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Thursday, August 28, 2008 12:00 AM

What's missing from the Democratic convention?

Democrats have largely avoided discussions of the radicalism of the past eight years, and even more so personal attacks on John McCain. Is that wise?

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  • Thursday, August 28, 2008 09:20 AM

    Looks like the demos have no desire

    to turn this ship around.

    Sad. We're witnessing the end of America; we're on the fast-path to becoming (already there?) a third-world nation with nukes.

    The silence of the so-called opposition about the crimes of the administration letigimizes them.

    The convention is the right forum for the demos to make the case, yet they did not. Maybe the demos plan to continue the criminal policies we've seen in the past 8 years?

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