Born to Hand Jive in Denver?

There is so much “convention related” stuff out there, and much of it is rehashed from site-to-site, that when someone writes something both exceptionally clever and insightful, you just have to move it to the front of the line. Patrick O’ Hannigan is hitting on all cylinders with hot rod of a piece, playing the musical “Grease” off the Democrat convention:

With poll data showing John McCain virtually tied with Barack Obama, the latter’s handlers now realize the folly of pretending that the audacity of hope belongs exclusively to freshman Senators who develop a jones for Oval Office stationery 142 days into their first term. Now those advisors have a problem: They got chills; they’re multiplyin,’ and they’re losing control.

Think of Denver as Rydell High, except that Sandy represents a voter demographic rather than a straitlaced blonde who gave herself an extreme makeover. Sandy fell for “Barry” Obama over the summer (“met a boy, cute as could be”), but when she left the Saddleback Civil Forum earlier this month, she was aghast at her own respect for the old warrior with whom he is contending, and so she passed a warning to her crush: “You’d better shape up, ’cause I need a man, and my heart is set on you.”
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Barack will not mug for the cameras in a muscle shirt the way John Travolta did, but Democrats now swoon through summer nights, hoping the rest of us will join them in a chorus of “Tell me more! Tell me more! Was it love at first sight?”
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Unlike Obama, the kids in “Grease” had no need to prove their American bonafides, even though one of them was played by an Australian pop singer-turned-actress. That nobody in the movie was running for President is entirely irrelevant: At the western end of Route 66 in the twilight of the doo-whop era, even juvenile delinquents took American virtues for granted.

Those were just tantalizing excerpts; you’ll want to read the whole. You’ll laugh. And cry.

This dance floor might look like the floor of almost any convention, but doesn’t ChaCha, narrowing her eyes and plotting to take over the dance contest, remind you a little of Hillary? :-) Fun stuff.