Woe is us!

In watching the DNC convention it strikes me odd that we in America are all doing bad, and gloom and doom permeates. We must be saved.

If we elect Kerry, all our poor citizens will have jobs, health care coverage will be fixed, social security will be sorted, and he'll even do the robot dance to boot just to entertain you.

According to the DNC, our country is doing poor and only one man can save us from the foul, evil bastions of darkness, the Republicans.

The only problem with all these hard luck stories and Republican finger pointing episodes is that they portray a false picture of where we are. Yes, we do have some big issues regarding health coverage, outsourcing, and trade agreements, but our economy is doing well and most Americans are doing better than they were 4 years ago.

There were a lot of good jobs created, and there is a lot of positive momentum in regards to both our economy and the situation in Iraq. Checking out the DNC convention, you'd think we were in the middle of the second episode of the Great Depression.

The DNC has some good issues, but in pushing a partisan Bush bash agenda, they have ensured that they will go lower than the lowest Karl Rove speech. Attack. Attack. Attack. The only problem is when someone like myself watches all these attacks, and see's the outright false message being sold it does quite the opposite of selling the Democratic party to me.

Terry McAuliffe has been an overtly vocal nastyman for the DNC for months, and I understand he's playing the bad cop. That said, John Kerry is no Bill Clinton and when you debate and make the main issue personal attacks then you will alienate many fringe voters.

Its a shame that we didn't see a convention promoting ideas, differences between the parties, and a healthy dose of information as to why we should vote for their man. All we got was the same political rhetoric repackaged and pushed out in a way that helps keep that nasty, partisan edge.

People are surpised nobody is watching the convention. Nobody should be. Reruns tend to get low ratings.