DNC night 2 open thread; Update: She won’t back down, scattered boos; “The time is now to unite as a single party with a single purpose.”
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I can’t really take much more of it — and it’s only the second night of Democrat speechifying.
Mark Warner’s delivering the keynote. Hillary’s much-hyped healing moment/catharsis/PUMA pow-wow will follow a bit after that in the 10pm Eastern hour.
Ed and Allah are liveblogging at HA.
Wake me up when she cackles.
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Apparently, the Great Phrase of the Night is Bob Casey’s line that McCain is a “sidekick,” not a “maverick.”
Zzzzzzz.
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CNN reports that Bill Clinton will skip Obama’s Invesco Field speech.
This elder statesman thing is a drag, eh, Billy Boy?
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10:43pm Eastern. She makes her grand entrance. Dressed in orange creamsicle. Bill and Hill’s eyes both watering. Deafening applause. The music’s blaring: “She won’t back down.”
More applause. Whistles. Roars. Michelle Obama’s gritting her teeth and applauding.
I’m here tonight as a proud mother. Proud Senator. Proud American. And proud supporter of Barack Obama. “The time is now to unite as a single party with a single purpose.”
Michelle and Joe Biden approve in the stands.
You can hear scattered boos.
“We are on the same team and none of us can afford to sit on the sidelines. This is a fight for the future and it is a fight we must win together.”
Maybe it’s just me, but it looks like people might be getting removed from the floor?
Hill: “No way, no how, no McCain. Barack Obama is my candidate and he must be our president.”
Michelle and Hill: Who would win in the glacial staring contest?
“You made me laugh and yes, you even made me cry.”
She’s telling all her old campaign victim anecdotes. Gives a shout out to the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuits.
Ewww.
A nice tribute to the son of Stephanie Tubbs Jones and the widow of Bill Gwaltney.
A galling reference to Chinese dirty money and private profits over the public good.
Michelle O can barely get through this. Hasn’t cracked a smile yet.
Were you in this campaign just for me or were you in it for Marine, single mom struggling cancer, families on minimum wage…we need leaders…who can tap into American optimism…blah blah..Bill is beaming…there are no limits to what is possible in America. This will not be easy. Progress never is. But it will be impossible if we don’t fight to put a Democrat back in the White House.
Well, this will probably seal the deal. Another cutaway to the new ice queen, Michelle O.
Hillary gives her hubby a shout-out. STanding ovation. Michelle O and Joe B gingerly clapping again. Is that fear in their eyes?
A dig at Obama’s differences with her on health care: “I can’t wait until Barack Obama signs a law that covers every single American in this country.”
Hillary praises Michelle O and Joe B. He’s pragmatic, tough, and wise. They will be a great team for our country.
“John McCain is my colleague and my friend. He has served with honor and courage, but we don’t need four more years of the last eight years.”
11:05pm Eastern. She’s quoting Harriet Tubman. “Keep going.” Almost lapsing into her Selma accent. “We’re Americans and we don’t quit…we don’t have a moment to lose or a moment to spare.” Her accent, whatever it is, is getting thicker.
Over.
Forced smiles all around.
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McCain adviser Carly Fiorina is on Fox playing the gender card to the hilt and making a hard sell to dissed Hillary supporters.
Imagine them mustering up the same amount of energy to woo conservatives.
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olby an dcris mathews are playing on teh part of warners speech about how bush never tapped into the americans ability to do stuff…
sounded like a sounding board for the work B O plans on making mandatory for all of us.
Just saw Michelle O in the audience. She looks angry again.
woops sorry about the typos
i am not a big typer
Can I bear to watch Billary? I will give it a go– the over/under on how long I last is 10 minutes.
Bill is still sending signals to Hillary followers – it’s ok to be Mavs fans.
man, the msnbc people are mad at warner for not being mean enough lol
I’m watching FoxNews. What are the rest of you watching?
My highlight today was Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC saying: “Okay, but if the real Michelle Obama came out, you would have been saying how that could have been a risk.”
Gotta love it when even the in-the-tank media knows that they are full of it.
Thank God for Michelle and her expert blogging.
Thank God for real Americans.
Thank God for my troops and their sacrifices.
Thank God I don’t have a TV.
Good night, Michelle. Take a break.
Amen.
going between fox and msnbc myself
Ohio could have ended up with worse Democrats, but dang, Ted!
Although the line about Bush stealing second from third base was funny, it was hardly accurate.
*sigh*
Oh well, it was to be expected.
No one cares what you are watching Cyber. What is the collie watching? And what does she think Hillary will say?
Obama is such a Rookie. By announcing Biden at 3 AM (yeah, his wife does PR, go figure) he has no drama left to keep people interested. They didn’t even get David Copperfield to levitate the mint.
Why do I get the feeling, near the end of the convention, someone should stand up and say the punchline: “THE ARISTOCRATS!”
Pay-per-Poodle.
My collie says:
Fox just reported that Warner was moved up out of the Keynote time slot because he wouldn’t change his speech to launch big time attacks on McCain … the ones being given now by a couple of governors are the attacks they wanted out of Warner …
Hey! I love collie!
I’m watching my son play Wii. I’ve seen the democrats before, and for 47 years it has not changed much.
Well, Deval is certainly doing better than Warner or Strickland.
I don’t need to watch any of the terrorist-enabler convention. It’s not like they’re saying anything that hasn’t been all over the nbc networks the last couple of years.
Now, if they were to start talking about cutting taxes, securing our borders, and defeating America’s enemies – now that would be a change!!
JHSII…
your Hopes are high ones.
Throw in backing free market capitalism instead of socialism, and you’d have the bar they have to meet to get me to even consider voting for any of them.
I’m skipping the Hopeychangey thingy tonight, thank goodness for baseball.
I’ll have to read up on it in the a.m.
I hope your team is doing better than mine. Here lately, the Braves are winning about once a week.
I’ve tried to watch this thing, but I’m seriously falling asleep..
It’s just all re-hash..
I think it’s fair to say that so far the DNC has flatlined.
No, that would be an invitation to Bill Ayers and Frau to take up the mad bomber routine again.
The Angels, and they’re jammin.
I’m sure somebody smarter than I has already pointed this out, but 3% of the world’s oil does not work into the same equation of using 25% of the oil used.
Or have I looked at this the wrong way?
600 illegal aliens arrested in Mississippi. 29,994,000 to go.
Forget Georgia, stop the Mexican invasion here in the USA. It is costing me tax money for their free health care, the jail costs, uninsured motorest insurance, deaths by drunk illegal alien drivers etc…
I just want to note that Brian Schweitzer is one of the worst teleprompter readers I’ve ever seen..
At least he got the crowd into it.
“The best barrel of oil is the one you don’t use,” says Shwietzer.
Bunch of rambling about petrodictators, which Obama wants to have unconditional talks with.
Despicable. So much hate.
LOL
“Hillary’s Husband”!!!1
Bill has entered the hall.
Whoever that lady is, sitting to Bill’s right, does not look too thrilled to be next to him(in orange suit). She doesn’t look his type, so I think she is safe.
Meghan Kelly said the rowdy folks outside have told her if there is not a roll call vote there will be trouble tomorrow.
Where is Mother Sheehan?
And now….the main event….
When I see Hillary talking, she always gives me the same impression:
I’m Female, I’m louder than you when I talk, & therefore I’m qualified..
aj, I tried to pitch you some good natured trash last season (I’m a Red Sox fan), but it didn’t come through as I think you took it the wrong way. Anyway, your Angels are going to win the Series this year IMHO. Very, very impressive team.
The D-Backs and they are not jamming. Can’t watch Democarp carp
Well in Fairness Lindsay, that;s Bill Gwatney’s wife. The Dem campaign chairman who was shot by the nutcase who walked into the campaign headquarters apparently randomly.. I’m sure she’s still very much in grieving, you know?
For fun, head over to foxnews.com and watch the live stream…..
They are doing Mystery Science DNC. It is great!
http://www.foxnews.com/video2/live.html?chanId=3
I didnt see it dak… who what where?
hard to keep up alot of threads now and twice the amount of comments….
They ruined some great songs making that video of shillary. I may never be able to listen to them again.
Oh lordy…tuty fruity just stepped out on the floor.
It’s a freak show man.
Good luck all, I am out….
It’s 4H Club time…Hillary, Hags, Harpies, and Hatred of republicans.
Hilldawg! Shake that badonkadonk! Go on with your vicious bad self.
eric
aka the Tygrrrr Express
The orange jumpsuit from hell!
Jumpin Catfish Batman! It’s the Great Pumpkin!!!!!
Hillbilly looks like a giant orange creamsicle.
Just showed Michelle O and she doesn’t look very happy at the unending reception for Hillary …
Jeeze – it’s the Clinton clan! A definate gag moment. Bill has lost his mind! All these dems crying over each other – make it stop!
Earlier on Fox they said they couldn’t see that much stuff with “Hillary” on it. They must have pulled them signs outta their ……
Let’s just say they found some.
Thanks alot BlameAmericaLast, I used to like those.. Now I don’t know if I can ever eat one again..
Hmm…she said Proud American.
Wonder if that was a good thing or a dig at Michelle O. Hard to tell.
My gosh! She looks like a huge tangerine!
backwoods conservative #23
I doubt that they’d even want to touch that bar.
They’ve set their bar much lower, like the one Teddy Kennedy stops at all the time.
Hey Hill, a fair number of Dems voted for neither of you. Might not want to antagonize them unnecessarily.
I wonder if she had a Botox treatment last week so she could avoid frowning.
Tennessee Dave … they were also referring to the fact that last night they passed out signs saying Kennedy and Michelle … but they passed out no signs for Hillary … all those people brought their own from the campaign … notice they all say hillary.com on them …
Not enough PUMA so far.
Also needs more cowbell.
Michelle looks p*ssed.
What little bit of it that I have seen consisted solely of them patting each other on the backs kinda like a teen sleepover talking about how cool they all are.
I just can’t bear to watch it.
That is why I am really depending on this blog and others to fill me in on what is going on.
Thanks again for all of you that have the will to suffer through actually watching them.
Billary: I, I, I, I.
I’ve gotta fevah. And the only prescription is more cowbell.
What a performance, Hillary.
Oh my gosh, did you see the flaming poison darts coming from Michelle’ Obama’s eyes when they show her looking at Hillary????????
Michelle Obama needs to stop pulling her hair back. It makes her look too severe. Last night’s hair was much better.
Jeez, I just became the person I hate that comments on other women’s hair.
fixed
She made me cry a lot too.
I am so thankful that I can not get TV here. Also for not having National radio reception.
As my Dad used to ask and answer, Why do Democrats emulate dogs? – They both lie.
“We are on the same team”
–hilary
How hollow is that?…After the way these morons have acted the last eight years.
Oh brother. Here we go. Universal healthcare again.
Hillary…do you READ the UK newspapers at all? Do you? Do you know how lousy the system is?
No, of course not.
Wow. Michelle O smiled.
Sisterhood of the travelling pantsuits???!!! Sweet Lord!
More like the sisterhood of the traveling prison suits..
Does Bidet have that goofy azz smile he had last night?
“We are on the same team – so I am going to start throwing interceptions”
–hilary
There, I fixed it
Geez … here we go with the prerequisite victimization stories … first healthcare … now a poor Marine story … can’t dems ever speak without all of these victim stories we all know are pure B.S. …
A Eulogy- how fitting for a boring speech.
Look at the HATE on Michelle Obama’s Face!!
She’s one to talk about the Chinese and money.
AJ…I thought you were out? You just couldn’t resist could ya!
MM, you’re supposed to be some sort of “reporter”. Get over yourself.
I can’t believe she has the nerve to bring up chinese money.. OMG!
Oh wiat, it’s Hillary.. Yes I can..
I like “No way, No how, No Obama!”, it has a much better ring.
McCain will fix the “partisan gridlock”- don’t worry. You’ll get what you want.
Libtired notes: “Just saw Michelle O in the audience. She looks angry again.”
Yes, I noticed that right away too. True colors shining through yet again.
Ms. Clinton? I hate to tell you, but the primaries ended in June.
Hello? Ms. Clinton?
Orange…
Reminds me of a convict’s jump-suit.
fitting
GREEN COLLAR JOBS!! WTF!!!
I am, sorta, watchin the angels and reading your comments.
My god, as Hildabeast is talking about anything other than voting for Obama, Michelle is staring and ‘taking notes.’
Regardless of what back room deal was made, Michelle is going to make the Clintoons pay dearly!
You can see it on her stone face.
That Chinese money is supposed to be for the Clintons’ campaigns!
The democrats just crank out loosers right and left don’t they? I can’t decide who is more revolting, the Obamas or the Clintons..it’s a toss up.
Remember Dan, it is only bad if Republicans do it.
That’s called “Guantanamo Chic”
Gay Rights?
This is like the fourth time I’ve heard that, Ted Kennedy made a point of saying it too!
Looks like Barack is for change! Changing everything about America from top to bottom.
If this is change, then I want MORE of the SAME!
Did you see Bill mouthing “I love you forever and ever”?
She’s probably wearing Orange to get the attention of the Florida delegation