Most Democrats looked on with pride and satisfaction as Obama and Clinton each (and both) offered reasoned and prepared strategies to scrape away the mire and muck of the Bush presidency and to give Americans the future they crave.
As good as they were, they looked like giants when compared to the Republicans holding forth on Wednesday under the wing of Ronald Reagan's Air Force One at that most unusual "library" exhibit in Simi Valley! That exhibit gives a new meaning to the standard definition of the book report. All Democrats, and all thinking Americans making the comparison, must have noticed the difference between the Republicans' appeal to heightened war, immigrant scapegoating and that Republican sine qua non, the sainted "conservative" label, and the Democrats' inspired march down the path to a better life for all.
So far, so good.
But who came up with the idea of provisioning the Kodak theater with the likes of Diane Keaton and Meathead in the money seats? Steven Spielberg and all those Hollywood folks (where, mea culpa, I myself stuck a toe) are dedicated to the cause but are best kept out of sight lest the voters obtain a heavy case of mal de mer from the sight of them. Hollywood and the Democrats is not a pleasant metaphor in Eden Prairie, Minnesota or Ada, Oklahoma.
And speaking of metaphor, what of those glorious shots of crowds of Americans screaming at the tops of their lungs to support Democrats outside the Kodak Theater while your favorite television stars got to measure the candidates seated in a red plush theater seat?
Somebody goofed.