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DNC Evening 3 Open Thread #1

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Have at it!

I’ll put some stuff here when I can.

Also tweeting.

@johngcole; @soonergrunt; @angryblacklady; @tomlevenson; @zandarvts

Carol Berman, Senior Citizen, Medicare Recipient, 5:32 PM ET

Rep. Donna Edwards, 5:34 PM ET

Rep. Barney Frank, MA, 5:39 PM ET

With nothing to lose.  Not that THAT ever stopped him from verbal hardball, but this should be interesting.  TRANSCRIPT

Harvey Gannt, Mayor, Charlotte NC, 5:47 PM ET  Tribute to recently departed Democratic luminaries, or as Mitt Romney thinks of them, newly baptized Mormons.

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Rep. John Lewis, original freedom rider, 6:00 PM ET

CPT Jason Crowe, USA (Ret), Veteran’s issues, DADT Repeal, 6:08 PM CT

Points out that Rmoney never mentioned military personnel, or Afghanistan, even once in his speech last week.

Mary J. Blige, recording artist, Grammy Award winner, 6:12 PM ET

Rep. Debbie Wasserman  Schultz, FL, DNC Chair, Cancer Survivor, 6:22 PM ET
Convention Chair Antonio Vilaregosa, Mayor of Los Angeles, 6:30 PM ET

Rep. Tammy Baldwin, WI, 6:39 PM ET   TRANSCRIPT

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  2. 2.

    jgaugust

    Really looking forward to Zach Walls’ speech. He gave one of the absolute most impassioned speeches I’ve ever seen on marriage equality in Iowa and I’m sure he’s going to knock it out of the park again tonight.

  3. 3.

    ImJohnGalt

    Did Cole show up? I hope he hasn’t let his predilection for dames and whiskey subvert his enjoyment and experience of, you know, the actual convention.

  4. 4.

    dmsilev

    So, now that we’ve established that Barack Obama can control the weather (besides ordering up a thunderstorm for tonight, apparently he also arranged last week’s hurricane and the drought), how long until he smites Mitt Romney with a bolt of lightning?

    I’ll guess it’ll happen at the climax of the third debate.

  8. 8.

    MikeJ

    @ImJohnGalt:

    I hope he hasn’t let his predilection for dames and whiskey subvert his enjoyment and experience of, you know, the actual convention.

    You’ve never been to a convention, have you? Drinking and womanizing are what made this country great.

  14. 14.

    Poopyman

    How’s Donna Edwards doing? She’s the rep from the next district over. I somehow ended up dancing with her at Kos’ party at the Mpls Netroots.

  19. 19.

    General Stuck

    We close the deal tonight. And I am really enjoying all these little short segue videos highlighting what dems have done and are for. On basic kitchen table stuff with ordinary folks delivering the message. It has a simple style, that kind of reminds me of the hokey commercials in the 50’s and 60’s for all sorts of useful products being created.

    This is a well designed convention, that is both carefully scripted, but unpretentious, and filled with the spirit of service for both big and little things, that politicians have drifted away from in recent decades. If it doesn’t move the needle, then the needle can’t be moved, imho.

  21. 21.

    Hal

    Listening to NPR today when Michael Scherer commented that so far none of the speeches he heard were aimed at swing voters. I’m not sure why swing voters don’t care about medicare or medicaid, so it’s confusing as to what issues Obama should talk about specifically for that group.

    Also, I heard a Kathy Hochul commercial yesterday in which she drew a specific distinction between herself and Obama, saying she voted for the balanced budget amendment and he did not, and how Washington was paralyzed by a lack of bi-partisanship. I realize she’s playing to her audience, but damn Kathy.

  23. 23.

    Anne Laurie

    @Poopyman: Well, by now it’s one of our tribal traditions. ‘Sides, I’m just glad to know he made it to the venue & got his credentials* and that his thumbs still work.

    *Even if this means forgiving Erica Sackin for those endless hectoring emails.

  25. 25.

    Soonergrunt

    @Anne Laurie: If you want to edit this as well (cause I can’t keep up with everything) just go ahead. I know I missed the last couple of speakers for example.

  26. 26.

    pseudonymous in nc

    @Hal:

    Listening to NPR today when Michael Scherer commented that so far none of the speeches he heard were aimed at swing voters.

    Nor tyre-swing voters, apparently. Swing voters will make up their minds — as someone commented today — on things like federal jobs requesting five years of tax returns and Mittens releasing one and a half. There’s not much of a queue for the swing this year.

    This is about galvanising the issues for the party faithful, getting people fired up to do the formal and informal job of grassroots campaigning over the next two months, and for pushing on registration and turnout, especially in a climate of state-level vote suppression.

  28. 28.

    Trakker

    Wow, the pundits at WaPost are just going nuts trashing the Democrats. Jennifer Rubin has been on FIRE all day! She even has a post about Biden that is dated September 8, 2012. Just in case she croaks before then I suppose.

  30. 30.

    Nellcote

    @General Stuck:

    that politicians have drifted away from in recent decades.

    It’s really been striking how THIS convention has embraced the “controversial” aspects (gays,choice,immigration etc) of the platform, loud and upfront.

  32. 32.

    askew

    Tweety said that Obama’s speech is reported to be brief. I wonder what the means and how the media will spin it if his speech is shorter than Clinton’s?

  33. 33.

    General Stuck

    @Nellcote:

    I think it’s largely because the republicans have gotten so extreme and ever more pure right wing crazy, that the dem powers that be saw the opening, and took their chances coming out straight up what they believe.

    For decades, we have been in an insincere dance with the goopers, anchored in the fuzzy middle, to move back and forth from that middle, whenever somebody thought we should. Not now.

  34. 34.

    Poopyman

    @askew: Anything coming close to Clinton’s in terms of length is going to be closely compared to it, and I don’t think there’s anyone living who would come out ahead of Clinton on that.

    He should keep it to under a half hour. Preferably a lot less.

  35. 35.

    Emma

    @askew: They would be wasting their time. EVERYBODY knows Clinton is a motormouth. The media will get the stomping they deserve.

  39. 39.

    Lurking Canadian

    @askew: No matter what the president does, the media will say it was a failure. A dove could descend from heaven and alight on his shoulder while a great voice filling the arena says, “This is my Chosen Annointed!” and the story on CNn will be that Obama jut didn’t connect with blue-collar men in the heartland.

  41. 41.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    @Anne Laurie:

    He’s in the next thread up, paying no attention to his underbloggers :)

    __
    After too much fast booze and loose wimmuns, one does tend to lose track of one’s underbloggers. Or so I’ve been told.

  44. 44.

    General Stuck

    @askew:

    Tweety said that Obama’s speech is reported to be brief. I wonder what the means and how the media will spin it if his speech is shorter than Clinton’s?

    Two hundred and seventy words, or there about, would work for me.

  45. 45.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    @General Stuck:

    Two hundred and seventy words, or there about, would work for me.

    __
    “Four score and seven certified copies of my birth certificate ago…”

  48. 48.

    Jay C

    Gee – not even ONE a**hole delegate yelled “NAY” over Joe Biden’s re-nomination acclamation! I thought the Dems were in “disarray”….

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