Political theater without the roar of the crowd? The stakes are high as Democratic and Republican conventions come to a screen near you.
friend at the 1992 Democratic convention, in which he kept repeating the phrase “waffled and wiggled and wavered” to diminishing effect in a speech that had some in the audience thinking about breakfast at IHOP rather than the leadership failures of President George H.W. Bush.
Those saccharine video biographies of candidates, long a staple of conventions, will fill some airtime. Pundits who abhor a vacuum even more than nature will gas on with conventional wisdom. So much for what will unite the two programs. Meanwhile, Biden will be second-guessed for playing it safe, second-guessed for taking risks and second-guessed for not being as crazy as his opponent. He was smart to pick a running mate with the charisma of, for he’ll need her political star power to deflect from the gaffes and verbal stumbles that have always been part of his act.
Rep. Barbara Jordan waves to the crowd before her keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention in 1976.
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