Posted AT 8:07 AM EST on 06/09/08
America's hurtin'- where's the presidential straight talk?
ST. PAUL, MINN. — The balloons have fallen, the clichés have been exhausted, the banners have come down, the hoopla and schmaltz have ended. The quadrennial orgies of bombast, patriotism and made-for-television spectacles that are the U.S. political conventions are over.
Both conventions achieved their primary purpose, but both barely touched on the multiple challenges facing the United States.
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