The unity farce was like watching the king push an open enemy and disloyal subject before the court, to make them repent by public humiliation.
And indeed, these people represent the Democratic Party aristocracy.
Barak Obama is the nominee, because he was hand picked by the Democratic Leadership Council faction of that aristocracy (Tom Daschle, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry), to steal power from the other faction of that aristocracy, the Clintons.
No one ever gets nominated in the Democratic or Republican party without the aristocracy selecting them, without their (the aristocracy's) corporate masters approving them, and instructions being given to the loyal subjects (partisan political activists of either party) to get them "elected".
This year is no different. Or as I read on another thread--just because the horse in a horse race is a different color, doesn't mean they aren't a horse.
Obama is a horse of a different color, running in the American political aristocracy's horse race.
He is no different than any other corrupt corporate puppet candidate that has been put forward in recent decades by the Democrats.
The media aristocracy is now declaring (this includes Olberman, the prince of the Democratic media aristocracy) that Obama is sticking it to the progressive left, and leaving them in the political wilderness AGAIN, just like all the other Democratic aristocrat candidates going back to Carter, have done.
This is the formula. Pander to the left to secure the nomination, then pander to the right for the general election.
Why do they continue with this losing electoral strategy?
Because the Republicans have been winning the presidency by running conservatives, not moderates, for the last 40 years. And because the so-called left puts up with it election after election after election.
Obama is certainly following this pattern, even though he is the first candidate in nearly half a century who doesn't have to do that. He has more money than god, and an electorate that is ready to rebel against the current ruling party.
So if there were ever a prayer that this election year/candidate might be different, or that the Democratic party had even a sliver of it's integrity as the "party of the people" things COULD change.
And it is true. This year could have been different. Obama could have been a candidate for authentic change. But this year won't be different, and Obama will not change a thing. Why? Because he is becoming rich and powerful beyond his wildest dreams, by stealing money and dreams from the people who want to see a black president.
Why do I say this?
Because the candidate has said himself in every speech he has made since clinching the nomination, that he sees the progressive causes of the liberal left as "wrong".