Creative: Critique - Reagan Redux

Firsthand
Bush repackages ‘Morning in America’Put the words “integrated” and “solutions” together and the average eyeball not only glazes, but shellacks and polyurethanes itself.
Having watched most of last week’s Republican partyfest, I’m struggling with a time warp/label disorder involving severe dislocation of generations and presidential administrations and even the political parties themselves.
The first night, which included a blind mountain climber reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, a black female advocate for the homeless singing our national anthem, a Latino advocate, a black chorus, Colin Powell talking about the urgent need for schools, not prisons, and schoolchildren on stage with Laura Bush as she spoke about education, seemed to evoke the Democratic convention of 1992.
Bill Clinton was always big on celebrating our multiculti, Benetton- nation hues while having ecstatic black choruses entertain.