DNC Convention Starts Tonight!

[JackLuis]

DNC Monday night speakers: What to expect on the kickoff night of Democrats’ first-of-its-kind virtual convention

On Monday, CNN gave an overview of the major speakers to expect on the kickoff night of the Democratic National Convention, as the party holds its nominating ceremony virtually for the first time in history.

“It will be a convention unlike any other: The coronavirus pandemic forced Democrats to scrap their planned in-person Milwaukee convention,” said the report. “Instead, speakers will deliver speeches from locations across the country and without the large in-person crowds that are traditionally seen at these events. All eyes will be on how smoothly the transition to a virtual convention works.”

“Top speakers of the night include former first lady Michelle Obama, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and a Republican — former Ohio Gov. John Kasich,” continued the report. “Obama and Sanders are two of the most popular figures in Democratic politics. Kasich, a former presidential candidate, is emblematic of the kind of anti-Trump Republican who Biden is hoping to win over in November.”

How well will this go over w/o the cheering crowds and well lubricated zealots? This is made for internet streaming and how much will TV lose in advertizing? It will be historic!

 

[JackLuis]

https://youtu.be/0RbKStEFNT8

Randy celebrates Kamala!

 

[phrodeau]

DNC Monday night speakers: What to expect on the kickoff night of Democrats’ first-of-its-kind virtual convention



How well will this go over w/o the cheering crowds and well lubricated zealots? This is made for internet streaming and how much will TV lose in advertizing? It will be historic!

Compared to ad revenue lost from the Olympics, it’s a pittance.

 

[KeithD]

I'll give the conventions a pass. I know who to vote for and why. I don't need any more yapyap on any of that. I don't see the point of following the conventions, such as they will be, this time. Just more irritation. Maybe if Trump dumps Pence for whoever in the middle of the Republican one, I'll tune in to be amused.

 

[JackLuis]

Democratic Convention: 5 things to watch for on Night 1

Bernie Sanders, Michelle Obama and the "COVID-crisis governors" are top stars for the kickoff of the all-virtual four-day event.

WASHINGTON — No one has ever done this before.

Democrats will be guinea pigs in their own experiment Monday night as they kick off the first of four nights of an all-virtual Democratic National Convention.

Because of the coronavirus crisis, Democrats scrapped the podiums and packed arenas for two hours of programming each night that will look more like a TV special than a traditional convention. (In fact, the event is being produced by an executive producer of the Super Bowl halftime show and the Tony Awards.)

That means shorter speaking slots and fewer of them, more opportunity for alternative formats and backdrops — and also more ways for something to go wrong. Meanwhile, much remains a mystery about what President Donald Trump plans for his Republican National Convention, which starts next Monday.

Will the Dem's suceed in pulling this off w/o the virtual interfering? Will the Rethug's fuck up their virtual convention next week?

Don't be like Keith, watch the procession of Trump Thumping speakers vent the frustration of the nation on Donnie boy!

 

[Wrong Element]

As someone who has been following John Kasich's career for 40 years, when he was a state senator backing the entire Reagan program and I was a college freshman, I cannot adequately describe how bizarre it is to see him addressing a Democratic convention.

 

[JackLuis]

I watched the CBS coverage, Nora O’Donnell had her talking heads on and discussed the key speakers. SHe didn't allow the DNC's program to interfere with her commentary.

I thought the speakers were pretty good but had little new to say. Michelle was excellent.

It was over quick for a convention, this may be the new normal?

 

[Vanadorn]

I have no problem with shorter and more focused over bloated and rambling. We have bloated and rambling right now - let's get rid of it.

Not much new to say, things are fucked up, 30+% of the people don't think so. We need better.

Problem is these speeches are yelling into a vacuum chamber; other ears that might need to hear it are not going to tune in or get the message.

-V

 

[JackLuis]

Michelle Obama praised for ‘stirring’ convention speech: ‘Just knocked it out of the park’

Michelle Obama received widespread praise for her address to the 2020 Democratic National Committee Convention, which is being held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Here is some of what people were saying about her speech:


Dan Rather
@DanRather
Michelle Obama gives one of the most stirring convention speeches I have heard. Tough. Fair. But full of hope. The format makes it all the more personal She taps into the deep currents that are the best of American values.

S.E. Cupp
@secupp
Friend of mine just texted, ‘If such a thing is possible, Michelle could have just won this election for Biden.”

She is goooooood. Maybe they should have given her a slot on the last night?

Jennifer Rubin
@JRubinBlogger
Well this settles it. From now on, Michelle Obama delivers all convention speeches

Jon Lovett
@jonlovett
Bernie and Michelle just made as powerful a case as two human beings could make.

 

[JackLuis]

‘This is not normal’: Bernie Sanders rails against Trump’s authoritarianism at 2020 Dem convention

Former 2020 presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders thanked his supporters for backing him during the primaries, but urged them to join with him in voting for former Vice President Joe Biden.

“If Donald Trump is re-elected, all the progress we have made will be in jeopardy,” the Vermont independent warned. “We need an unprecedented response, a movement like never before.”

“Under this administration, authoritarianism has taken root in our country,” he warned.

“Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
Trump golfs,” Sanders said.

"The future of our democracy is at stake.

The future of our economy is at stake.

The future of our planet is at stake.

We must come together, defeat Donald Trump and elect @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris as our next president and vice president." – @BernieSanders

 

[JackLuis]

John Kasich praised for giving Republicans permission to vote for Joe Biden in 2020 during ‘crossroads’ convention speech

Prominent Republicans praised former Vice President Joe Biden, a Democrat, during the first night of the 2020 Democratic National Committee Convention.

During the virtual event, convention organizers played of John Kasich, the former Republican governor of Ohio who was a longtime representative of the state in Congress.

“I’m a lifelong Republican, but that attachment holds second place to my responsibility to my country,” Kasich said. “That’s why I’ve chosen to appear at this convention. In normal times, something like this would probably never happen, but these are not normal times.”

CNN’s S.E. Cupp praised the speech.

“The pro-Biden ‘unexpected voices’ idea was a GREAT one, and Republicans Christine Whitman, Meg Whitman, Susan Molinari, and John Kasich testifying for [Biden] really sung,” Cupp tweeted.

Former GOP congressional candidate and Congressional attorney Sophia Nelson said, “This is the best speech [Kasich] has ever given. Man. This was awesome!!”

 

[JackLuis]

Republicans Against Trump strategist says a surprising number of Trump voters can be persuaded to vote against him

But according to strategist Mike Murphy, just because Trump has a presidential campaign doesn’t mean he knows that he has any kind of real strategy behind him.

“We’re kind of are trained to expect very sophisticated campaigns,” said Murphy, a veteran of the ’88 and ’92 Bush and 2000 McCain campaigns. “Here’s a guy at the top doing angry tweets. There’s a staff mostly of second tier, third tier people, who, you know they can’t control him so they’re trying to turn on the machinery. So, that’s why it’s all tactics. The tactic this week is let’s throw out wild video ads to get in the news cycle while the Democrats hammer us at the convention.”

Swirling down the drain is the Trump campaign!

 

[JackLuis]

Colin Powell: ‘I support Joe Biden for the Presidency of the United States’

Dem Convention panned for hyping Colin Powell while sidelining Ocasio-Cortez

Progressives have continued to criticize the Democratic National Convention for another night of Republicans dominating the convention.

On Tuesday, the satirical publication The Onion published a hard-hitting piece headlined, “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Upgraded To Full DNC Speaking Slot After Announcing Support For Iraq War.”

That joke came only hours before the DNC announced that Iraq War accomplice Colin Powell would be addressing the convention — and would be given more time than the 60 seconds given to AOC.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump ridiculed for his ‘rebuttal’ — after Obama ‘threw the shade of a mighty oak’

ormer President Barack Obama blasted Donald Trump during his Wednesday night address to the nation at the Democratic National Committee Convention.

Former Pres. Obama on Pres. Trump:

"He's shown no interest in putting in the work, no interest in finding common ground, no interest in using the awesome power of his office to help anyone but himself and his friends … Donald Trump hasn't grown into the job, because he can't."

Obama just delivered an historic and terrifying speech about the stakes in 2020 for American democracy. He waited four years—then threw the shade of a mighty oak.

As Obama was speaking, Trump lashed out on Twitter, in all caps.

WHY DID HE REFUSE TO ENDORSE SLOW JOE UNTIL IT WAS ALL OVER, AND EVEN THEN WAS VERY LATE? WHY DID HE TRY TO GET HIM NOT TO RUN?

— Donald J. Trump

PeeResident Word Salad doesn't understand proper rhetoric.

 

[YDB95]

Colin Powell: ‘I support Joe Biden for the Presidency of the United States’

Dem Convention panned for hyping Colin Powell while sidelining Ocasio-Cortez

I love AOC, but she is a first-term representative. I'm no great fan of Colin Powell, but he does offer more in terms of strategic outreach.

 

[JackLuis]

Obama Just Saying If You Don't Get Your Sh*t Together And Vote, America Is Over

"If anyone had a right to believe that this democracy did not work, and could not work, it was THOSE Americans." — Barack Obama, angrily

One of the themes of this week's Democratic National Convention — which has just been really good, we bet RNC chair Ronna Romney McDaniel is wishing the GOP had, like, planned one — has been that Donald Trump is fundamentally incapable of meeting the moment. Any moment. The presidency, the current challenges we face, stairs, ramps. Trump has never met any moments.

Meanwhile, the Democrats' addresses to the convention have met the moment. On Monday night, Michelle Obama pulled the fuckin' fire alarm, in a way we're not used to seeing her do. Last night, her husband former President Barack Obama did the same, in a way he doesn't do. And he was just saying that if you don't get over your shit and vote, America is over. (Which is a bit of an escalation from "DON'T BOO, VOTE," we think.)

He kept saying it. "That's what's at stake right now. Our democracy." Your cynicism about voting? Trump and his Republicans, who are no longer an American party, are counting on it. "That's how a democracy withers, until it's no democracy at all."

Obama went hard after Donald Trump. He said "at a minimum, we should expect a president to feel a sense of responsibility for the safety and welfare of all 330 million of us." But Trump doesn't. "We should expect a president to be the custodian of this democracy." But Trump doesn't, instead viewing it as a plaything for keeping his power.

He slammed Trump's stupidity, his irresponsibility, his vanity, his pissing on democracy to enrich and protect himself and his friends. And again, the recurring theme of the week, which is that it's not that Trump doesn't do what he needs to do, but that he can't.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump’s attacks on Biden flop after he ‘hit it out of the park’ during DNC Convention speech

Former Vice President Joe Biden was widely praised on Thursday after his speech accepting the DNC nomination for president in 2020.

Many commentators noted that Donald Trump’s efforts to paint Biden as senile fell apart after the primetime address to the nation — and his “Sleepy Joe” nickname doesn’t seem very apt.

“I’ve never seen a Joe Biden speech anywhere near as good as that,” MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow said. “It was beautifully done.”

This is how Presidents speak!

 

[JackLuis]

Texas newspaper points out stark contrast between Biden and Trump in scathing editorial

Writing in the Houston Chronicle this Friday, the paper’s Editorial Board heaped praise on Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s DNC speech, saying that his message of optimism and unity “would have risked sounding like empty platitudes at a different time.”

“…but after almost four years of an administration fueled by divisiveness, Biden’s speech was a balm to the blistering political paralysis that has left us looking for leadership in the face of disaster,” the Board writes.

A global pandemic, the ensuing economic fallout, racial inequalities and unrest — all things that would have tested any leader. But the last four nights show that “the Democratic Party effectively made its case that President Donald Trump has not only failed to rise to the occasion, he has made things worse by undermining trust in institutions, by letting petty personal grievances cloud his judgment and by stoking hate and partisanship.”

“As the convention sought to prove, America is big enough for all.”

 

[SevMax2]

As someone on Twitter observed yesterday, I haven't seen so many war criminals together in one place since Nuremberg.

 

[MMM_wms]

As someone who has been following John Kasich's career for 40 years, when he was a state senator backing the entire Reagan program and I was a college freshman, I cannot adequately describe how bizarre it is to see him addressing a Democratic convention.

Have you never heard of anyone, who actually learned from their mistakes?

 

[SevMax2]

As someone who has been following John Kasich's career for 40 years, when he was a state senator backing the entire Reagan program and I was a college freshman, I cannot adequately describe how bizarre it is to see him addressing a Democratic convention.

That's because Democrats these days at the national level are basically Diet Republicans.

They worship the military industrial complex, the surveillance state, and the national security apparatus. Why else did they keep us in Iraq and Afghanistan, plus add some more wars on top of those?

Libya, Syria, anyone?

 

[MMM_wms]

As someone on Twitter observed yesterday, I haven't seen so many war criminals together in one place since Nuremberg.

Why don't you shut the fuck up on your pet subject, and begin thinking about the purpose of this convention. It was certainly NOT to satisfy the private opinions of SevMax2. But to convince voters on what to do in November.

And BTW, what do you think about cutting your signature down in size? Nothing useful to say, but taking up half a page for it, that does not make a good impression for sure.

 

[SevMax2]

Why don't you shut the fuck up on your pet subject, and begin thinking about the purpose of this convention. It was certainly NOT to satisfy the private opinions of SevMax2. But to convince voters on what to do in November.

And BTW, what do you think about cutting your signature down in size? Nothing useful to say, but taking up half a page for it, that does not make a good impression for sure.

I didn't solicit your opinion on either topic, so it's iggy time for you, Mr. Rudeness Incarnate.