Watching the speakers on the podium on Monday night at the Democratic National Convention, you could get the impression that the Hillary Clinton forces are managing to unify the Democratic Party, in contrast to the ramshackle atmosphere on the afternoon session when Bernie Sanders supporters started booing during the invocation and then threw convention presiding officer Marcia Fudge (standing in for the dismissed but not forgotten by Bernie fans Debbie Wasserman Schultz) off stride.
They didn’t boo or catcall at all during Michelle Obama’s finely crafted speech in which she said “this country is great” — quite a contrast from her February 2008 stump statement that, “For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country.” She had never been proud of her country until her husband started winning presidential primaries.
