Democratic National Convention

I was quite impressed with most of the keynote speeches at the Democratic National Convention this year. If you missed any of them, they are available in their entirety online.

Official Democratic National Convention Website:
http://www.demconvention.com/?gclid=CKz65N...CFQRfagodBl37Qw

I recommend the following keynotes:

Monday - Michelle Obama
Tuesday - Hillary Clinton
Wednesday - Bill Clinton, Joe Biden (2 separate speeches)
Thursday - Barack Obama

After hearing Hillary's speech, I still think she should be pres, and the coverage on CBS said someone from the McCain camp also remarked she should be the one running. Oh well, such is life. I nonetheless still support Barack. We cannot afford to have a third Bush term.

It might have been the hot weather but I actually fell asleep during Barack's speech. I think Michelle and Joe Biden gave excellent speeches though.

38 Million people watched Obama's acceptance speech... more than the number who watched the opening ceremonies of the Bejing Olympics and the 38 Million number doesn't even include PBS and C-SPAN viewers, of which there had to be many because the networks coverage was so crappy for the most part.

I did not watch.

Partly cuz I was doing other stuff -- but mostly cuz I don't care!

I seems to be just preaching to the choir.

I am planning on voting for Obama, I pretty much figured that he was going to be pick at the Convention -- so I don't see the need to watch!

Can you believe we are reduced to voting for a less than one term senator with NO EXECUTIVE Experience or a Republican that votes with the idiot in office 95% of the time. No wonder our fore fathers decided we are too stupid to elect a president by making the electoral college. There is a reason why most of the developed countries let their elected officials pick the head of state. Obama could not manage a Mc Donalds with his experience. What a choice we have. BIDEN, Lieberman, Feinstein, hell Arnold would be better than Obama. STUPID STUPID STUPID. Another &$*%&^#) four years wasted. We had the most experienced, successful president in 100 years avail. We could not see clear to use him again. We had a woman that had served in the most successful white house in history, and we could not let her run the country. We are in our worst state yet and we have two bad choices...

This post has been edited by techvbjoe on Sep 4 2008, 10:53 AM

QUOTE (techvbjoe @ Sep 3 2008, 10:22 AM)

Obama could not manage a Mc Donalds with his experience. What a choice we have. BIDEN, Lieberman, Feinstein, hell Arnold would be better than Obama.  STUPID STUPID STUPID. Another &$*%&^#) four years wasted.

So Joe, do you realize you're now helping McCain by repeating right wing talking points? That "no executive" experience thing along with the ridiculous "COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ALASKA NATIONAL GUARD" are key phrases that the McCain campaign wants everyone to say as often as possible to puff up their side and put down Obama. Please stop, unless you want McCain and Palin in office to continue the Bush legacy.

Look, I'm sorry your candidate lost, but it's not fair to keep deriding Obama for edging out Hillary. I can understand why you're pissed, but take a look at some revelations from Hillary's communications director:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...8083101620.html

Obama had said at the start of his campaign that if anyone was concerned about how he would handle running the country, pay attention to how he'd run his campaign. For someone who isn't qualified to work at McDonald's, he sure produced a helluva disciplined and effective political machine that outwitted a lot of people who were supposed to clean his clock.

Come on, give Obama some credit. He's no fool or patsy. You don't end up heading the Harvard Law Review by being good at frying up spuds nor do you end up as a professor and Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School for being a big talker. You can't outmaneuver the Clinton juggernaut by getting lucky. His political resume' may be thinner than most candidates' resumes, but the guy's curriculum vitae is pretty impressive for a guy his age.

It's time to move on. If Obama is elected and he trashes the country worse than W a few years from, you have every right to point your finger and say "I told you fools so."

I guess that is something to be positive about, Obama sure could not do as bad as George W and Cheney. But then neither can McCain. I should hope for the best.

I will just obstain. I just can't vote for a Harvard law reviewer or a U of chicago lecturer. Can you believe we finally get a minority in position to compete and he is an intellectual, elitist. An inexperienced, ivy league man, again! Someone we can all relate to, right?

This is almost so surreal that I believe the republicans planned it all out. I swear they are laughing at us. Carl Rove can't keep a straight face. "Let them have it for four years and with the Obama back lash we can bring in a really conservative candidate next time." Let McCain lose and get him out of the picture once and for all. Almost as ingenious as getting the supreme court to choose our president in 2000. You heard it hear first.

If Obama does good, you can tell me "I told you so". But I don't think so. Dealing with politcal campaigns is nothing like balancing world peace, fighting wars or dealing with radicals. I think world leaders are salivating to get to Obama first. I would be. He will be Putin meat...(Putin is a savy world leader). At least the world feared Bush. Putin started his agression when Bush was a lame duck (at least that is what the intellectual elitists say on Charlie Rose).

Boy, did Mc Cain blow it with the VP Selection. He would have got the independents and moderates if he chose Lieberman. He already had the right, and conservatives. I would have jumped on the almost independent bandwagon. I believe very few will take a chance with Palin (?) becoming president if any thing happens to Mc Cain. She is radically right.

BTW I am not a democrat, I am an American. I have talked to lots of Obama supporters, even posted for advice on Social Wave. I voted for a republican when I thought he (Reagan, first term) was the best choice. I happen to agree with more Democrats but we have bad democrats just like they have good republicans, really, no really.

I love the discussion, and I love everyone's opinion. I hope someone is happy with the results (except Carl Rove, George W and Cheney).

QUOTE (Sheldon @ Sep 3 2008, 04:38 PM)

Look, I'm sorry your candidate lost, but it's not fair to keep deriding Obama for edging out Hillary. I can understand why you're pissed, but take a look at some revelations from Hillary's communications director: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...8083101620.html

I read the article, yup lots of people felt this way. Hillary won more popular votes, took almost every state with more than 100 delegates, and won the most important state, California. So a majority of us HERE don't believe in the guy. He was not our candidate. California was screwed again even with our primary moved up.

I know We are sour grapes, but think of it: a majority of Californians did not want this guy, why? I am californian, lifelong. Unless you are republican, you will not get elected from California. Mc Cain won California. At least the republicans in the state got their guy.