Democrats' last ditch effort to unify the party to put Obama in White House
A.H. Jaffor Ullah
Unless you've been in Mars you may have noticed that the news media, Internet, TV channels are all abuzz with the news of Democratic Convention that is taking place in Denver, Colorado from August 25th through 28th. The convention delegates are all gathered here to energize the "base," which was fractured by a very divisive primary elections that took place starting from late January 2008 through the first week of June 2008.
The primaries in which Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton fought tooth and nail to get enough delegates to win the nomination had created a chasm between Obama and Clinton supporters. Among the Democrats and Independents, a coalition of young college going students, educated and professionals, African Americans have overwhelmingly supported Senator Obama while a coalition of women, less educated White men, and Hispanics have thrown their support for Hillary Clinton.
In the last four decades, we have not seen such a hotly contested primaries in
From June through August 2008, the bigwigs of the party tried to smooth out the differences that exist in the hearts and minds of both Barack and Hillary supporters so that in the
On the second day of the convention, Senator Clinton gave an emotional speech in which she implored her supporters to stand behind Barack Obama so that the Party could recapture the White House and a fellow Democrat take charge of the nation in the last week of January 2009. The
President Bill Clinton also addressed the convention on the third day (August 27, 2008) and he also gave a conciliatory speech. Like Hillary Clinton, he also gave a call for unified "Base" without whose support Obama will not be able to defeat the Republican challenger, Senator John McCain.
It is worth mentioning here that Bill Clinton still has many followers especially among rural Democrats mostly men in Appalachian mountain region in the
We have noticed that McCain campaign had aired quite a few TV Ads directed towards
Many Democrats now believe in the 'tit-for-tat' policy. When the Republicans would meet in
In 1988, George H. W. Bush's campaign made some nasty negative Ads to undermine the Democratic candidate, Gov. Michael Dukakis. The most notable among them was the one in which Black inmates were paraded inside a penitentiary while the announcer said that Governor Dukakis had pardoned a convicted felon by the name Willy Horton, an African American, who committed a serious crime such as rape and murder. The bottom line of the Ad - Michael Dukakis was soft on crime. This utterly negative Ad did Dukakis in. Since then the Republicans resorted to negative campaign in each and every presidential race.
And this year is no exception. Senator McCain's campaign is now onto sticking a label on Obama. They contend that Obama is a narcissist celebrity of mega proportion. Thus, when Obama campaign decided to host the acceptance speech at INVESCO Stadium in the presence of about 80,000 screaming fans, which has never been done before, the Republican talking heads in the media including Karl Rove at the Fox news became very excited because now they could surely give a spin to Obama's historic acceptance speech to characterize the event as yet another publicity stunt for the "World Class Celebrity". The McCain campaign will pronounce that Obama being a narcissist only cares about him rather than the common people of
As I mentioned earlier, on August 27, the third day of the Democratic Convention in
The most successful convention in
A post script. I was privileged to view the last day of the convention. The venue was INVESCO sports arena. Obama stood before a crowd of 80,000 to deliver a historic speech, which lasted more than 50 minutes and the attendees were spellbound. Many of the Hillary supporters were in tears hearing Obama's speech in which he said that he wants to unify the divided nation. Some political analysts in CNN has said that McCain will have difficulty matching the oration of Obama when the former will give the acceptance speech before few thousands cheering Republicans. In the history of
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Dr. A.H. Jaffor Ullah, a researcher and columnist, writes from
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