Thursday, July 29, 2004
Holes In The Democratic Platform
CNN CROSSFIRE, NOVAK: Hardly anybody was in the convention hall and the television cameras were off yesterday evening when we had the -- when the national platform of the Democratic Party came up for a vote. It was just like the old Supreme Soviets, no debates, no amendments, just a voice vote of approval.
I doubt these left-wing delegates could even guess what is not in the platform. There's nothing about gay marriage, nothing about partial-birth abortion, capital punishment, Alaska oil drilling or the Kyoto global warming treaty.
Senator John Kerry's managers don't want these divisive issues brought up or the delegates will put the nominee much further to the left than he wants to be. Shame at the Democratic Party for being so phony.
But the Atlanta Journal-Constitution covers another kind of Holes.
Holes In The Platform
There’s the Democratic Party platform. And then there is the Georgia platform, which everyone could see was full of holes.
State Democratic leaders took turns standing on a milk crate acting as a makeshift speaker’s platform at a luncheon Wednesday in a Boston McCormick & Schmick’s restaurant.
Hattie Dorsey, state party vice chairwoman, had to take her shoes off because her narrow heels went straight through the slots. That generated an immediate comment from Michael Thurmond, Georgia’s labor secretary: “Hattie’s got some real cute toes.”
Delegation chairman Calvin Smyre didn’t seem to mind though. “This is a nice platform,” he said, balancing himself. “We’re standing on a milk crate all the way to victory.”
CNN CROSSFIRE, NOVAK: Hardly anybody was in the convention hall and the television cameras were off yesterday evening when we had the -- when the national platform of the Democratic Party came up for a vote. It was just like the old Supreme Soviets, no debates, no amendments, just a voice vote of approval.
I doubt these left-wing delegates could even guess what is not in the platform. There's nothing about gay marriage, nothing about partial-birth abortion, capital punishment, Alaska oil drilling or the Kyoto global warming treaty.
Senator John Kerry's managers don't want these divisive issues brought up or the delegates will put the nominee much further to the left than he wants to be. Shame at the Democratic Party for being so phony.
But the Atlanta Journal-Constitution covers another kind of Holes.
Holes In The Platform
There’s the Democratic Party platform. And then there is the Georgia platform, which everyone could see was full of holes.
State Democratic leaders took turns standing on a milk crate acting as a makeshift speaker’s platform at a luncheon Wednesday in a Boston McCormick & Schmick’s restaurant.
Hattie Dorsey, state party vice chairwoman, had to take her shoes off because her narrow heels went straight through the slots. That generated an immediate comment from Michael Thurmond, Georgia’s labor secretary: “Hattie’s got some real cute toes.”
Delegation chairman Calvin Smyre didn’t seem to mind though. “This is a nice platform,” he said, balancing himself. “We’re standing on a milk crate all the way to victory.”
