The Next President Of The United States

Excellent speech. Really every time I see him I'm impressed, even though I know he's a gifted orator, even though I know he's going to impress me, he still does.

He tells his story, he attacks on issues, and he gives a policy plan without sounding like a he's reading a white paper.

A Tale Of Two Speeches

Would that Kerry attacked Bush as sharply as he attacked McCain last night. The "Senator McCain vs. Candidate McCain" was a really good message, and a great way to define the difference between the candidates.



Biden turned in a solid performance too. Not as sparkling as Kerry's effort, but a solid bang bang bang of the issues. It also left no doubt that he was delivering Barack Obama's message.

Chinese Proverb

The nail which sticks up gets hammered down.

A lesson learned all too well by these people.

Wexler

Why is Rob Wexler telling me Obama loves Israel? Isn't this a convention for US president?

Roll Call

I really like the drama of the traditional role call of states.

Sure it's a foregone conclusion, but just the formality of it is cool. Stuff about our state, stuff about our state, stuff about our state, vote.

Update: someone in the Kansas delegation just shouted "Obama mama" when Obama's mother was mentioned as a native. lol

Hillary: PUMA Go Home

See for yourself.



PUMA explained here.

There Has To Be A Better Way

Were all conventions this... boring? Admittedly CSPAN is showing EVERYTHING, but still.

I just can't get over the fact that there has to be a better way to spend some of this time than watching a poor factory worker read a teleprompter. [EDIT: just to be clear, I don't mean he's poor, just that he's clearly out of his depth giving a speech to a national convention]

Rahm Emanuel is giving a nice speech. The one great thing about him is that he is not afraid to throw a partisan punch. He deserves a lot of credit for the Democratic gains in the 2006 elections and did a good job in creating party discipline as the [head of the DCCC]. Sadly, as [house caucus] leader in the house, he managed to cave on pretty much every major Republican initiative. That or there is a really big constituency in his district of people who believe in retroactive immunity for telecom companies.

Ah OK, now this is what you want. Speech by Emanuel, segue into a video of Barack speech, and then a musical act. More like this please.

UPDATE: my original post had his leadership roles wrong. Corrections are denoted by brackets

First Time For Everything

After last night's debacle, today marks the first time I actually searched for CSPAN. Turns out it's channel 70.

Death Of Irony Watch

The Republicans set up a "war room" in Denver. On a tour of the facility, RNC chairman Mike Duncan told the press to "Just consider this the Ministry of Truth." Yes, the Ministry of Truth.

Yeesh.

Michelle Obama Up

Cute intro by her brother. I hope that a man's character can't be judged by his ability as a sportsmen... gulp.

Nice speech. It's nice to have another smart beautiful and articulate first lady. It's pretty clear that if they had a first lady debate she'd smash Cindy.

Most of the speech was decent, but the part about her husband and family was obviously very heartfelt. The best BEST part though was the after speech with Barack on the monitor... well really his daughters. Very cute.