# The Democratic National Convention **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 17, 2016, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democratic-national-convention/760158 "2016-07-17T21:58:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 30
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democratic-national-convention/760158/581 "2016-07-29T00:33:46Z")
I like this Jennifer Granholm. She’s got spirit! ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democratic-national-convention/760158/582 "2016-07-29T00:40:38Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > I like this Jennifer Granholm. She’s got spirit! Yes, but she told a falsehood. The auto industry did not repay all of their taxpayer funded bailout. Fortunately, TARP made enough profit on the Wall Street component to make up for them and more. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democratic-national-convention/760158/583 "2016-07-29T00:41:06Z")
I liked Doug elmets - I worked with Ronald Reagan, I knew Ronald Reagan and you Mr Trump are no Ronald Reagan! ---
**Author:** ![zwede](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ac91a4/32.png) [@zwede](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zwede)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democratic-national-convention/760158/584 "2016-07-29T00:53:02Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > Yes, but she told a falsehood. The auto industry did not repay all of their taxpayer funded bailout. Fortunately, TARP made enough profit on the Wall Street component to make up for them and more. And the electric cars of tomorrow weren’t being built in Detroit. Detroit got dragged along kicking and screaming by Tesla, a Californian company. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democratic-national-convention/760158/585 "2016-07-29T01:00:26Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > The liberal Dopers loved the DNC today. Be interesting to see how the general public took it. I get a little uncomfortable being labeled a ‘liberal’ all the time. If the GOP put up candidates that were good for the country, I might vote for them. Really! But no, they all continue to push trickle down economics to this day, regardless of the fact that history has debunked it. For just one example. Instead of ‘liberals’, how about ‘not-full-of-crap Americans’? ---
**Author:** ![DerekMichaels00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f14d63/32.png) [@DerekMichaels00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DerekMichaels00)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democratic-national-convention/760158/586 "2016-07-29T01:00:47Z")
William Barber III: “A brown-skin ‘Palestinian’ Jew”??? are you kidding me? He did not need to start that argument. See, this is what I don’t get; black politicos like this guy, Sharpton, Jackson, Wright, etc. all hate Israel and try to nose in Israel-Palestinian, but black laypeople stand with Israel by over [2:1](http://www.people-press.org/files/2014/07/NEW-7-15-2014-11-00-38-AM.png). ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democratic-national-convention/760158/587 "2016-07-29T01:01:22Z")
They had widows of slain policemen speaking. Gee, I thought Democrats hated police and loved criminals! :rolleyes: This convention is brilliant. They’re undermining the stupid Democratic stereotypes that the Republicans have so carefully crafted. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democratic-national-convention/760158/588 "2016-07-29T01:05:51Z")
Rev. Barber had an interesting metaphor that “we are the moral defibrillator of our nation’s heart”. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democratic-national-convention/760158/589 "2016-07-29T01:06:58Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > I get a little uncomfortable being labeled a ‘liberal’ all the time. If the GOP put up candidates that were good for the country, I might vote for them. Really! But no, they all continue to push trickle down economics to this day, regardless of the fact that history has debunked it. For just one example. > > **Instead of ‘liberals’, how about ‘not-full-of-crap Americans’?** Now you can be a moral defibrillator. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democratic-national-convention/760158/590 "2016-07-29T01:07:23Z")
Go preacher dude! ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democratic-national-convention/760158/591 "2016-07-29T01:07:33Z")
> [@DerekMichaels00](#): > > William Barber III: > > “A brown-skin ‘Palestinian’ Jew”??? Dude, will you let it go for an instant? He was describing Jesus. Who historically in this physical world WOULD have fit that description. A Jew from the region of Palestine, who probably was pretty swarthy, compared to a Northwest European. No need for scare quotes. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democratic-national-convention/760158/592 "2016-07-29T01:07:59Z")
Go Kareem! Good Trump joke. ---
**Author:** ![DerekMichaels00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f14d63/32.png) [@DerekMichaels00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DerekMichaels00)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democratic-national-convention/760158/593 "2016-07-29T01:10:42Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Dude, will you let it go for an instant? He was describing Jesus. Who historically in this physical world WOULD have fit that description. A Jew from the region of Palestine, who probably was pretty swarthy, compared to a Northwest European. No need for scare quotes. he probably was brown-skinned, but he was a Jew, and had zero relationship with the Arabians, who spread around the ME as the Arabs which settled in what the Romans dubbed “Palestine” after expelling the Judeans at the time. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democratic-national-convention/760158/594 "2016-07-29T01:11:23Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Go Kareem! Good Trump joke. I missed it- I was talking and didn’t catch it. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democratic-national-convention/760158/595 "2016-07-29T01:12:34Z")
Uh-huh, and where in the Rev’s statement does it say otherwise? Derek, I think you should take a break for the next speaker, for your own tranquility… ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democratic-national-convention/760158/596 "2016-07-29T01:14:59Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > I missed it- I was talking and didn’t catch it. He introduced himself as Michael Jordan then said that he did that because he knew that Donald Trump couldn’t tell the difference. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democratic-national-convention/760158/597 "2016-07-29T01:16:40Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > He introduced himself as Michael Jordan then said that he did that because he knew that Donald Trump couldn’t tell the difference. Thanks! I caught the part about trump not knowing the difference but not the opening self introduction! ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democratic-national-convention/760158/598 "2016-07-29T01:16:45Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Giving speeches is Bill’s second favorite thing in the whole wide world. Frankly, I think you have those reversed. Sex is what you do when you’re not talking. > [@AnalogSignal](#): > > See for yourself: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr8frG\_OJH4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr8frG_OJH4) Dear God, I still loves me my Bubba. But let’s look at Barry. But first I have to pee cuz Bubba,he do go on. Burnt a barn that needed burning. I could keep this up the rest of my life. Michelle in 2024! Chelsea in 2032! ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democratic-national-convention/760158/599 "2016-07-29T01:18:29Z")
Mr. Khan offered Trump his copy of the Constitution and told him to go look at the headstones in Arlington. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democratic-national-convention/760158/600 "2016-07-29T01:25:21Z")
Heh… all the Marines there just reflexively went “oo-rah” when the General identified himself as one. Gotta love them nutty Jarheads. Hmm… sounds like the USA-USA-USA chorus is trying to suppress some Disruptoids… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democratic-national-convention/760158.md?page=29) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-democratic-national-convention/760158.md?page=31)