The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee held a big rally here in Dallas Nov. 13. The big cheese himself, Majority Leader Harry Reid, was here, along with "I'm not quite running" Sen. MBNA, Joe Biden, and rising young non-DLC but still centrist (maybe neoliberal of some sort) Senate star Barack Obama.
It was what you would typically expect, so here’s my snarky take, plus the trolling I did.
Obama: Sounded sincere when he talked about hope and quoted Martin Luther King at the end of his speech. (Obama and Biden each took about seven-eight minutes and Reid got 10. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, who represents me, took about six minutes before that.)
Biden: Sen. MBNA can talk about hope and justice after personally escorting the new bankruptcy bill through Congress. Puhleeze. I’ll vote Green for president again for sure if he gets the 2008 nomination, which I highly doubt.
Reid: Very sincere. Low-key compared to Obama, let alone to Biden. Workmanlike.
Johnson: I’ll give Obama a pass on Iraq for the rest of this year as a newcomer, but not Biden, nor Reid, and especially not you, after all the e-mails I’ve sent you, even the call to your Washington office, the last time a Defense Depeartment supplemental appropriation was coming to the floor, begging you to vote against it.
If I had enough money to take a leave of absence from my job next year (an ethical requirement, being a newspaper editor), and I could get on the Green ballot via convention signatures, I’d run against you.
The trolling? As I left Lee Park, I got on the other side of Turtle Creek, behind bushes, and chanted a few times, “Vote against the war. Vote Green.”
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