Chickens before they hatch and all that…. but the thing I think I am most looking forward to is the photos of Bill walking into the White House as First Gentleman.
I’m a cynical old trout, but Bill’s beaming mug on my ipad has made me giggle like a schoolgirl for the last three days. It seemed like every time someone cracked a joke, or ripped into the Toupéed Apricot Fucktrumpet (but I repeat myself), there was Bill, grinnin’ like a dog with three balls and a bone.
It’s been a barn burner so far, and the leading lady is yet to hit the stage, but my votes for best supporting act go to the Reverend William Barber for:
“We must be the moral defibrillator of our time. We must shock this Nation with the power of love.”
and the equally righteous Mr Khizr Khan for offering his copy of the Constitution to the Hairpiece.
If anyone can link me to a video or a transcript of both, I’d be most grateful.
ETA:
Via TPM
Robin G.
I sobbed at Mr. Khan’s speech. Sobbed when Mrs. Khan whispered “USA” with the crowd. I swear I even saw tears in Bobo’s eyes afterwards. Any even slightly wavering voter who saw that was just won.
Bodacious
OMG!!! I WANT TO HAVE HIS BABY!!! Amen, that man just made my bucket list. I’m going to a service at his church before I die……………….
Dang, the weeping for the Kahn’s was the MOST powerful thing of this convention!
patroclus
After that Marine General, all I can say is Semper Fi! And if he asks me to jump, all I got to say is “how high!”
jl
Front page of TPM blog has the very moving Khizr Khan speech
Connection
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/connection
dmsilev
The pocket Constitution moment was quite something. I eagerly await Trump’s reaction.
HinTN
Rev Barber, YES!
jl
People were dissing Sherrod Brown as a speaker yesterday.
I think the guy gets an A for effort, right? Wasn’t that bad, was it?
HinTN
@patroclus: amen
Mike J
(Delegate & Nancy’s daughter)
SiubhanDuinne
Amen to all the feels tonight. I’m already a limp little dishrag, and it’s still a while until Chelsea comes on to introduce her mom, yes?
Apart from anything else, I’m looking forward to the cutaway shots of Bill looking like proud daddy/proud hubby.
Omnes Omnibus
@dmsilev: OG Hugo Black move.
patroclus
Donald Trump, have you even read the Constitution??!!
Mike J
@jl: I think Brown got the job done. He ain’t Obama, but who is?
PigDog
@patroclus:
All 12 Articles. His version is more yuuuuuger.
lamh36
Booing a medal of honor recipient…
SMH
dmsilev
Now we’re getting the convention equivalent of an airplane safety lecture. “Open the bag, unfold the card, place it in your lab with the instructions facing up. Your card will inflate automatically”
burnspbesq
Here’s the protest: Berniacs are going to fuck up the card stunt.
ThresherK (GPad)
I’ve always liked the word Consort (like the Queen’s husband). Is there any way to work that into the title, should Hill and Bill move back into the WH?
PigDog
Where’s Left Shark?
Baud
Katy!
Please do “I kissed a girl.”
Technocrat
@burnspbesq:
It’s too easily ratfvckable. Surely someone realizes that.
dmsilev
@PigDog: Left Shark is out front protesting.
Omnes Omnibus
“Or you can just cancel out your weird cousin’s vote.”
? Martin
Salt of the earth, real America.
Even the kids toy car is a limo. Amazing that this is what the coal miners in West Virginia are identifying with. It’s like some kind of perverted zoolander.
Mike J
Katy Perry, Wasteland fan.
♫Baby you’re a mirelurk….♬
PaulW
Rev Barber speech brings the religious power of a liberal and liberating faith
guachi
After Allen’s speech, I’m glad I thought he’d be a good VP choice.
I may be in the Navy, but he was awesome.
And fuck those protestors.
Sarah, Proud and Tall
Crikey. Is that what Katy Perry looks like?
NCSteve
Rev. Barber is a big part of the reason McCrory’s “ah shucks” scam has frayed so badly and turned into an “I’m shitting sharp cornered cubes” Nixonesque snarl of late.
But the fucking Berniebrats have officially gone so far over the line tonight that I’m ready to spank the shit out if all of them and send them to their rooms without their quinona for a decade or two to think about what they’ve done.
And Jeff Weaver, he primary architect of their WATB self-absorbed paranoid delusion shitshow can kiss my ass forever more.
dmsilev
Funny how singer tributes have come full circle. Used to be matches, that everyone had in their pockets. Now, cell phone flashlights.
dr. bloor
@ThresherK (GPad): Eh, too much of a risk that Bill would identify with the verb form rather than the noun.
PsiFighter37
I’m not the biggest fans of Katy Perry’s vocals, but she is markedly better live than she was several years ago.
Baud
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: Tonight.
Keith P.
My favorite (non)speaker so far was the Sikh soldier in the back during the military diversity segment.
? Martin
@Mike J: Donald promised to deport the supermutants, though. I’m torn.
SiubhanDuinne
@ThresherK (GPad):
So, COTUS?
Baud
No dancing sharks. Fail.
Quinerly
OMG! Katy’s microphone is red,white and blue!
lamh36
@ryangrim
Rev. Barber gave a shoutout to “those who have no faith, but they love this nation.” Awful rare to hear the godless acknowledged
eclare
@Omnes Omnibus: yes, I will be doing that.
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@Keith P.:
I missed him. Do tell…
Omnes Omnibus
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: Yes. But you saw rather less of her than one normally would.
dmsilev
We will now pause for a brief moment of aimless milling around.
lamh36
Katy Perry seems like she’d be some of ya’ll folks cup of tea in terms of eye candy…lol…just mute her :-)
jl
@PigDog:
” All 12 Articles. His version is more yuuuuuger. ”
And only the Donald alone can understand articles 8 through 12. We can leave it all to him, sit back and relax.
Watching re-runs of old Trump shows, I guess.
That’s real democracy.
NoraLenderbee
@SiubhanDuinne:
Too close to coitus.
Baud
Chelsea!
rikyrah
Those pissant muthaphuckas booed a Medal of Honor recipient?
NO.HOME.TRAINING.
patroclus
This convention is one of the biggest happenings in politics I think I’ve ever seen. Knock-out patriotic speeches from Marine Generals! Fiery social justice sermons from a NC Preacher! Katy Perry! Carole King! Kareem Abdul Jabbar! A very emotional tribute to a fallen Muslim hero by his father! Heartfelt endorsements from Republicans and Independents! This is amazing!!
David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch
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dmsilev
@rikyrah: I’m sure some will boo Chelsea, and I’d be willing to bet that at least a few would boo the grandkids.
Quinerly
Dem’s have even stolen the color red from the Repugs. Chelsea in red; Bill in red tie.
Emma
@patroclus: God help me, I nearly had a seizure. How can anyone not be moved by that?
JordanRules
Awww Chelsea gets to tell the truth about her parental unit unlike Ivanka.
PigDog
I know Sully is persona non grata around here, but this from tonight’s liveblog is gold:
redshirt
Wrinkle in Time shout out!!!
Emma
@? Martin: Gah. There’s a British slang expression: naff. No matter how much money they have, the whole Trump clan is fundamentally naff.
bluehill
“You have sacrificed nothing and no one.” Devastating condemnation of Trump and the party of faux patriots by Kahn’s parents.
maryQ
I get the sentiment, but I am still kinda edgy about the “moral defibrillator” thing because my kid just got diagnosed with a rare arythymia where sudden cardiac arrest is a real possibility so I am brushing up on CPR and calling my state legislature to support a bill to install defibrillators in all schools (if you live in MA, please support S2449). The “bad heart” thing kinda got to me, because he meant mean, cruel people, but I kept thinking of my little girl, who is none of those things. It’s tough, because I think the guy came up with a fabulous metaphor and a powerful image, but for people struggling with heart disease, it creates some emotional confusion.
sigaba
From Sullivan’s blogiteria:
Classic. The Bubble must be defended.
CowboyDiva
@NoraLenderbee: I thought that was the point?
burnspbesq
NPR interviewed Norman Solomon while I was in the car. That man is a certified, Grade A, non-GMO narcissistic butthole.
rikyrah
About all the military folks tonight:
Yes, Hillary is seen as hawkish by a lot of Dems.
Tonight is about crossing those hurdles, and one of the big hurdles for any woman – can she be Commander In Chief?
Can she take that 3 am phone call?
Do we trust her with the nuclear codes?
I still have my issues with her hawkishness.
I do trust her with the nuclear codes.
cckids
@rikyrah:
Dear god, that is so perfect. Will steal immediately.
Credenzal Jocularity
Morgan Freeman FTW!
sigaba
I don’t like Chelsea, low energy (I kid I kid).
Also I’m having flashbacks to my dad’s MN House campaign and the crap I would have had to put up with if he’d won.
Sarah, Proud and Tall
Morgan Freeman! Drink!
cckids
@Emma:
Perfect. Trump’s always bragging about being “classy”. He needs to watch Rev. Barber’s speech about 50 times to see the actual definition of class.
sigaba
https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/758844353766842368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Are you not entertained America!!
Baud
@sigaba: I’m sure the Secret Service would be amused.
Lizzy L
This video is well done. Moving, not cloying.
Davey C
Please no Bernie Bros, Please no Bernie Bros, Please no Bernie Bros…
Adam L Silverman
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: Mauve turban.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: Unfortunately…
Adam L Silverman
@lamh36: I believe the expression is “the visual portion of the audio-visual presentation is better than the audio portion”. I read that in a review of Paula Abdul’s first single and video back when it came out and the phrase has always stayed with me.
Adam L Silverman
@David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch: run out of fabric for those last few stripes?
Keith P.
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: I just got a kick out of putting out such a diversity of diversity front and center (Hillary just said that as I typed it). The GOP tends to neopolitanize it into White-Black-Mexican, but when a truly diverse party convenes, there’s true diversity instead of checkbox diversity. Plus, Sikh’s are badass soldiers.
Adam L Silverman
@sigaba: I posted about this in the previous two threads. Here’s the details:
https://twitter.com/BobbyAllyn/status/758773925069266945
D58826
@dmsilev: In his quiet way he ripped ‘old little hands’ several new ones.
D58826
@PigDog: Wonder when Sully and Nicole Wallace come out and endorse Hillary?
gogol's wife
Sorry I missed this thread. I too was moved, inspired, thrilled by those two men (and Mrs. Khan).
I’ll have to read this tomorrow . . . .
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@Adam L Silverman:
Is there any other kind?
jonas
God, that was fucking epic. So much righteous shit for Trump to stuff in his pipe and smoke tonight.
Arclite
Two balls and a bone? A well-used bone at that.
=P
Bobby Thomson
@SiubhanDuinne: he’s just her special gentleman friend. He’s helping her conceive.