DNC wrapup — yes, many WERE fooled again

While the Sarah Palin show has been Terrell Owens-“getcha popcorn”-level entertainment, as well as seriousness, let us NOT forget that last week’s DNC in Denver was NOT a “city on a hill,” either.

Let’s start with that, namely, Democrats’ exploitation last Thursday of “ordinary people” who don’t know just how much Democrats, as well as Republicans, have screwed them over in the past 15 years. (Small comeuppance is financial analysts, lawyers, MSM media and more now starting to face the Wrath of Outsourcing themselves.)

After that, we had Dick Durbin’s delicious interlude of hypocrisy, in which he tried to tell us with a straight face that B.O. would protect (what’s left of) our civil liberties. Sure.

Thursday, was capped by Obama’s acceptance speech, thin gruel to a progressive civil libertarian. No mention of Gitmo, no mention of the (possibly) illegality of Iraq, beyond its stupidity, and certainly no mention of many of Bush-Cheney’s illegalities on the home front, such as the U.S. District Attorney firings (and I’m not even talking FISA).

And, I haven’t even touched on the sudden Democratic Thursday, was capped by Obama’s acceptance speech, Cold Warrior fondness for Georgia.

Before all that, we had the Tuesday night follies of Blue Dog payola and Passive Pelosi™ bullshitting to start the DNC on the right track.

The result was that Dennis Kucinch’s “Wake Up, America” speech really should have been called Wake Up, Democrats.

Just some reminders that a Green vote is NOT a wasted vote.

Don’t ever let ANYBODY tell you your vote is “wasted” without challenging that. It’s an attempt at co-option, an attempt at playing Democrats’ version of the “politics of fear,” and a discounting of your political opinion.