Wow. I will never say anything negative about Texas ever again.
Thank you. It’s a gift 
Castro Country indeed. He’s inspiring.
My fear of November is evaporating. DNC brings its A Game
Guys, get a room.
Yeah, well, when a good part of one party’s base want to take away rights from segments of people because they don’t like who they sleep with, and the other put adding or preserving those same rights in their platform, I hope you’ll understand when I say I don’t find them equivalent.
(In fairness, I don’t know exactly which social issues you are referring to here in particular; I just bring this particular one up as an example I find applies generally.)
So far, just comparing the R convention speakers to the D convention speakers, the Democrats are covering a much wider range of subjects, articulating a more comprehensive platform and providing much more actual content. Pretty much all I heard from the Republicans were repetetive comments on the unemployment rate, the perceived need to repeal the ACA, and contextless mocking of Obama’s “You didn’t build that” remark. Here, I’m hearing about reproductive rights, the saving of the domestic auto industry, equal pay for women, efforts to improve education, concrete stories of the beneftis of ACA and support for expansion of marriage rights to gay couples. The wordes “Iraq” and “Afghanistan” have even crossed a few lips.
I guess if all these things scare you, then listening tonight will be very scary indeed. For me, however, pretty much the sole point of a convention for an incumbent (to those who are not caught up in the whole political junkie thing) is to promote the accomplishments of the incumbent’s first term. This, I think, they are doing with a decent degree of effectiveness. Sorry, OMG.
I think they are going for making the stage a small thing in a sea of people. They wanted the stage to look small in order to emphasize the popularity of their platform by showing it compared to the people.
Yeah they are doing a decent job of reassuring disillusioned people like me that Obama hasn’t been a huge failure. Which is their goal I think. Bring old 2008 voters back to the booths even though we aren’t as optimistic as we were back then.
Is Michelle Obama giving an incredible speech, or am I just ridiculously biased?
No, she’s pretty great. A very positive and uplifting night.
No. I am crying. A beautiful blend of personal & public responsibility.
(Do you think she “humanized” him?)
Her speech was pretty good but kind of dawdled too long on too many different themes or ideas. But she is a great speaker and it was emotionally poignant.
Hell, now I want to vote for her. Guess I’ll have to vote for the guy instead.
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That was a pretty good speech. MSNBC seems to think it’s the second coming of “I Have a Dream”; I don’t know about that, but it was a pretty fucking good speech.
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I feel like I’ve woken up in some bizzarro world. Woe is us when one party actual focuses on-- you know-- things people actual care about (i.e., the economy) or things which haven’t been dismal failures. I’d take the time to point out the ridiculousness in your list, but I’m lazy, so I’ll leave you with these two things:
1.) The fact that you seemingly believe that the GOP is waging some “war on women” or that voters, in general, are consider it important or even minimally important to their vote puts you squarely in the minority. Seriously. Oh well. As I said in my first post, there goes Democratic statement about Republicans being single issue voters or trotting out social issues to win elections (that includes gay marriage; which, by the way, most believe Obama came out in support of because he figured it was politically expedient to do so).
2.) The very fact that you think Obama saved the domestic auto industry makes me wonder just how much you pay attention to current events. I guess if Obama wins a second term, he can bailout GM again and go down as the guy who saved GM not once, but twice!
“Tuna fish on an ironing board? How about a coffee table from a dumpster, bitch!”
She knocked it out of the park. She was able to knock down that image of Obama’s aloofness and show him as a compassionate man and President. And she was able to do it without once mentioning Mitt Romney or the difference between their backgrounds. Even David Brooks had to admit that it was “genius” (PBS does gavel to gavel coverage), while also pointing out that all of the other speeches were about mobilizing the base and not about how the economy was going to move forward.
I have to agree with him. Every speaker, in his or her own way, talked about the same things. Fine for the first day, but tomorrow and the next day had better damn well be about policy and specifics on what the plan moving forward is going to be, or they may as well not even have had a convention.
Honestly I wasn’t really planning on tuning in to the convention coverage. I ended up being riveted from early on.
And yes, Michelle Obama was awesome.
I know I’m biased. She’s beautiful, inside and out. And she knocked it out of the park.