Today's News July 28, 2016

Fortunately, the rest of the news got more interesting, so I can cut back on coverage of the infomercial known as the Democratic National Convention.

(At least I am honest.)

CNN:

6 takeaways from Wednesday night at the Democratic Convention

[President] Obama cast the 2016 election as a choice between two visions for the country: The one he described on the Democratic convention stage when he rocketed to stardom 12 years ago in Boston against a dark and dystopian view from Trump that Obama said doesn't match "the America I know."

Tell that to all the people out of work today. Tell that to black mothers of children killed by cops and other blacks. Tell that to people who aren't making about the same wages they made 20 years ago. The only happy people are the Mexicans here illegally, making more money than they did in Mexico, but still below the minimum wage.

The problem with Democrats is they see the world through their own rose-colored glasses when it suits them. Especially when it is the guy who is trying to defend his last 8 years in the White House.

But this was the classic Obama line:

In a direct shot at Trump, Obama said: "Our power doesn't come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way."

I doubt Obama realizes he was psychologically projecting there...

Washington Times:

WikiLeaks releases hacked DNC voicemails

There isn't much news in this story, yet:

...the anti-secrecy whistle-blower group released hacked voicemails of top Democratic officials. 

Wikileaks put up a page containing 29 mp3 files of calls, identified by phone number, running approximately 14 minutes combined.

None of the messages listened to by The Washington Times contained anything immediately obvious as embarrassing or incriminating.

However, the very fact the DNC voicemail system has been hacked is embarrassing and could augur the release of far more damaging material later.

Stay tuned next week. Same batty time, same batty party...

The Week:

Nancy Pelosi says white men don't like Clinton

 'because of guns, because of gays, and because of God'

Nancy Pelosi is the gift that keeps on giving. It would take Yogi Berra to explain her.

Case in point:

Republican Donald Trump leads Democrat Hillary Clinton 56 percent to 25 percent among white men, according to a recent survey — and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) believes she knows why. 

"So many times, white — non-college-educated — white males have voted Republican," she said in an interview with PBS on Tuesday. "They voted against their own economic interests because of guns, because of gays, and because of God, the three G's — God being the woman's right to choose."

Huh?

I cannot connect ANY of those dots.

Leave it to Yogi to explain this (paraphrasing): "She really didn't say everything she said. Then again, she might have said 'em, but you never know."

 (hat tip to Fake Posters for the pic)

Heat Street:

Bernie Sanders Leaves the Democratic Party

Sanders, who considers himself, officially, an Independent in Congress because his views lean further left than the Democratic party’s platform, caucuses with Democrats. But until declaring an intention to run for the presidency in 2015, he had rarely, if ever, identified as a member of the Democratic Party (he’s been in politics since 1979). 

And now, despite pleading with his base to support Hillary, even though they’re concerned that she’s too moderate, Sanders will return to Vermont and to his seat in the Senate, and he’ll do it with no official party affiliation. 

There is an important life lesson from this. There are times in life when we want to get ahead, but we know we will have to make uncomfortable sacrifices. Sometimes, even painful sacrifices. In the case of Bernie Sanders, that sacrifice was registering as a Democrat in order to run for president.

At least he was true to himself in the end. Well, after endorsing Hillary, which we now know was complete b.s.