The DNC: A Night of Political Soap Opera

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
August 27, 2008

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/336/the-dnc-a-night-of-political-soap-opera

Excerpt:

It was an evening of political soap opera. Senator Biden's wife, Senator Obama's wife, each wept a little in their seats. Biden and his son hugged each other. In full view, both Democratic candidates kissed the other candidates' female relatives. And although the speakers at the DNC got one rousing ovation after the other, even though I myself was sometimes moved by the theatrical tactics–the platitudes did not move me so much as sadden me. The speeches were fraught with promises which bore no relationship to reality and which failed to deal with the existential peril to America posed by Islamic jihad.

The only speaker who even remotely touched upon this was Senator Biden who only once mentioned dangerous "fundamentalism in Afghanistan and Pakistan"–as if al Qaeda, Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood, Islamic Jihad, etc. do not exist world-wide. President Clinton ignored this very Islamist threat when it might still have been contained. It now exists on every continent and it became so on his watch.

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