I think it’s also a subtle dig at Trump trying to compensate for something (along with a stealth brag that Obama does not suffer this problem himself).
Barack Obama MUST have gotten under his thin skin with that comment. Maybe more than when Barack trolled him at the WH Correspondents dinner back in the day.
I loved when Obama praised Walz and said very sincerely, “I love that guy.”
From that article:
Okay, so the suit is made by Chloé.
Let’s look at their website.
https://www.chloe.com/us/jackets_cod16348374bu.html
Their tan suit color isn’t just “brown.” It’s coconut brown.
Layers within layers, man.
Jon Favreau (Obama’s speech writer) has wondered if that joke was responsible for Trump running in 2016 to get revenge because Trump was really pissed off at that joke.
The Democrats seem to have their messaging wired very tight for this convention.
I’ve noticed two themes that keep getting repeated…vote and women’s rights. It seems every speaker mentions at least those.
Also, a general directive that seems to tell them all to be upbeat and hopeful speeches.
Doesn’t seem an easy thing to get a group like this all on the same page and pulling in the same direction so well.
Have I missed others?
The importance of families, and the importance of the middle class.
Pretty much everybody who has spoken touches on families in some way. Never mind what kind of family (straight, gay, single-parent, no children, etc.), they all seem to emphasize the importance of family as the backbone of the middle class.
Which leads into the importance of the middle class. This is what the majority of Americans occupy, and their needs must be met: jobs, housing, affordable groceries, and so on. A few speakers have hinted at how America doesn’t need to pander to billionaires, but a lot have outright stated that America must pander to the middle class.
That’s my takeaway, anyway. Yes, get out the vote and make sure that women’s health care is prominent, but the other big two are families and the middle class.
They had Fox News on tonight at work, so unfortunately I caught a little bit of it myself. They kept pounding on this theme pretty hard, during the segments I watched. At one point, not five minutes after talking about how dark and gloomy Biden’s speech was, they played a clip of Trump ranting about how one can’t even go to the store for a loaf bread anymore without fear of getting shot. The host, of course, then proceeded to hail Trump as a tough-talking, crime-fighting badass.
Honestly, I don’t how anyone, even those who agree with their politics, can take these dipshits seriously.
And, yeah, I also found it weird how they kept cutting to the small group of protestors outside making it seem as if all hell was about to break loose, 1968-style.
I forgot one line from Barack today:
“No, don’t boo, vote!”
Good points.
Clinton didn’t click with the middle class enough and it hurt her.
I’m not sure Biden did either but there was such a swell of “Never Trump” that it didn’t matter.
Seems Dems might have learned a lesson. I think Harris/Walz are well placed to woo the middle-class.
ETA: And they got there so fast after Biden passed the baton is really remarkable. I would have said impossible but, here we are (and it’s pretty great).
They seem to be. A lot of the speakers, and a lot of the Democrats’ short films between speakers, have emphasized Harris growing up in a middle class household and working at McDonald’s during high school, and have made much of Walz as a teacher and a high school football coach. Just plain ordinary folks that the average middle-class American can relate to. Heck, the average American probably knows people like Harris and Walz.
Between the lines of the speeches and the short films, it is inferred that no average Americans know somebody like Donald Trump and his billionaire pals. A little further, and they hint at “How can you vote for somebody who has never experienced your way of life?” So yes, it looks like Harris and Walz are wooing the middle class.
It hadn’t occurred to me but having Bernie speak on the same stage as Pritzker felt a bit weird.
Hope this is not too much of a hijack. Yes, he inherited a ton of $. But I’m pretty sure he grew that considerably through his own efforts. Rather than just having it managed by someone and living off the earnings.
Not that that should persuade anyone to prefer him over Walz, but IMO he’s done a pretty good job so far in a state with considerable challenges. And his pub crawl w/ Jordan Klepper on The Daily Show was an absolute hoot!
Not only prefer Trump’s “message”, but view Obama’s obvious intelligence and competence as a negative… I dunno, I prefer to have smart, competent folk running things, and save my good old boys for playing golf and poker with.
Although their positions and beliefs are actually pretty much in lock step. Pritzker started his run trying and failing to get a “Fair Tax” amendment passed in Illinois. It was the sort of thing Bernie would be behind and “once fully implemented, Illinois would realize an extra $3.4 billion annually, all while only raising taxes on the wealthiest 3% of taxpayers” On a state level he has since had a good record accomplishing, not just promoting, an agenda that progressives are happy with. Like Buffet he recognizes the tax system benefits him and his over the middle class and has tried to change that.
He’ll be in the mix in the future and clearly has ambitions. I doubt he will be the best of the bench, not sure Walz will be either, but the time to decide that is hopefully seven ish years from now, not today!
A black man suggesting that Donald has a tiny penis? Yeah, I doubt he took it with good humor. 
Hands. Talking about his tiny hands …
I was busy last night and not able to watch most of the convention, but I did catch all of Doug Emhoff’s speech and I absolutely loved it: humorous, heartfelt, and humanizing. Can you imagine Melania giving a speech like that about Donald? Not in a billion years. It really demonstrated the contrast between the two candidates as people without really mentioning Trump at all.
I can’t help but think that speech could move the needle a little with any independent/undecided voter watching. The campaign would do well to try to get that speech out prominently on social media in battleground states.
Yow!
That sort of attention to detail –
And what almost everybody thinks they’re in, even including a whole lot of both the poor and the rich.
Big Tent Democrats. Everybody Welcome!
– it has occured to me that that room, which makes me so delighted, must be a white supremacist’s nightmare.
(So I suppose not quite everybody welcome. We’d rather not have the other totalitarians, either.)
– now I’m going to have to somehow find time to watch several of last night’s speeches on youtube. And will undoubtedly accumulate some more to watch the next couple of nights.
R-i-i-i-ight…
Are we ever going to hear/see James Taylor?