Welcome, Wonketeers! This is night one of the Democratic National Convention, where principled leaders get together to discuss a bold future for liberali…liber…
HAHAHAHAHAHA they’re totally going to pander for independent voters and toss out red meat, but everyone there is a vegan, so it’s dyed tofu.
Naturally dyed tofu, none of that Red-5. Monster.
9:03 PM – TED STRICKLAND IS GIVING A LITERAL SHOUTOUT TO ALL OF OHIO. (Disclaimer: he is my former boss and I love him.)
9:06 PM – Someone apparently showed Ted the Urban Dictionary definition of “HAM”. And he then said, “I would like to go that.”
9:08 PM – Kathleen Sebelius is out, I wonder when she’s going to burn a crucifix, hm?
9:10 PM – “Nixoncare”? Damn, Richard Nixon is ghost-taping her dad right now.
9:11 PM – Insurance companies can no longer discriminate against women, but they probably can against men, now, certainly. #WarOnMen
9:13 PM – It would have been great if someone had explained all of this to the American public sometime between 2009 and RIGHT NOW.
9:14 PM – I know you’re bored as hell right now, but this is electric for Kathleen Sebelius.
9:16 PM – Rahm Emanuel on to “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’”, and I hope that somethin’ is an unnecessary fight with a fast-food chain.
9:17 PM – We can rest easy – if there were easy solutions, Rahm would have found them!
9:22 PM – MC Hammer is at the DNC!!!
9:24 PM – I miss the RNC’s constant repetition of a single edited soundbite. All these different things being said are confusing and scary.
9:26 PM – Kumar’s on stage! I guess Obama let him out of Gitmo, then? CHANGE.
9:27 PM – Kal Penn makes an empty chair joke and just lost the lead in Million Dollar Baby 2: Billion Dollar Tween.
9:28 PM – Nobody better to tell me about how well Obama has done than a rich actor who left a show I really liked to go do something for Obama that I can’t really remember or define.
9:31 PM – Mark this as the first moment a Twitter hashtag was ever sardonically distributed via political convention. We are all heroes today.
9:33 PM – It is time for some token diversity as the Obamas bring out what I’m sure are hired family members.
9:37 PM – Barack Obama is talking about women eating bacon at home, which I’m entirely sure is sexist. Romney bounce?
9:39 PM – Lilly Ledbetter is onstage, and will be the only person with a Texas accent at this entire convention.
9:45 PM – If Barack Obama continues to intervene in every Supreme Court decision and naming laws after the losers, he will be President for Life!
9:49 PM – I am watching a convention where people are steadfastly supporting marriage and government health insurance but hahaha it’s gay healthcare for everyone! Paul Ryan must feel lost.
9:52 PM – Not to bring policy into this, but Obamacare doesn’t actually cover everyone. It covers a lot of people! And a lot more than before! But not everyone.
9:57 PM – Deval Patrick pretends that the “I Have A Dream” speech was about more than Americans needing to avoid talking about or noticing race. FOR SHAME, BLACK MITT ROMNEY.
9:59 PM – Martin O’Malley kind of has a bootleg Michael Caine thing going on.
10:01 PM – Martin O’Malley should leave to Aaliyah’s “Back and Forth”. Just saying.
10:02 PM – O’Malley is so goddamn happy to be giving the message line over and over again.
10:07 PM – Tim Duncan’s mayor is on!
10:08 PM – Oh, wait, that wasn’t him, that was his…identical twin? Democrats couldn’t even find different-looking Hispanics for prime time???
10:11 PM – There should be a third Castro sibling, an evil anarchist Castro sibling. Also Julian > Joaquin.
10:12 PM – There’s so much aspiration and wishing at this thing. This convention needs more looming evil on the horizon.
10:14 PM – “We know you can’t be pro-business unless you’re pro-education.” A number of Southeast Asian factories would like to have a word with you.
10:18 PM – Castro pulled the funniest joke any Castro has pulled since Fidel convinced us he was still alive.
10:24 PM – This Julian Castro fellow will be on many of your television talky shows in the near future, I predict. Or his brother when he’s got the runs.
10:26 PM – So, an unknown guy comes out and gives a really quite great speech about his mother, using Spanish, supporting his nominee, and hey, what’s Chris Christie yelling at right now?
10:27 PM – EVERY PART OF ME THAT WANTS TO MAKE BABIES WANTS TO MAKE SURE THE BABIES ARE AS CUTE AS THAT LITTLE GIRL. Fuck, I’m 30 now.
10:30 PM – Michelle Obama intro video. Surprisingly devoid of her snatching donuts out of fat children’s hands.
10:33 PM – Can we vote for Michelle Obama for first lady as like a separate thing?
10:38 PM – This lady is voting for Michelle Obama just because Michelle wrote a letter back to her, but I get letters back from Sallie Mae all the time and I am not voting for her.
10:40 PM – Fact Check: some injured soldiers may not run marathons. (Submitted by Paul Ryan.)
10:42 PM – Michelle Obama talks about her daughters and how much she loves them. Fact check: she does love them.
10:43 PM – Michelle Obama talks about her and Barack being poor. Not Romney poor, where they lived in an apartment instead of a home, but like, actually poor.
10:45 PM – Michelle said, “Barack was brought up all the way across the country,” but you know she was going to say “the Kenya”. ALMOST, BIRTHERS!
10:48 PM – This speech is basically going right at everything Ann and Mitt said, but never once saying the word “Romney” or “rich-ass white folk”. Remarkable restraint.
10:51 PM – I am so bored by nobody talking about who actually built things. PICK IT UP, FITNESS LADY.
10:55 PM – Michelle Obama defends community organizing? Is there nothing she cannot do? Besides eat fried foods?
10:57 PM – I can’t believe all the class warfare that isn’t in this speech.
11:02 PM – Some might say Michelle Obama ran over, I say she made time stop.
11:04 PM – C-SPAN just did a series of shots of people trying to pretend they aren’t crying.
11:06 PM – And I’m out. I’m not going to remark on the fact that Michelle Obama gave a legitimately great speech that was a stirring embrace of American values and ideals, or that she is awesome. Must maintain cynicism. Look over there. LOOK OVER THERE NOW.
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Tammy Duckworth makes Chuck Norris look like a pussy.
Did you see that shit from Chuck Norris, who said that if Barack Obama is reelected we will have "1,000 years of darkness."
"1,000 years of darkness" is the shade of "Just For Men" that Chuck rubs on his beard night and day.
Probably all over his balls too.
Chuck Norris fapping to fifty shades of darkness. (Chuck Norris fapping — ugh!)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JLO1YIWQuXe
Bruce Lee kicking Chuck's ass.
Tammy Duckworth is real. Chuck is a craptastic cultivated image.
I loved watching Tammy. She is just incredible.
I wish I could vote for her, but I'm in Ohio. Maybe someday?
Chuck Norris IS a pussy.
Actually, Chuck Norris sounds like a pussy in that Republican movie, Expendables 2.
Chuck Norris and the horse he rode in on.
damn, Michelle is just awesome, really awesome.
Many, many upfists for that. I love our wonderful FLOTUS.
Now, I not only want to marry FLOTUS but I want to cheat on her with her convention speech.
You see, she's she's she's the fuckin' bomb.
BTW, did anyone else want to find Chuck Todd last night, replay his remark that "the Democrats are jealous of the Republicans' diversity" or whatever bullshit, and then beat him about his smug face with tonight's schedule?
Odd, you read my mind just an instant ago (ring up my Intense Debate profile)
In fairness, we completely ignored the Empty Chair demographic.
I would totes go straight for her.
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Probably will never see the Dead Kennedy’s playing at the DNC which is too bad.
Well, we did see one on video – but this is a crummy joke and I'm just not going to finish it.
Ha! I admire your restaint.
The DKs are no longer available, but Jello Biafra and The Guantanamo School of Medicine should have made it a stop on their tour: http://www.facebook.com/JBGSM
…take out your fuckin' retainer, put it in your purse!
But it'll be Butterstick-grade pander (sorry).
No you're not.
I'd like to see Clint at the DNC talking to an empty chair apologizing to Bird for being a square.
Next time, he'll talk to a monkey. Oh, wait…
Clint's at home trying to figure out how to prevent his RNC debacle from screwing up the box office takings for his new movie.
Yep, I get the feeling he may have to do a goodwill tour to get butts in the seats. Because his new movie is a lot like his old movies, in which he plays an angry old man that is still angry about something that happened in the past and it takes an entire movie for him to get over it and move on or die.
Well then, never mind. Sorry, Clint.
A lot like his old movies, and also his newer movies, then.
I talk to the chairs, but they don't listen to me….
I swear at mine sometimes but only when they move into my path…
"Dropping a coffee mug on the floor, I told it to go fuck itself." — Richard Price
Your experience is corroborated by Neil Diamond.
"I am," I said
To no one there
An no one heard at all
Not even the chair
Chairs: Bad listeners.
My favorite Charles Parker – "Romance Without Finance is a Nuisance:"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BnFRd11sMk
There is also an excellent version with Dizzy.
Eat, sleep and jeep? The fuck?
I know, I know, but they played Chaka Kahn, Prince, and Annie Lennox with Aretha Franklin, so I'm willing to overlook it.
The guy is working 60 hrs per week in the Chrysler plant, which would have closed if it weren't for Hopey…..
At the risk of exposing myself as a vegetarian-American, I will say that the "natural" alternative to Red Dye #5 is that cochineal dye made from beetles that Starbucks got in trouble for. So, not vegan-approved.
People…beetles are red meat too.
Republican- the other white meat
Hmmm… too much gristle for my taste
and fat…
And the dye is lovingly, euphemistically named "Carmine"
If you're caught misusing it you may get a Miranda warning.
If that's really Carmen Miranda playing the cello he would have a fruit bowl on his head.
Beets can dye things red…
I like to go with your basic spray paint for my tofu
Dyed my counter red the time I tried to make Borscht.
Beet juice, maybe?
http://www.suntava.com/ Natural dye from red corn, bred by a guy who lives near me.
But then how do commie vegitarians eat?
Communally?
Very carefully?
I don't know the answer!
Also, no one has made a VAG-atarian joke yet. I am disappoint.
How many vagetarians does it take to change a lightbulb?
Fish?
Please, oh please, don't talk about reducing the (holy) deficit.
Where the hell was this Ted Strickland in 2010?
Oh Ted Strickland, you had me until you started quoting scripture…
He's a minister. Sorry.
I didn't know that! At least it was only that one time, and he didn't dwell…
I'm Jewish but the Sell the reindeer and outsource the elves was great!
Why do the Republicons want to make war on Xmas?
Sell the reindeer?
Then how will Paul Ryan shoot Rudolph and pose for a picture?
With a bow and arrow, I suppose.
It was a good quote for liberal atheists to go quote at religious non-liberals…
I would have gone with Matthew 19:24 myself.
I think quoting the Bible was genius. It reminds all the evangelicals that (r)Money is a Mormon – did you notice how many "God Bless America's' there were last night?
This is payback for the past 6 years of "Obama is a Muslin." The chickens are coming home to roost.
CNN just panned the crowd at the former Ohio Governor's speech. Hide the children, Peggy Sue, it looks like 95% Negroes there!!11!!
I saw Arab-American signs and a woman with a hijab too. Also Tony Shaloub
PBS has been lingering on Shaloub all night and I can't figure out why. It's creepy.
Famous person they could identify. Arab-American best known for being nice.
Tony Shaloub may be nice, but I had an ex who was like Monk, so I can't watch the intro to that show without wanting to punch him.
Thank you- I thought that was him, but I couldn't see his face- just that hairline…
I liked the opportunidad sign.
Do you think MSNBC will film the one white male in the crowd from different angles to make it look like there's more than one there?
PBS is showing the white folks too- saw a white guy wearing a pink 'Biloxi' t-shirt & he looked like a fun dude.
It's good that the Dems are now willing to call lying Mitt Romney a liar, but if only the media would follow suit.
You have to give the Bamz advisors and Bamz credit for not being unwilling to get their hands dirty. It's about time a Democrat learned things like framing the other candidate. I'm not that old but I do remember Bill Clinton being unwilling to trash Dole, and Gore and Kerry…the less said the better. Obama is the first Democrat willing to call Republicans what they are: lying sociopaths who don't give a shit about 99% of this country…I just hope he doesn't back down because this is a LONG time coming. Also, I love how Eastwood in a semi-lucid moment said Obama isn't nice while endorsing a guy who just makes up shit as he goes to play to the very lowest common denominator. I hope Obama hits Rombot in the face with a shovel…and we bury the fucker (with votes).
Was it just me, or was that "Obamacare saves a young child with a heart defect" story eleventy billion times more touching than Santorum's "we didn't retroactively abort our child even though she had weird hands" story?
I thought that too, she was terribly effective. Too bad she lives in AZ with all the crazies.
Hmph. Sez the Texan.
Ha ha…well, say what you will about Rick Perry (crazy, stupid, drunk, etc.), he doesn't hate on the brown people like Jan Brewer does.
You hate Wrinkle-americans!!!
No, he just sends them for lethal injection.
Not just you. That story got right to me and that's no easy thing these days. She gave a powerful speech that was so effective because it was so obviously from the heart.
It was also a powerful blow at the R's "Government Bureaucrats taking over your healthcare". Like the unaccountable Insurance company Bureaucrats aren't worse.
Death by spreadsheet.
That needs to be a bumper sticker:
OBAMACARE: the cure for Death by Spreadsheet.
Romney administered to the dying; Obama worked to make sure they didn't die to begin with.
"Party of life" indeed.
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist."
Dom Helder Camara
Is Michelle on yet?I might actually have to watch this thing.
Ted Strickland, cooking up the steaks just as rare as you like!
Cooking up Republipork hindquarters steaks.
There was blood when he left that stage, tonight…and none of it was his own.
Finally, some white people in the audience!!1!
Jill and Joe?
Man PBS is fucking shit up royally tonight.
Yeah, why no audio problems when the rightwing wackos were talking?
Heh, don't know, I didn't watch.
McKayla is impressed by Michelle's McKayla impression.
I don't know about the polls, but my sanity is definitely getting a bump.
Ain't that the truth. I feel like I can breathe again.
Is that a bump in your polls, or are you just happy to see me.
Is it me, or is Kathleen Sebelius totally hot?
MrLL likes her as well.
I hope you're referring to the temperature in the room she's in.
It's you. She always looks pinched to me. But, hey, there's a lid for every pot, right? ✌
Yeah she's a bit uh…seasoned for my taste but to each their own. She looks like maybe oh…25 years ago, how old is she? I think late 50's, early 60's? Anyway I've seen pics of Hellen Mirren in 1966 and she looked hot back then (not to mention Raquel Welch, the reason I support time machines…) so anything is possible, right? I do like me some buxom kiersten sinema…she's bi the way too…which is hot and an ex-Mormon so as anyone who grows up around Mormons knows, Mormon girls can be a lot like the legends of Catholic girls (I grew up in Utah so it's a legend to me).
NAATM > National Association for the Advancement of Time Machines. <Reminds me to pay my dues.
Watching MSNBC…Ezra is a great writer and analyst, but he has a on-screen presence only slightly better than Tim Pawlenty.
Must agree. Also too, he talks too fast and in a strange cadence. Maybe it's just me.
Yeah he is pretty boring…I always thought Chris Hayes is boring too. Tweety bird is funny when tanked, he gets all loud and confrontational (we need to get home and the blitzed Tangerine into a fight…) and of course Rachel is every guys nerdy lesbian dream. MSNBC needs to get like big, fat Ed Schultz to get all puffed up and yelling like when he was arguing with rat fuck fuck face Walker.
He is no good at the short stints, when you give him a full hour, filling in for Rachele, you find yourself saying Chris\Mellisa who?
Oh, don't you go saying anything bad about MHP, you hear? You hear?
I have a hard time stomaching his fence-straddling in writing; it comes through even more clear in audio. He's so careful in calculating how far he's gone one way or the other so he'll have a path back to the middle, that the conclusions he comes to aren't as sound and definitive as they otherwise could be.
I've always wanted to believe that what has bothered me about him is that he's just super meticulous that it goes under or over my radar. But, the more I see of him and read of his the more I feel it's a political calcuation to stay in the Beltway media's good graces. Maybe I'm judging him to harshly, but he's too timid on too many important issues for my tastes.
CNN has a block of 3 middling actors talkin' about the Leadbelly Act!
just saw a 2016 commercial on CNN- and it is a lie- I KNOW BARACK OBAMA!(well, not biblically)
Who?
"the Leadbelly Act!"
Is that the law that requires all silly ass academic whitefolks to listen to old blues?
Did I miss Ted Strickland? Am watching MSNBC.
Yes, I don't know why MSNBC is droning on up in the booth instead of being on the floor.
I just can't stand CNN.
That's where the comedy is, though!
Because its all about them.
C-SPAN ueber alles
Much better to get the convention on c-span, and commentary here.
Yup. I learned a few years ago that C-Span, get this, actually puts the cameras on the people on stage, whereas all the news channels have teh cameras on each other, yammering about the people on stage.
I'm as excited as a Pakistani villager who thinks he's just heard drones overheard.
Without the pants shitting I hope!
…Hm, I'll have to check.
hahaha silly Pakistani villager! A drone to a Muslin is a lot like a pyroclastic flow from a volcano…when you can hear it that means you have exactly one nanosecond before it kills you…the pants shitting is pretty much non-negotiable once you realize what it is, too….which makes it just like a pyroclastic flow…that sucks. Well, at least with a pyroclastic flows the survivors don't find bible quotes scrawled in the remains, so that's good right? I mean that would be totally fucked up…
Did I mention how much the evangelism in the military pisses me off? I mean, why doesn't Obama just shitcan every single one of those right wing fucks and replace them with chaplains who aren't ya know, religious fascists…
When do we get around to calling Romney a foreigner?
He's from Earth?
We've already called his money foreign. Best line of the night (from Strickland):
His money needs a passport. Then some snark about his money skiing in the Alps and surfing in the Caymans. We need more of this.
His money needs more passports than James Bond.
Greatgrandpa Polygamy Romotinez was a wetback.
Why are the Democrat's sets THAT much better than the Repubs?
Gay people?
Fabulous people.
Some of my best gay friends are gay.
If I had sex with a man, could I learn to have some taste in clothes? Because, seriously, at this point….,
Fabulously gay people!
Because the GOP hasn't joined the 21st century yet.
No, because all artsy fartsy people are Dems. And Hollywood liberals.
9 out of 10 creatively intelligent people are Dems. (Actually it is 10 out of 10, but we are a tolerant group, so sometimes we let a wanna-be into our midst, who finds him/herself unable to grasp basic progressive concepts.)
Seriously, I think you're right; the Repubs seem to have no aesthetic sensibility. They wouldn't know beauty if it bit them on the ass.
I cannot imagine anyone getting through a BFA in Theatre, let alone an MFA, without coming out a Democrat on the other side. Government arts funding, the gays, enduring a summer theatre non-union internship (they will literally work you 19-24 hours a day for $10/week), then meeting the union techs who get decent pay and hours. Yeah, set designers are gonna skew Democrat.
sibelius is boring enough for a gop convention. must be because she's a 'kansas woman'. zzzzz
rahm!!!!
Wait, I was fapping to Secretary Sebelius, and now they bring out Rahm. Ouch.
Don't fuck with The Hope.
Rahm! He was in line in front of me in a DC Starbucks not long ago. Man, those Chicago guys like their pinstripes wide.
As opposed to their stances?
"Chicago guys like their pinstripes wide."
At which point, they become chalk stripes:
http://www.gentlemansgazette.com/chalk-stripe-or-…
Also, do you love that there's something called "Gentleman's Gazette"? Or does it make your monocle fall off?
I was not aware of the Chalk Stripe – must have been what he was wearing. And thanks for the Gentlemen's Gazette line, I shall peruse it forthwith.
Many years ago I read a fascinating little book "Letters from a Selfmade Merchant to his Son." He advises his offspring to invest in a good suit. "Don't buy a suit that makes people wonder if you perform buck and wing dancing or follow the horses for a living."
From a short distance the stripes should fade away – that's the difference between chalk and other stripes.
That's good advice. Wish I could afford them :(
Please don't take this the wrong way. You don't have to buy it new – it's only going to be new the first time you wear it.
I recently purchased a nice Brooks Brothers (not top of the line, but still a great suit) three-piece tweed suit for less than $25 at our local Salvation Army.
Go to a thrift store in the wealthest neighborhood you can get to. Stores raising money for the ballet or symphony or art museum are the best.
We went on a cruise several years ago, and I needed a tux. Bought one that fit nicely for $30 or $40 at the symphony thrift store.
Tundra Grifter says Check. It. Out.
Argh, Tweety is on MSNBC now and I've got to switch to CSPAN before I break something
Hey! It's Rahmbo!
Rahm is looking very tan today.
Orange too! OMG his got the Boehners!
He looks tan, but not orange on my teevee. It's an older set, though.
is he wearing a towel?
Did she say Obama was raised by Kenyan Women or Kansas Women?
KANSAS
If I may be provincial, Rahm just better hope the teachers don't go on strike.
mr. bubble popper.
I receive Sun-Times email and on Saturday, the headline was that the teachers would be going on strike. Which is why Rahm is cutting his trip to Charlotte short.
So he needed to hurry home to break the Union?
An oldie but goodie from Newell:
http://wonkette.com/413507/rahm-emanuel-will-real…
and did you see how freely we all flung around the r-word?
sigggghhhhhh.
the days of free speech.
And we all skullfucked like crazy.
Buttsechs
oh mayor rahm. i wish your vocal skills matched your temper.
They told him he couldn't swear. I think that's hampering the verbal output a bit?
Observations:
- Wow, Rahm is stepping all over his words.
- The Zoe story had everybody in the place in tears.
- The "USA! USA!" chant for Duckworth is probably one of the few times I've heard it where it seemed entirely appropriate.
- Despite Strickland not knowing how to modulate this voice, his quoting Matthew in the Gospel was really kind of on point, if only to show Republicans how this shit feels when they do it.
Zoe had me tearing up a little but in a very manly way.
Same here, dude, same here…
you there?
No, just flipping between stations on TV.
yeah, Tammy Duckworth's whole life story is incredible
PBS showed part of Jesse Jackson
Needz moar swears.
Haha, the mass crowd scenes look like the place is packed, and not quite ruly, like a real people community meeting.
Like one that might need a community organizer of sorts…
Obama 2012
Kumar! Stone the vote!
I can't believe the wingnuts never went after Kumar for being a brown degenerate in the Administration. I guess Nobama took the pressure off him.
Hey didn't this guy kill himself last season?
True dat. I have the DVD
The series finale pretty much implied that everyone else was gonna die, too.
Partisanship aside, the convention just feels more lively and looks better produced even through television. The feeling in the center is palpable.
And the audience looks like America not some gated community
The seething resentment at the RNC bleeds right through the screen. I think liberals are just happier people.
It has been that way forever. Demz are just congenitally cooler.
The delegates are sober.
That's just wrong.
here comes our actor supporter.
Kumar and Barack don't close Guantanamo
Kumar with the chair joke! Swoosh!
KUMAR!!!!
KUTNER!
(some of us think his best work was on House)
Cue criticisms from the Republicans of the little girl, her mother and her family in 3, 2, 1…
"Let her die!"
"Bootstraps! Bootstraps!"
"Booooo!"
Bootiestraps! Bootiestraps!
321 BC or AD?
Michelle Malkin's taking photos through their kitchen windows as we speak.
Granite countertop libel!
I had the same thought. Jeez that was a heart tugger.
They'll complain those parents are a little too pro-life. That the daughter is part of the culture of dependency what with depending on health insurance to stay alive. That they didn't pray enough at some point during the speech or their lives.
From the comments on Mediaite:
"Never mind that thousands (millions) of people are forced to buy medical insurance and the premiums for everyone else will skyrocket in order to pay for Obamacare. No, to Tommy and other liberals, all the sunshine and rainbows that Obamacare brings are completely free and no one has to pay for it.
"If you want to argue against it, you owe people like Zoe’s mom an answer."
Listen up Tommy and listen good. I don't owe her squat! I provide for MY family and that's ALL I'm responsible for. "
Invisible Obama reference – Drink!
Kal's a pretty good speaker, when he gets going.
Yup.
I'm confused. Who built this fucking thing?
Rock and roll?
HOLLYWOOD LIBRULS!!!!!
(Clint who?)
Okay, Kal is totally killing it.
not on CNN or PBS!!!!
I'm a serial channel surfer when it comes to these conventions, so I don't miss a lot.
Go ahead, go to CSPAN. You can do it!
CSPAN rawks. I get enough Talking Head blather as it is.
i love david byrne.
Young women like pants jokes.
Hey! WE DON"T NEED PANTS!
Wonkette's way ahead of you Kal.
Speaking of taking off my pants…here's Alex Wagner on MSNBC….
*drool*
Yeah. She is just too purty by half.
Pants Off Dance Off!
Jam out with your clam out!
No? Too much? OK, that's where we'll draw the line, right there.
I'm-a watchin' you.
I always feel like somebody is…
Into roller derby as well?
I have no pants on right now!
well kumar made a shit load more sense than anything the republicans said.
Brother and half sister of Michelle and Barack; republican heads exploding across the country.
They were hoping half-brother George would be there. Jesus, internet trolls are in love with that guy. Well, not him personally.They couldn't care less about him as a human being.
Bammerz has a little sister? How did I not know that?
Maya. She campaigned for him quite a bit last time around.
Last time around was a LOT of vodka ago.
Dr. Maya Kassandra Soetoro-Ng. The educational accomplishments in this family are not accidental. Clearly something that was valued and emphasized by her mother and grandparents.
Barack's little sister from Hawai'i! WOOOO RUM DRINKS FOR ALL!
And EDUCATION!
It's crazy, I was thinking about her just the other day and saying how cool it'd be if she got a speaking spot at the convention. lol
She's great and I love that she's a University Assist. Prof.
Off topic: Love the poodle moth!
POODLE MOTH!!
Thanks! I fell hard for this thing as soon as I saw it.
ALL HAIL POODLE MOTH!
MUSLIN MOTH LIBEL!!!
Um, poodle moth? I'm afraid to google that, because of the Furry results. What does at mean?
Behold, the Awesome Venezuelan Poodle Moth.
oh… that is so many kinds of a-w-e-s-o-m-e!
Pretty cool in a non cephalopod sort of way.
More non-white people; this convention definitely seems more colorful than the last one.
feel free to insert 'even Ann Romney' at random. Its the new 'thats what SHE said'.
You're on.
Twitter?
I barely know her.
After this I am going to go get a gay abortion tomorrow and then have some french fries.
Mmm…fries.
flotus says 'no' to the fries
If she catches me eating them will she spank me? It's on!
Sweet potato fries.
Michelle's brother and Barack's sister! (Maya pulls out the envelope) "And the Presidency goes to…Barack Obama!!"
INVISIBLE MAN IN THE CHAIR!
Hoo Rah!
Finally someone said it!
i hope somebody makes a birther joke.
Lilly Ledbetter! Liberal Southern Ladies are the coolest.
Oh hell yeah. Have I told you enough times today that you are the coolest?
And Lilly is Southern as a MF, I can taste the sweet tea in her fridge, hon.
Sometimes. My current fav is Cecile Richards.
I always thought she was an old granny-looking lady, but she's gorgeous!!
And now Lilly Ledbetter; you'd almost suspect the Democrats care more about women's rights than the GOP does.
White lady from Alabama praises Obama. More Republican heads explode.
Favorite sign so far:
Obama Y'all!
Man, someone has to make that into a bumper sticker.
Now, that ain't no fake accent.
I like this ladies night much better than the last one.
to be fair, i'd wage a war on women if my women were like that bagger cow on cnn.
Finally, a Swedish-American speaker.
YES!
She was born a McDaniel, but we can make an exception.
Democrats know how to party … for a bunch of rich folk, anyway.
It's so awsome to hear someone with a thick southern accent making sense for a change. Reminds me not to be a dick.
I still miss Molly Ivins.
And Ann Richards…..
I'm wanting to hear that accent say of Romney "Well, bless his heart" and then my week will be complete.
Lilly Ledbetter just stuck the knife into Mitt. More fapping in casa Lucidamente.
Why don't we have Democratic Conventions in "off-year" elections to harness this kind of energy and drive Congressional majorities? Get the President out there and treat it like it's as important as Presidential years.
I agree. The entire nature of the job, and the so called bully pulpit, has changed. I think the Pres. need to be out on the stump campaigning for his agenda nearly as much as during the electoral campaign.
huh. i heard barack obama hasn't done anything.
Deval Patrick! Another Chicago colored and Taxachusetts Governor! Talkin' trash about the Romney record! "You wouldn't believe the shit I had to clean up after that empty suit!!"
But they are very expensive suits.
I want to hump Lilly Ledbetter's drawl.
Ha Deval Patrick ripping apart Romney's record as governor is awesome.
He is fucking OWNING this shit. I'm getting a boner.
He's on fire; I haven't really heard Patrick speak before, but he is awesome.
Answer your skype!
Sitting governor of Massachusetts mentions that his state is ahead in healthcare coverage, and neglects to say why.
I'm torn.
Yup, he pulled that punch, but for a reason, I heard. (Two nights left.)
LOOK, GUYS! OBAMA IS ON…oh wait, that's Deval Patrick.
an old white lady told me she liked Barack Obama – pointing at our lt. gov. Anthony Brown
Bless her heart.
It's cool, simple mistake
I mean, all black politicians look alike, right? Obama's only like half-a-foot taller. lol
Jesse, remember that this is tv for the blind. Please use more nouns and action verbs.
Bill Murray!
You know what would be fucking brilliant? I mean, what would be a pitch-perfect satire of Eastwood lecturing Invisobama, AND galvanize Democrats and prove to independents and undecideds that mittens is a flip-flopping spineless weasel? A video debate between Mittens and Mittens, moderated by, I dunno, a hologram of William F. Buckley. Just running video of Mittens on both sides of every issue. It would be brilliant. It would be the greatest moment in convention history. And so, I have no expectations that the Democrats will do it. :(
It was awesome when The Daily Show did that with W.
Just for you: http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/a-mitt-ro…
Great line that only had a moment tonight was Ted Kennedy's description of Mitt the Flipper. We don't know if he is pro choice, he's multiple choice, or something to that effect.
Breitbart: Dems Boot God from Convention Platform
We had to make room for the Great Old Ones.
If they're upset now, wait until Wednesday's human sacrifice.
God: Breitbart Booted from Earthly Existence
Of course they booted him. He was standing there yelling at an empty cross.
HA!
Gay marriage and the Cayman Islands are clearly the most popular topics at this convention, applause-meter wise! If they were offering gay weddings on the Cayman Islands, pandemonium would break out!!
And yay that the Democratic Party seems to have finally realized that they can campaign on legalizing same-sex marriage instead of running from it.
If they'd only run on supporting cannabis legalization, they'd have a home run. People who never voted before would vote for someone who supported that. 'kna!!
Funny what leadership from a president will do on a timely, righteous issue, innit?
If I weren't already gay, I'd totally turn gay after watching all of this gay-lovin'!
What is the backdrop– is that amber waves of grain, or is it some hippie prairie restoration?
Shit just got real thanks to Duval. Yep, he's still running for president.
you KNOW deval was thinking 'grow a pair'.
Fuck yeah, Deval!
Needz moar smug white bastards!
(not really)
Deval es en fuego!
Time for Democrats to grow a spine? You mean they don't have one?
I believe Kal lost the role in Slumdog Million Dollar Baby, amirite?
**MSNBC cuts to gay black dude in the audience**
**Another Sikh spotting**
Somewhere there is an intern madly photographing and making a searchable catalog of every "type" in the audience.
All they need is a Asian lesbian latina, and they will have won the night.
That's what she said…
They have some man in a garish red, white, and blue outfit they keep panning on every time someone mentions teh ghey. In fact, he is just dressed like half the people at the GOP convention. Only he's thinner.
Dems are so much more attractive than last week's GOP delegates.
Some of them are even under 60.
Patrick fired up and ready to go!
Deval is setting this bitch on fire. He reminds me of Larry Wilmott on the Daily
Show. He's the Senior Black Governor.
Deval Patrick 2016 motherfuckers!!!!
Deval/Tammy!
Oh, seriously, he was GREAT. Did he cut in on Marty O'Malley's time? East Coast Gang War!
I've seen 3 minutes of this and I understood all of the words. I'm saying already better than whatever the hell that was last week. HEY And HE SAID GEORGE W BUSH, so more balls than that other too!
This is watchable. Bet the rating double the Repugs.
PBS just showed Biden chewing while an aide had a plate of something behind him
Those BBQ wings are damn good in Charlotte!
Uncle Joe likes the vinegar.
OSAMA STILL DEAD!
And Generla Motors is alive!
Along with Generalissimo Francisco Franco.
i like it when dems get stabby.
Usually they're more about self-cutting.
Not any more. There's luuurve in the Original Big Tent.
Hooolian is quite stabby, but I don't mean that in a stereotypical way, just in a good politics way.
Mitt Romney's metal ass has just been short circuited.
So far tonight, I've seen every speaker gleefully land at least one solid, devastating hit on the Republicans in general and Mitt Romney in particular. It's like these folks have been just itching for the chance to have their say after having been bombarded by more and more extreme right wing nonsense for almost four years.
I like it. This week might just be fun.
"Grow a backbone and stand up for what we believe"
HELL YEAH
Please tell us about the time you ran into a fiery building to save Harold Fords Bearer Bonds
Deval Patrick is really bringing it and he's saying the right things. My favorite was (paraphrasing): "…grow a backbone, beotchez!" Gotta love the guy.
Republicans are like, "Oh shit, we're gonna have another black president, aren't we?"
I don't think the adjective they are using is "black".
You know, I've heard on more than one occasion even from some Dems that Dems don't have a deep bench for 2016. I say to that bullshit and poppycock. Thank you.
I concur.
I think Gillibrand is the one to watch. And not just for the obvious reasons. I like to watch.
They have Mr. Castro of San Antonio, TX. I would love for him to take over the White House in 2016 so Republican heads can explode.
well when you put it like that deval, republican talking points sounds pretty stupid.
That's the Chicago Way!
Ok, a white guy with blow dried hair. I feel much better.
Jesse: I'd rather be talking policy than weaksauce Talibangelical "theology."
The Maryland governor is nowhere near as good as Deval. Boring long war stories.
I keep hearing O'Malley mentioned as a candidate for 2016, and while I'm sure he was a great mayor and is a great governor, everytime I've seen him speak I don't see him as presidential material. I mean, I've seen people absolutely rave over him.
Celtic rock band. Hot in that altar boy you'd like to lead astray way. Trying to protect our resources, intrastucture, schools and colleges, despite the economic downturn. I like him.
That's the thing; I like him, too. I don't love him like you would for someone who'd be your first pick for a presidential ticket.
Those people raving over him … that would be our girl LimeyLizzie? She loves her some O'Malley. Who says the English can't get along with the Irish?
Yeah, but he's hot, has his own Celtic rock band, and has his priorities generally in the right order.
Is it just me, or are the flag pins getting bigger?
Maybe the people are shrinking? The mikes look bigger too.
Thank you for the segue. I noticed some red dot diamond thing in all of the 'cons flag pins at their CONvention last week. Anyone else notice? What's that all about?
Was that Tony Shalhoub I just saw in the audience? His face was down, but it sure looked like Monk…
That had to be Monk. Sitting next to John Leguizamo too.
"I was born natural, but I was raised Caesarean."
And Alfre Woodard.
They keep showing him- did he have his finger on his lips- he was doing that earlier
He had his head down- looked like he was texting…
What fucking planet does David Brooks live on?
the same one as matt continetti i'd guess.
Planet Derp,
Uranus?
David Brooks on PBS a minute ago: "American care about two things: balancing the budget and the debt." Oh brother, what art thou?
David Brooks cares more about sounding smart than being smart.
I almost did a spit take. Nothing he's said tonight has even a tenuous connection with reality.
What a tool! Americans care about putting food on their families.
Well, I've bacon grease and bourbon on my chin, so I'm going with your statement as completely accurate.
In his world, there are no women at home with too many children to feed, no one is in the military unless they work at the Pentagon, no one has ever carried a union card, everyone's student debt is paid by their daddy, and people still vacation in Europe.
Brooks is right about the 2 things I care about.
I care about my fucking budget and my fucking debt and these Repubes ain't helping either..
Last week they cared more about Honey Boo Boo.
MY GOVERNOR!!!! Martin!!
"Lucky you," sobbed the grrl in Arizona.
I can't decide if the awkwardness of O'Malley's speech is the delivery or the writing.
It's the white maleness.
I'm a bit disappointed that he isn't speaking in Gaelic.
He should be playing music with his band
Delivery. O'Malley had moar awkwardness right at the opening of the convention earlier.
O'Malley is going to keep going with this until the crowd gets their timing with the signs right!
oooh! I LOVE STAGE INTERACTION! IT MAKES ME FEEL PART OF THE SHOW! I AM SO SITTING IN MY LIVING ROOM SCREAMING AT THE TV … "FORWARD, NOT BACK!"
STRAIGHT, NO ICE!
White people can't jump or fire a crowd up.
JOE BIDEN LIBEL!Oh, wait, I forgot he was made an honorary Colored Person.
Martin O'Malley Kids! It's nice to have a governor that doesn't make me cringe, for once.
"Forward, not Back!" Now, that's a good call and response line.
I like him more as governor than as mayor of Baltimore.
Yeah, I don't think he was really a good fit for that town. Stephanie Rawlings Blake seems to be doing OK, though considering what she had to step into .
It's not new- he used it here in the state for some time
"Give me an F,…"
I would say voucher and W as often as I could, movie-phone talking guy O'Malley.
This guys a buzz kill, bring back Deval Patrick.
O's blister Toronto 12-0, Yanks losing, now O'Malley hitting 'em deep…a fine day for Charm City.
Anyone but the Yankees. Go Baltimore!
I like what this guy is saying, but I feel like I'm about to buy a used Honda civic.
O'Malley is starting to grow on me
Too white-guy-y for me….
Like a Siamese twin?
We should make OMalley and Dr. Zoom a 2-headed T-shirt that says "We watched this speech with the signs and and the backing and the forthing and all we got was this lousy T-shirt".
He's growing on me, too, but mostly like moss on the side of a log.
His delivery was pretty blah tonight. Ii've seen him really tear it up a few times, but it was always off the cuff, this is the first time I watched him give a prepared speech. Not impressed.
I think people would be more impressed with his speech if he was doing it shirtless.
OK, I went to the Casa after my meeting, and it was dark. Man, I NEVER expected you guys to stop partying that early!
O'Malley sounds a little like a TV evangelist now.
en Espanol, por favor
Yo quiero Taco Bell!
As a "legal" pot smoker, I'm totally disappointed that we aren't hearing jack shit about the "Drug War". sigh. I know, I know, we're hoping he'll get to it, but for all my brothers and sisters who are in prison for smoking the sacred weed – (or just for being mentally ill and using drugs – or not mentally ill and using drugs) – can we please stop the maddness?
Too much for the center/undecided voters to stomach, I would guess. It's going to left for the states to hammer out for this election. I believe both OR and CA have legalization on the ballots this fall.
Washington, Oregon and Colorado have legalization ballots in the next election.
Yes we cannabis!!
I think this is a second term thing. Hell, I was surprised he didn't wait until the second term to come out in favor of same sex marriage.
I heard a little Kennedy at the very end of O'Malley's speech. It's just too bad he had to follow Patrick.
O'Malley's wife is a judge and is father-in-law is the junior Senator from the great State of Maryland, aka Ben Cardin.
Twin brothers. Which one is the evil one?
The one named Castro.
I KNEW THE DEMOCRATS WERE CLONING PEOPLE!
hahahahahaa democrats get to use whatever music they want and nobody sues them!
The DNC crowd chanting "Castro!"
What could possibly go wrong?
Isn't that in San Francisco?
Twins! Doesn't live up to MY fantasy, but knock yerselves out, ladies…
I understand twins is a big fantasy for some men and women- always seemed like horror movie time to me. But these guys seem like they would be good sons!
The twin thing icks me out because it means you're essentially fantasizing about incest. You're not just wanting siblings to get naked and have sexy times together, you want siblings who look alike to get naked and have sexy times together. Would you want to have sex with your clone? Ew.
tonight we are all texans. yuck:-)
Rick Perry can count to potato.
Okay, close your eyes and listen to Castro, and you hear Obama. Weird.
I can't get past the feeling that I'm listening to Keanu Reeves.
woah
Dude is good, he's going to kick Jindal's ass in 20-something
Twins that went to Stanford??? That's some Cosby show shit.
I liked when this guy debated Alan Alda in season 7 of The West Wing.
No FLOTUS tonight? I haz teh confuse.
She's after Jimmy Smits
FLOTUS is on deck.
Viva la Grandma!
Viva Abuela!!!!!!
What, no phony exaggerated Texas accent a la a certain Connectitard I could name?
W ho?
William F. Buckley, Jr.
HT
Tonight, in the US Bank Octagon its Marco Rubio vs Juan Castro
Julian.
does it matter?, and thanks, now I cant edit that, papers please!
Grammy Castro has tears in her eyes. Very sweet. I hate menudo, but would eat it if this lady served it to me.
Mexican grandmas. You tell her you don't like menudo and 10 minutes later she is serving you something else you do like.
Winning a Menudo cookoff…I've heard Ricky Martin tastes like chicken.
Julian Castro – a real Texan from Texas, not Connecticut.
Just because someone was born in Connecticut doesn't make him not a Texan when he lived there his entire life. Texas owns him.
You should tell a Texan that. lol It seems to cut across ideological lines, down there, that unless you were born on its soil, you're not ever a true Texan.
That doesn't make any sense at all.
You are talking about Texans – so yes.
Then why did they love W so much?
They loved him like hell, but that doesn't mean they thought he was a "real" Texan. Texans have a thing about being born in Texas. Don't ask me to explain it, it's just what I've personally experienced.
Maybe one of our Texas Wonketters can back me up on this. I thought this was a pretty well known quirk of Texans.
"his entire life"… except when he spent every summer in the Hamptons, and went to Yale and Harvard, and spent a lot of time in the White House with his daddy (also not a real Texan).
Bush is a fake Texan, don't ever forget that.
Si se puede!
Haw–bootstraps
I still don't know how you would pull yourself up that way without falling over on your head.
This convention actually looks like America.
The RNC looked like the drive-through line at my local Little Caesar's.
Not Real America™!
I'm just happy I don't have to wear Ray-Bans to look at this week's crowd.
this makes too much sense. texas is going to fire his ass.
He's from San Antonio. Rick Perry is not allowed to go there. If he does all the messicans will kick his ass. We're stuck with him here in Austin—for now.
Nah. San Antonio is blue and twice as cool as Austin, and not nearly self- conscious.
Or as self-important. Plus, we sent Henry B. Gonzales to Washington for 40 years.
"González was referred to as a "communist" in 1986 by a man at Earl Abel's restaurant, a popular San Antonio eatery. The 70 year-old representative responded by punching him in the face. González was acquitted of assault for this incident."
They may have boots with boot-straps in parts of Texas, but where I live, there are people on Skid Row wit' no shoes.
Signed,
Los Angeles
Yah. I didn't get the strap on reference.
Castro? Fucking communist.
Good speech and an adoring granny.
That is his Mom. His grandmother is dead.
Well, she's granny to that gorgeous little girl, but I stand corrected!
Man, that Deval Patrick just might win 230 electoral votes on write in! Don't worry Mittens, you'll still get Mississippi.
~Yeah, I'm watching DVR… But I fast forwarded through Gov. "Things Were Better Under Dumbya", so I'm almost in real-time.
Sorry dude, no. Mitt's not a good guy. He doesn't CARE how bad OTHERS have it. That's different.
It's OK. Say he is a good guy and then kick him in the nutz again.
C'mon, Texas, bring up a quote from your roots (i.e. the late great Ann Richards)– "He can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth"
I like the PG-13 version: "He can't help it; he was born with a silver stick up his ass."
I miss Ann. Molly Ivins, too.
Suck it mucho grande Rmoney/Ryan!
You mean mucho rico. Nothing grande about them (except for Christie).
This guy knows how to give a speech.
OK, this is the evil twin. He's fucking with the crowd now.
'fiction'.
i like 'lie' better.
OH, MY!!!! That "actually…." was one HELL of a pivot!
damn he's good.
"Romney said…actually…yes."
That was moment of the night.
It was amazing. And the way he held his smile and let the crowd catch up was brilliant optics.
That was some knife in the gut theatrics there, very very good. And the crowd was even on script yelling 'Romney said no'
OMG, is that Castro's daughter? She's a cutie.
Castro married Erica Lira Castro in 2007. They have one daughter, Carina Victoria Castro, born March 14, 2009
"Whenever I run into prejudice, I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control." — Freddy Fender, born Baldemar Garza Huerta in Texas
He said Detroit, drink!
Texas has education?
new bumper sticker- GoT IT DONE!!
CASTROOBAMA!!!!!!
I loved that serial.
Oh, you were not talking about "Doctor Who" were you?
Was that during the Sarah Jane Smith years?
5th Doctor I believe.
I wish this guy would stop sugar-coating it….
Let's find a Kennedy and run him with Castro in 2016.
We saw the handsome young redhead earlier tonight…
No Castros until they turn Tejas blue. Then, the sky's the limit.
Hell, yes.
We're on the same page tonight, sister.
When Tejas turns blue, we can tell Florida to go fuck itself. That will be awesome.
Joe III has my vote. Kennedy genes are amazing.
Oh god that would be awsome.
Contrast this with the "me me me! *cough*voteforMitt*cough*" of the speeches last Tuesday
"The American dream isn't a sprint or a marathon. It's a relay" OK, I'm cryin'.
I want that bumper sticker. And screw you Mr. Under Two Ryan. Asshat.
It was under three and he is still an asshat. It would be a great bumper sticker. Every runner I know would want one.
I hope he ends his speech by telling Marco Rubio to eat shit.
"Comete un mojon, Marco Rubio" (drops mic and walks away)
Relay. That is a great line.
For some it is "FOUR MORE YEARS" and for others it is "FEEL MY QUEERS!"
xoxoxoxxoxo
(in a good way, not a Republican way.)
He could do the empty chair routine, but sitting down in it to play his twin. Ok, not funny, but still better than Eastwood.
This is one hell of a closing.
He just did the newscaster sudden Spanish accent thing! YAY!
I call it "The NPR Slide".
ROTFLMAO! I'e got to remember that.
Like they're from May-he-co?
How about those optics, ladies & gents?
Wait, a few moments ago, did we get a cross contaminated chant of "Four More Years" and "O-Ba-Ma"?
"The American dream is not a sprint; nor a marathon; but a relay." So over-fucking-whelmingly true it's a slap in the face of people like Mitt Romney. This dude is living proof and I dare Sarah Palin, Michelle Malkin and Rush Limbaugh to question it.
MICHEEEEEELLLLLLEEEE! oh I love you. Cheers!
Little girl sees herself on TV, does the "I'm pretty" move.
KAWAIIIIII!!!!!!!
Awesome visual.
"I spell it with two L's, motherfuckers!"
Bohner is opening up an extra Puffs with lotion tonight.
So am I, but for different reasons.
Where are the lies and distortions that the Washington Post said are part of every convention? Whatever will the Both Sides Do It mega force do?
Claim: With enough hard work, you can raise your own Barack-Oli.
Fact: There is not any such vegetable as Barack-Oli.
Conclusion: Michelle Obama's lie robs Democrats of the moral high ground and prevents them from taking issue with Paul Ryan's statements.
Whatever will the Both Sides Do It mega force do?
Lie.
What, give a from-the-heart, passionate, true paean to a man worth both loving and electing? No, both sides do not do that.
Must not think impure thoughts about FLOTUS, must not think impure thoughts about FLOTUS . . . Oh, fuck it.
flotus next? glad i have a tablet. brb.
You know, I've always thought that Michelle looked exactly like a First lady.
You must not be an old racist trailer-trash Republican delegate, then.
Did the spelling give me away?
And lack of WingNutz font (!!!!!!!!!1!!)
I've always thought the whole family looks like that family in all the car ads. Absolutely quintessentially American.
THIS. Comment of the night.
Castro's mom keeps givin' him the stinkeye.
"99%!" Drink!
Julián Castro '16
I would like to see Michelle kick Ann Romneys ass.
I think you're about to.
…aaaaaand, you just did.
Forget Ann, I want her to go straight to the top and arm wrestle Mitt Romney for the presidency.
Nah, that would be like beating toddlers at checkers.
So would Michael Steele.
With votes!
I'd like to see Michelle drop-kick Paul Ryan in the Nads.
Si se puede!!!!!!!!!!
Republicans everywhere throwing peanuts at the tv screen
I kid you not, Fox News has shampoo man Paul Mitchell offering his insights during the Michelle video.
Assholes.
You forgot the quotation marks around "News".
I thought he died? Srsly.
Rode a ski lift with him years ago. Once a dick, always a dick.
It was John Paul DeJoria who is co-founder.
Fuck Fox.
Hey! They need some time to edit….
RNC just pulled the plug on PBS. Or at least my signal.
http://www.demconvention.com/live/
The streaming through the DNC Convention website is must be on a five minute delay!
Man, this lady has the whole military service set!
"What am I (a walking political prop) doing in a place like this (a political convention)?"
Wait… Doctor Biden?
yeah, but she's the SMART biden. the other one is, you know, dumb.
Jill
Bah. Serves me right for trying to comment too much to pay attention.
Jill was a professor at a local college, I think.
Yes, and after teaching high school for years, including children diagnosed as emotional disturbed, before earning a Ph.D.
Whereas Janna Ryan likes to go noodling…. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/paul-ryans-wi…
When she moved to DC when he became VP, she took a teaching position (English, I think) at the Northern Virginia Community College. Before that, she taught in Delaware.
Negropolis, Jill was a professor who taught my daughter, Christine and helped to shape the woman she became, as I am certain you already know.. I loved me some Jill before handsome Joe was VEEP.
that's so cool.
Lady has five kids in the service and speaking at the DNC. Still more republican heads explode.
Isn't it crazy that in literally four years we've totally flipped this issue on the Republicans?
Well, we actually do care about the troops that the Republicans hurl into unnecessary wars.
I kept waiting for her to ask what Mitt's five sons were doing.
Never play pan-dimensional chess with the DNC.
Deep Thought.
And Mitt has five service-free boys berating their indentured servants.
Hey now, don't rag on those fine young men. They'll all enlist in the Marines posthumously.
..and Mitt was a conscientious objector so that he could ride a bike around France and annoy people.
MECHA-MOM, QUEEN OF ALL MATRONS
Next, hologram Eleanor Roosevelt saying "Ann Romney, eat me."
Jaysus, I love Michelle's dress.
Seriously. The woman can dress.
Awesomeness.
She should be wearing a bland generic red dress, as should every other woman who speaks at the convention!
I can't imagine what nasty stuff the Teabaggers will say about the military mom.
Wow, what an entrance!
Huh, I wonder if the Repubs are having second thoughts about not mentioning the troops much last week?
Nah, never mind, their base sincerely believes she hates the flag.
You're assuming that they had first ones.
Their base can go fuck themselves. We're here for those grounded in reality.
I'd hit it
With VOTES, people!
WIIIIIITH VOOOOOTES GAWDDAMMIT!
Oh fuck, Stevie Wonder? the REAL one's voice and not some weird cover version of him? And Lovely Lovely Michelle? Oh I may die.
C'mon now, the Dems know their music…..
gorgeous!
You American women are very attractive.
Mamacita, que buena estas!
Why do I find it hard to believe someone telling me they are not political while they are giving an introduction at a fucking national political convention?
Someone forgot his KoolAid. Jokes, it's jell-o shots around here.
And now we all hold our breaths to see if Michelle can trump Ann's sapphic, polyamorous confession.
ARRGH LUVS U WIMMUNZ!
Oooooh. Michelle just told the room to STFU!
She just kicked Mitt's no troops speech in the ass, sentence one. Nice.
FOX NEWS ALERT!!! OBAMA HAIR DISASTER!!!
That's going to be the latest style tomorrow.
Meh. She still looks more fabulous than 99% of the rest of us.
That is very distracting. Everyone was probably afraid to say anything, lest her big brother might kick their ass.
The hair stylist is in an unmarked plane right now.
'your family's service and sacrifice'.
something we can't take for granted with chicken hawks.
Jesus Christ on a three-day bender, this is the hottest convention speaker in the history of the universe.
"I think you're the perfect wife for Obama.", says little kid with braces. Melts your heart and makes you laugh at the same time. But if some dumb Republican kid had said it I'da just shot my teevee, Elvis style.
And they did.
I want the First Lady's dress.
I wonder if ther is a version appropriate for women who don't have the awesome arms of FLOTUS
…On the floor of my room.
Oh, I thought you wrote I want to be the First Lady's dress, which seems to be a popular sentiment this evening.
Trying not to think impure thoughts about our FLOTUS, but damn those shoulders!
Easy girl.
MY girl is red-hot,
Your girl ain't doodle-squat!
"Like any mother, I thought about our girls"
Typical of the narcissistic selfish focus of those people.
where are these kind caring non judgemental americans michelle obama is seeing?
"Date night for Barack and me was dinner and a movie. And fucking, lots of fucking."
I broke out in applause for Michelle.
Which is little embarrassing, home alone and clapping.
Michelle has charisma and empathy. Ann has money.
Don't forget
PolandRafalca!Rafalca > Ann
One is beautiful, one has skrill
HAWAII! REPRESENTING!
Shoes a half-size too small, eh? You know what they say about guys with big feet….
Big toes?
They have big shoes?
Big socks?
Well as a man with very big feet, let me tell you it's true.
It's harder to put your foot in your mouth?
Lots of silver?
Coffe table picked up from a dumpster? It better be true or she's gonna hear about it from the asswipes from Fox & Friends tomorrow. Facts only matter when pointing them out works to their advantage.
I love this lady.
Over at Fox, Charles Krauthammer is muttering, "Why is she wear a bathing suit? And what is this feeling I've never felt before?"
"Mein Führer! I can walk!"
Scott Baio must be killing himself right now.
in sh'Allah.
If only we were so lucky. With votes.
Hopefully, he'll stop by Kirk Cameron's house first.
How dare that Negress talk about her father's MS?! She's trying to make Ann look bad1!1!!
That was pretty uppity! It's like when you upend the napkin by your place at table, and then someone else sits there.
Why didn't she just sell some stock?
Why didn't she just buy her father a horse?
Or ask her parents for $20 Large?
does michelle have a secret portrait in the white house attic or is bamz aging FOR her?
FUCK YOU MITT ROMNEY
FUCK YOU ANN ROMNEY
AND, the horse you rode into town on.
The horse would be the most satisfying of the three
Horse rides on the roof.
Ann Romney who?
That's what it means to be a man, taking care of his family. Damn straight, Michelle!
Joe Walsh Libel!
Somebody send this video to Congressweasel Joe Fucking Walsh (R-Douchebag).
Where's the chair? I don't get it.
Even the chair's invisible now. Forward.
"Truth matters" zing.
Truth has a liberal bias.
MIchelle: "the sex doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square" — did I mishear that?
Up there with Condi's impossible semen.
*success*
and sex.
Successful sex is successful.
Why buy the cow, when you can get the sex for free? -Jay
No, she said:"Ah, get born, keep warm, short pants, romance, learn to dance
Get dressed, get blessed, try to be a suck-sess"
I love her to bits.
I read that too fast.
Bad boy.
yeah, but i bet michelle doesn't have a dancing horse now does she?
She as the cutest dog second only to mine. Alas, I bet she doesn't get a $77,000 tax deduction for Bo either.
Michelle's remarks about honesty and "how much money you make" will be taken as subtle swipes at Romney…because they probably are.
Subtle?
"The truth matters"? Rather outmoded thinking. Fact-checkers don't run things, after all.
Work hard? But these were just workers, not JOB CREATORS! Last week I was told only the owners' work actually counts.
The republican platform: Makers vs Takers.
Happy Belated Labor Day, Job Creators!
Last week? Hell, we got that from Twitter yesterday!
Gee, is she drawing an unspoken contrast between her and potus's growing up in straitened circumstances and the romneys' wealthy douchebaggery?
Not to mention the contrast by staying they earned their money without cheating.
I loved that part. No cutting corners.
And, gee, not getting through Harvard law on their parents' stocks. Oh, that's right. She who just LOVES us women didn't go to Harvard law. Did she even graduate?
The truth counts – unless you're a Republican!
"Being President doesn't CHANGE who you are, it REVEALS who you are".
XOXOXOX
That line & the line about how you can't accept help to achieve success & then slam the door behind you- those were my faves!
Second bumper sticker after the one about a relay.
A most awesome Tweet:
Dave Pell @davepell
I like to think that Michelle Obama is the type of wife who would say: "Dude, the dog is riding inside the car."
Hahahahaha
Many many up fists!
And sleeping ON the bed.
That's where my bitches sleep.
(And yes, I'm talking about female dogs)
Muslin! I just saw a muslin, y'all!
Muslins are part of the fabric of this country.
I just saw orthodox Jews- I saw the Muslins much earlier
I saw one of them Sikhs, y'all.
Whose got the Big Tent?
You should email Peggyton.
But not Michele Bachmann…
Dame Noonington would be so atwitter. Two sightings of brown people within the week?
I'm going to brave a GOP rally and yell: Truth or GTFO!
this is a fantastic case she's making for everything the dem's stand for and need to run on in this election.
too bad she's not white.
(wish i was snarking).
Dat SO true. I know what you are saying.
What about those American families that only have 1 or 2 dressage horses, Mitt and Ann feel their pain!
Are there people really that poor?
True story. My son a long time ago dated a very wealthy young woman. It's Texas, so it's oil. During one of the many downturns in the O&G industry, her father was bemoaning the fact that they could take only one private plane hunting. My son innocently asked why the guy needed two planes. The other plane was for the hunting dogs.
When does she start yelling "whitey?"
Today I listened to Rush Limbaugh in my car after lunch and he passed on a rumor that Rev. Wright was going to do the benediction tonight. So, it'll probably be after Michele.
"today I listened to to Rush Limbaugh. . . .". Do we see where we made our mistake?
Did you upchuck your lunch in the car? By the way, are you a masochist?????
Nah. Just on a diet.
Tomorrow night she starts with 40ozers and by midnight we're all covered in gang tats.
"Show us the blankey!" — Jerome Corsi
I believe she just eviscerated Mittens – what a job!
When do we get the surprise cameo from Barry?
Suck it, Mittens.
Oh, yeah. Too bad they don't realize they have been blown out of the water. I only wish the Repugs would watch both conventions as I have done. How can any decent, honest human being vote for such a bunch of lying hypocrites?
slamming the door on opportunity after you've made it…
community organizing…
rock on michelle.
SOUTH-SIDE OF CHICAGO REPRESENT!!!!
(103rd and Michigan)
what was the yell from the crowd?
I suspect the crowd's "4 more years" spontaneous chant was masking something sinister.
Like a hot mic-ed fart from Biden?
"Success isn't about how much money you make" – take that, Romney greedheads.
That had me cheering!!!
Four more beers!
Any bets that the pundrity will be talking about the FLOTUS' "angry" and "militant" speech tomorrow?
Just a suspicion.
Just let 'em try & I'll show them what angry & militant looks like. (No, I don't really hang out what the pundit crowd…)
How many fuckin' signs are these people expected to have on hand?
Is that one of the qualifications to be a delegate or something?
I'd say they should have "Swiss Army" signs, but that's kindofa touchy nationality this season.
The marshalls distribute them on an as needed basis…
Funny, I haven't seen a tinfoil hat in the crowd yet.
I just saw a Peter Pan hat on some guy- what was that??
I figured it was a Robin Hood hat, but wasn't sure if that was an economic statement or if it was a 'Merry Men' statement?
Have the Ron Paul delegates noisily walked out yet?
There's something about this crowd tonight that's different from the RNC…. I don't know, they look so, American.
I know. How strange.
took a while, but they finally got the right chant down and in unison.
kinda a metaphor for the dems in general.
We all love our country! How refreshing!
I wish he would stop looking for the best in some of these people, I truly do. He's GOT to do some neck stomping. GOT TO. We need policy, not a bunch of people happy they all feel like they got their way.
I want him out there chewing up the opposition like some monster hungry great white shark. Ooops, you know what I mean.
Forward with patience, wisdom, courage and grace.
Dems really need to work on their chants. lol
Yes, but there is something to be said about not being lock stepped drones.
Exactly. During the "others" convention, I figured they had held some sort of cheer leading camp prior to.
I love our ragtag laid-blackness.
lol! We just had a "USA! USA!" and "Yes we can!" going simultaneously.
Like Jesse said, at least we weren't assaulted with "you didn't build this" ad nauseum.
I wonder where Romney will buy this kind of sincerity –
He will have American workers train Chinese workers to manufacture sincerity before shipping the Sincerity Factory overseas.
He has people for that.
Software upgrade. Romney Vista.
Is that the version that comes with the Sincerity Simulator [tm]?
He'll never give up, he'll stay till the fight's won; GI Barack is there!
Our President was poor and owned a rusty car. I bet he made his own Cheetos back then, just like he brews his own beer now.
i say michelle has earned a fat greasy cheeseburger.
whoa! blacksmith reference!
"Win independence from an empire." Anti-colonial rhetoric!
Even the founders of the Democratic party like Jefferson had a small streak of Mao-Mao Anti-Colonialism in them, according to my Professor Gingrich Books-On-Tape.
I have a piloerection!
Maybe we elected the wrong Obama…
They can pull a Clinton-style switcheroo in a few years.
Fine with me.
An extremely wise and astute oration, that needs nary a mention of the Romneys or the Bushes–who in contrast to an amazing wife's love letter to her husband–are the antithesis of this incredibly lovable first family.
This clearly was a militant, angry attack on the Romneys.
And bitter class envy.
Damn, Shelly is good!
Mom-In-Chief!
The wingers are going to hate that! "She ain't my Mom! She got teefus!"
Good.
Those cheekbones…
Those biceps and triceps. . .
All that enthusiasm I haven't been feeling the last few months? Yeah, I'm feeling it.
Amen. Aaa-menn.
I know, right? How come we only get fed every 4 years?
MOUNTAIN TOP!!!!
I love you Michelle! (Hyde Park representing!!!)
The difference between Mrs. Obama and Mrs. Romney, is that one is real and one is rich and disconnected.
You can see and feel sincerity if you are even halfway sentient human. My dog would growl at Ann; she would roll over and want her belly rubbed by Michelle.
shit- I wrote that to a local reporter looking for reaction- but last night before I saw your comment.
And not once has anybody said his middle name.
And that's how we do that.
That was a frickin barnburner of a speech
Out. Of. The. Park.
All over America, millions are tearing up….
I am.
And out onto the street (though not Waveland Ave, because Barry's a Sox fan)
This was the speech of a lifetime.
applause!
You don't really need to humanize Barack, because he's already a human.
AHHRGGHGLE LURRRVES YOUZ WUMMINZ1
Best imitation EVAH.
Each time I write Ann's words, they sound more drunkenly desperate in my head. Then I think about what the Repig convention platform is and wonder why they (half the country) all have brain damage.
Excellent, excellent job. Michelle Obama actually does that thing, where I feel proud to be a lady here. That does not happen a whole bunch, but, right now, I feel really happy. Nice.
For whatever it's worth, I'm happy you're a lady too.
I usually dont' stand up and whoo and clap at my TV screen like a crazy person, but I did after her speech. Wife: "Are you crying??" Me: "…..No!…."
I hope she loves you for that.
Even Maddow is giving up the "Oh my god" for Michelle.
I'm a big fan of your avatar, and all things Little Face Mitt.
I love Little Face Mitt!!
That might be the best speech I've ever heard.
And that was an awesome speech; helped wash out the bad taste all the hate and fear on display last week.
Holy shit. I just switched the radio to C-SPAN after the Nationals beat the Cubs, and Michelle Obama hit it out of the fucking park.
Even Wolfie on CNN said she hit a "grand slam." He usually saves his sports analogies for the war room.
also: republicans can't touch our signs.
They were all spell checked by teachers.
Unfortunately, probably unemployed teachers…
Not that I care, but David Brooks calling it "a genius of a speech."
Yeah, but with a but….
Really? did Mark Shields slip something in his coffee?
I'm tearing -up just reading all y'alls comments.
Okay, maybe it's the salsa.
For me salsa and wine. Screw Dukan diet. This is OUR time.
When Michelle and Barack first got together it must have been a close thing the cosmos didn't go kablooie from the overpowering awesomeness.
And the National Examiner persists in claiming they're on the verge of divorce. (When they're not claiming Bat Boy is their son.) Seriously, people have to read that headline while they're standing in line at the supermarket.
I do. I have. Funny, too. I am sure the Repugs have spent millions of dollars on trying to find dirt on either one or both. Have to hand it to the Enquirer, though, for the Edwards thing.
DNC has better-looking Christians.
DNC has better Christians.
Do you mean like real Christians, those who respect and acknowledge other people's religion, those who don't cram their own religion down other people's throat?
DNC is better-looking.
Less creepy-looking Veterans of Foreign Wars, too.
Are you better-off than one hour ago?
Yes, in fact I am. I startin' to feel hopey and changey again.
Now that you mention it…. yes.
Every one of those delegates is gonna get so very laid tonight.
There's already a line to do the Castro brothers.
Me first. From Texas. Have lived in San Antonio. Ergo.
Democrats always make persuasive arguments.Feel free to cut in.
Lawrence O'Donnell looks like he just came in his pants.
Gross, but upfisted…..
I feel dirty.
Ok, where's Ken Layne to bring us all back down from that?
Drones and War On Drugs and Empty Houses Yet Homeless People.
Did that fix your Ken Layne itch?
None of it matters because of the Mayan calendar.
Yeah, that did it. Sigh.
"exurban big-box sprawl wasteland nightmare"
Somewhere, Michelle Malkin just had a coronary.
Can the heartless have those?
I am so sure you are right that I will petition the Internet Authority to have my comment removed from the web.
Hello. Cheney.
Don't tease me…you set off a couple of my google alerts.
Loved the tears in her eyes. A great, genuine speech.
Prayers; boring and pointless. We don't need this.
Not on PBS-went to the commentators
Yep. Brooks made himself say nice things about Michelle.
I'm with you on that. It's nice to see some folks use their faith as a vehicle of love and friendship. Religion, though, is neither a prerequisite for nor a guarantee of morality. :/
And pushing faith as a virtue and doubt as a vice always pisses me off, even from a Dem. Well at least the prayer-giving lady was cute.
I save my faith for the Red Sox. I use my doubt as a tool for my own humility and as a bullshit detector. I know how you feel.
Dude, love, peace, …… psychedelics even.
or a har-de-har-har, nod and a wink….if you know what I mean
Well, just like Obama's Medicare changes, it's NOT FOR YOU.
It's for the inoculation of less political, less enlightened — but no less American — folks who watched both conventions to try to figure out this election, against their dumbass cousins' and fathers-in-law's hooting that Obama and all the Democrats are anti-Christian and don't even allow anyone to say "God" in public any more.
I don't find your lack of faith disturbing. I am, though, glad that the DNC knows better than to share your estimate of the utility of prayer.
goosebumps, tears
barry better be bringing his A game.
You just know he will. And then, on to the debates.
WORK! WORK! WORK!
Be chatting up every one you know.
Wow. How does the benedictress do that constant simultaneous talking and smiling thing? Pageant training?
Michelle Obama 2016
I'd love to see her pull a Clinton and run for Senate when Barack's term is up.
HELL YEAH!!!
Oh hells yes.
well done dems. keep it up.
Ann Romney and her tuna fish: compare and contrast.
Low blow, although you're probably right about Ann.
Now, if only she looked like a First Lady…
HA!
Suck on that, Romney-Whores!
(God, I love our FLOTUS…)
EDIT: Aaaand my pants seem to have mysteriously disappeared…
Alright, Birther Media. Have fun goin' back to your roach-and-used-needles motels.
That's my fave comment of the night.
Aw, thanks Mike.
Is there any doubt Michelle Obama wrote that beautiful speech?
She nailed it.
She built it
I think Chuck Todd has a bit of a crush on our FLOTUS.
That's why he's only on camera from the waist up.
What straight man, or gay woman, doesn't?
Hell, I'M gay, and I love the woman!
I'm Straight and I love her- I got to wave to her once as she returned to the WH from donating her inaugural gown to the Smithsonian but as it was through tinted glass- she couldn't see how I am her biggest fan with tears in my eyes- just because she was being driven past me
She forgot to screech "I LOVE WOMEN!!!". That's gonna cost them.
And she forgot to express her disdain and contempt for all the little people.
Are you speaking of YOU PEOPLE?
I have to say that Michelle Obama's speech was the best political speech I've seen in a very long time. Just brilliant.
It amazes me, even though I know better, that Michelle Obama is the exact polar opposite of the awful meme that the right wing has carefully crafted for her.
She's white?
Well, not quite, but she's no New Yorker Magazine cover either.
I thought about that over and over tonight. She's an Angry Black Woman. Riiiiight.
Patience, young Jedi…
Rachael Maddow says now the right wing media is going to have to back off Michelle Obama. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Maybe pigs will come a-flyin' out of their arses.
Compare and contrast: the lovin' Michelle and Ann will be gettin' tonight.
Sadly, President Obama is in DC this evening. http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/09/obama-…
The kids these days have some ways around that.
I'm sure he gave her an "I love you, honey and thanks for a great job" phone call. And maybe some kisses over the phone too!
You know. What goes around, does come around?
I've just switched on an MSNBC feed; Chris Matthews sounds like he wants to gay marry Julian Castro.
Even Chris Matthews can't buzz kill this evening.
Sure, sure, all you KoolAid drinkers… but how does this affect Sarah Palin?
Who?
Ann Romney still loves her.
OMG….I love Michelle Obama. That last time I cried like that was when Spock "died" in Wrath of Khan.
"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."
Barbara…don't get me started. Then I think of the kirk and spock doing the vulcan sign on the glass. Ok Here I go.
Come to mommy. I will hold you until the awfulness goes away.
What always gets me is how Spock straightens and pulls down his jacket when he stands up.
(Sorry.)
It's a vulcan thing.
"I have been, and always shall be, your friend."
Don't forget(I had it up here for a day once)- my facebook photo is me and Nimoy. Because like Sarah Palin, this thread should be about me- and Nimoy
Dumpster dived toaster kicks empty chair's ass
Ann Romney dumpster dives at restaurants, looking for receipts for tax deductions.
Okay, it's 11:23 EDT. Which of the Wonkette editorial staff was the first to throw up?
Michelle vs. Ann
We The People vs. "You People"
Brilliant!
Ooh, that's got to go on bumper stickers.
Spare us you and Arianna's pillow talk, Fineman.
what a buzzkill.
Nate Silver's numbers just keep looking more awesome. Is this dude just getting our hopes up?
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/
Numbers have a liberal bias.
Uh oh, Mitt.
Shorter DNC: People are people, too, my friend.
The only remaining question is:
Will FLOTUS' speech tonight have higher ratings than Honey Boo-Boo?
Luke Russert: Pure class
Luke RussertVerified
@LukeRussert
Mrs. #Obama getting teary eyed talking about opportunity for children. Something she has in common with Boehner.
Yes, Boehner will weep again when Nancy takes back the goddam gavel.
edit: Luke sucks ass. Also.
I had to look up who this Luke Russert person is. A very impressive resume of never having had a real job in his life.
Seriously? Is he becoming the "Woody at Cheers" of MSNBC? Because that's fuckin' dumb. The boy's gonna get an easy-to-parody reputation if somebody doesn't buy him a clue.
They finally bought him a haircut … what else d'ya want?
Michael Steele is praising Michelle Obama's speech; he's going off script and being honest again.
He was a real sad sack on Jon Stewart last week. I almost felt sorry for him. He also bragged about his awesome success for the American Fascism Party before he got shitcanned.
They were also both fapping over how Michelle looked, too, which isn't bad except that they are on national television doing it and looked like dirty, old men.
Remind me again, Matthews, why do you have Michael Steele on during both conventions?
Oh, and thanks Jesse!
If tonite's speeches/presentations represented a theme from the Left that we are a diverse loving family, communites within the community of this Country…then I hope tomorrow night they go on full attack–with a spine–and showcase the Right as a vindictive, fearful, divisive, hate-filled Gated Community.
MSNBC's pundit panel is boring without that crazy mick Buchanan.
They're all afraid to talk about the thrill they had up their legs.
I've been present at some great political speeches, but the First Lady's speech tonight was the best I've ever heard. It didn't just define her husband, but defined what Americans should aspire to be. It reminded us of what we should do for each other in troubled times and inspired us to go do it. That's why it's a great speech. This is what leaders do. Not just tell you what needs to be done and order you to do it, but inspire you to do it, no matter what the cost. Just wonderful!
1000% Agreement. IT WAS THE FUCKING GREATEST!!!
I now want to start a Michelle Obama religion, maybe more like one of them Buddhist type deals where you can still be religious or atheist and join.
It will be explicitly say that she is not divine. Just that she can talk about people coming together, or her own life story, and make you FEEL divine.
I'm only slightly exaggerating… Fuck! I'm not even exaggerating.
Chuckle.
Where were the people with the muskets and the tri-cornered hats? I thought they were the REAL Amurrica. Shouldn't they have been their applauding OUR First Lady?
They were too busy over in Amercia.
No surprise, since they're Morans who should get a brain!
I LOVE that picture with all my heart.
Ted Strickland is pissed off and he doesn't care who knows it!
Seriously folks – Michele Obama is the wind beneath Barack's wings! I love this woman. Outstanding speech, fucking nailed it.
Does Debbie Wasserman-Schultz look great tonight or what?
Lightened the hair, lost some weight, great makeup. Fapfapfapfap.
WHOA, what happened to Debbie Wasserman Schultz?! Is she trying to make Allen West explode with conflicted disdain and attraction?
Okay, when Michelle Obama walked off stage, I….uh….I….what was I saying again?…
Once again, the GOP has succeeded in their evil scheme of making the Democratic Party seem inclusive, aspirational and fun.
I didn't get to watch too much, was outside working after the sun went down due to ungodly hot here in the desert, but I managed to listen on c-span radio. I just wanted to say that I've never been more in love with FLOTUS than I am tonight. What a fine speech, what a fine woman…
Christine Quinn on MSNBC to tell us what Bloomberg is thinking.
yes wonkette michelle did stop time. now please mrs flotus stop making men weep. its just bad form.
Damn, can't wait to hear the Big Dog. Table was really set tonight.
I'd still vote for him again.
oh and just to double post, i don't want to comb through 8 pages to find out if anyone pointed out that ledbetter is from alabama, and YES there is a BIG. DIFFERENCE.
No, people said she was from Texas and had a Texas accent. You know, you southerners all sound alike to us east coast liberal elitists. I think Texas has dentists- is that the difference?
When I heard the remarks about her Texas accent I could hear the heads exploding in Alabama all the way up here in Illinois.
Gen. JC Christian, Patriot compiles moronic scumbag comments from Glenn Beck's "Blaze" about Ms. Obama's speech so you don't have to… http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2012/09/patriots-e…
It's so funny to me to watch the Republican base embrace colonialism as a thing simply because they heard Obama was against it. Also fucking scary.
I really hope the DNC brings Betty White in to rant at a empty bain capital boardroom chair.
Meanwhile, the folks over at Free Republic are (again) busy making plans for a new civil war. It will start when The Blacks riot out of control after their Food Stamps EBT cards stop working. (yes, yes, we know that 70% of food stamp recipients are white)…
May or may not do a full post on this. Right now, just noting it because the stupid is so intense.
We will have to Savagely Mock these people eventually. Why not now?
Why am I thinking of Manson now? oh right, 'cuase that loon thought the same sort of stuff.
Uh huh. Not only that, he was looking forward to it. Just like these people.
Don't need a war- let's pick a place for them where they "can do it themselves" w/o gov't help. In 2 months or less- they will become the Road.
After reading most of that crap I recommend that the writing you do start with "Dear FBI Director Mueller:"
Holy crap — I just watched Michelle's speech here and I have to say — I don't envy that Barack Obama fella who has to follow that act. Holy shit — last week Ann was all "we were so poor we ate on an ironing board that stood on two piles of blue-chip stocks," and today Michelle's all My husband and me were poor because we thought shit was wrong and were trying to fix it."
Last week it was all "Ha ha, you people have had the wheel long enough — now give it to us and get in the back seat where you belong. That cliff is getting away." And just now Michelle was all Jimmy Stewart and Cesar Chavez giving a sunrise sermon about the greatness of America and it's not even a paean to the avaricious, coal-hoarding, padlock-the-exits stingy fuckin' sweatshop slumlords who cost this country a fuckin' arm and a leg — it's about the fuckin' dignity of the fuckin' American citizen trying to make life better for his children.
And holy shit, that's so much better than checking off a bunch of rhetorical highlights. Michelle got at the reasons America was made by the American people — and why that's best when it includes all of us.
Tomorrow night, it's Big Dog. Bill Clinton speaks.
I thought tonight was Bill's night?
Yes, I'm tired from staying up late watching the convention and was still thinking in the mindset of last night. I meant to say Next, it's Big Dog.
I'm going to need a nap after work. lol
And just when I thought the 2 party dinosaur system was becoming irrelevant…… 9:22 PM changed my entire worldview.
#2legit2quit
Well, I was all wrapped up in a Kurt Wallander book last night and never managed to turn on the TV, but I'm glad to hear the mayor wowed the crowd.
I watched from 6:00 until closing on C-Span. Ms Curley has seen a piece about Ryan Case earlier discussing his family's inability to afford health care. It should be hammered home and not just suggested. Ann Romney promoted her battle with MS. Ryan Case's mother died from it. Ms. Romney got all the health care she could and a horse. Ms. Case could not afford the drugs needed to prolong her life.
I assume, by sheer lack of comments(imperical non-data?), that this was a satisfying opening night?
Well the rain started after I got in the house. I had an Italian Sub from Jersey Mike's. The cat didn't miss the litter box, so what more can you ask for?
I've been in such a funk lately, I've barely even lurked here for days, let alone mustered enough snark to comment. BUT, after hearing Michelle's speech last night, I experienced actual human emotions again. I was wowed, and am goose-bumply all over just thinking about it.
How do we get her on the ticket for 2016?
Wouldn't that be cool? She'd be a good President.
She has studied under the best after all (yay, I got my snark back!).
Exciting! Reading around the internet it seems like all glowing reviews for MichelLe and the whole tone of the convention- quite different from the usual ho-hum "where's the beef?," and hopefully energizing for the apathetic voters out there.
Go Dems!!! May the People overpower the Money Machine.
The important thing is, will our balloon drop be better than theirs?
Which one was Vaggatarian Boo Boo?
and deregulated rat feces.
The Former Mr. Tessie used to say he wished they would sell adult men's clothes with tags to match them, like Grrrr-animals kids clothing.
My ex is color blind, and I often sincerely wished that was an option for him.
I think we have a winner, ladies and germs…
We kill 'em all, SullivanSt: women, brown people, white people, black people, mentally disabled. We are equal opportunity when it comes to the death penalty.
Well, not exactly equal, but yes, you do have a point there.
Of course, Jan Brewer hates women too, at least if her judicial appointments are any indication.
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