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Boollshyt!!!
-Bob Casey
They should come up with an ad showing Bush as the driver of one of those motorcycles with the little buggy car attached with McCain crackin' the crazy azz off-tempo grin he does.
But, seriously... calling him a "sidekick" is an insult to sidekicks everywhere. If they ever was an EMPTY SUIT it's that mf... Lieberman lifelines and all.
1. Michelle was beyond awesome. Made my grandson watch it with me and cried at the picture Michelle and her little girls created in the minds of all minority children who will now believe they can achieve anything.
2. Wish the Clinton's weren't on at all. Jeez...if the woman can't sway her most loyal supporters to support the democratic ticket, how the hell did anyone EVER think she'd be able to reach independent/undecided voters had she won?
3. For all the bitching the network talking heads did yesterday about not enough red meat, they haven't shown any of the great speeches going on tonight! So political addicts like me watching on web and CSpan are seeing the fighting spirit we wanted to see, but the regular folks out there who only watch networks will again think the Democratic party can't fight worth a shit.
Thanks for letting me vent. This is my FAVORITE blog and I'm so glad you're there to keep it real for us!! Keep up the great work!
I'm watching Michelle, failing at trying not to cry, so proud to see my face on TV (and the entirety of who I am as a professional Black woman). I can see the love on the convention floor, it's a great feeling after being so let down by politics. Then these FOOLS on CNN start talking trash. I was literally looking at the TV like "Did you all see the same speech I saw?!" I'm officially done with MSM, I'll stick with C-SPAN from now on.
Come on back and post some more! :)
It takes a village, girl!!! :>) :>)
That's why this election is so important. Not just for black people but for all people. If people come out and say "This guy is black so don't vote for him" or "this guy is black so people won't vote for him" what does that say to Hispanics? Asians? Arabs? That they might as well sit down too?
2. But...but...it was inevitable that she would win!
3. "The Democratic party can't fight worth a shit" IS the story that the MSM wants to circulate.
You are kidding me, right? She did not bring up Harriet Tubman?
Off all the black women, HRC mentions Harriet Tubman. ( now don't get me wrong, I'm as proud of Harriet Tubman as the next black woman,, and yes, I know she was a New Yorker,,)
Yo, Hill, ever heard of Shirley Chisholm? She was from New York also. She ran for POTUS back in 1972. YOU AIN'T THE FIRST WOMAN TO DO THIS!!!
Yo, Hill, What about Fannie Lou Hamer? There were racist crackers who ran both parties. but the racists ones in the Democratic Party wouldn't even SEAT Fannie Lou Hamer, let alone recognize her to speak.
Harriet Tubman.... LAWD HA' MERCY!!!!!
Like the time she went to a black church in the South and she had the audacity to say that being in the Senate under Republican majority rule was like being on a plantation, "and you know what I mean..." I wanted to slap her. Because a) neither she nor anyone in that audience has ever been on a plantation, and b) please do not compare the degradation of slavery with being the minority party in the Senate; that is offensive and small minded.
Another apt example is when she was playing up that "disenfranchisement" foolishness toward the end of the primary and comparing it to when Blacks couldn't even vote in primaries. Umm....no. A State breaking the rules and getting stripped of their delegates is not equivalent to racists party leaders prohibiting Blacks from participating in primaries because they believed they were subhuman. Absolutely inappropriate.
Sorry, there is something not right here.
And it would have been kick ass if she mentioned Shirley Chisolm, Fannie Lou Hamer, AND Carol Mosley Braun in her speech. Even that hate mongering Gerri Feraldo was relevant to this occasion.
I'm still reeling from last night's speech by Mrs. Obama.
Forget the Clinton Dynasty.
After Sen. Obama's eight years as prez, I WANT MICHELLE in the Oval Office.
WOW! Just WOW!
PS. A very larg STFU to MSNBC crew--especially Norah O'Donnell, who stupidly said the country needed to see that the Obamas were like everyone else.
Huh?
This is an American couple. How could they not be "like everyone else?"
I can't stand the cable teevee a**holes!
Fun stuff.
I don't think you want to get close to those nuts.
;-)
Ugh.
Amen.
I hope after Hillary's speech, that Michelle, the girls, Hillary and Chelsea appear on stage together. I could care less if it's genuine...as long as they neutralize any Repub treachery.
Hillary and Michelle were backstage at the Emily's List event where they both spoke today. Hillary went up and hugged Michelle, and praised her speech. Chelsea was there, and they stood together and spoke for a while.
ANNNND!???
So a second ago, Wolf asks Roland about this. Roland says don't think Bob Johnson is doing this out of the goodness of his heart. He HAS to do it. Roland says Bob got his butt kicked by his constituency and he has to be behind Barack now to save his own hide.
http://mediamatters.org/columns/200808260005
If I see Clarence Thomas pop up at this convention, I'll take that as the last sign of the apocalypse and get ready to meet King Jesus.
On a side note: I just had to mute the volume on my computer from the auto-play of the qik footage. It was fine earlier today and last night. Thanks! Now, it's more garble.
Michelle killed it last night, and you have to love Mr. Kennedy.
But did anyone see Dennis Kucinich speech tonight? He was on it! Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BVrqpeNTpI
BWA HA HA HA HA AH HA
Hilarious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UxxhYa8K0s
A must see folks....a must see....
Little Man Kucinich Rocks!
Paterson on McCain: If he is the answer, then the question must be ridiculous.
Brotha Paterson
I wonder if she'll really re-run in 2012, I'm intrigued to see how she will try that with the Democratic loyal based of Black folk that have a sour taste in their mouths because of her tactics. <sarcasm> Maybe all the McCain people reaching out to the PUMAs and HillBilly Whiners will repay the favor and vote for her! It's not like they've spent the last 10 years endlessly insulting her :D </sarcasm>
Oooh, I heard about Kucinich getting a lot of standing ovations for his speech earlier today. It's not on youtube, can someone on jjp lemme know where I can watch a clip? Here's an article I found about it: http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_10307885
These folks have no idea how to inspire people.
Nuff said.
THE END!!! [Thanks taritac! :>)]
They both can go just in the lake.
He's gonna be good for the country no matter how he serves.
If only he had been in his 2nd term.
He rocks.
Heh
Like he is so in love.
I did notice the video and her speech (even Chelsea) made absolutely no mention of him. I think even the Clinton women wanted to disassociate from him.
In the end, I think she brought it home.Time will tell over the next few months.
I'm looking forward to Hillary's speech. I like how they changed the signs from her primary campaign 's to these nice, "non-presidential" white ones.
Here we go!!
I think a lot of the reports of division are overblown, too.
I think some of her wealty female fundraisers were sitting next to Bill. I can't think of her name, the one he was jabbering to.
Just jumped into the fray about unity. I guess there is no use in beating around the bush.
That being said, she BETTER come correct for Barack tonight!
But you printed a very flattering picture of her. That's lovely. Well done. Might as well be gracious. Let's not hold her nuttiest so-called supporters against her...
the picture was intentional.
I'll check the convention out on Thursday.
But, it's not just about electing some generic Democrat. WHERE ARE THE KUDOS FOR OBAMA???
LOL
Really I think it's all overblown, and I think outsiders want to divide the party. Look, every time there's a riot at an anti-war or anti-globalization demonstration, and they say that mysterious black-hooded "anarchists" did it, I assume that these were paid provacateurs from some branch of the government. The FBI did it for years. Why wouldn't the Republicans try to disrupt the convention and the election by promoting this PUMA stuff?
Nobody who really cares about women's issues would be this poisonous toward a person with Barack's voting record.
I've just come back from a 4 day vay-kay back home to New Orleans, and it really gave me a new purspective on this election seaon. Some of it good, some of it bad. The good, everyone I know is talking about Obama. I went to a birthday party for my aunts and uncles, and the dj was talking up Obama. I'm sure it I can get them all registered and get them to the polling place they will be voting for Barack.
Now the bad: I had to have a somewhat lengthy disscussion with my aunt about Obama being "raised a Muslim". What's interesting bout this is that I am AA so is my aunt, and I was sorta shocked that she truly believed it. She said she read it in "Newsweek". I tried to school her on the truth, but she older, and she just wouldn't let it go, but she still will be voting for him.
It made me sad, because if our own people believe that Obama was "raised Muslim", then there is no way we will be able to change other "people" mind. Anyway, it shook me a little.
P.S. I'm catching up on the convention coverage, and I've decided to give up on CNN for the duration of the convention coverage, and I'm barely keeping up with MSNBC. Michelle Obama was fantastic.
The Harriet Tubman line was good, and the one about not being there just for her, but that Marine or the mom fighting cancer.
...now for the pundit frenzy.
I agree. She takes one step forward, but two steps back.
Someone had a great analogy over the radio this morning. You can't light a stick of dynamite, step back and say you're sorry for whatever happens as a consequence. People are responsible for the consequences of their actions.
A lot of people tried to talk to the Clintons before this went too far. Ted Kennedy tried to talk to the Clintons; Clyburne tried to get to talk to them.
But they've got tunnel vision when it comes to obtaining power. That's a blessing and a curse. It's a blessing when that focus gets used to help others. But it's a curse when that same power gets used for selfish reasons.
I remain of the opinion that she HURT the Democratic Party and its chances by extending the primary season well beyond what was necessary. She could have finished the primaries without trying to sabotage Obama like she did. In fact, many of those Hillary statements being used by McCain right now were spoken well after she lost a realistic, mathematical chance, to win the nomination. She could have done a Mike Huckabee and stayed in the race without going negative and writing 6 or 7 campaign ads for McCain. . . without endorsing McCain at Obama's expense.
She did not do that. The damage has been done, and her speech (as great as it was) will not make up for that.
She's got to follow her speech with action. Concrete action. She needs to campaign like crazy for Obama this Fall. That means campaigning in places like OH and PA as much as possible.
And she needs to tell her surrogates to chill out as well. She sends mixed signals far too often. She'll say she supports Obama, but then one of her aides, or supporters (super delegates like Rep. Sanchez of CA) say something stupid and divisive that undercuts Obama's campaign. She might not have control over the PUMAs (though I'm not completely sold that she doesn't), but she should have a lot more control over some of those super delegates and her husband, Bill Clinton . . . Bill Clinton, who just this past week praised John McCain's energy plan.
Again. One step forward and two steps back.
I appreciate her speech today. But I'm not jumping on the bandwagon to say that this makes up for her past transgressions.
Again. . . I really liked her speech. She did a very good job tonight. And I thank her for that. Furthermore, I'm pleased as punch if she's really on board to make this happen.
But those McCain ads are still out there. She helped write them.
BUT . . .
I'll give credit where credit is due. This was a very good speech.
Now . . . let's see if she backs it up by campaigning like crazy for Obama??? We shall see.
She did what she needed to do. If the PUMAs are still talkin smack after that speech, then they really need to gone join the Republican Party.
Let's see how Joe Biden does tomorrow. Compare Joe to Hillary. See who's more effective.
As long as Joe is ' riding or dying', whatever he says will be cool with me..LOL
the bright side: perhaps this will finally shut up the corporate media hags.
That part was brilliant IMO. Just brilliant. Looping back around to the stories of the three people she mentioned and tying it to the greater good.
Don't know overall what I thought but that was crucial IMO -- got right to the crux of the matter: Are you selfish and ego-driven or are you for the collective good, for the well-being of all of us?
Her primary campaign was all about her, but this rhetorically shifted the terms. If anyone who needed to hear this was listening.
I want you to ask yourselves: Were you in this campaign just for me? Or were you in it for that young Marine and others like him? Were you in it for that mom struggling with cancer while raising her kids? Were you in it for that boy and his mom surviving on the minimum wage? Were you in it for all the people in this country who feel invisible?
There it is.
There is no reason McCain has to remove those ads from the air. She didn't say anything that would shut them down.
I am not very happy. Her support of Obama was rather tepid. Ah well. At least it's over. Maybe Bill will redeem the two of them (not likely as they are saying he will NOT be at Obama's acceptance on Thursday).
Never happened. IMHO, This speech was okay, but not what it could have been.
Sigh.
But Dark Sith thought that she stated/implied this!!! WHAT!!!!!????
She STR8 DISSED BULL!!!!!!! Good!! :>)
Here's a good one that didn't get any MSM play!!!
Dennis Kucinich - I didn't know he moonlighted as a Baptist preacher.... (wink!!)
Michelle did not look that at ease.
Are you guys watching CNN? There's a black woman Hillary supporter who I swear is mentally ill.
Suzanne had to fine the one mentally ill, black female Hillary supporter? What grown woman can't get a hold of her emotions on national tv when someone hasn't even died?
Then because I wanted to hear what Hilliary had to say I have not listened to anything so I debated "D" all day. Then she spoke and I couldn't believe what she was saying. It was so positive. But I am a cold blooded hot head about what I believe so I look to see what other people are seeing.
And I read about the video. I'll look for it on you tube. but it tells me, "They were who we thought they were". I will not trust them no matter what happens. To do so is to put your life in peril.
You get my vote for "BONAFIDE HATERADE CREDENTIALS"!!!
SSSSSnakes!!!
She twasn't listening to her presidential candidate of choice! Ugh...you can't convince people if they don't want to listen.
I'm howling with laughter. Funniest thing I've read in six months.
How do we shut him up??
I know!! A cond*m!!!!! :>) :>) :>)
So, JJP, do I watch it or not? Does it go on the convention tape for posterity?
What's your grade of the speech?
But because Hillary did nothing to rebut her attacks on Barack about being ready to lead and to be CinC, it gets an F.
She knows and sees the ads already out there, using her words against our candidate. McCain already has his press release out saying she didn't do anything to rebut them. She knows what she was supposed to do. She didn't have to fawn over him. All she had to do was say that they had a hard-fought primary, and through it, he had earned her respect as a leader, and that he had proven to her that he was ready to be CinC.
We didn't get any of that. We got nothing like that. I am really upset with her, because I was really ready to love, support, and respect her again. Only after November 4th will I know whether or not I can forgive her.
I'm just sayin' The more I think about that, the more that I think that a lot of this is pure bullshit with a pretty bow on it.
There's a clique of the acceptable people, and Barack is never included. I'm pretty sure I didn't hear Hillary call Barack her friend in her speech tonight.
Barack better step up and take control of this thing. What the hell was he campaigning for anyway? Why was Biden able to attend the convention but not Barack??? Are you telling me the appearances he made in the last 2 days were critical? This is the first convention I've watched. Is it normal for the nominee to be absent the first 3 days???
I think Barack is and has been in control. In general, the convention is going well. But I UNDERSTAND, sista, the panic you are feeling. You described it perfectly-- Clinton's speech told us implicitly that Barack is not one of us. Biden is one of us. McCain is one of us. Barack is not.
I just have to have faith that Barack is going to bring this ship back around. He is savvy as hell. Just like TRW wrote, Obama is self-made, and he's got their numbers. He did not get here on his daddy's or spouse's coattails. He got here on his own. He can do it. YES HE CAN!
Is Barack trying to be accepted in the inner circle, or is he trying to create his own circle? They will NEVER accept him! No matter how polite, or clean he is, or respectful he is to them!! They don't understand decency. They understand POWER!
I'm not panicked.
I'm angry.
I am furious with Barack Obama. I am fed up with the goody-two-shoes, scouts honour bullshit.
Barack better put on his goddamned ninja suit and start slashing some ankles under the table!
How many times is he going to be made a fool of before he plays hardball?
He shows up at that church all earnest 'n all, ready to tell his story. He walked right into a trap, where Rick Warren and McCain set him up with a phony coin toss that supposedly took place without witness. Warren and McCain were winking and nodding to each other while Barack sat there looking like a chump! Why couldn't he outsmart them?
He shows up at the ABC debate and walks right into a trap with Hillary, Stephanopoulus and Gibson where the mission was to take him down. They all pile on him about a flag pin, and he doesn't turn it around on them that none of them were wearing pins!! Why does he keep thinking these people will give him a fair shake?
He comes back from a successful trip abroad, he walks right into a sucker punch where McCain accuses him of playing the race card. No one in his campaign points out that McCain actually did put his face on currency, and put it in an ad to mock him....which is what Barack was referring to on the stump.
WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON???!!
Do they know something we don't? Do they know they've already won by a landslide and they're just letting it all hang out 'till November?
Yeah, I know some people will say it doesn't matter 'cause he'll win anyway. But what benefit is it if everybody thinks you're a patsy?
Well, the last thing I'm watching is the INVESCO speech. If he doesn't kick some ass. If he repudiates and rejects another person for telling the truth. If he comes with some mealy mouthed bullshit about how people are tired of the same old politics and forget that people are also VERY ANGRY. If he doesn't tap into that righteous outrage. If he doesn't walk out there with his shoulders square and his chest out like he owns that shit. Then I don't want to hear another thing about "skinny, but tough". I'm tuned out for the rest of the season.
IT'S TIME TO ACT LIKE YOU OWN IT, BARACK!!!!!! IT DOES MATTER!!!!
I don't remember seeing John Kerry in 2004 until he came out and did the salute thing. Am I wrong?
Make sure you have room on the tape for Bill. I bet money he says "I am not a racist" and it will be classic.
C on my grading scale. I think she said most of what needed to be said but she had sunk so low prior that it would have taken much more to bring her out of the hole that she dug.
No...to the convention tape save.
I find it funny that everyone discounts Obama's experience. The truth of the matter is that while both Hillary and McCain may be good public servants, both were helped significantly by their spouses. For McCain it was Cindy's money and her father's connections--as well as the legacy of his father and grandfather that got him through the academy. For Hillary it was her connections as first lady of Arkansas and the White House.
On the other hand, for Obama he had to do the leg work himself. He had to make those connections, he had to get people to believe in him, he had to raise money when everybody was reluctant to give him a second look. That speaks a lot to me. At the end of the day, he is a self made man. He is where he is because of his hard work and his abilities. Yes, he received help from others along the way, but definitely not to the extent as Hillary or McCain. So that woman, while emotional by her candidate's loss, is foolish to discount Obama.
She can claim that Obama doesn't deserve to be where he is because he lacks that experience, but facts are facts. The fact is McCain went bankrupt last summer and his campaign was on the verge of collapse. The fact is Hillary is still $25 million in debt. But Obama, who did not have the connections of either of them when he started this race, has broken all records for fundraising. The fact is McCain has run for the presidency two times before, and Hillary, has been building her organization for some years. But it is also a fact Obama is building one of the most impressive political organizations that the Democratic party has ever seen. These things speak to me. Obama may not have the supposed qualifications that this lady is looking at, but he has done quite well for himself despite the odds. He has been able to attract top talent, and do the impossible.
Sorry, I am being too wordy here, but it really pisses me off that people keep pushing this theme that Obama needs Hillary; he doesn't. They are not a good match and instead of Democrats moaning, groaning, and knashing their teeth, I wish these people would grow a pair and either organize to get more people registered and signed up for Obama events, or go and sit down somewhere and STFU!!!!!
I'm going to bed.
That would only "force" the Refucklicans to bring out the "Chicago style politics" and Ayers and Jeremiah Wright memes. Because Obama is not supposed to know any people. If he knows them, then all of their sins and misdeeds automatically confer to him.
Then this woman was mumbling at the end about "his resume". What the hell? She's criticizing Barack's resume????????
Wonder what was on that piece of paper.
What is really sad is how pathetic the marriages of white politicians and political punidts are. Newt Gringrich dumps his wife while she is treated for cancer, John Edwards runs to be a Presidential candidate while screwing his mistress that his wife knows about as she suffers through cancer, Hilliary Clinton co-dependency lets her trash and sue poor working white women her husband is raping and pimp her daughter as a marketing tool of normalacy, Eloit Spitzer getting his freak by on while he is an AG investigating money laundering and getting caught because he attempted to launder the money he is paying the escort service, Rush Limbaugh's four marriages and John McCain's biggest moral failing dumping his poor disfigured wife(have these women never heard of Lorene Bobbitt.). This is normalty. If you can't tell the difference than someone save us all black and white.
How about Karl Rove, that hater of all things gay, isn't exactly proud of his own father's very existence because not only was his father gay, but quite openly so and living with his lover before the elder Rove died.
Or what about a sweet, 17 yr old Laura Bush who ran a stop sign and killed a man. Just happened to be her ex-boyfriend who was on the way home from a party where, allegedly, he had just dumped her. No charges were ever filed.
1. Did you see the crowd booing Pat Buchanan. He is a big hairy asshole. Yeah I wish I was there I would tell him.
2. Did anybody notice that Barack didn't look happy when they showed the clip of him watching with the family - he looked a little perturbed and a little nervous or embarrassed. I think he and Michelle know something about that speech that we don't know.
SHE DID NOT DO ENOUGH!!! She is still gaming. He is tired of it. This was, in my opinion, her last chance to redeem herself.
She didn't do it.
Michelle's face did not look right to me every time. She was watching the reaction of the audience and she got up when they got up, but it wasn't always spontaneous.
What the hell is this women from Just Say No Deal talking about? Her vote or her virginity? She's saying I don't give my vote away on the first date....I'm a good Catholic girl....I need to be courted. WHAT THE FUCK??????????
I've HAD IT!!!! I'VE MOTHER*UCKING HAD IT!!!!! I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANYTHING MORE FROM THESE CRAZY BITCHES. I HAVE HAD IT WITH THE FREAKIN' CLINTONS!!! I'VE HAD IT WITH BARACK ACQUIESCING TO THEIR LUNATIC DEMANDS. HE BETTER PULL A MOTHER*UCKING RABBIT OUT OF A HAT AT INVESCO, OR THAT'S IT!!
I was SOOO happy when Barack announced that Biden was on his ticket, because it seemed as if he was in this fight all by himself. Alone. Against McCain. Against the media. Against the Clintons. Everyone jumped onto the narrative that he had to SHOW us who he was, PROVE that he was a good American, PROVE that he, with his black ass, deserved to be president, when everyone else was assumed to deserve it a priori. He needed someone to be in his corner to help him fight.
Now I see that with Biden or without, he really is alone. He's all by himself. Clinton gave more support, more warm words for Biden, than she did for Barack, as if to say, "Hey America, here is a nice paternal figure for that little boy Barack. Support him, because we really think Barack isn't ready. Maybe he'll save us from this calamitous path we've chosen."
You are right, Truthseeker. It is absolutely all on Barack's shoulders. He has to turn it out on Thursday. I believe that he's got the strength, courage, and intelligence to pull this out. I will be praying for him.
I did appreciate her MAJOR DISS of bull: She did NOT say that she was a WIFE!! Whoooo! Hooo!! :>) :>) :>)
they've got a HUGE surprise coming in november! :-)
That being said, even if he pulls a rabbit out of his hat, the MSM and treacherous nay sayers will say it was a rat. I really don't care if he wins anymore, I just want him to tell those mofos to kiss his ass, but chances are he won't. It's who he is. I hope it serves him well.
I have to trust that he will win, that he will be a great president, become a wonderful elder statesman, and lead the world to a better future. That will be the best ass kiss EVER.
Governor Richardson just drops some knowledge....."this wasn't just a signal to her supporters, it also may have been a signal to her husband that it is time to do everything to elect Barack Obama." Wow, that wasn't on message.
(Who is a great man, by the way. Very warm.)
He is for Barack all the way. I hope if Obama decides to have Richardson in his Cabinet, that Richardson will join the team. Barack has so few people in his corner, he needs all the support he can get.
Here is the clip of Miss Shirley Temple Curls crying over Hillary.
THIS ONE IS TOO IMPORTANT! WE MUST LAY IT ALL ON THE FIELD!!!!
LOVED the "Miss Shirley Temple Curls"!! LOL!!! X10!!!! :>) :>) :>)
What happend between Chucky T and the hideous Gregory
Nothing but the dog in me. UUGH.
Thanks, though, for your more positive perspective. I don't share it, but I hope 99.9% of the country does.
Then we are off and running!
I am not sure what the critiques of the speech wanted. I don't think she needs to take back any statements. That was the campaign. They were said in the campaign. The campaign is over. She can still believe he is inexperienced and the best choice for very good reasons.
She didn't sound sincere to me, not when endorsing Barack. The only time she warmed up is when she was talking about herself, & her campaign, & why she ran for President, blah, blah. The restraint that the Obama camp has shown this bitch borders on superhuman. I would've booted her ass to the curb a long time ago. I guess he just feels that it's better to keep your enemies close... I'm looking at Nightline right now, & they're just swinging all on the Clintons' dick, like they're some type of heroes. You actually lose track of the fact that she was the loser, very poor loser, in all of this...
I guess I'm not seeing how this isn't a strong enough statement that she believes Barack is ready to be President.
"The future of our nation and the health and safety of our children hangs in the balance if Barack isn't elected president."
If you were not convinced with her delivery, so be it. But the words she delivered were unequivocal.
"No way. No how. No McCain."
I expect that to be used in an ad that appears during the RNC.
Even if there's something going on behind the scenes, the theater she put on to our faces was very good.
"Were you just in this for me?"
She gave Michelle Obama propers, praised her speech, and said she would be a great First Lady.
I'm not seeing any reaction to that here. Maybe I scrolled through the comments too quickly.
She's meeting with her delegates at lunch tomorrow where she's expected to encourage them to vote for Barack in the abbreviated roll call vote in the afternoon.
I'll get a report from two friends from my past who intend to attend.
I've now spoken with more than 100 Hillary delegates face to face. Three quarters of them are voting for Barack in the roll call.
McCain's campaign chimed in with a silly press release that nitpicked what she didn't say instead of focusing on what she did say. Even with my dislike and mistrust of most things Clinton, I'm just not going to get riled up by something that came out of the McCain's campaign.
The energy on the convention floor cannot be felt on the television.
I'm beginning to believe there will be no shenanigans tomorrow.
We shall see.
This convention is changing me. It's no longer about my feelings for Hillary and Bill.
It's about winning.
We can't take any votes for granted. If Clinton Democrats are more likely to vote for Barack because his supporters stop openly trashing the Clintons, then I'm prepared to stop openly trashing the Clintons.
This election is too important.
I want to win.
It's no skin off my ass to censor myself unless or until I get new evidence.
If I can't say anything good about Hillary and Bill, I'm not going to say anything at all.
I even waved a big white Hillary sign on cue. And then those big unity placards.
You could almost feel the unity in the place.
I want to win.