Hillary says blahblahblah, America says WOO

Would you call it Orange Sherbert? Or maybe Creamsicle? Perhaps it's a bit brighter than that and approaching the Fanta range. Either way, however benign Hillary Clinton was last night, at least she had the few ounces of badassness necessary to wear an orange pantsuit.

With the DNC in full swing, and Michelle Obama having given a semi-decent speech the other night, Hillary stepped up last night and took a swing at sincerity. She was surprisingly robotic. Prior to her taking the podium, a video was played containing a montage or Hillary greats and what other people have to say about her. It was far more interesting than Hillary in the flesh. I feel a twinge of guilt at giving her a hard time on this, since most politicians are robotic and idealistic in some way. She doesn't even have anything riding on this anymore. 2012? Maybe. But all she can do now is just support the democratic party and support Barack Obama and hope that no one remembers that she was more self-centered than party-centered before she lost the nomination. Husband Bill will garner more supporters just sitting on his sweet ass in the balcony.

My last and final dig before I give respect is that she made a Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuits joke. Completely uncalled for. But the crowd ate that shit up. It received more of a yell than when she mentioned the former Clinton administration. And who in the crowd do you think has even seen that movie? That's the 12-year-old girl market. Most twelve-year-old girls last night were either talking on the phone or watching My Super Sweet Sixteen on MTV. Either way, the response to her performance has been weirdly positive. She was able to inject a little fire into the democratic party and people are feeling good, people are feeling unified, people are falling for Barack Obama.

I do greatly respect her feminist approach to certain issues and to be a woman and be able to vote for your own mother for president would be a pretty visceral experience. We should be able to do that and it shouldn't be an anomaly. And people in the middle class should be able to buy houses and operate vehicles and have families and not feel like every cent we make is eaten up by four dollar gallons of milk and outrageously expensive healthcare.

I'm counting on Obama to clean that shit up.