The nonstop activity here is finally catching up with me, and I can feel entire lobes of my brain shutting down. If I start using monosyllabic words only or speaking in tongues, you’ll know why.
I wanted to catch up briefly on some notes I’ve been making about the speeches over the past few days. First off, Biden’s struck me as strong and forthright; I liked that he wasn’t afraid to say "These times require more than a good soldier. They require a wise leader." I thought his right-wing framing of "the dignity of work" was kind of meh — too many low-wage jobs are pretty damned awful, unsafe, and undignified, and it’s time we moved past that overgeneralization (or improved those jobs). But the right is so ridiculously fixated on welfare, I understand why he said it. Overall, a good speech that made him seem likable.
I felt Mark Warner’s speech was effective because it complicated the stupid pro-business/anti-business binary that seems to prevail in most political discourse. Nice name check of TJ.
Would write more, but I need to get ready to leave for the stadium. Not sure about internet access there, but we’ll see.