Dem Convention: It Helps to Be an Ivy League-Trainer Lawyer

or any kind of lawyer, and that's why Michelle Obama does so well in public speaking. She looked good and gave a good speech tonight trying to humanize her neoliberal husband. She almost persuaded me he was a Democrat.

I did NOT like her mentioning those teachers in Pennsylvania who "volunteered" to work for free in that one school district that was so underfunded it couldn't make payroll. That is NOT admirable on the part of the teachers but typical of the doormat personality of far too many educators. The Obamas, Rahm Emmanuel, and Cory Booker have NO credibility on the subject of education.

Aside from that, the speech was good:

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Speaking of Booker, I missed his speech, and that is a good thing. What is a bad thing is that the man is a complete and total fraud who got his start in politics being bankrolled by the Harry and Linde Bradley Foundation in its hopes he would divide blacks and unions, two of the strongest constituents of the Democratic Party, in peddling anti-public school propaganda. He's a real Manchurian, even more than Obama. Watch the media start peddling this faker as a candidate for 2016. I will end my registration with the Democratic Party if he gets the nomination if he decides to run. Maybe someday I will listen to his shit here:

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Julian Castro got lots of commentary tonight. I look for him to have a future on the national stage in 2016 or 2020, but I don't trust him any more than any of the others. He gave a good speech, but he was no Mario Cuomo.

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They are going to have to embrace REAL Democratic principles. I watched C-SPAN's rebroadcast of Democratic convention acceptance speeches, and watching Truman, for example, showed me how far the Democratic Party has strayed from its principles. You can thank the infiltration of neoliberalism into the party for this dismal state of affairs. More speeches are here. I finally came across Deval Patrick's speech. His was better than Castro's, but he has better oratory skills than Castro. He may be jockeying himself for a 2016 bid:

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