Here’s the video the Obama campaign is using to promote the livestream convention coverage starting 8 PM on Thursday. If you watch this instead of NBC, Chuck Todd will have to make a special trip to Costco for extra Kleenex, so by all means, stream it.
Also, too: here’s the platform.
aarrgghh
i guess michelle’s gonna handle the call to betty white.
mamayaga
I see Charlie Pierce is back in the job after an inter-convention break, and he’s in stellar form. A snippet:
Mark S.
I think he’ll need Kleenex either way.
RoonieRoo
Thank you for the livestream link. I’ll take any way I can escape the bobbleheads.
J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford
Have you Balloon Juice folks seen the Stephanie Miller Show crew yet?
Joy
I don’t usually watch network coverage of these things anyway. I don’t need a pundit telling me what they think the candidate is thinking. Just let me listen to the speech and make up my own mind, damnit! So thanks for the link!
The Ancient Randonneur
Harold and Kumar …
Culture of Truth
@Joy: The media has decided the storylines in advance.
– Bill Clinton’s speech is a problem for Obama.
– Joe Biden is a problem for Dems.
– The jobs numbers will overshadow the President’s speech.
via Andrea Mitchell, Director of the Office Political Pre-Crime
Culture of Truth
There is no joy in Chuckytown
Persia
So who’s talking to a chair at this one?
Culture of Truth
At DNC, chair talk to you!*
*no idea what that means
MikeJ
@Persia: If Kal Penn is in character he could talk to the chair and it could answer.
Applejinx
Honestly did not see THAT coming. Heh.
This is an interesting antidote to a MSM talking total crap and demanding to be taken seriously. Sort of jumping out of the system entirely and playing on people’s sneaking suspicion that it’s all ridiculous crap- you look up and oh hey, the Barack Obama campaign ALSO thinks this is ridiculous crap and is making fun of it too?
…cool, a postmodern President. Who knew?
Looks kinda like he doesn’t take himself too seriously- and in so doing, opens up the question of whether you can take ANY of this too seriously. Smart…
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@mamayaga: The only thing worse than watching that pompous old relic drone on about how he didn’t think Romney’s welfare ads are race baiting because they don’t fit into a “pattern” or “narrative”– you know, no apologies, Donald Trump, foreign, learn to be an American, doesn’t understand our country, that kind of thing would have tipped him off– was watching Lawrence O’Donnell and Joy Reid fawn over him after he said it. It was actually junior league Villager Jonathan Capeheart who mildly challenged Brokaw, who responded with, basically, “now, now young fellow, remember civility”, and Capeheart backed down.
Culture of Truth
Is Paul Ryan a Marxist?
Ryan was asked why he blamed Obama for failing to help a General Motors plant in Wisconsin, even though the plant largely shut down before the president took office.
The promise is that he was going to open the plant, the promise is that he was going to lead an effort to retool the plant and people would go back to work and it would be open for another 100 years,” he said on the Today show.
PurpleGirl
Reposting a comment (edited) from a previous thread:
Obamacare is responsible for job creation
I’m [just] hearing a commercial on the TV for a company hiring people to be insurance analysts to advise on and sell health insurance. Forget the company name right now but I’ve heard the commercial a few times.
So, the government CAN create private sector jobs.
mamayaga
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Funny how that doesn’t seem to have worked for the Village — over at the Maddow blog, Steve Benen points out that the whole big welfare lie has suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from Romney ads, speeches, and surrogates, perhaps because it was not only debunked, but also publicly connected to the racist subtext. That may be too optimistic, but it’s possible polling at 0% among AAs helped underline the the fact that the rest of us can hear the dog whistles too. If Benen is right, it could give us hope that the Village elders don’t have such a stranglehold over what is acceptable discourse anymore.
Princess
I saw Kal Penn talk at an Obama event in Chicago. He’s good at being a spokesman for the campaign.
jibeaux
@Culture of Truth: Odd, isn’t it, how he never has a cite to this promise to keep a factory — a car factory — going for the next 100 years?
The Moar You Know
@mamayaga: Yeah, that was rather abrupt. I thought I might just have missed something, glad others have noticed it as well.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@jibeaux: “Congressman, would ‘letting Detroit go bankrupt’ have re-opened the Janesville plant?”
quannlace
First Lady tonight.
It’s funny, in one the punditry’s droning, they said that Michelle Obama went from being one of his biggest liabilities during the campaign, to now being one of his greatest assests. That in 2008, she’d been too ‘harsh.’
Funny, but beyond that ‘proud of my country for first time’ comment that got beaten into the ground, I don’t remember anything like that.
EconWatcher
@mamayaga:
Well, the amazing fact is that a decent number of villagers actually did call out the welfare ads as false and racist. That may be what caused Romney to back off (if he indeed has).
Now if we could just get it clear that Ryan wants to cut the same $700 billion from Medicare providers, we’ll be back to where we started, with those guys flailing for anything to talk about.
Roger Moore
@The Ancient Randonneur:
It’s a
TARPtrap. They’re trying to fool people into thinking it’s going to be Harold and Kumar Go to the DNC, but it’s actually going to be mostly serious and boring.Dennis SGMM
@Culture of Truth:
Back when the GM bailout was in process my wingnut friend sent me a barrage of forwarded emails referring to GM as Government Motors and demanding that all right thinking citizens boycott them. I can imagine their spittle flecked rants if Obama had involved the government at the level of retooling the auto plants. First they get upset because Obama didn’t let GM and Chrysler go under, then they get upset because he didn’t do enough. The only thing consistent about conservatives is that they aren’t.
Ann Rynd
Ohh, so full of win it’s strobing in my brain and my poor, failing heart just beat out a ba- dum!
Chuck Toad on am joe was looking like his ADD drugs were backing up on him. He is now in the pride goith before a fall stage of his career. Drowning in water three inches over his head. His flop sweat is sliming the whole joint up.
Culture of Truth
GOP 2112, press release from the “USA One” Orbitating Station, on the closure of the GM Hypercar plant in 2109 due the fracking sinkhole that swallowed Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, upstate New York, and lower Reaganda:
“Obama lied!”
EconWatcher
I assume Obama’s got this, but both his and Biden’s speeches need to checked with a fine-toothed comb, to give them nothing legitimate to seize upon in claiming that “both sides do it” when it comes to misleading the public.
Yes, yes, I know, they’ll twist something around or make something up, even if you don’t give them anything. But this year, you can tell their heart just isn’t in it. They don’t like the Mittster and aren’t too inclined to do him favors.
So let’s take the high road, as is our wont anyway. I think it’ll work this time.
MattF
Latest media joke is the whole business about the Republican Convention ‘bounce.’ Is it missing? is it obscured by noise? Is it there in spirit but not in actuality? How about the little problem of selling a lousy product? Oops, mustn’t say that.
BGinCHI
Charles Pierce on Sunday’s Meet the Depressed (with David Gregory):
That’s just too good.
mamayaga
@Culture of Truth:
Won’t that be “South Reaganda”? And there will be no “North.”
slag
I’ve never seen a Harold and Kumar movie, but I still laughed at that ad. It must have had good timing.
TT
Sorry for the off-topic post but this is good news.
Virgil Goode has qualified for the presidential ballot in Virginia. Even if pulls just 1-2% it will make Virginia that much harder for Mitt Romney.
linky
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/va-politics/virgil-goode-makes-presidential-ballot-in-virginia/2012/09/04/c5c57ea6-f698-11e1-8398-0327ab83ab91_story.html
EconWatcher
@TT:
I know Juicers from the Deep South like to brag, but I’m telling you, we have some high-quality wingnuts in our great Commonwealth of Virginia. I’ll take the Pepsi challenge with you any day.
Yeah, I live in “occupied Virginia,” as they like to call Northern Virginia. But you get just a little south of here, and you can find a veritable cornucopia of frothing, foaming, screeching wingnut goodness.
Just think of the institutions alone: Liberty University. CBN. NRA. National Right to Work. I could go on, but you get the point. We’re number one.
Culture of Truth
@mamayaga: you’re forgetting the conquest of Canada initiated by President-Speaker Vanavar Hussein Walker Bush in 2075 over the Great Syrup Crisis of 2069
Cacti
@mamayaga:
It’s a nice change from his pants-wetting over Romney’s acceptance speech.
WarMunchkin
I started laughing out loud at work. That was hilarious.
Cacti
And for a good post-labor day laugh…
Nate Silver has downgraded Mitt’s chances 5.5% since the GOP convention.
mamayaga
@Culture of Truth: You think you’re joking about the Syrup Crisis.
eric
I wonder what Ryan would say if challenged to support a bill of government money to support Janesville workers with longer and bigger unemployment benefits and credits and subsidies for education and retraining. hmmmmm. I think I know it would be a lie whatever he said
Emma
@EconWatcher:they will lie and the press will oooh and ahhh. This election is predicated on going over the gatekeepers’ heads.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@PurpleGirl: That’s funny, I distinctly remember an NPR piece on how insurance brokers would definitely be out in the cold thanks to the ACA.
Cris (without an H)
Hey guys speaking of the platform: Jennifer Rubin says it is RADICAL
Cris (without an H)
Am I naive to be surprised at the election-specific focus of the platform? I thought party platforms were supposed to represent a governing vision, a “here is what the world will look like if our side won” kind of thing. This one makes multiple explicit mentions of Mitt Romney and the choice Americans face in this election. Isn’t that going to look kind of funny after inauguration?
phoebes-in-santa fe
Wow, I must be a little old white lady because the only one of the three I recognised was Obama! Who were the other two?
Suffern ACE
@Culture of Truth: Good lord. What he’s mad about is that bondholders had to take a haircut. There was a bailout and the bondholders took a loss. Jeebus. He’s complaining that Obama didn’t actually take over GM and run it like some kind of Italian socia11st enterprise circa 1974? Really?
Although there is probably more truth to that than I care to note.
Cris (without an H)
@phoebes-in-santa fe: John Cho and Kal Penn, actors who co-starred in a series of stoner comedies.
No One of Consequence
I’m with Phoebes-in-santa-fe, that video did less than anything for me. Which is sad, cause I am quite partial to stoners.
Thing is, I am pretty sure I am not the target demographic for that video piece.
So, I will have to rely on the kiddies to tell me if that worked for them.
Meh.
– NOoC
Mnemosyne
@phoebes-in-santa fe:
Kal Penn was also a supporting actor on “House” for a couple of seasons, but he left the show to work at the White House in the Office of Public Engagement.
True story.
YellowJournalism
@Cris (without an H): Don’t forget that Kal Penn quit acting for a while to work for the White House.