Hillary's Speech

Well, the commentators are all going gaga over Hillary's speech. I'll admit, she did a good job. What did people expect? That she would come out and say "Up Yours Obama! I should be the nominee!" Sheesh, calm down everyone, it was a convention speech. Of course the crowd would go crazy.

I watched the speech on CNN and their commentators were all saying what a great job she did. Carville said it was a Sandy Koufax fastball (note to Carville, you need to update your references, no one in Obama's target demographic know who Sandy Koufax is). But an interesting thing took place. On the floor, CNN had a lengthy interview with a black female Clinton delegate who wasn't exactly embracing Obama yet. She went on and on how "presidential" Clinton looked, and said while she definitely won't vote for McCain, she may not vote at all.

I've never liked that approach, because I always say, vote for somebody, because you have the right to do so. But when they talk about party unity last night, I'm wondering if the Hillary supporters will indeed move on and give their support to Obama. Or, will they still want to hold out, if for the simple reason that the Obama group will be basically telling them that they need to get over it.

This will still be an interesting election. It's all up to the Democrats what happens. Republicans know the odds are very much stacked against them. But if the Dems botch this one, it will surely have to go down as the most botched election of all time.

So, who will McCain choose as his running mate? Think how it would mix things up if he chose a woman. Would he do that? Probably not, but boy would that sure be an attention getter and an obvious ploy at snatching up the Hillary supporters.