Comments on Michelle!
My comments must not have been snarky enough since not one thing I've said made the live blog.
I thought it was a great speech but the Republicans and FOX will parse the hell out of it, especially the use of the children in the end.
Sorry, I should have had someone else approving comments while I concentrated on writing. I missed a lot of good stuff, I think. Thanks, though.
Bill KKKrystal over at FOX is already trashing the speech.
Michelle just shored up the Hillary vote.
Michelle Obama knocked it out of the god damn park tonight. Beautiful speech. To have her as a First Lady would be an honor and huge benefit for our Nation. No lie.
[Comment From Jubilation T. Cornball]
When [Barack's youngest daughter] says "Daddy" she sounds just like Mr. Poe.
I didn't adore the speech and I was cringing over the awkwardness of the girls talking over Obama at the end, but I am happy to believe that it was moving and powerful and all that for almost everyone else. Hurrah for a Democratic White House!
I'm looking at the gallery over at the P-I and looking at pictures of the delegates. Who the fuck are these people? They look like a bunch of clowns. One lady is wearing a corn of cob as a hat. This makes Pride Parade look like a conservative funeral.
I thought I was the prototypical jaded hipster, but I found myself choking up in parts. She fucking nailed it. Some douche analyst on NBC said she wasn't negative enough.
Wow! Such integrity. Way to galvanize the Hillary delegates Michelle! Who can resist that?
Caught the last part. Very good speech. The reference to 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling is respectful and on the right track towards fostering unity.
I hope that when it's time for the Republicans to hear from Cindy Hensley McCain, they don't gloss over the fact that she was his mistress.
But seriously, this was an amazing speech. Completely demolishes the idea that the coddled son and grandson of admirals, married to a beer heiress, is a "regular guy".
Don't worry, elswinger, they're physically attacking Fox news in Denver, and dragging them to the recruiting stations ... and great pic of one of our Iraqi American delegates from the 43rd!
7.5
Carry on.
We won't support NO-Bama and will re-defeat him in November!!! Go Hillary 2012!!!
Having just read the scroll-down live slog reinforces my cheap opinion: Blog commenters - in the main - are nothing more than drive-by verbal paparazzi minus the photos.
To "re-defeat" someone you have to "defeat" them before. I understand your sentiment but you need to work on your grammar.
Hey pc @11.... you're learning!
I actually read every word of your comment!
@18 Shorter yes, but sickening nonetheless.
And busting out with the Stevie Wonder at the end.
She got me to tear up once or twice, and they are so lovely together.
But I didn't need to be convinced that they're "regular people", so found the speech overall a little twee.
And why is the music so cheesy?
what was with all the people in the liveblogging who were confused that obama wasn't there?
he's the main event. he appears in person on thursday. tonight's cameo was a tease. gotta build the drama, etc.
"build the drama" Ha it's like Odrama hasn't been seen nor heard enuf already. Good grief. After 3 more months and he loses we don't have to hear about him thank goodness.
WOW.
WOW WOW WOW.
She's got my vote.
Now, please pass the Kleenex.
@22: I know one person I'm looking forward to not hearing from.
blah blah blah the same old crap using family members as props. Hopefully someday American politics will be mature like Europeans' where a single person or an atheist can be elected to high office.
Caught the first two-thirds, then it was time for dinner. She was dorky, (but gorgeous) talked too fast, was obviously REALLY nervous, but to paraphrase a movie review Sean Nelson once wrote, if you don't like her it doesn't necessarily make you an asshole, but it sure helps. I think the first thing a commentator said on MSNBC was "Pitch-perfect", and, yeah.
One thing bothered me about how the Foxonians talk about how Obama's youth makes him look "like a kid" to other world leaders.
#1 He is older than JFK when he was elected president and the same age Bill Clinton was.
#2 He is much closer in age, than McCain, to the leaders of Germany, Great Britain, France, Australia, Canada, and Iran, and is older than the Presidents of Mexico, Syria, and Russia.
(I was bored so was looking stuff up on the Wiki)
"Hopefully someday American politics will be mature like Europeans' where a single person or an atheist can be elected to high office."
Darling, by that time we will be long, long, long dead. So why don't you try to focus on the present?
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My name is Rosa Clemente...and I will beat the Dejesus out of that Michele, Home Boys!
@27. I'm originally from SC and I'm black. I as on the bus a couple of weeks ago with this white guy from NC. He's a Democrat voting for Obama and without me bringing it up, he candidly said that McCain, the Repugs and Fox news calling him "too young" and "arrogant" are code words for calling him that "uppity boy" or uppity n!@#$%.
Michelle's my girl. She brought it!
SIDEBAR:
Does anyone else think Michelle looks like a black Sigourney Weaver?
Tonight was the first time I could finally figure why she looked so damned familiar.
I've always thought she looked like Sigourney Weaver, and I'm relieved someone else finally thinks so too. Now if only someone would agree with me about Bill Bixby and Kadaffi.
The reason the music is cheesy is that they had a live cover band. If they had played the actual "I Was Made to Love Her" by Stevie Wonder, it would have been absolutely perfect. Stevie Wonder is Michelle's fave.
When they win this thing, I want to hear "Alright/Uptight"* - the opening horn section is the most triumphant thing I've ever heard in my life.
*or whatever it's called.
Why was that 'perfect'? Wouldn't the Beatles "Michelle" been perfect?
Total BS. Full of shit. Just said what you sheeple wanted to hear. She's a terrorist.
As Venus from the mythical clam shell, Mr. Poe emerges.
Terrorist fist bumps to you, sir!
She would have come across better if she had worn a necklace. I barely noticed her earrings.
@34. Dear lord, no. Can't have the French lyrics make her seem elitist after the whole night of emphasizing their regular people roots.
Isn't she lovely was annoying to me -- it just seemed a little like, hey, look at the pretty lady! As if she had nothing else to offer other than being pretty.
I agree, Julie in Chicago. Plus it was about Stevie Wonder's actual child, anyway.
Mr. Poe is a Republican cocksucker.
@40: For sure. Is it still Crist, Poe, or have you moved on to other mummies now?
Well of course they played isn't she lovely- we're supposed to think all she's good for is making babies and talking about loving her husband.
Remember last time we had a presidential election and Teresa H-K got all thinky on people? Why, I got the vapors and was confined to bedrest for the rest of the campaign!
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