Do I sound cynical? You bet I am! The only people I came away feeling the slightest bit of admiration for were the cops for not blowing away EVERYBODY when they had the chance. Such restraint! I know I would've wound up blasting everybody's brains out if I was as heavily armed as they were: the protesters, the delegates, the politicians, the PRESS — EVERYBODY! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! YEEEE-HAH!!!

Just kidding. Hey, I'm all for democracy — unlike many of the noisier participants I witnessed at these conventions, some of whom seem like they would LOVE to be totalitarian dictators (both Pat Buchanan and Hillary Clinton come to mind, as well as ALL of the violent "protesters") if only this stupid document called the Constitution wasn't standing in their way. They seem so... so... FRUSTRATED over the fact that EVERYTHING isn't done EXACTLY the way they want things done. Poor Babies!

Otto Von Bismarck once said that people with weak stomachs should never watch their sausages OR their laws being made, and I would throw political conventions in this category as well. Thanks to the DNC I'll never be able to eat another sausage again!