Fargo Forum: Barack Obama Is More Exciting Than Ed Schafer
Fargo Forum opinion editor Jack “Don’t Get In My Face While I’m Drinking Wine Plebes!” Zaleski takes a rather petty shot at North Dakota Republicans today by saying that Barack Obama’s speech at the state Democrat convention will be a more exciting draw that former ND Governor and current US Ag Secretary Ed Schafer’s speech:
Last week’s announcements from North Dakota’s political parties about their keynote speakers were as different as day and night.
Obama. Schafer. Obama. Schafer. Hmmm …
On April 4, the state’s Democrats will (unless there’s a scheduling glitch) host Sen. Barack Obama in Grand Forks. A few days earlier, North Dakota Republicans will have been in Fargo to hear from former governor and current U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer.
So, Democrats will fill the Alerus Center with thousands of people who traveled to Grand Forks to see and hear a political superstar who just might be the next president. In Fargo, a few hundred Republican Party faithful at the Holiday Inn will cheer for a former governor and short-timer ag secretary, who will preach to the choir.
Obama. Schafer. Obama. Schafer. Hmmm …
A reader responds:
Of course he’s right that Obama is going to pump people up more than Schafer.
But Schafer is the first CABINET SECRETARY from North Dakota since Tom Kleppe in the Ford Administration. That’s historic.
And, I’d wager, most North Dakotans’ politics are closer to Schafer’s than the left-wing “progressivism” of Obama.
Quite right.
Maybe the Democrats brought in Obama so he could hang out with the new SDS radical wannabes at UND and their good buddy (and left-wing terrorist extraordinaire) Will Ayers. After all, Obama likes hanging out with Ayers.
Actually, I’d actually be willing to bet that the North Dakota Democrats are sweating their selection of Obama as keynote speaker for their convention. This was undoubtedly booked prior to the Jeremiah Wright scandal when Obama was still seen as a candidate with broad, uniting appeal. Now that voters - North Dakotans specifically - know a bit more about Obama through his two decades of worship at Rev. “God Damn America” Wright’s church the Democrats may be regretting their decision.
They’ll deny it vehemently now that they’ve tied themselves to him, of course, but even so. It Obama is their candidate in the national election and they have to spend almost eight months defending him on Rev. Wright, Rezko and whatever else may come up it isn’t going to help their in-state races.
They’d be better off with a Clinton at the top of their ticket.
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