So, I had CSPAN’s coverage of the Democratic convention on as background noise this evening. I can offer a few thoughts:
- Is anyone keeping track of just how many times the words “Barack Obama” are being said?
- The speeches given outside the “prime time hour” were arguably more interesting…or disturbing…than those of the final hour. In addition to a tally of the phrase “Barack Obama”, I’d like a subtotal for the phrase “Barack Obama will” and “Barack Obama believes”. I realize that the conventions have become the launching point for the presidential candidate, but there’s the distinct odor of Kool-Aid in the air. Some of those iterations of “Barack Obama believes/will” would have sounded slightly less cultish if they had been cast as “we believe” / “we will”.
- Props to Barack’s daughter who called her father on forgetting where he was phoning into the convention from. First it was Kansas City…then it was St. Louis…then it was Kansas City. (I’m sure the KC crowd is fond of being confused for STL.)
