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This is so wrong... Speaking as somebody living in the first country that allowed gay marriage I can say that it's just so stupid to oppose. The second gay marriage is enacted it starts disappearing as an issue. It becomes almost universally excepted by everybody in that community. It's all bigotry and fear of the unknown.
Marriage here since the adoption of gay marriage has never been stronger. After years of a declining marriage rate, the year that it was adopted showed an increase of marriage several times more then that of the gays couples actually tying the knot.
And the vast majority of people that hold the position that a marriage is a god sanctified union see it in action after a few years realize that the civil sanctified marriage doesn't threaten their marriage or their church sanctified doctrine of marriage. All it does is make a lot of normal regular folks very, very happy. Who then start living the quiet settled lives of married people that we allow everybody else.
This has been a repeated pattern in every country that adopted gay marriage, again and again. After one, two years of gay marriage everybody who isn't involved in planning one forgets that it is even there.
Prop 8 was reprehensible, divorcing these couples by force would be an abomination. Look at them, they had to work a whole lot harder then everybody else to get so far, they've earned it many times over. |
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| For who ever is still interested: |
[Nov. 17th, 2008|11:37 pm] |
The real story behind the infamous Minnesota’s “car ballot” voting fraud scandal.
A whole lot of nothing blown up to gigantic proportions by talk radio hosts and political partisans. |
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| It's a meme! |
[Nov. 13th, 2008|07:01 pm] |
If you saw me in a police car, what would you think I got arrested for?
Answer me, then post to your own journal. |
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| The liberal media... |
[Oct. 28th, 2008|09:51 pm] |
This clip touches some very important points people should know:
But the points aren't related to the election. It´s all about the media.
This an affiliate of "liberal" ABC, not even Fox. And this is similar if ABC asked Palin to prove that McCain isn't a nazi facist for proposing a moderate increase to the defense budget...
Yes, that is exactly the level of moronic ignorance at display here.
Conservatives, please take note. I´m sure at other times your candidates or points of view are treated just the same as the liberal standpoints and candidates just were here.
When that happens, don´t blame it on the media being "leftwing", because those on the left have just as low an opinion of the media as you do. The media isn´t liberal, its just so grossly incompetent it as an institution needs to be taken behind the shed and given the old yeller treatment.
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| Looking back, |
[Sep. 6th, 2008|04:55 am] |
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Am I totally wrong here, or was the support from the people at the Republican convention directly related to how much a particular thing will piss off Democrats or not? |
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| Chuck Todd, Mike Murphy and Peggy Noonan on Palin |
[Sep. 3rd, 2008|11:25 pm] |
Transcript
Chuck Todd: Mike Murphy, lots of free advice, we'll see if Steve Schmidt and the boys were watching. We'll find out on your blackberry. Tonight voters will get their chance to hear from Sarah Palin and she will get the chance to show voters she's the right woman for the job Up next, one man who's already convinced and he'll us why Gov. Jon Huntsman.
(cut away)
Peggy Noonan: Yeah.
Mike Murphy: You know, because I come out of the blue swing state governor world: Engler, Whitman, Tommy Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush. I mean, these guys -- this is how you win a Texas race, just run it up. And it's not gonna work. And --
PN: It's over.
MM: Still McCain can give a version of the Lieberman speech to do himself some good.
CT: I also think the Palin pick is insulting to Kay Bailey Hutchinson, too.
PN: Saw Kay this morning.
CT: Yeah, she's never looked comfortable about this --
MM: They're all bummed out.
CT: Yeah, I mean is she really the most qualified woman they could have turned to?
PN: The most qualified? No! I think they went for this -- excuse me-- political bullshit about narratives --
CT: Yeah they went to a narrative.
MM: I totally agree.
PN: Every time the Republicans do that, because that's not where they live and it's not what they're good at, they blow it.
MM: You know what' sreally the worst thing about it? The greatness of McCain is no cynicism, and this is cynical.
CT: This is cynical, and as you called it, gimmicky.
MM: Yeah.
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Peggy Noonan and Mike Murphy are diehard republicans. And they show why the media is reacting as they are to Palin. Not because they are chauvinistic or want the Democrats to win, but because they feel betrayed by their friend McCain and she just lost him the race.
They want McCain to win. They like McCain, they go to barbeques at his houses. And now he has betrayed them and fucked away his chances by chosing a nobody who turns out to carry all this dirt with her as well. And he did it only because he though it would make a good narrative.
Well they can't undo it, but they can sure show her. All this talk about how it is a democratic class war based in their leftie chauvinism is beyond stupid. She crashed the party and it wasn't her party to crash. And now they're not pulling their punches as much as they normally would. After all, the liberal media is anything but liberal.
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| Just an interesting aside: |
[Sep. 3rd, 2008|08:22 am] |
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Currently the Republicans have praised Bill and Hillary Clinton more then they have Bush & Cheney. |
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| More on Palin. |
[Aug. 30th, 2008|06:22 am] |
The Alaska State Senate President Lyda Green, republican. on Sarah Palin
"She's not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president? said Green, a Republican from Palin's hometown of Wasilla. "Look at what she's done to this state. What would she do to the nation?"
And others:
"House Speaker John Harris, a Republican from Valdez, was also astonished at the news. He didn't want to get into the issue of her qualifications.
"She's old enough," Harris said. "She's a U.S. citizen."
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Anchorage Democratic Sen. Hollis French said it's a huge mistake by McCain and "reflects very, very badly on his judgment."
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Alaska Democratic Party chairwoman Patti Higgins, attending her party's national convention in Denver, said she was shocked to hear the news this morning.
"In this very competitive election for them to go pick somebody who is ... under a cloud of suspicion, who is under investigation for abuse of power. It just sounds like a pretty slow start to me," Higgins said.
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"We need a vice president who can step in if, God forbid, something happened to John McCain," Higgins said. "I don't think she's someone who is ready for that 3 a.m. phone call."
Of course it's also important that not all were negative about the chose of their Governor:
"the Republican Party of Alaska said it's 100 percent behind Palin"
[Senator Ted] Stevens put out a statement saying that "it's a great day for the nation and Alaskans."
Attorney General Talis Colberg, a Palin appointee, said McCain's announcement left him with "a mixed set of emotions, kind of an odd sense of Alaska nationalism or pride."
But it is clear that the of Sarah Palin is hardly a case of good judgement. She is certainly no Biden. And McCain no Obama when it comes to judgement or putting the country first over electoral gain. |
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| Chosing a VP |
[Aug. 30th, 2008|05:36 am] |
The first test of a president is not after he is sworn in but while he is still a candidate.
The single thing, the only thing a vice president has to be able to do is step up and
replace the president in case he is incapacitated or dead. And in that time at need...
Who do you want answering the phones at 3am?
Joe Biden or Sarah Palin?
What does these picks tell us about the judgement of Barack Obama and John McCain
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| McCain choses Sarah Palin as VP |
[Aug. 29th, 2008|11:11 pm] |
After a 24 years long search the Republicans finally found their Geraldine Ferraro.
It's a prettier but less qualified Dan Quayle. |
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| Liveblogging the convention Day 4.2 |
[Aug. 29th, 2008|02:11 am] |
20.03 Thank got that horrendous torture is over. But now it's Mark Udall, cousin of the Udall we had last time. This Udall is also a future senator like his cousin but from Colorado so he gets the nice spot while his cousin got the shaft. Haha!! Tom Udall U suksors!
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20.07 And it's Governor Tim Kaine of Virginia. A runner up VP candidate, not chosen because he was to boring and a bit of a failure in Virginia. And he's hitting the convention talking points of "we likey the latino's, the military and the faithy" very hard. And yes you're not missing much. He's boring and very very Faithy. But they cheered him anyway so either I have some a standards or they really really have no taste.
I vote for both.
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20.15 It's Bill Richardson! He's cool because he's got a beard. He's mention the latino bit and hitting McCain on the economy. Boom! in between his attacks he got the veteran/military benefits talk point is out of the way. Obama is better then McCain, Biden rocks as well, unlike Cheney. Obama will respect the constitution, and women rights.
We likey McCains personal courage, we just thinky he's shity on governing.
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20.24 definitely not a funky musical intermezzo. And Whitey is collectively performing Swan lake in the tradition of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov. Unfortunately the music is crap pop rock so they still look stupid.
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20.30 FUNKY MUSIC TIME!! It's Stevie Wonder!
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20.44 It's nobel peace prize winner and former vice-president Al Gore, Bitches! And the crowd goes wild!
8 years ago people said that there wasn't much difference between the two candidates. Yeah, how did that work out? McCain is Bush recycled, Biden rules and the climate is completely fucked. Obama is the future. Obama is also Lincoln.
Overall not a bad speech, but not as good as expected.
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21.05 Musical intermezzo. Nut funky but America the beautiful. So you won't here me complaining.
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21.11 Susan Eisenhower. Daughter of, and another ex-republican. I think she'll say that Barack was like Ike. Any way I'm taking a small break because I'm hungry and thirsty.
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21.15 WTF?!? I step away for one second and they're holding a parade of generals and admirals? With General CLARK?!?
But they're letting another general speak, so it's clear that Obama still doesn't like Clark. The crowd did though when he walked on stage.
Maj. Gen. J. Gration. speech isn't half bad. Strong visuals this.
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21.23 ITS JOE BIDEN! WHOOT! He's hitting the fact that the Dems are the party of the average Joe. And introduces the next part that consists of all "real Americans" Nice walk on part, and good use of him by the campaign.
21.25 Segment where various ordinary citizens testifying about why they will vote for Obama. Or as I call it; BREAK TIME!
Heh, Some of these are actually quite good. At least better then the average politician we've seen so far. Not Boring!!
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21.45 Ray Rivera has a quick walk on thanking people for signing up to support the campaign. And thanks people to make the largest acceptance speech in the history of the US possible
A pan of the stadium shows a incredible amount of people. Seeing how this is excluding a lot of the people who cued for miles only to not be allowed in the stadium this should cause serious worry for all Republican strategists, certainly combined with McCains reported trouble getting a crowd sizeable enough for his VP announcement.
The enthusiasm gap is not as much a gap as a chasm.
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21.50 Funky music time! And surprise they found a whitey that can dance! the exception that proves the rule I guess.
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21.57 Dick Durbin senior senator of Illinois, introduces Obama. Most important point in his speech is that Obama inspires people, and has best judgement. Change.
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22.02 Obama Biography Video time.
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22.12 Barack Obama time. No live blogging, I'm first going to watch it myself without have to write about it.
23.12 Yep it was a good speech. Go watch it yourself I'd say.
I'll do a serious analysis about the whole convention later. Complete with highlights.
Goodnight/Goodmorning... |
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| Liveblogging the convention Day 4.1 |
[Aug. 28th, 2008|11:40 pm] |
17.40 What? they started already? Anyway. A bunch of military speakers. The standard set of talking points regarding the military. We've heard this before. And it was old then.
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Anyway they're over at the INVESCO Field. Which looks like they're still putting up the finishing touches. No doubt it will be very impressive as soon as it's filled up. And it makes me wonder how the attacks from the GOP that he's to popular and celerity like will be perceived. I mean, since when is being liked by the average American a negative?
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17.49 A set of Latino speakers. Giving the the standard set of talking points regarding Latino voters. We've heard this before. And it was old then.
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17.53 David Plouffe, Obama's campaign manager thanking the volunteers the work already done and asking them to keep up the good job.
17.57 Ray Rivera, Colorado, state director. Same as David Plouffe.
18.00 A congresswomen whose name I didn't get.
There is a stiff wind in the stadium which makes the flags move a bit, but also gets picked up by the microphone. The natural lighting is an definite improvement. But the frontal camera angle isn't good to low.
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18.04 Ah it's Nancy. Now they're really starting officially. Opening Ceremony with a dedication by a rabbi, a young lady who won gold at the Olympics. And a an truly awful rendition of the national anthem by somebody from broadway.
The low hanging sun seems to be directly shining into the speakers eyes. Let's hope that's not the case for them.
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18.15 Elbra Wedgeworth, another campaign worker. God, I get so bored by all those lists of shout outs to things that either have been mentioned already or are extremely boring if you're not part of the thing getting the shout out.
18.20 Oh, God... There is a whole group of people waiting to deliver their own very important list of things deserving a shout out. I'm not going to bother to list them. Not drunk enough. In fact I haven't even begun drinking yet. Why do they do this to me? Why?
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18.26 All resolutions are now disposed off? GOOD! Time for Bill Ritter, Colorado Governor; Didn't we do good? COLORADO IZ BESTEZ STATE EVÊR! BARACK BESTEZ NOMINEE EVÊR! MCCAIN IS MCWRONG! But all that delivered boringly.
18.33 It's obviously Colorado hour! with your host Ed perlmutter representative of, you guessed, Colorado. And he wants us to imitate Kermit the Frog and be green.
Wait, if McCain chooses Lieberman wouldn't they be a spitting image of Waldorf and Stadler only less lifelike?
18.37 More Colorado. More representatives. How many representatives do they actually have? John Salazar just proclaimed he's a rancher and Diana Degette remembers some guy called King who wasn't at all like Bush. unlike McCain. Who actually is just like Bush.
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18.43 A video introduction chairman Dean. Who is actually one of the better chairmen the party has had.
18.45 Dean turn at the mike. Early enough to make sure he gets ignored if he gaffes. And Dean starts by noting that he knows how many houses he owns. A flat speech. Enough red meat for the people but the public isn't very enthusiastic. That's what you get with an audience of 75.000 people that isn't warmed up yet. A somewhat flat speech doesn't cut it.
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18.53 A Not-really-that-Funky Musical Intermezzo on which Whitey shows his natural inaptitude for the art of dance.
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Tribute to Martin Luther King.
18.58 Rep John Lewis remembers his times with MLK and the civil right movement. And yes, Obama as the nominee is actually something quite special when looking at history.
19.07 Rev. Bernice King, Daughter of MLK. Introduces her brother Martin Luther King III
19.09 MLK III thinks his farther would be proud to see Obama nominated.
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19.15 Again a Not-really-that-Funky Musical Intermezzo on which Whitey shows his usual form
19.30 Djeez it's Will.I.AM!! With crap musical recording artist John Legend!!! With that god awful yes we can shit. and the crowd likes it!
they really want me to off myself don't they?
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| Liveblogging the convention day 3.4 |
[Aug. 28th, 2008|03:46 am] |
21.47 Lt gen. Claudia Kennedy: The first/only woman 3 star general. A biography speech about Obama. A bit flat. Lots of attention on Obama as commander in chief. with emphasis on Obama as better on benefits for military personal.
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21.50 Rear admiral John Hudson: Makes a self depreciating "confession" about being a lifelong republican. But he's declares himself a democrat now.
A lot less boring then Jim leah. Hit the GOP on Torture, invasion of iraq, Katrina. Not boring, but no Jumping, pumping crowd working Kucinich either.
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I want more to make fun off! is that bad?
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21.57 Why is Robot Chet Edwards getting applause? Why?
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22.00-22.10 Commercial Time. Military rules! Military sometimes scared, Military sometimes resembles Tom Hanks.
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22.10 Tammy Duckworth? Why? didn't she lose her extremely winnable congress race in the most democratic year evêr after burning through 5 million that would have won the democrats 5 other seats if she just had any capabilities on the trail? Mheh.
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22.17 Joe Biden is being placed into nomination as Vice president by a very nice lady whose sister was the inspiration for Biden to push for the Violence Against Women Act.
22.20 Joe Biden is the Vice president nominee WHOOT!
BIDEN!
BIDEN!
BIDEN!
BIDEN!
WHOYAH!!!
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22.23 introduction video. With Jill & Joe Biden and Hopey Barack.
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22.25 Beau Biden, Current Delaware attorney General and future senator of Delaware: Dad was a great Dad, who wanted to give up his career for his sons. Always home for his sons.
Violence against women act.
Biden Crime Bill.
Asks the audience to "be there"for his Dad, Obama and the country.
20.30 Biden.
His father told him that a father is a success if his children turn out better then himself. Biden sees himself as a success. Really thinks the world of children and his wife Jill who is the only one who leaves him speechless and breathless.
Pokes fun at his reputation for wordiness. Promises to not be Cheney.
Thanks his mother, reminisces how she raised him. It's easy to see how important family is to him.
Sharp economic message. Obama gets it.
Gets the convention to applaud John McCain's personal heroism but slams his policies, hard. He's just calling him John while doing it. Works well. "More of the same" is the refrain.
It's very good to see how well Biden plays the to camera. He is working the audience at the convention floor as well as the audience at home.
Hits McCains foreign policy judgement hard and talks up Obama's. Uses his experience to declare Obama's judgement superior. THis was one of the reason why I though Biden would work very well with Obama. Glad to see I'm right.
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Aftermatch is brilliant.
Jill walks up and hugs Joe. tells there is a surprise guest...
And waiting in the wings was, of course, the head honcho himself; Barack Obama.
Ready to give props to Biden, his wife Michele, Hillary Clinton and Bill for all their speeches. A brilliant piece of stage craft.
After all that reconciliation how do top that? Go out on the tones of "we are family."
Well Good night/Good morning.
You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here. |
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| Liveblogging the convention day 3.3 |
[Aug. 28th, 2008|02:13 am] |
20.10 Whoa! Sen. Harry Reid is kinda a downer. Predicting the total collapse of the USA if we continue in the same vein. Which is bad enough, but djeez, you'd expect the person saying that to sound a bit less apathetic. It's like he's reading Miffy to his grandchildren.
For somebody with such a big message he sure is boring! He's very substantial on the issues but, dear god, he's as easy to fall asleep to as an chartered accountant talking about that time he had to add up a column that ran well onto the next page.
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20.20 Command Sergeant Major, U.S. Army (Ret) Michele S. Jones; Just won the name game.
It's clear the convention is all about showing that the Democrats really care about the Military, Hispanics and God (the Christian one, of course, not that heathen Muslim one). Mheh,
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20.25 Rep, Patrick "babyface" Murphy looks younger then me. God how I wasted my life. Luckily, I'm better looking.
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20.30 Madeline Albright. Former sec. of state is attacking McCain for being crap on Foreign policy. Go Madeline Albright! You're still not entertaining me but you're at least correct.
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20.37 Please welcome senator Evan Bayh of indiana. (Hiss! Boo!) The really bad part about his speech is that he's better then the people before him. (grrr). He's at least capable of creating a narrative and involving the audience. (The message: McCain is crap on foreign Policy) Finally a passable speech. But he's still a bit of a ponce.
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20.45 senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island: I had an awesome dad. (which is actually something that should have been Evan Bayh's message) Plus McCain sucks on foreign policy and Obama doesn't.
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20.52 Former senate minority leader Tom Daschle: Bush & Cheney destroyed our reputation, is responsible for failure and decline. And McCain will be responsible for more failure and decline. Obama and Biden will give us new direction. Will restore the USA as the beacon of hope and possibilities.
Is it me or are democrats actually growing some spine?
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20.57 Funky music time! Whitey still sucks at dancing.
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The democrats really suck at soundbites and there narrative is a bit scattered, but they are definitely improving on their previous performances.
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21.00 WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON TIME!!! He's being introduced. WHOOT!
Of course he's entering the stage on "Don't stop thinking about tomorrow" and huge applause. They love him as much as they ever did.
Let's just sit back and enjoy this one. My prediction? He's going to knock it out of the park and prove all those naysayers wrong.
21.01 still applauding.
21.02 still applauding.
21.03 still applauding.
21.04 still applauding.
21.05 Chanting. But he's got a single sentence in. applauding again.
21.06 He's giving props to biden. Campaign between the two extraordinary candidates gave so much heat that it increased global warming. He just promised that he'll do anything to get Obama elected. He's as charming as ever. He's giving a powerful endorsement here.
"Barack Obama is ready to be president of the united states
People all over the world have always been more impressed with the power of our example instead the examples of our power
21.25 Perfect speech. He came out swinging for Obama. Declared that Obama was like him in '92. Best speech so far this convention. extraordinary. Hit the Republicans hard on Economics and Foreign policy and made an excellent case for Obama. Hasn't left one angle untouched. I'll post an clip of his speech later.
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21.30 Beth Robinson, military wife: A extremely hot lady who probably makes her marine very happy. She's a bit nervous but she gives a very good speech. Best average Jane/Joe speech so far. Obama gave more attention and benefits to veterans and the military personal then McCain.
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21.35 John Kerry; Mheh, not a bad speech at all. Strong condemnation of torture. Candidate McCain/senator McCain is a flipflopper worse then Kerry. He's having fun using all those attacks they used on him on McCain now. praises Obama's judgement. Strongly worded condemnation of the attacks on Barack Obama. Very structured speech, well executed. Props for Barack's uncle who helped liberate Buchenwald. Lots of applause. It's actually touching to see this old man getting some spotlight.
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| Liveblogging the convention day 3.2 |
[Aug. 28th, 2008|12:54 am] |
18.54 Role call over! lets all go home and partây!! Eh, It's Schumer hugging the mike on the podium. ANTI CLIMAX!! Seeing that he just was besides Hillary on the floor that means that he had to sprint to get there on time. And that's the most interesting part of his speech. He's setting up the introduction to some senator hopefuls.
18.59 Tom Udall. the next senator from New Mexico. Wow, he's Boring!
19.03 Jeanne Shaheen. the next senator from New Hampshire. Wow, she's Boring!
19.05 Jeff Merkley. Not so likely to be the next senator from Oregon. And yes, Boring!
19.08 Tom Allen. Very unlikely to be the next senator from Maine. Run of the Mill.
Why can't they have more speakers like Kucinich. You can say a lot about him, but he could at least keep people interested for 5 minutes. Or at least give speakers enough time to actually say something outside "name, me good, opponent bad"
(Fun fact, in order to see if I spelled his name correctly I googled "hot wife politican" AND IT WORKED, which is actually quite sad)
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19.11 It's Mayor Daley, Son of the notorious Daley of '68. Inheritor of the Chicago Machine. Blah. Name should be purged from the Democratic parties history.
19.16 It's ROBERT WEXLER! I like that guy. But unfortunately he's on message.
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19.20 Nancy Pelosi and the all women Gang. The majority of delegates are women, and this "their convention." Hahaha, no.
Still the Democratic party is obviously a far, far better place for women then the republican party.
And now a couple of dozen speeches by elected women. I'm taking this time to get something to eat. The message is that McCain is terrible on equality and women's right. And he is.
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19.30 -19.40 Speakers I ignored because I was hungry. didn't miss anything.
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19.40 Rep. James Clyburn: Veterans are good people. And the greatest generation was the goodest. (If you like immature humour check what my spellings checker wanted to turn Clyburn into. BAD FIREFOX!)
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19.47 Manuel Diaz, Miama mayor,Alliteration king of the convention: We really want the Hispanic vote.
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19.51 Jay Rockefeller. Senator West Virginia: "We're also very patriotic, and religious. Also we can also scare you just as good as the Republicans. Basically I've copied all the Republican talking points, and changed Republican into Democrat, and Democrat into Republican. Haha! aren't I clever? And yes I suck and can't deliver a speech. But I got lots more speaking time then average even though nobody would've minded if I just buggered off after the first minute, so suck on that."
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20.00 I'm opening a bottle of wine. The cheap stuff.
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20.02 "please welcome Grammy winning recording artist Melissa Etheridge" O.k. that does is, I'm opening two bottles of wine now.
"All we are saying is "Give peace a chance"" All I'm saying is: Emil Jones Jr. Where are you when we need you? Surely you, of all people wouldn't stand for this?
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| Liveblogging the convention day 3.1 |
[Aug. 27th, 2008|11:27 pm] |
17.15 IT'S STARTED! Nancy Pelosi just explained that first there will be a nomination round for both candidates for the nomination and then a roll call. My hunch is that it'll be that young wippersnapper Obama that will win. BUT YOU NEVER KNOW!!! (actually we do. Seriously, it's Obama.)
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17.20 Annd Hillary is nominated first, It's pander time! 1 regular Joe's & 2 Jane's specially chosen to represent as much diversity as possible just nominated Clinton. They get polite applause. Nobody is looking for a fight here. Quick and painless.
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17.30 And it's Obama time... The place is several times more enthusiastic for Obama then for Clinton. Who would have thought that? Well everybody outside the media of course, but outside "everybody outside the media" who would have thought it?
And regular Joe time. A Iraq veteran just nomination him. Who didn't completely bore me but I get the message. Next up is Ken Salazar! who's not an actual "real person" but a politican! how daring!
17.40 And it gets better now! It's Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Obama got actual POLITICIANS! nominating him, how daring and elitist! I mean, politicians on stage at a political convention! the NERVE!
But, she's kind of cute. We'll forgive Barry for
17.45 Rep. Arthur Davis from Alabama is the last one. I like the accent.
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Roll Call time!! WITH MENTION OF THEIR STATE GIMMICK!
ALABAMA (one of the most diverse delegation)
48 Obama - 5 Clinton
ALASKA (the new blue state)
15 Obama - 3 Clinton
American Samoa (The Gibberish speaking state)
9 Obama - 0 Clinton
Arizona (To boring to have a gimmick)
40 Obama 27 Clinton
Arkansas (We like Clinton!! She adopted us, But for unity sake we wont vote for her! Aren't we the coolest kid in class?)
47 Obama - ZERO Clinton
California (We're really BIG! And passes!)
NO VOTES YET!! WE'RE MAKING SURE OBAMA WILL WIN JUST IN CASE WHOOT
Colorado (WE HAVE SOMEBODY WHO CAN DRONE)
55 Obama - 15 Clinton
Connecticut (The first constitution state)
38 Obama - 21 Clinton
Delaware (The first state! And we've got BIDEN!! We rule!)
21 Obama - 0 Clinton
Democrats Abroad (We don't live in the USA but we're still proud of the US! REALLY!!)
8.5 Obama - 2.5 Clinton
District of Columbia (not being actually being represented SUCKS)
43 Obama - 7 Clinton
Florida (We got 211 FULL VOTES, Suck on that rules Commission!)
166 Obama - 51 Clinton - 1 Abstention
Georgia (We had important people in the past!)
82 Obama - 18 Clinton
Guam (Being a colony sucks a bit - can have self-determination now?)
4 Obama - 3 Clinton
Hawaii (Obama was born here bitches!)
26 Obama - 1 Clinton
Idaho (Proud home of the cootney? is that something to be proud of?)
20 Obama - 3 Clinton
Illinois passes, because Clinton is secretly winning!!
Indiana (I've got nothing)
75 Obama - 6 Clinton
Iowa (We rulez your electionz)
48 Obama - 9 Clinton
Kansas (Birth place of the grandparents of Obama! And his mother lives here to!!)
34 Obama - 6 Clinton
Kentucky (Turning The Bluegrass Blue)
36 Obama - 24 Clinton
Louisiana (Home of Gumbo and Katrina)
43 Obama - 7 Clinton
Maine (The sun comes up here first and we've got that as our, whatever, privilege. ACTUAL QUOTE!!)
24 Obama - 8 Clinton
Maryland (If things suck you all help us! We're home of the brave! Star spangled banner was us baby!)
94 Obama - 6 Clinton
Massachusetts (We've got other politicians outside the Kennedy's but we don't really care about them. And we've got gay marriage! WHOOT FOR US!)
65 Obama - 52 Clinton
Michigan (We hate Nafta & Cafta, protectionism rules)
125 Obama - 27 Clinton
Minnesota (some people vote here!)
78 Obama - 8 Clinton
Mississippi (We don't feel the need to be original so: Blues)
33 Obama - 8 Clinton
Missouri (Blablabla, Bellwether, Show me Blablabla)
84? Obama - 6 Clinton
Montana (Doesn't Schweitzer Rules? And also; Cattle!)
18 Obama - 7 Clinton
Nebraska (We've got nothing to be really proud of)
28 Obama - 3 Clinton
Nevada (We're relevant! Relevant!!)
25 Obama - 8 Clinton
New Hampshire (First primary won by a woman, but we're giving our votes to a man! aren't we bitches?)
30 Obama - ZERO Clinton
New Jersey (Home of Corzine and we're also on the unity ticket!)
127 Obama - 0 Clinton
New Mexico (We've got so many Hispanics, And they're Democrats! Suck on that republicans YIELDS TO ILLINOIS!)
Illinois (Home of OBAMA!! YIELDS TO NEW YORK!)
New York (We've got so many important people but we're the HOME OF CLINTON!!)
Doing the honors... Hillary!!
Fake out!! I didn't want a role call anyways !!... NOMINATION BY ACCLIMATION! HAHA!! SUCKERS!!! OBAMA is dâh man!!!!
According to Nancy, Barack Obama accepts!!!!! WHOOOOTTT!! |
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| Liveblogging the convention Day 2 part 1 of 1 |
[Aug. 26th, 2008|10:33 pm] |
I have to actually get up in the early morning. So alas no Live Blogging today. Expect me to return in my full lack of glory tomorrow and the day after.
Tomorrow I'll gladly offer up my sanity and my complete night rest in order to tell that yes, you didn't really miss anything by not watching. But if you really want the closest alternative to reading me, just say BORING! after each speaker you've never heard off. And "Well, what would've you expected then?" after Clinton and you're set.
Happy watching! |
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| Live blogging the convention. VII |
[Aug. 26th, 2008|03:46 am] |
21.45 And now! Miguel Del Valle! a city clerk of Chigaco! = The organizers are idiots. Nothing bad about the person himself, he's obviously aware that he's a dud after Kennedy. It's not fair to him and he's not even half as boring as all those before Kennedy, and he's really trying but he's still boring. And that after Uncle Teddy. IDIOTS!
21.52 Candi Schieder an Iowa delegate. She even has a good narrative! a inspiring life story, but she's speaking 10 minutes after Kennedy. Why do this to your speakers!
21.55 Jerry Kellman, Chigago organizer. The guy who hired Obama as a community organizer. Detailing Obama's work. The speech isn't that even that bad, but they just lost me entirely. The idea of him speaking is interesting. All valiant efforts but it all fell flat.
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22.00 Senator Tom Harking from Iowa with an interpretor. Tom Harking who is speechifing in sign language, Cool. Crazy old coot, Well, they've got me back. And after a minute we discover he can actually talk as well. He's introducing Jim Leach. For who didn't know (E.A. Almost everybody) was an influential representative and did a lot successful things. Surprise twist? he's republican. The democrats got themselves a non absurd version of Lieberman/Zell Miller!
22.05 But besides being a republican Jim leach is also boring. Zell Miller and Lieberman might be annoying crazy warmongers, there not boring. Suicide inducing stupid perhaps, but not boring. A small resurgence when Jim just gave props to Al Gore! Jim is sounding perfectly sensible but saying nothing any Democrat hasn't said dozens of times before.
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22.10 Austin Esposito, son of Claire McCaskill and all american boytm introduces his mother with his very blond sisters.He calls upon us to be part of Obama text network. Sisters do nothing but but look pretty and looking all american.
22.15 Claire McCaskill actually does a good job speeching and being "all American". And Obama is also "all American" as McCain probably also is. But his policies aren't right for America.
22.21 This is actually a good attack speech on McCain, the actual first and delivered with a very chipper tone. It works for me. Not Boring! Good speech, second one this evening.
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22.24 Michelle Obama introduction video. Which tels us how accomplished she is and how much she cares. Her brother Craig takes it from there and tells us how much she liked the Brady Bunch and how cool their parents were. I like him. He's earnest and unpolished but proud of his family and sis. And Obama is confident but not cocky.
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22.33 The police just arrested some persons who were in connection with a threat at the Democratic National Convention. Why on earth does the police hold a press conference directly opposite the headliner? The threat doesn't seem that urgent. weird. It was a plot to kill Obama at his acceptance speech apparently. Anyway, props for the police for doing a good job.
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22.36 It's Michelle Obama time. She's a very good speaker, Good speech. Strong economic message. It's about allowing people lifting themselves up. She gives props to Biden as a person who shares their ideals in that and always fought for people such as that. Extra points for her.
She really loves her man and it shows trough. She's making a good case for her husband. Wonderful speech. She just hit it out of the park. Must see for everybody who has only heard from her overblown scandals. And it end on the musical tones of "isn't she lovely isn't she wonderful. Heh..
22.55 Barack show up via television link by the Gerardo family in Kansas. And showers his lady with adulation. His youngest daughter is just stealing his show though by constantly interrupting him and being cute.
Perfect ending.
23.00 Don miller ends the day by leading into prayer. They've really emphasized the religious details over the entire evening. Meh, as a godless heathen I wouldn't mind if they dialed that part down a little. But he could be worse.
23.01 Sebelius as her role of chairman of this convention asks for a motion to suspend the convention till tomorrow. It's worth noting that this is an actual meeting. Conventions are actually there to decide the future course of the party for the next 4 years. The fact that it's also a giant commercial for the nominee is actually secondary, officially.
Yeah I know. Hard to imagine isn't it?
Well good night or good morning. |
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| Live blogging the convention, part VI |
[Aug. 26th, 2008|02:39 am] |
20.35 A speech of Maya Soetoro-NG, A half sister of Obama. He's got a lot of half sisters and brothers hasn't he?
20.40 and she's gone. Time for Jesse Jackson Jr. Who isn't as interesting as his father. But he did remark how special it is that Obama was there 4 years ago at the convention as a keynote speaker and now returns as the nominee. And he's actually right.
20.45 lot's of blatter about how the establishment didn't know what to do with Obama as a candidate. I call Bullshit. The establishment always liked Obama.
20.48 Gives props to his father and the leaders from that generation. Why didn't they give his father a spot? He's is a far better speaker.
20.50, isn't anybody allowed to speak longer then 10 to 15 minutes? This is getting annoying. Lets just allow some substance please...
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20.54 A pan across the room show that Biden is in the house! Which promptly explodes as they see him projected on the screen. Biden is just having the time of his life. Good for him.
And he's yakking with chairman Dean, who also seems to be having a blast. Ted Kennedy is featured next.
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21.00 no it's not Ted Kennedy, it's Mike Fisher; Amtrak Tech. With his wife. Mike Fisher; Amtrak Tech. Good name for an indy band and their first album.
21.08 It's Tom Balanoff; Service Emp Intl Union pres. Without his wife or a good name for an indy Band and their first album.
21.10 Apparently it's the Blue color worker minute of the convention. The time they allow people to speak is really to little. These 5 minutes everybody gets is just too little to allow anything outside basic information. After hearing a dozen times that Obama is the right man for the job I'm well aware of that. I just want to know more about the people who keep recommending him. And why is the right the right man. A little narrative wouldn't hurt.
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21.15 It's Caroline Kennedy, daughter of JFK and part of the homage to Ted or uncle teddy as she calls him. And Teddy is for those who "believed in the dream that never dies" smart reverence.
21.18 Teddy is your senator too is the catch phrase inter spaced during a list of his accomplishments. Which is of course a long list for the last of the Kennedy brothers.
21.20 A filmed segment with Kennedy talking about how the sea and sailing represents life to him. He looks good for what he just went through. It's important to note that whatever his faults he also, like his brothers, made history and left a large and mostly positive mark on the US.
They focus on Kennedy's fight for healthcare and amke it clear that they will make it an issue the next session.
21.30 Sen. kennedy enters the stage.
21.32 The standing ovation dies down.
21.32 Every line is an applause line for him. But his speech here is a kinda of a big deal.
21.33 Kennedy vows to return to the senate for Healthcare, the place explodes.
21.34 Frequent shots of Biden. Who is just as moved as anybody there.
21.36 Ted invokes his older brother and his call to go the moon and calls for more of such grand gestures and accomplishments
21.37 The torch will be passed to a new generation. The hope rises again, and the dream lives on.
21.38 Best speech of the night. Kennedy rocked. Just about the complete clan is on stage hugging him. End of an era. |
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