There’s been plenty of talk about Michelle Obama’s speech, and Bill Clinton’s speech, and Barack Obama’s speech, which I thought was right up there with the best, and Joe Biden’s speech of course, the Democratic convention was a festival of great public speaking. It had, at moments, a revival tent feel about it.
But the best speech of all, in my opinion, was Jennifer Granholm’s. Now, I have one slightly negative thing to say about it, which I don’t think any pundits have mentioned yet, and it’s not really even a negative, I’m just surprised the opposition isn’t all over it, because it’s the quibbly sort of thing they would jump on. I think she was drunk.
One of the best speeches I’ve ever heard
I mean, the way she was so emotive and waving her arms around was great, and she was inspired, on a roll, when she was listing the job stats from the automobile industry state by state, but there was something wild and uninhibited about it all.
It’s not surprising, at a convention. I don’t know if they had a public bar, but I’m sure all the delegations and caucuses and other such granfaloons had hospitality suites, and I can imagine the scene. The former governor, currently working as a commentator on a TV channel that nobody watches, was in the green room, waiting to give a speech to thousands of people, millions if you count those watching at home, and she did. It was a speech which could re-ignite her political career, or leave her in oblivion. A couple of shots of Jack Daniels, just to take the edge off, wouldn’t be a bad idea.
And I suspect that, thus fortified, she decided to go out there and give it her all, not hold back, swing for the fences. Either it would work and she would be a star or she would go down in a blaze of glory.
It worked. On the basis of that speech alone, Jennifer Granholm is a contender in 2016.
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Correction: Jennifer Granholm was born in Canada. So, like Arnold Schwarzenegger, she cannot legally run for President.