Was last night’s convention a sign that the Democratic Party is now on the path to unity rather that forming a circular firing squad? The conventional wisdom seems that it’s all coming together — but some spot signs at the convention and elsewhere that the Democrats are again working overtime to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.