Tonight in Charlotte, the 10 o'clock hour when most of the networks began coverage began with the second half of a speech by Sandra Fluke. Remember her? She is the Georgetown law student who testified about the terrible burden she and other law students had to bear by not having free birth control. Indeed, she told congressmen that it cost her $3000 to pay for birth control while in law school. That's about $80 per month to buy pills that are available for $7 for a one month supply at CVS in Connecticut. In any event, forgetting Ms. Fluke's penchant for pumping up the price to make this seem bigger than it really is, she was attacked by Rush Limbaugh for asking America to pay for her birth control. Limbaugh called her a "slut", something for which he apologized a few days later.
I rehash this story, because Fluke's speech tonight focused on how Mitt Romney did not come to her defense when Rush hammered her. Fluke spoke about how America had a choice for president. On the one side, there was a man who ignored when a public figure defamed and attacked a young woman. On the other side there was a man who "thought about his daughters." The funny thing is that when Fluke mentioned a public figure who defamed and attacked a young woman, I immediately thought first of David Letterman who told America that Bristol Palin, then the teenage daughter of Sarah Palin, had gone to the Yankees game and been "knocked up" by one of the players between innings. Of course, Obama said nothing. Then I thought about Bill Maher who over the last few years has called various conservative women a variety of slurs, many much worse than slut. Indeed, Maher has sunk so low that I will not even repeat here what he said. Again, Obama has been silent. Indeed, Obama took $1 million from Maher as a contribution to his PAC. I wonder if Obama thought about his daughters when he took that cash from Maher; if so, he was probably trying to figure out how to make sure that his daughters never meet Maher.
The rest of the Fluke speech was almost incoherent. I have to wonder why the Obama team put her is such a prominent position in the evening.
In any event, Fluke was followed by Elizabeth Warren who gave her basic stump speech embellished a bit for the occasion. Warren, too, had a speech that could only be called far left. She focused to a great extent on the new consumer protection agency that is the product of the Dodd Frank legislation. She failed, of course, to mention that Obama originally wanted to name her as the first director of that agency, but the Senate which at the time had a 59 to 41 Democrat majority would not confirm her; it thought her unfit for the position. As a result, she did not get the appointment. Her failure to get the support of her fellow Democrats tell us all we really need to know about her. She also never mentioned her claim to Cherokee heritage. It is a claim that she apparently used to get hired as a minority at both the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard law schools. Of course, there is no proof that she has any Indian ancestry. Indeed, the "evidence" that Warren offered to support her claims was easily shown to be bogus.
Bill Clinton is speaking now. I cannot speak for anyone else, but he really looks old to me. He also seems old. Since he left office, we have seen 9-11, years of war, good times then bad times, indeed almost a generation. He still speaks well, but I am not interested in his tired old lines.
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