The Greco-Roman stage built for Barack Obama to speak from at Denver's Invesco at Mile High stadium was impeccable. The roaring crowd was just right. The stage management of interspersing Colorado's boring, pedestrian Democratic pols with old rock groups kept everyone's interest from the 2 p.m. when they had to be in their seats, until Obama finally spoke at 8:20 p.m.
Obama was his usual engaging self at the teleprompter, and read his lines flawlessly.
The problem was the Obama message of Hope and Change--somehow got lost in the standard, traditional Democratic class warfare digs at George Bush and John McCain-- as well as tearjerking stories about citizens who lost their jobs through no fault of their own, and digs at how rich they are and how poor we are.
It could just as easily have been FDR, Harry Truman, Bill Clinton speaking--the message was the same. Us versus them. They're the haves, we're the have-nots. Woe is us.
The Hope and Change faded into in the same old, same old. Long on rhetoric, short on vision and dreams. Barack ran them up the flagpole all right--but how many will salute?
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