It’s Night Three of the Democratic National Convention and the time of decision has arrived.
It was after I returned home from an errand that my wife informed me Obama was nominated by acclimation after Hillary Clinton interrupted the roll call votes of states to ask the delegations to do so.
I have no doubt 18 million people that voted for her felt disappointed.
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Hillary’s speech on the behalf of the New York delegation, and her motion to suspend the convention rules and allow nomination of Barack Obama by acclimation, certainly seemed to bring the party together. But I wonder how many of the die-hard Hillary faithful will actually vote for Obama come November? Some polls suggest 20% or more will not vote for him. That’s a substantial number. However it doesn’t automatically mean the disaffected will vote for John McCain.
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The headliner tonight was former President Bill Clinton.
I find it interesting he has so drastically changed his tune in regards to Barack Obama’s qualifications to sit in the Oval Office. Tonight he praised him to high heaven. Only a few months ago he was slamming him for being so inexperienced.
Bill Clinton did bring up the Republicans claims during the 1992 campaign that Clinton was too inexperienced and too young to be President. Obviously Clinton was not. But Clinton was the governor of Arkansas, the type of office that does give the kind of experience one needs to become President.
Barack Obama has none of that kind of experience. Not one bit. Clinton was a font of experience in comparison to Obama. He’s never had to run a state, never had to balance a budget, never had to make the tough decisions of the kind a governor makes. His time in the Illinois and US Senates adds up to less than 6 years. And in all that time he’s done little in the way proposing and passing legislation.
That doesn’t bode well for one aspiring to the highest office in the land.
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Joe Biden’s son gave a rousing introductory speech for his father. I have no idea if he has any political ambitions, but he could certainly follow his father into office. There’s some talk that if the Obama/Biden ticket wins in November, Beau Biden could be appointed by the governor of Delaware to fill his father’s Senate seat.
Biden praised Hillary Clinton, graciously mentioning that she will continue to make great contributions.
He then accepted the nomination as Vice President, and did it with uncharacteristically few words. (He is known as a talker, being able to use 500 words when 10 will do.) He also made a Freudian slip, talking about the nomination of George Bush, then corrected himself and saying John McCain.
He then got into bashing John McCain, using the phrase That’s not change. That’s more of the same! He talked about some of the votes McCain made, not bothering to mention that in many cases he himself made the same vote.
Basically it was the same liberal tax-and-spend blather, saying black is white, up is down, Left is right and Right is wrong.
Will an Obama administration stand up to Russia as Joe Biden claimed in his speech? Or will they merely make strong sounding noises, yet do nothing? I believe it will be the latter and not the former.
Biden is claiming Obama was right on withdrawing the troops from Iraq, and John McCain was wrong. Biden conveniently forgot to mention that Barack wanted to surrender two years ago when withdrawal meant a bloodbath and the need to return at an even higher cost. Now that conditions have changed in Iraq after the surge, a staged withdrawal makes sense. Yet Biden is claiming Obama was right all along?
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The night closed out with the surprise appearance of Barack Obama after Biden’s speech. A nice finishing touch.
Tomorrow night is going to be interesting.
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A closing observation:
My wife was telling me a number of her clients were opining the Republicans shouldn’t even bother to hold their convention because the Democrats have blown them out of the water. My words to them: Remember that the Democrats were preaching to the choir, a Democratic choir. Do they really think there won’t be similar actions and speeches at the Republican convention?
It's Night Three of the Democratic National Convention and the time of decision has arrived.
It was after I returned home from an errand that my wife informed me Obama was nominated by acclimation after Hillary Clinton interrupted the roll call votes of states to ask the delegations to do so.
I have no doubt 18 [...]
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OK, beyond the obvious vegetables question, I have another one: What do they mean AT LEAST six essential vitamins and minerals. Might there be more? Have those just not been discovered yet? Are scientist working in the SpaghettiO labs non-stop and occasionally shouting out, WAIT, I found one! Oh, no, sorry, that was some lint from my pocket. Damn. False alarm. Or does it depend on what you consider to be essential? Like do these have Calcite in them, but many Moms dont feel thats essential?
What the hell happened to Fox News once Obama was nominated? I mean where did their integrity go? Obama got the nomination by affirmative action. 18 million voters for Hilary Clinton got shafted and these fools are acting like sycophantic nonces.
What happened to fair and balanced?
It was a disgrace and all those Fox reporters should be ashamed of themselves. We expect this sort of crap from the other networks not them. The worst of the lot was Major Garrett. His credibility has taken a major blow.
Juan Williams gave a good turn on the historic occasion; the rest of them should have left it at that.
Yes a black man has got the nomination which is a good thing. But that does not mean you have to completely lose your objectivity. Obama would be Carter II and would be a disaster as President. His race is a non-issue. What matters is his inexperience, lack of judgement and socialist ideals.
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First it was the speech in Berlin in front of a statue to Prussian military hegemony to 250000 chanting Germans and now his next rally is in front of a mock Greek temple. There has to be someone working for Obama who is undermining him? They can’t be that daft can they?
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We’ve survived the first night of the Democratic National Convention, the only high points being speeches by Ted Kennedy and Michelle Obama. Let’s see what the Democrats have in store for us tonight.
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Tonight’s headliner? The big speech delivered by Hillary Clinton.
There’s no doubt this isn’t the speech she was hoping to be making at the convention.
The question about her speech has got to be this: Will it be what she says, or how she says it that will be remembered?
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Is this 1992 all over again?
Apparently the state of the US economy is the number one issue of the campaign at this point, with the war in Iraq being a distant second. Can Obama win based upon economic issues just as Bill Clinton did 16 years ago, even though the economy isn’t nearly as bad as the media and the campaign rhetoric make it out to be?
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There was a slew of speakers tearing into John McCain during today’s convention session. That in and of itself is no surprise. But at least they could have been original rather than reading from the same script.
As far as they’re concerned John McCain isn’t enough of a Democrat because he supported some of George Bush’s moves in regards to the War on Terror, the economy, and energy policy. He’s guilty of being a Bush clone because he’s a Republican!
I wasn’t aware John McCain was supposed to be running against Obama as a Democrat.
Someone inform the media!!
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After a video paying tribute to Hillary Clinton, she was introduced by her daughter, Chelsea. Call it a rhyme, an echo of last night’s headliner, Michelle Obama.
The video was well done, no doubt about it.
I wish I could say her rhetoric was as well done. At least she let everyone know that she’s proud. She said it often enough.
She claims George Bush’s leadership has failed over the past eight years. I guess she has a short memory. All one needs to do is remember September 11th, rousting of the Taliban out of Afghanistan, chasing Obama bin Laden into Waziristan and making him nothing more than a tinny voice heard every once in a blue moon when an audio tape could be smuggled out of the mountains where bin Laden hides. I certainly don’t call that a failure.
She laid out a lot of plans for a Democrat-dominated government – the House, the Senate, and the White House – implying that all would be cured once that day came. The lame would walk, the blind would see, the ignorant made smart, our enemies made to melt away, the economy would magically heal itself, oil would flow from every faucet, our teachers made powerful, our children indoctrinated, global warming reversed to bring on a new Ice Age, partisanship eliminated by eliminating political opponents, make the government the provider of all things and the controller of all our lives. After all, we aren’t capable of making decisions for ourselves.
Yeah, and pigs will fly.
She also slammed John McCain, making it appear he is nothing more than George Bush in other clothing. I think McCain’s voting record says otherwise.
She mentioned our country has been around for 232 years. I fear that if the Democrats get their way, America will likely become unrecognizable, and our freedoms and our economy will fade away. We will likely become more and more like Europe and something unique will have died, and done so to the adulating cries of Obama! Obama! Obama!
She used every cliche in the book.
No surprise there.
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And so the second night of the convention comes to a close.
According to conservative commentator and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, Sen. John McCain’s chief foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann is a ‘dual loyalist,’ ‘neocon warmonger’ involved in activities that ‘none dare call treason.’
Andrew says: Buchanan is a vile jew-hating scumbag isn’t he?
Is going the wrong way. So anyone think Hillary is going to help matters?
It seems even some of the UK press has stopped is Obama sycophancy.
Tim Montgomerie has a piece in the Guardian on what the the world needs from a US President.
A good piece on why its Clinton’s convention and not really Obama’s at all.
Adam over at the Shotgun is saying the same as me about Obama’s chances.
Just saw Michael Stipe prattling on about Obama on BBC’s One Show. Needless to say there was no challenge to his daft pronouncements about the man. Because of the biased reporting on the British media the British populace is going to really shocked when Obama loses.
All you ever wanted to know about Mrs Obama and the MSM won’t tell you,
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Listen to their clever slogans. I bet their parents are proud.
Zombie has some good shots of the damp squib of a protest. He reports on beginnings of the riot.
And Alex Jones is mouthing off about 9/11 and the Jews New World Order. He is a big fan of Ron Paul. “Kill Michelle Malkin” can be heard in the chants. Over at PJM; there are people defending the abuse of Malkin. Or as someone put it Alex Jones is an arse.
Then, of course, there is the the loon they let in and he even gets to speak.
