On the opening night of the Democratic National Convention, Joe Biden was given the not-so-prime-time slot, 11:30 p.m. Monday night, for his speech. This was not the slot where one would put a president whom Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats say deserves to be mounted on Mount Rushmore.
The Democrats went nuts for Biden — just weeks after he left the presidential race. It confirms the old show business adage: Give the people what they want, and they will always cheer in appreciation. They showed Biden the door, something Obama and anyone else onstage with Biden in the last four years had to do.
Biden’s speech was to be his “swan song.” Here’s a little-known fact: Swans are strong. Their wings can break a human’s arm. But humans have shotguns now, so swans rarely start anything with us anymore.
The Democratic National Convention was held in crime-ridden Chicago. The weather was bad, and the police were everywhere. Given the conditions, gangs had to delay several murders. When VP nominee Tim Walz looked into the crime stats in Democrat-controlled Chicago, he asked if he could defer his deployment to Chicago and just Zoom in.
So far, the only policy statement from Harris is that she is going to work on inflation by implementing price controls, a Marxist idea that has never worked. Showing her economic depth, she said “price gaging” instead of “price gouging.” You can tell that, deep down, her economic knowledge is very shallow.