Now the end of August, thankfully both political parties have now had their conventions, a pair of far more mind-numbing events than usual this year. Normally one at least has the actual nomination vote to watch with those over-inflated declarations of the grandeur of one's state before a delegate submits the vote count from their state to be tallied.
What made those micro-speeches fun were two things....
First he/she was in all likelihood suffering from the mother of all hang-overs after a week-long binge of cheap booze and partying hardy away from work and family.
Which made his/her staid deliver to the cameras one heck of an acting job.
Second, the odd little bits of trivia they were boasting about were for the most part actually true. Not that anyone else cares that much about Illinois, the folks who live there consider these factoids very important.
What was to be avoided were the headliner addresses. Delivered by either a war-horse or sometimes an up-and-comer, these often lengthy speeches are meant to fire up the party base. The real purpose is to serve as a launching platform for higher office. Here we'd get the full load of tall-tales, lies, and innuendo -- bleh.
Which is bad enough as is, but people never stopped playing that game after the last presidential cycle. Instead of a couple months of being fed stories so bad that a tabloid editor would reject them we've been fed this slop for over four years!
This does not bode well for after the election either. No one I know wants to deal with more "expositions" on Twitter, Facebook, or nightly news. Now if just the politicos got that message.
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