There are going to be speeches tonight by Joe Biden and former President Clinton. I've been thinking about what I would like to hear. What about you?
Some ideas below the fold.
First, apologies for lifting this almost entirely from an earlier comment I made. But I haven't seen any diaries about what folks would like to hear tonight. Maybe I'm wrong, but I want to hear speeches tonight that reflect some of the anger I feel at the last 8 years.
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Here's what I'd like to see: A giant picture of the hole where the Twin Towers used to be. That picture stays up during both speeches. The point is that that hole pretty well demonstrates what 8 years of Republican leadership have done to the US. We are weakened militarily and diplomatically, in debt individually and as a country, and are falling further behind by every measurement.
I'd like to see Biden take a foreign policy tack and really attack the notion that Iraq is some kind of "success," as I think that will be a cornerstone of the McCain speech. And Biden is an expert on Iraq. He can quote the goals that Bush set out for the occupation. He can say that looking to a century ahead to vindicate the occupation is ridiculous. He can also point out that Afghanistan is slipping out of our grasp, that Russia is beating Bush up around the world, that China is now in a position to influence our internal and external actions. Thanks to Bush.
Then I'd like to see Clinton take on the economy. He can start out by saying that he left the country with a surplus. He can talk about how the Bush policies have further enriched the very wealthiest at the expense of everyone else. He can talk about how debt-ridden young people are becoming. He can talk about the loss of a great American city. He can talk about the infrastructure failures that are now accelerating and how there is no money left to pay for them (all poured out on the pavement in Iraq).
And they can keep pointing to that hole in the ground.
Now, what about your ideas?