Putting the inspiring Kucinich into sub-prime time, and giving the uninspiring corporate spokesman Mark Warner the keynote address shows the low note that the Obama campaign is playing, and the note sounds pretty sour too.
The Obama campaign is micro-managing and controlling the convention just like Kerry did in 2004 and they are driving the party into the same ditch.
Obama tightens grip on podium speeches
Written by Betsy Rothstein
DENVER — Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is tightening the reins on campaign speeches and stressing that speakers emphasize a rags-to-riches theme.
Members of Congress and others who have been asked to address the convention must have their speeches approved by the Obama campaign. In many cases, the speeches are drastically changed — to the point where the original speech is completely scrapped, Democratic sources say.
This kind of propaganda management of the convention drains the life out of it. It is no wonder that most of the speeches are so poor.
The leadership of the Democratic Party needs to learn some day that its vitality is in the free voices of the people, not in the scripted advertising of political professionals. If Candidate Obama won't let the authentic voices of his own Party speak, people had better get prepared now for the same or worse treatment from President Obama. Folks, people don't change when they get to the White House, they become more tight in their control, not less.
Rothstein also reports on the Obama tampering and censorship with Kucinich's speech:
Yet not every speech has been completely overhauled. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), who was asked by Obama to speak about the economy, was scheduled to deliver his speech Tuesday afternoon. The Obama campaign struck just one line from his speech, which slammed the Republicans and the Bush administration, according to a Democratic source.
That line, addressing Republicans, read: "They’re asking for another four years — in a just world, they’d get 10 to 20."
Too bad that was censored. I bet it would have brought the roof down.
Not only was Kucinich censored, it appears that the Israel lobby got to Obama and convinced Obama to give Carter the hook. As Democracy Now! reports Jimmy Carter was a scheduled speaker but his spot to give a live speech was yanked at the last minute and only a prerecorded video was played followed by him coming on stage for a 90 second hand wave.
http://www.democracynow.org
/2008/8/27/fmr_president_ji
mmy_carter_sidelined_atThis type of tight control of the convention is what has made the conventions a silly sham and nothing more than a propaganda play every bit a sign of American fascism as Hitler's Nuremberg rallies were evidence of German fascism.
posted by Gregory Wonderwheel 
