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Thursday, September 6, 2012

2012 The DNC Night That Was: Night Two

Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 8:00 AM

Elizabeth Warren and Sandra Fluke both gave surprising speeches. Warren's was a terrific progressive speech that reclaimed liberal values in prime time television. Hopefully, her speech will give her a bump over Scott Brown in the senatorial race in Massachusetts:

And Fluke was exactly as she was when I saw her a couple days ago: She comes across as passionate, genuine, friendly, and unpolished in just the right way. I predict it won't be long before she wins elected office somewhere soon; Rush Limbaugh may have created a liberal monster.

But both of those speeches were overwhelmed by Bill Clinton's speech, which was a total rock star performance. I've never seen Clinton speak in person before; he uses facts and figures the way a musician plays an instrument. He eats up the audience's devotion and pays it back with his attention. There were more facts and figures in his speech than in the entire three days of last week's RNC. I have a clear view of his teleprompter, and so I watched him stray from the script to add digression after digression before wandering back to the point he strayed from. It was seamless, wonky work, and a reminder of how much America loved him back in the 90s. And he continued the trend of headline speakers bringing their best stuff. President Obama is a highly competitive person, and he now understands that he has to deliver one of the best speeches of his life tomorrow night. If he does, he'll have Clinton's superlative performance to thank for that.

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So what about the whole:
"God was in the Democrap Platform,
right before He was out of it..." Fiasco?

And that floor vote?
Democrapsy is action, Right?
AWESOME!

Sadly, it is a "Worst of Both Worlds" Shitstorm.....

The Angry Atheist Secularists are not happy.
(are they ever?...)
In fact they are Pissed.
Over the Shitty Humiliating way the were screwed over.
Reamed.

God is not Happy.
He can count.
He is not deaf.
He knows the Democraps really voted to kick him off the Island.
He will not forget.

Maybe the Democraps don't really need God.
They've got Bill, after all......

Posted by Democraps Beware. Fox News is watching you.... on September 6, 2012 at 8:14 AM

@1 you guys need to really try harder. Like for starters, by registering, so people can see your lunacy by default.

Posted by Joe Szilagyi

on September 6, 2012 at 8:32 AM

I really don't get all this excitement about Bubba's speech. I don't know who has a worse memory, liberals or conservatives. It was Clinton's administration that enacted many of the reforms (like the repeal of Glass-Steagall) which caused the world economy to collapse, remember?

Posted by bhowie on September 6, 2012 at 8:37 AM

1, The magical beings that live in your head should ask you who else didn't need God, the founding fathers when they wrote the original platform for our nation, The Constitution.

Posted by Rob in Baltimore

on September 6, 2012 at 8:45 AM

@1: You realize you're making fun of "Democracy," right?

Posted by duffellduffell on September 6, 2012 at 8:58 AM

4

we got no problem with the Democraps giving 'god' the heave-ho.

its just too bad they don't have the balls to own it.

and too bad they're scared shitless of Fox News....

Posted by Cowardly Lion on September 6, 2012 at 9:07 AM

@1&6

Fearless!

Posted by LEE. on September 6, 2012 at 9:14 AM

6, The magical beings living in your head are the only ones who care. Is that why you're so outraged? Perhaps The Great Pumpkin will come early to calm your rattled nerves.

Posted by Rob in Baltimore

on September 6, 2012 at 9:33 AM

Warren for President 2016? That might open my wallet to the Dims again. For what little that's worth...

Posted by ScrawnyKayaker on September 6, 2012 at 9:37 AM

It's good to see the DNC including Native American women on the platform. Too bad they can't find any Latina Governors.

Posted by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me on September 6, 2012 at 10:38 AM

It keeps bugging me that Michelle looked really nervous, Obama was only on the stage for a brief second and Secret Service were crawing all over the backstage area when he was out there. Not to mention that they're changing the location of the speech tonight because of "weather".
Is it just me?

Posted by tacomagirl on September 6, 2012 at 11:06 AM

@11
Weather = Fear of empty seats.

Posted by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me on September 6, 2012 at 11:11 AM

@12. Nope.

Posted by tacomagirl on September 6, 2012 at 11:14 AM

@11: Maybe, maybe not. (Though I do remember noticing that Obama was wearing a bulletproof vest during one of the debates with McCain back in '08.)

I think the predicted weather is a good enough reason for moving it indoors, but they don't call them the Secret Service for nothing.

Posted by DonServo on September 6, 2012 at 11:17 AM

11
No, it is not just you.
Millions of Democrats are disgusted, disillusioned and disappointed at what a lying limp-noodle pussy failure Obama has been and would love to put a slug through his fucking worthless skull.

Posted by ObamaVoter on September 6, 2012 at 11:25 AM

Um... they had 15,000 EXTRA reservation requests for the outdoor seats. Filling them wasn't a huge worry.

However, it was pretty stupid for DNC planners to not think about the weather in Charlotte in September.

Thunderstorms there are no joke. I got knocked off my feet there by lightning strikes in Freedom Park. I was wondering why I was the only person in the park when it started raining.

Posted by tkc on September 6, 2012 at 11:28 AM

@12: So you are saying that the place is packed for all the other speakers, but when POTUS himself comes out, everyone is going to want to leave?

Truly, you have got to be kidding me.

Posted by Theodore Gorath on September 6, 2012 at 11:29 AM

Yes, he disappointed us. Many of us felt he compromised too much (even though he may have had to). I mean, the healthcare bomb - and how he let that get back into the hands of the opposition, don't ask, don't tell - which he himself admits was a big mistake, and DOMA is still pretty inexpiable - with the defense being that it wasn't the right time to push for marriage equality. The deregulation of the mortgage industry happened under Bill's watch. I was even disappointed over the Lewinsky fiasco not so much because he likes women...lots of women, not so much for the "depends on what the definition of "is" is" legal wrangling, but because he couldn't control himself and/or choose the right people with whom to canoodle. Don't care how brilliant you are...getting blow jobs from interns half your age? Never a good idea.

But after 10 years of Bush and his kind, I miss Bill so much. I miss the prosperity. I miss that warm January day back in 1993 when Dr. Angelou encouraged us to:

look up and out,
And into your sister's eyes,
into your brother's face,
your country
and say simply
Very simply
With hope
Good morning.

We didn't achieve half of what we wanted to back then, but the fact that we want to achieve it kept us going.

Posted by Bauhaus I on September 6, 2012 at 12:50 PM