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Of course not, because the Pepsi Center is an enclosed sports arena! But she did give a speech, and she seems to endorse that young fellow from Communist Egypt. We did liveblogging from the DNC — here’s Part I and Part II — and now brave Jim and Sara will spend nine hours trying to get out of the Security City and find some parties. Your editor will liveblog the response!
9:14 PM — Anderson Cooper: “It got this crowd out of their seats!”
9:16 PM — Everybody on CNN: “She must be the vice president, why didn’t Obama pick her?!”
9:17 PM — David Gergen: “Twin Cities Joke! That was well done!” Chuckle. “Her finest hour. So unselfish.”
9:18 PM — So she is great because she was finally unselfish and finally thought about the party and the, uh, country, instead of just the Clintons. Yayy!
9:19 PM — Candy Crowley: “This is the woman who delivers when she needs to. She’s a clutch player.” She’s Robert Horry!
9:22 PM — Weeping Hillary Nut on the floor says she will vote for Clinton. Will Obama do something to convince this weeping liberal black woman that maybe he should get her vote? Jesus fucking christ. (UPDATE: Check her out.)
9:23 PM — We should note that the convention floor is totally empty now, so this weeping nut is probably not the, er, typical Hillary supporter.
9:24 PM — Sad gay saxophone music plays as she weeps and complains.
9:25 PM — Okay lady we need to move on here or switch to MSNBC.
9:28 PM — James Carville: “Major league fastball,” “best speech of her career,” etc.
9:32 PM — MSNBC now, with orange Brian Williams, talking about orange Hillary Clinton.
9:34 PM — Brokaw: “Did what she had to.”
9:35 PM — Sorry your editor is not funny, but he is boiling with fever and close to death.
9:36 PM — Barack called from another one of his other families’ houses, in Montana this time, and he loved the speech. Well sure.
9:39 PM — And now Brokaw’s just going on with a sad list of terrible things — wars without end, economic collapse, national decline, etc. Why does he hate America?
9:40 PM — Chris Matthews is wondering if older women like himself will really get their ass kissed by Barack.
9:46 PM — Good night, everybody! See you in Hell!
I’m scouring my closet for that one dress shirt that is of that saffron color.
Yes, I will be wearing it for the rest of the weak.
Yes, I can. And if you dogs say something about it… i will keep on going.
Did anyone see Suzanne Malveaux on CNN interviewing the AA woman(die hard Hilltard)? HRC needs to pull a Moonstruck Cher on her (’snap out of it!’ SLAP).
Why are you not liveblogging the sycophantia on MSNBC? Why do you hate Keith Olbermann’s America?
Shouldn’t there be a law helping bitter PUMAs who weren’t convinced by Hillz’ speech to be released back into the wild?
Ken: To be fair, Andrea Mitchell interviewed a Granny ‘Nilla from PA who wept while stating her support for the Socialist Hopester Muslim.
That’s the Hillary we know and love. Or rather are sort of acquainted with and kind of warming up towards.
I thought it was one of her better speeches. Her campaign was right to award her with the “Most Improved” makes for a nice consolation prize.
Wow, that lady on CNN was really out there. If you feel that strongly, just vote for Nader.
Are any of you guys watching Fox News? They all think her speech sucked. It’s very depressing. All the PUMAs watching the channel (and they all watch that channel) might not think too highly of it.
Well, The Fox a-holes hated it, so it must have killed. But that pants suit? Damn! I thought hse had the gays on her side!
I hope Bill Kristol chokes to death on his own teeny member
Me me me.. I this, I that. Sometimes I wondered if she actually understood that she wasn’t campaigning anymore. Ah, what a boomer. Thank god for Gen X.
Hillary did a great job. By the end of the week, her words will have soaked in and we should be hearing a little less about this disunity bullshit.
*she* …no more booze for me tonight.
Smoke Filled Roommate: Don’t be bitter. After all it was Hillary and friends who gave us the G-spot.
Texan Bulldoggette: Yes, I saw it. She needs to sit her ass down.
Smoke Filled Roommate: Precisely. The world revolves around HER. Could be this is why it’s so rough with Hopesman. Those folks are just too 60s.
when is daily show and Colbert report going to be shown on tv? its still repeats!
Jim and Sara need to find some parties. And one of them should wake up next to Candy Crowley or they’re doin’ it rong.
Smoke Filled Roommate: This is one of the most astute comments that I have read all day!
graceless: Haha, I never asked to be born!
Pacodenero: damn ok sorry its at 12pm tonight! on ch 72 in DENVER!
Oh noes, feel better, Ken Layne!
I thought it was a great speech. She gave Barry her support. Will this put a stop to all the PUMA talk? Probably not, because that would make too much sense. There will always be at least 1 nut for the pundits to find, interview, and hold up as the face of “18 million” disgruntled PUMAS. But Hillz gave a great speech, and I’m ready to forgive her for the shit she pulled during the primary and move on.
PBS said WALNUTS! is going to air an ad tomorrow with the Hillz soundbite of “Me and WALNUTS! have experience on Day One and Barry gave a speech”
We’ll see what happens in the polls…
Ken: go back to hotel and get meds and go to sleep! you need your strength!
Zowie. Hopesman watched the speech from a living room next a Bitter with some gams.
It makes a person want to scream at the TV to watch some crazy person weeping the talking points of the McCain ad which then appears at the break. Thankfully Wolf Blitzer is now repeating some Obama aide’s email about the lovely fake-ass phone call between Obama and Clinton. I am deeply relieved by the mindless return to reciting proper talking points as if they were news.
OMG the gayz! Not only did hillz wear that orange jumpsit, but ABC is reporting that Effie White is going to sing the national anthem on Thursday in the Parthenon!
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=5660266
She did a very good job of ripping into McCain and explaining why it would be absolutely horrible for anyone who wanted her to win to vote against Obama. Her long litany of Bush failures that McCain vowed to continue was great and got the crowd riled up. And then the Harriet Tubman bit — while obviously hackneyed — had just the sort of heroic give ‘em hell hackney that really gets people on their feet — and it worked. And the “kill whitey” at the end just nailed it for me.
ET is airing on CNN…never mind, it’s just Carville and Carl Bernstein.
I luvd teh rhetorick.
Question: As most of HRC’s supporters are old, they hit the early-bird special at places like Denny’s, and then they go home, and try to watch the 6 o’clock news before going to bed, does anybody think that her supporters aren’t asleep? Do you suppose that they drank coffee in the hopes of watching her?
Does ken’s imminent demise mean that Jim will get his credentials for tomorrow? Me thinks foul play might be afoot.
all in all hilz supporters are just as self obsessed as she is.
Yeah Hillz! She hit it out of the park and even gave us a new rallying cry. No Way, No How, No McCain!
First Hillary speech in a year and a half that didn’t really make me mad. That’s saying something.
Why are you in a different timezone from the others, Ken? Get with the Eastern like your coworkers.
Gopherit v2.0: Can I say who gives a shit? Or is that not nice? (Don’t worry, we will both receive a communication prize for this exchange).
I still feel invisible.
My dad used to say that we often want most, what we cannot have. I know he was right, because I want Rachel…oh, yes I do.
No Hal. No whey. No my cane.
RooseveltFranklin: or both
Gopherit v2.0:
Win!
Alex Castellanos looks more and more like Little Richard every day.
i still can’t see the ball flying. hillary clinton. likey.
hugs for Ken!
TJBeck: Yeah. Same for me. I’m really looking forward to Biden and the Big Dog drinking McCain’s Ensure tomorrow.
jimh: I can’t see you…
jimh: Talk to me..
Dirty Sanchez says it’s the beginning of Hillz’s 2012 campaign… except her pantsuit leaves her wondering
jimh: God, I remember this horrible game my mom used to play with me when I was a kid where she would “pretend” I was invisible. She would look around exaggeratedly and ask, “Where’s Twinkle? Where’s Twinkle?” And I would answer, “I’m right here, Mommy!” And she would sigh, turn to my dad, and say, “I can’t find Twinkle. Oh, well. Looks like we can get that puppy you wanted, after all.”
Pat & Rachel are at it again on MSNBC. I wish she’d just call him an ‘ignorant slut’ & be done with it.
YOU R AWL RETARDS AND HILLARY IS GOING TO GIT YOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!
Hillary was the best I’ve ever seen her, but I’ve got news for you all…
Pat Buchannan is a fucking idiot!
Smoke Filled Roommate: Lighten up, dude. Just cuz you’re in a kerfuffle towards Boomers doesn’t mean the rest of us are taking this at all seriously.
I have to say, it amuses me to no end to hear a fellow Gen Xer accusing another generation of be self-centered.
Hillz was, I hesitate to say, pretty near perfect. Not sure it’ll go down as her “dream shall never die” speech, but she did us proud. Mad props to her costumers who picked the orange suit that looked damn good against the blue background, btw.
Ken: I’m 90% sure the fever and related nastiness is from the altitude. The same thing happens to me every time I go to Denver (to the point where I need a day or two to acclimate). Water (and no, anything under 40 proof doesn’t count) and sleep is pretty much all you can do. Hang in there, fearless leader.
Whatever, we can love her now, but I hope if Obama loses this year that she gets soundly beaten in 2012, maybe by that crazy guy from Montana that everyone seemed to like (only not creepy Mark Warner).
Twinkle Twinkle Lil Star: When I was seven, my mom used to tell jokes like, “Mommy, mommy, why am I running around in circles?” “Shut up kid, or I’ll nail your other foot to the floor”.
Good night folks. Graceless is going nigh, nigh.
Tucker Bounds… your parents obviously hated you from birth
Fuck you, Layne.
Sack up and start drinking. I will personally revoke your beard if you don’t.
Ken: You must have some pull. Surely you can talk to someone who can get Obama to lay hands on you.
Yes Tucker, I’m sure she intentionally left out saying more nice things about Obama… I think she was really wishy-washy on whether she was supporting Obama, huh? Douche.
Just so everybody knows, Ken and I are sleeping separately.
Ken, I totally skimmed the “boiling over with fever and close to death” line. Stay in the hooch tomorrow. Either that or fly home and chill. Strep is awful if you don’t get rest, and by your experience, it might even be easier to liveblog it from a distance.
And if you thought Denver was a police state, just wait ’til you get to St. Saul, guarded by Blackwater. Christ, when they’re spraying civilians in the traffic circle, you’ll need all your focus and concentration.
Blackwater, man. That’s all I’m saying — Blackwater. “Some people see the impossible and ask, why not? We see the unthinkable and ask, how much?” Those motherfuckers. I wouldn’t want to go up against them if I had so much as a paper cut.
Just sayin. Take it easy.
“John McCain earned his homes through the hard work, insight and fortitude of his family and himself,” Romney said.
And the inherited largess of his sweet wittle ‘ol cunt trollop…nice, insightful work, if you can kick your gimpified first spouse to the curb.
The counterpoints write themselves…
grendel: I wonder how many times this Tucker doofus & Tucker Carlson have been called “_ucker”. Seriously, there’s not a better adjective for these 2 asshats.
SayItWithWookies: Black power!
Good god, Ken, everyone knows that the cure for fever and the chills is hot whiskey with lemon and honey. ‘Lemon’ and ‘Honey’, of course, being the names of some very popular hookers from Denver.
OMFG
Hillz was awful to our Barry in the preliminaries, and Bill, well, Bill is from the South after all.
But tonight, Hillz was magnifique….absolument parfait!
and Brokaw and Tweety interviewing The People…..ha ha ha ha ha
Hi America, I really support Barrack ( is that his name?) Obama. But let me tell you about me. Oh, did I remind you why I ran for president? But enough about me, I’d like to tell you about the little people in the towns I met who really like me. While I’m at it, I’d like to alienate the good(mostly Democratic)people of Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minn. Thanks and, oh yeah, please vote that other guy I ran against. But you really want me - you really, really like me.
Wait, so Layne has a fever and Sara’s frozen… does this mean that Wonkette is collectively having menopause?
If so, I expect it’ll come out in strident Hillary ‘12 coverage soon enough.
But other than that, I second what she said.
I bet McAuliffe has laryngitis because last night, he cried himself to sleep. Yes, he cried himself hoarse.
I’m sorry… I can’t get over the fact that Chris Matthew looks like a grown-up Macaulay Culkin… crossed with ellen degeneres.
Oh No, Some airhead PUMA bitch is on Larry King.
I’m glad people seem to be embracing my former candidate, if only for one night. She really does have her ascendant moments when she is not being handled by her idiot campaign staff, no?
I think we can all agree, however, that the f-ing DJ needs to face an end like Rasputin: bludgeoned, shot, poisoned, downed…well, you get the picture.
Her ballot box is mostly closed… the jokes write themselves. She’s fucking nuts.
She’s got the wonkeye… she’s a staunch Democrat, but unless you beg her she’s voting for Walnuts.
Twinkle Twinkle Lil Star: and Big Boy.
Elizabeth Joyce, member of twitchy ridulin PUMAs for bitterness
Twinkle Twinkle Lil Star: Don’t be hatin’ — if they could get a sperm donor, there’s no reason they couldn’t have a kid.
I will fist-fuck you all for this post.
I think that was such a good speech that most voters won’t mind when she conspires with the superdelegates to win the nomination.
schvitzatura:
“John McCain earned his homes through the hard work, insight and fortitude of his family and himself,” Romney said.
Oh that Mittens, he really is a card isn’t he? He should be ashamed of himself for making fun of poor old John McCain like that. Although, I’ll bet chasing down a woman 17 years his junior while keeping his wife in the dark about his cheating probably was hard work being a POW for FIVE AND A HALF YEARS!!!
Michelle Bachman has a scary Botox thing going on… Kellyanne Conway is drunk off her ass.
Dear Pals: Don’t worry, it’s just lousy strep from my disease-vector tiny children. I have the a-mox, and will be back for Obama at the Football Arena. Oh and I live at 4,800 feet so Denver altitude doesn’t bother me.
Bachman makes the argument that Obama would make gas $6 / gallon but McCain would make it $2 / gallon… based on adding less than 1% to the global oil production… Math and science education has really slipped on the Repub side (along with sanity).
thank god i had a full night out on the town drinking gin out of a sock. one more pant suit bitch with botox and i’m gonna have to cut somebody. pretty pretty? i don’t think so. please tell me they killed/rendered the dj from last night.
shortsshortsshorts: Interesting. Call me.
AnnieGetYourFun: if the fist fits, wear it!
Of course Hillary hit it out of the park. That’s the type of woman she is… the type who grew up playing fast-pitch softball with all her extremely close girlfiends.
AnnieGetYourFun: I’ve been watching lesbian porn all day… while waiting for Hillary Clinton’s speech.
Hmm.
TexasCowGirl: Mittens is ADORABLE. I can’t wait for the debates.
lesbonic creatures of the night? i’m so out of here. chow chow clam diggers.
Wow that Hillz supporter was so articulate and clean
I just can’t get me enough of that Matt Damon commercial, especially when his voice is Hispanic.
Gretta Van Susteren actually had 2 WWF wrestlers, i.e. “celebrities”, on her Denver set chatting up wrestlin’ the vote for McC. They will appear in the Twin Cities on a roid rage, or are they actually Blackwater moles?
Hillary, a beacon of hope in a troubled world. The woman can do no wrong; she’s a saint: http://theseedsof9-11.com
bottom line:intrade at this hout still has obama presidency at 62%.
btw: at xmas time bush will not only pardon all his thugs but will socialize all the big financials. just thinkin’.
She should become a president ! Not AoC Gold Obama, Hillary will be and she is still for me the best until today !.
Cheers !
Andy
Hillary go for president ! You are my candidate forever ! http://www.itemszone.com/aoc-gold-5904.htm my godness, leave American Freedom for all of us !
Thanks,
Andy
The television was switched off shortly after the bald cancer patient anecdote.
Her speeches sound almost exactly like those of the Sky Marshall in Starship Troopers.
“To defeat the bug, we must understand the bug! We can ill-afford another Klendathu!”
Oh, the Obitters just can’t cum, can they! Hillary could’ve come out in a white kimono and sat on a red rug and slit her bowels open for you assholes and that still wouldn’t be enough. Jesus — Hillary gave that piece of shit Obama and his horse faced whore better than they certainly deserved!
Didn’t actually see it, but by all accounts it was a great speech.
Now will she go away?
I won’t know what to think until I read Leslie Sanchez’s insightful commentary.
And masturbate. I’ll have to do that to.
On to a picture of Leslie Sanchez.
OK. She did what she had to do. Now can she just shut up and go home?
morristhepat: That’s a perfect transcript of her little speech. She wants to see Hopey lose in the worst way. After tonight, can both of the Clintons just slink back to New York and get out of our lives? Please?
First class speech from a second rate candydate. More of that, earlier, might have saved her and her sisterhood of the travelling pantsuits.
Gopherit v2.0: Word. I love being lectured on being a boomer by those who weren’t alive when it all went down. They see all that we’ve left undone and figger that none of us ever lifted a finger to stop it, or that we’re the ones who made it all happen. Talk about your ever-popular ‘blame the victim.’
Makeithurt: Suck it, Tony. Yeah, that’s it baby, suck it just….like….THAT. Yeah, baby.
Makeithurt: Woah. Aren’t we being a TAD over-dramatic? People here and for most part everyone thought she did a great job last night. As an Obama supporter, I think she made it quite clear that if you support what she represents you will vote for Obama, because Mccain is in NO WAY going to represent your interests. “Going full retard” would be not doing all you can to make sure that republicans get banished from the Whitehouse forever because of the litany of harm they have done to this country.
Makeithurt: I am not a Bitterz but am sick to effing death of people whining that Hillz didn’t hand over her voters to Hopey. It’s his effing job to win them over. If he can’t win a major percent of them from McClunker then he doesn’t deserve to get elected. ObamaMama is a c*nt rag. No amount of soft soaping is going sell that unless you are extremely gullible or susceptible to staged Hallmark moments featuring cute little girls. Pleeezzzzzzz.
Servo: OMG, OMG! My sex slave (boyfriend) made the same comparison to every pre-packaged, boilerplate driven, sound-bite extravaganza that passes for a speech these days! would you like to know more?
Very gracious. Bill’s speech will be the true test.
To paraphrase Thelma Ritter in All About Eve, it was everything INCLUDING the bloodhounds snapping at her rear end (when she was quoting Harriet Tubman, the speech’s high point).
It’s time for Obama to earn the votes.
Stop blaming Hillary. Stop making her work to deliver Obama votes.
Last time I checked, it’s Obama who is running for President.
How do you expect to unite the country (which is overrated anyway), if you can’t unite the party yourself.
So I didn’t watch the speeches, only the CNN reaction. But I’m starting to feel bad about her not being VP. I mean, I know it would just lead to years of bickering and power struggles culminating in Barry’s convenient assassination - but goddammnit she did so much for us (women) by, um, failing to steer her campaign in the right direction. But she tried, okay? Leave her alone!
I should get someone to put a parental block on CNN, shouldn’t I.
Ok woah, who let the pumas in? And who turned the snark switch off? Go Away! My Generation doesn’t want you here.
Will James Carville please head back over to the Cartoon Network? He is making my watching not such a pleasure.
(Warning: Snark-free comment follows.)
As a Hillary supporter I understand the bitterness and frustration. I’ll admit I’m not a huge fan of Obama, but, for godsakes, think about what will result from a McCain/Mittens win. Start with the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. Think it can’t happen? It can. Think about another 4 - 8 years of a not too bright prez partnered with someone who’s very bright, very rich, aand a supercapitalist and a superconservative as veep pulling the strings. (Sound familiar?) Hold your nose if you have to, but get real and move on and give Hopey your support. It’s not about us anymore, it’s bigger and more important than that.
DoctorCulturae: here here, boys. can’t wait for gen x to get our turn.
…after watching nearly non-stop coverage of the convention I am convinced that PUMA and NOBAMA are nothing more than Republican front groups. Designed and aimed at widening a split within the party. If these so-called Hillary supporters are upset at her failed nomination and therefore want to vote for John McCain why are they so vocal and why are they trying so hard to be seen? The real Hillary supporters are the individuals who express disappointment in her failed nomination but show a kind of grudging indifference toward Barack Obama. They say things like “I don’t know if I can vote for him” or “He needs reach out to us” or “He must earn my vote” unlike the fanatical sounding PUMA’s who repeat Republican talking points! History has shown that when political constituencies are disenfranchised(and Im using this word in its widest context) they generally stay home; NOT vote for the opponent in spite. Secondly why would someone attend a convention for no other purpose than to say you hate the candidate and you are going to vote for opposition parties candidate? Especially when you know that they will be swamped by volunteers promoting party unity and drowning out their message out; this takes special type of zealot that frankly I don’t think we have in the Democratic party. Why wouldn’t they just go to the Republican convention where it would be a much friendlier environment and much more exposure? Because they are nothing more than Republican hacks in disguise!
imatter: Because HRC and Billy Boy are being total dicks? Because the country is racist and stupid? Because idiot PUMAs and NOBAMAs keep find Fuck News soundbites? I could go one, but you seem unfamiliar with all Wonkette traditions.
…that being said I have 2 more comments:
As a Obama supporter I agree with Hillary supporter who say “Obama must earn their support”. But they must realize that earning support is different from “kissing ass”. If you expect Barry to talk to your specific issues then I stand by you on that, because I would expect the same thing from Hillary. But any expectation of prostration before Hillary is not only nonsensical but ridiculous. This is politics not a beauty pageant where the winner consoles the runner-up. If you have tough and subjective questions to ask Barack Obama, by all mean ask them and lets move forward as a unified party.
Secondly for any Hillary supporter that needs a little clarification as to how important it is that John McCain not become president; I have a few questions that you need to ask yourselves:
-How many dead soldiers in Iraq are will to risk to prove your point?
-How many foreclosed homes are you willing to sacrifice to prove your point?
-Is the loss of gender equality worth proving your point?
-Is the loss of control over your body and reproductive organs worth proving your point?
-How many people are you willing to let die in hospital waiting rooms because of lack of health care to prove your point?
-How many lost jobs is acceptable to prove your point?
As Hillary so eloquently eluded last night, this election is about something way more important than her!
And by being total dicks, I don’t mean in their speeches. They won’t incriminate themselves publicly. But the vibe from some reporters at the convention is ANGER.
Imagine that. HRC and her supporters are ANGRY. SEETHING WITH BITTER ANGER about an INADEQUATE BLACK MALE.
WE’VE COME SO FAR!
Hillary Clinton, with one speech, healed the entire Democratic party, which the media told me was irrevocably broken with internecine warfare breaking out on the floor of the convention. Pikemen from Illinois were besieging the suite of Wes Clark, Jimmy Carter was garroting Terry McAulliffe, and suddenly it all stopped as Hillary strode to the stage to tell everyone she supported Barack Obama. Rifts were healed immediately, Al Gore was declared retroactive winner of 2000, and cartoon animals were scampering throughout the mezzanine. All is well. All is well.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
AngryBlakGuy: WIN
When’s football start?
AngryBlakGuy: Word. My Mom is really upset about this whole campaign. My Dad’s a HUGE Hopey guy and dinner conversations at their house have been fucking tense lately. Nevertheless my Mom is definitely going to vote Obama.
A little more about ol’ Mrs. Kevotron: Lifelong political activist, retired nurse practicioner who worked for Planned Parenthood. How the fuck could a person like that vote for Walnuts?
You can definitely see the GOP at work with these groups. A cursory glance at right wing sites this morning is all you need to do. Malkin’s dank internet hole is all “Michelle O’s gritting her teeth and can hardly stand it! Bill’s gonna hit somebody! People are booing!” God I hate Malkin.
Makeithurt: You are an asshat.
AoC Gold: You are a pubic hair stuck on an asshat.
warning: america will get the president it deserves…
and that scares me!