fact-less, tasteless and of
all things, they lacked any logical intelligence. Marco Rubio looked as if
someone had an invisible firearm pointed in his back as he searched for the
words to present Mr. Romney as a legitimate contender. But, of all the flat,
cheap, dish watery rhetoric spewed for four days, the most perplexing was given
by Clint Eastwood. I was speechless (and that's saying a lot) at Mr. Eastwood's
Charles Manson like behavior. This was the same man that gave the
"Lincoln-esque" speech about why the auto bailout was the right thing
to do during half-time of this year’s Super Bowl. Now, he is reduced to giving
threatening gestures--at a chair, mind you, like a school bully threatening to
beat up a kid @ 3:00pm .
Moving forward, we will now turn
our attention to the Democratic National Convention where President Obama and
those who will speak about taking the Republic in a new direction of economic
prosperity will undoubtedly do a better job than the cast and crew of a poor
man's version of "Animal House," right? Right!
Anthony P. Johnson
