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"Kamarck: The worst thing that can happen at a convention is that it can in fact turn into an actual decision-making convention. The worst thing that can happen at a convention is that it can be real. That is almost always a harbinger of bad things to come."
This may be the conventional wisdom (pun intended) but it undermines the democratic process. Isn't the point -- other than winning -- of the Obama campaign to change things? We regular people out here want to see a convention where it isn't carefully orchestrated and the message rigidly controlled and the passion completely absent. We want to argue or have our surrogates argue about the plank like in the old days and have people say what they truly believe and vote as truly want to vote. And we want demonstrations right there in front of us not off in a pen somewhere. Conventions without decision making are boring, contrived, and frankly disheartening.
