Ripping GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump as a racist con artist, Democrats insisted they took the high road Monday night at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Demonizing Trump as an unscrupulous businessman, keynote speakers Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), First Lady Michelle Obama, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and finally Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) all ripped Trump for story as one of the most successful real estate developers in U.S. history. Focusing on extraneous parts of a diversified business portfolio, Warren got nasty, taking hyperbole to news heights ripping the 70-year-old business icon. Claiming Democrats want to preserve the American Dream, no one represents more of an American success story than Trump. Warren’s attacks were so exaggerated and off-the-wall that even the highly partisan audience cringed.
Warren has her own issues with Trump, who outed her for misrepresenting her ethnic background, claiming to former employers, like Harvard University, she was a Cherokee Indian. Warren has no proof of her Cherokee heritage, refusing to take a DNA test to set the record straight. Trump refers to her sarcastically as “Pochahontas,” the famous Native American who married Jamestown founder John Smith. Warren’s attacks followed First Lady Michelle Obama, claiming Democrats take the high road when it comes to dirty politics. Following Warren, Bernie did his share of ripping Trump, without mentioning a word of the convention’s back-story: The firing of DNC Chairman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. Emails released by Wikileaks’ Julian Assange July 21 confirmed that the Wasserman-Schultz’s DNC conspired to sabotage the campaign of Bernie Sanders.
Sanders’ supporters were furious about spending their hard-earned money and toiling to win the nomination, when, as Sanders said himself throughout the campaign, the process was “rigged” from the get-go. While no one speaking at the DNC mentioned the elephant in the room [Wasserman-Schultz firing], Trump said the Democratic Party “threw her under a bus.” ”I just want to say that Debbie Wasserman-Schultz—I always knew she was highly overrated,” said Trump, wanting to point out that Wasserman-Schultz was closely tied to Hillary. “Debbie was totally loyal to Hillary and Hillary threw her under a bus and it didn’t take her more than five minutes to make that decision. Man, I don’t want her covering my back,” said Trump, raising the real question about the DNC’s attempt to sabotage Bernie. Trump finds it inconceivable that Hillary didn’t orchestrate the DNC’s actions.
When you examine closely Warren’s attacks, she made a strong case against President Barck Obama’s economy, leaving too many Americans working more than one jobs to make ends meet. Warren, like Sanders, commented about the growing wealth disparity, where, as Bernie says, the top one-tenth-of-one percent, make 90% of the country’s income. Warren’s statements about a sluggish U.S. economy speak volumes about the Democrats’ flawed argument for continuing the Obama economic legacy: Either the economy’s doing well or not. All Federal Reserve Board metrics show slow growth, potentially looking at recession in 2017. Second quarters Gross Domestic Product is so flat, it prompted Federal Reserve Board Chairwoman Janet Yellen to suspend rate hikes for the foreseeable future. With or without a bad jobs report, GDP growth remains flat.
Democrats argue that things are far better than when Obama inherited former President George W. Bush economy in 2009. Coming off the worst recession since the Great Depression, it’s taken time for the economy to recover. Wall Street’s done its job since bottoming out in March 2009, creating one of the longest bull markets in U.S. history. With interest rates at historic lows since former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke lowered federal funds rate to zero Dec. 16, 2008, the economy still hasn’t been able to generate any growth, despite adding some 12 million jobs. Stuck, like Japan, in a flat growth cycle, Obama hasn’t figured out what to do. Warren made the case for more growth but offers to plan other than continuing the same Obama economic policies. Ripping Trump as a racist or unscrupulous businessman offers no plan for how to fix the sluggish U.S. economy.
Democrats have no plans to talk about Wasserman-Schultz for the rest of the DNC convention. They ask their backers to only rip Trump, not talk about what happens behind the scenes at the DNC. No one wants to talk about whom gave Wasserman-Schultz the orders to sabotage Bernie’s campaign. Hillary’s campaign manager Robby Mook said July 25 that the Russian hacked DNC emails were intended to elect Trump. Mook doesn’t know how Wikileaks acquired the DNC emails. What’s known fore sure is that Wasserman-Schultz worked hard to deny Bernie the nomination. Mentioning nothing in his speech last night about DNC sabotage, Bernie’s been too quick to jump on the Hillary bandwagon. If Bernie knew that Hillary orchestrated the sabotage with the DNC, would he still be so quick to endorse her? While Bernie’s moved on, his supporters still aren’t sold on Hillary.
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