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Last call for Princess Hillary

The Princess has a reputation to take care of (don’t we all), and Obama is not all too keen on having the show blown apart by Bill and Hillary. Lined up for padgent is a who’s-who of the political game. Kicking of proceedings is Michele Obama, Nancy Pelosi and maybe a guest appearance from the Lion King himself. Tuesday brings on Hillary paired with Mark Warner, Wednesday Bill takes the stage and we’ll be waiting with baited breath to see if he can finally pull his thumb out of his mouth. Thursday the media does its midnight scramble and we go for the all star platform with Al Gore, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden.

However, back on the previous thread the inimitable Kirribilli Removals made the following comment …

This is the last call for Princess Hillary, and if she doesn’t pull a dastardly trick at the conference, it’s all over for her. Sure, the Republicans would be the only winners, but that’s never stopped her in the past. It must be hard having your earthly form inhabited by an Alien ego, just busting to burst out and terrify the adoring crowd.

You have to ask the question – “Will the Princess be wearing a blue dress?”

Bring it on – round one “The Federation Offensive”

UPDATE: 26-AUG-08 00:30

Last night, in a temporal euphoria induced by a cocktail of morphine and assorted amphetamines KR managed to punch out an email contributing to this post. It contained the following URL http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/08/22/republicans_dnc/index.html

UPDATE: 26-AUG-08 02:16

Calendar updated to include a gazillion speakers on Monday night.
Click on the following link for the full agenda which kicks off about 7.30 AM our time …
Democratic National Convention Calendar.

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501 replies on “Last call for Princess Hillary”

KatieLou – sorry I didn’t refresh the page to see your latest post. Delayed “snap” on my part.

G’day Demfesters,

Anyone wanting to check the floor action in Denver without talking heads or commercials or network bias might care to do so on C-span. Downloading a Real Player to desktop is no drama and the “reception” is totally excellent.

“My toolbar wouldn’t boot up without one”, gushed hardcore political junky and downunder downloadee, Beryl Kransky of Esk, Queensland.

http://www.c-span.org/Politics/
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Wed Aug 27:
http://news.yahoo.com/edcartoons/doonesbury;_ylt=AlnsbVO9ts_8qckeOV4SKO7X.sgF

http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/58194

Pat O. has little faith in Billy BJ. We’ll see soon enough.
Wed Aug 27:
http://news.yahoo.com/edcartoons/patoliphant;_ylt=ApzZ2mkkE0s0wMNXv9ytMC7d.sgF

Despite his war-mongering, LBJ’s commitment to social justice ensured that during his time at the top, Dems ruled States south of Mason-Dixon that are now safe GOPper electoral turf. Havn’t heard him mentioned at D-fest yet.
http://news.yahoo.com/edcartoons/bensargent;_ylt=Au4wr.1AW7oK5LnvTprO7.E0vTYC

Wed Aug 27:
http://news.yahoo.com/edcartoons/tomtoles;_ylt=Atq7tzwTrrC5wBc44HZoMxJT_b4F

Bill is powerfully coming out for Obama. This is fantastic. As a huge Clinton fan – both of them (and I know that that makes me not in the majority on this board) – he has again impressed me mightily. He is almost using Obama’s name in every sentence. 🙂

Bubba has the floor:

Nice haircut, huge acclaimation. My, doesn’t the boy look good in blue!

“Hillary said she’s gonna do everything she can do elect B.O., and so am I”

-the “18 million” exhorted to do likewise.

“~in troubled times, B.O. is the man for this job”

“selection of a running mate, Joe Biden, he hit it out of the park”

“B.O. is ready to lead America and restore Am. Leadership in the world”

“~Baz will defend the Constitution.”

“he WILL stand up to them”. (adversaries and opponents)

Lots of the usual rhetorical fluff and palava. Polly spackle.

“Join me in making B.O. the next POTUS”
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No sulking , no recriminations, passed the baton without kerfuffle.
Did what he had to do for the The Team. Coulda been a lot worse.
Be interesting to see if Bill shows up and the stadium tomorrow.

Damn, I’ve missed Bill Clinton! Too busy with other things!
I’ll find a video of his speech later on!
Maybe some of you can stop bagging the Clintons and calling them disloyal!

Many people on the right love to hate the Clintons, and it must be contagious because the left caught it, too. Must have been all those years listening to Fox, Limbaugh and Coulter in order to criticise them – the relentless anti-Clinton propaganda sunk in somehow.

Kerry was unexpectedly animated and performed well. Effectively compared Senator McCain and Candidate McCain. Jeckyll and Hyde.
Slagged JMc for transplanting Bush’s Brain,Turd Blossom, to JMc’s campaign, the same Turd Blossom whose putresence sank Bomb-Bomb against The Imbecile in the GOP nomination process 8 years ago. Rove had it put abput that McCain had fathered an illegitimate child with a “black woman” which went over like a lead balloon with white racial bigots in Georgia (I think) during the 2004 GOPper Primaries.

(can’t wait for Biden to be cut loose from his “make nice” chains in another speaker or two.)

Bill…

“People have always been more impressed by the power of example than the example of our power.”

Love it.

Biden: solid!
I admit I teared up when they put on the introductory video, then his son came out to introduce him!
Only Americans can do this sort of stuff well!

Ok, Gouldie, Bill was very good. He did what had to be done by a loyal Dem ex-POTUS at Convention.
I’m giving his performance four stars, David.

“Brilliant” was the way Obi made a point of thanking Bill and Hill and if I read the body-language right, the pair of them looked chuffed to receive it.

Absolutely brilliant stuff. Thanks Katie, for the video. Maybe we don’t need Hillary as VP, we still have a three pronged attack. Maybe four if you count Biden. Barack, Hillary and Bill. Bill was outstanding. That will make prime time. I think following the Democrats convention, the Repugs will be a total let down. Who have they got? No one to match Hillary and Bill that’s for sure. Whoops, I forgot, it already is a four pronged attack, Michelle Obama. Then there is Chelsea Clinton to be thrown into the mix. Is she doing an apprenticeship? Is Michelle doing an apprenticeship? For the answers to these and other questions, stay tuned to the Rocky and Bullwinkle show.

219 EC, I give him 5 stars, using his wit and cutting to the chase were excellent. Fox News won’t understand that, but then they don’t seem to understand anything. Must be all the low IQ people they employ there.

Chris: the Republicans will have Cindy McCain, George W Bush, Laura Bush, Rudi Gulianni, Mike Huckabee: who wouldn’t miss that lineup? LOL

I’m a hard marker, Chris:)
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Joe Biden mocks Rudy Giuliani, saying ‘There’s only three things he mentions in a sentence — a noun, a verb, and 9/11.’

A noun, a verb and a POW walk into a bar………..

The verb says to the noun, “Here, take my wife…..”

The noun replies, “Gee, fellah, I hear she’s acting a little intransitive…..”

The verb agreed that she was way past tense.

The POW went on to become a failed presidential nominee.

http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/58169

http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/58188

http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/58216

DG, Depends how Baz acts towards the only global envirnonment we terrestrials have got when he gets the power.
If all Barry’s talk about America “leading the way” on renewables turns out to be hot air, then apart from the ugly spectre of planetary chaos catalysed by wars over resources like water and food, if it’s alright with you, Gouldie, myself and few other billion earthlings could get medieval on his ass or as you so gentlemanly term it, “hard on Obama”.

If Obi appoints Al Gore to deal with Big Carbon and backs Enviro Man with POTUS clout and legislation, then The Kid can do a lot of wrong elsewhere before I’d have to “let him go”.

Never used to think this way before attending my first seminar with Lloyd Fullerton, the Big Picture guy.
Lloyd helped me to use my brain in cerebral cinemascope and change the winmills of my mind into catherine wheels :mrgreen:

It won’t be hot air. But it won’t go as fast or as far as we would both like.

I should note that am a global warming pessimist. It is my opinion that there will be no solid global targets and that global carbon emissions will not start to come down until around 2050, when solar and fusion power come into their own. This is based on an analysis of current per capita emissions.

With China and India way behind the US and Australia on a per capita basis, they will keep pumping until they match us. And if both countries reduce our emissions by 50 per cent, we will be at the European per capita level, which is still twice the Chinese per capita level ….

Obama has had a high bar set for him, by Michelle, Hillary and Bill. So, I am looking forward to his speech.

227 No solid global targets will get you nowhere. You’ve got to have something to aim at, even if you don’t succeed. Businesses live on targets.

Bill Clinton pledges support for Barack Obama.

“The Republicans said I was too young and too inexperienced to be commander in chief,” Clinton said to a roar of approval from the Democrats. “Sound familiar?”

“It didn’t work in 1992 because we were on the right side of history. And it will not work in 2008 because Barack Obama is on the right side of history.”

I loved those last two paragraphs.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-clinton28-2008aug28,0,4073658.story

Sen. Barack Obama was nominated by his party on Wednesday to be the 44th president of the United States, becoming the first African-American to receive a major party nomination.

With a unanimous vote, the freshman senator from Illinois defeated the first family of Democratic Party politics with a call for a fundamentally new course in politics.

It brought to an end an often-bitter two-year political struggle for the nomination with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who, standing on a packed convention floor electric with anticipation, moved to halt the roll call in progress so that the convention could nominate Obama by acclamation.

That it did with a succession of loud roars, followed by a swirl of dancing, embracing, high-fiving and chants of “Yes, we can.”

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/5971129.html

Biden, Clinton rally Democrats behind official nominee Obama.

Democrats sought two things Wednesday night, and got them both. Bill Clinton offered an unequivocal blessing, finally, for Barack Obama. And Joe Biden roughed up Republican John McCain, while lending an air of blue-collar sincerity and foreign policy credibility to the coming fight.

For days, Democrats grumbled that unity and intensity had eluded them a bit. Now Mr. Obama, who formally became the first black nominee of a major party on Wednesday, can accept his nomination tonight with all the pieces in place.

“Barack Obama is ready to lead America and restore American leadership in the world,” Mr. Clinton said.

That’s two good reviews in Texas. Very interesting.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/national/stories/082808dnpolbiden.1c529309.html

Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware accepted the Democratic vice-presidential nomination on Wednesday night with an ode to his middle-class upbringing and a blistering attack on Senator John McCain.

On tax policy and the war in Iraq, on health care and terrorism, on the minimum wage and on Russia, Mr. Biden said, the contrast was clear between Mr. McCain and the Democratic presidential nominee, Senator Barack Obama.

“Again and again,” he said, “on the most important national security issues of our time, John McCain was wrong, and Barack Obama was proven right.”

You must be registered for the NY Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/us/politics/28biden.html?ref=us

Who says money doesn’t make a difference? Here is a perfect example.

Colorado U.S. Senate race is getting a 527 reputation.

“Mark Udall is really a nice guy and a good candidate and he was probably up 15 points out here at one point, and they’ve outspent him seven to one,” Lunsford said. “I saw three commercials this morning in a half an hour on the same station with all those 527 funds and all that extra money and they’ve tightened this race up out here as a result.

http://www.politickerco.com/jeremypelzer/2133/colorado-us-senate-race-getting-527-reputation

Historic nomination, by acclamation.

Sen. Barack Obama became the Democratic presidential nominee today, making history as the first African American to head a major-party ticket and climbing within one step of the White House less than four years removed from the Illinois legislature.

His defeated rival, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, moved to suspend the formal roll call, and “in the spirit of unity, with the goal of victory,” declare Obama the nominee by acclamation.

“Let us declare with one voice, right here, right now, that Barack Obama is our candidate,” Clinton said from the floor of the Pepsi Center, to a thunderclap of an ovation.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20080827_Historic_nomination__by_acclamation.html

Me too, David, I’m a G.W. pessimist but won’t be around to witness the mass extinctions scientists warn us about that have followed massive climate changes of yore. But my kids will, as will theirs and everybody elses.

Buggered if I’m gonna mope around with my thumb in my bum and my mind in neutral while Big Carbon & Allied cannibalise their future.

Short of worldwide apocalypse of a scale no contemporary Homo Saps have experienced, President Obama, as the most powerful polly on the planet would be the world’s best bet of leadership being shown on the most vital issue of the 21st Century.

BHO is up against the functioning psychopaths of Big Carbon this campaign who would prefer to deal with Prez Bomb-Bomb because he’s House trained. These BigC scum are Stratos Dwellers, their ancestors were slavers. They own America. They don’t give a toss about anything except maintaining their power and concommittant mega-profits.

The fireworks will begin well before Guy Fawkes night in 2008. Thank goodness we’ve all got comfy seats, are cyber-abled, and our removalist pal has a never ending supply of exploding maize:)

In the end, we are all Future Eaters. Pass the popcorn please, Kirri.

i must say as one who has been disappointed with hillary, i was very impressed by her move to suspend the roll call and call for nomination of Obama by acclamation. she didnt need to do it. credit where credit is due

Michelle’s Moment: Personal And Powerful.

In August ’72, I sat in a bar in Rockland, Maine, with some buddies watching the Republican Convention on a TV much smaller than the ones bars have today. With me was Joe Courtney, now an outstanding freshman congressman, then an enthusiastic college freshman. I can see Joe now, leaning back on his barstool, sipping tea.

It was “Pat Nixon Appreciation Night” in Miami, complete with a tribute film and a phalanx of fresh-faced youths dressed as cheerleaders; a Mormon Tabernacle Choir with pom-poms.

Good article worth a read.

http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-curry0827.artaug27,0,2936776.column

Democrats’ new drive in red states.

Four years ago, the Democratic Party in Mississippi was struggling to keep its doors open. Today, party leaders here at the Democratic National Convention in Denver are seriously considering turning the onetime red state blue come November.

With an infusion of enthusiasm and cash from national party during the past four years – the state now has four full-time staff paid by the DNC – Mississippi Democrats won a special election in May 2008, taking a congressional seat that had been reliably Republican for more than a generation. And they believe that’s just for starters.

“We also stand a very good chance this time around to elect a US Senator,” says Rep. Bennie Thompson (D) of Mississippi. “And we may even carry this state for Obama.”

http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2008/08/27/democrats%E2%80%99-new-drive-in-red-states/

Premier/Diebold has now been actually writing letters to States warning them of their memory cards ability to “misread votes”

Premier Elections Solutions Inc. sent a letter to Sarasota County election officials on Thursday warning them that memory cards used in new $3 million optical scan voting system could misread votes. Similar letters have gone to more than 1,700 other cities and counties in 34 starts warning of similar problems.

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080822/ARTICLE/310358&title=Sarasota_told_of_new_voting_machine_glitch

Gaffhook,

And obviously that must mean that they deliberately built them to favour Republicans …

Stupidity – they built them badly; or conspiracy?

You know where my money is. 🙂

“The dropped vote problem dates back to 2006 in Ohio. At least 1,000 total votes were dropped in nine Ohio counties over the course of a handful of elections, including the March presidential primary. The errors were in all cases discovered and corrected within several hours.”

The errors were in all cases discovered. What a powerful conspiracy!

Obama surprises Dems with convention visit.

Barack Obama, who was formally nominated Wednesday as the first major-party African American presidential candidate in history, delighted and electrified Democrats with a surprise visit on the third day of their national convention – one painted with a remarkable display of unity.

Obama’s unexpected star turn came at the end of a night in which party delegates got a full helping of passionate calls to action, red-meat attacks on the opposition and peace gestures between previous rivals.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/28/MNN612JHIC.DTL

Salon’s Joan Walsh has the best take on day 3 I’ve seen so far, including this luscious morsel.

Then Clinton took the podium and made those memories real. He left the stage to U2’s “Beautiful Day,” which then strangely segued into Robert Palmer’s “Addicted to Love” — although the band cut off the refrain but the crowd shouted out the line they dropped: “You might as well face that you’re addicted to love.”

http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/?last_story=/opinion/walsh/election_2008/2008/08/28/bill_clinton/

Don’t worry about him, Gaffy, he’s a Flat Earther when it comes to electoral theft.

Great to see the issue getting some mainstream oxygen. Also Ohioan Dems now have documentary evidence to file at court if there is the slightest whiff of poll skullduggery come November. Governor Strickland of Ohio is a Dem and won’t use his powers to kybosh a valid legal challenge. Cf, Kathryn Harris and GOPper Gov. Jebbie Bush in FL 2000.

David, here’s a good example of some of the things that don’t show up in polling.

Overall, early voting helps election boards smooth out their work. It helps highly organized campaigns do enough prep work that their election day efforts are that much more streamlined. It’s no joke to say that Jon Tester is a United States Senator today because of a massive effort over the summer and fall of 2006 to get supporters to request absentee ballots mailed to them. In a state where roughly 400,000 people voted, the Tester campaign gained a roughly 10,000 vote head start (and also provided supporter IDs who could then be recruited to volunteer). Tester won by fewer than 4,000 votes.

In the battleground states this presidential year, it’s these small but distinct percentages that add up to victory. You won’t find it in the polling.

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/08/voting-early-in-battleground-states.html

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DG
Not sure that it means that they were deliberately built to favour repugs at all and that simple analogy i guess suits your ideas.
If you have read all the links re these voting machines and watched the video clips of Spoonerman and others i think it shows absolutely nothing to do with how they are built and the angle is more the way they are programmed and that other software can be introduced.
Which to my way of thinking means that those “in Charge” , if they were Dem leaning, could just as easily introduce software to these machines to drop repug votes.

I do not partake in the idea that any of the persons connected with the building and programming of these machines are stupid. I do not believe they built them badly either.
I believe they are very clever. Someone that i think is stupid would not be capable of building and programming the machines to the standard of their performance. These are the same people who make thousands of eftpos machines.

To me there is enough evidence in the public domain (some of which may well finish up in the courts when more evidence surfaces) to conclude that the introduction of these machines in conjunction with their election legislation allowing the introduction of same was corrupt because of the inability to audit the processes openly.
At this point in time the whole process has been basically controlled by the repugs for the last 8 years and they have shown no attempts to eliminate the possibilities of corruption in elections using these machines without a paper trail.

This is not to say, that had the shoe been on the other foot, the same course of events may not have transpired.

I guess what i would really like to see is no opportunity for either party to conspire to stack the vote and the simplest way to do that is go back to the paper and pencil and have scrutineers from both sides watching over. If you get done in those circumstances you are at least done fair and square and you can recount as many times as you like because they are physically there.

Having worked at a polling booth for two elections here in Australia in early ninetys, with the paper ballot and all the scrutineers peering over shoulders, there is really no way to corrupt the system. The worst case was argument as to whether a particular vote was valid or not. That situation was then decided further up the tree.

My short evaluation of the whole thing is that the repugs in power are well aware of the problems with these machines (as stated by avowed repug Spoonamore) and are conveniently doing nothing to solve it so that every Joe Sixpack knows he is getting a fair vote.

To me that is corrupt and i would say the same thing if it were the other side doing exactly the same.
That’s just in case you think i am biased.

Obama must deliver at DNC, 45 years after ‘Dream’.

On Aug. 28, 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech to more than 200,000 people at the March on Washington.

This was the year of Alabama Gov. George Wallace’s “Segregation Forever” speech. It is the year the NAACP’s Medgar Evers is killed. Four black girls are murdered attending Sunday school in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. Race riots follow. President John F. Kennedy proposes a civil rights bill. A war rages in Vietnam. Kennedy is assassinated.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/08/27/2008-08-27_obama_must_deliver_at_dnc_45_years_after.html

Young voters hold key for Obama.

From 2000 to 2008, the percentage of party delegates younger than 36 nearly doubled, from 9% to 16%, according to Jane Kleeb of Young Voter PAC, which supports Democratic candidates who reach out to young voters.

Obama won the Democratic nomination on the backs of these young Americans, and he hopes to rely on them again to beat Republican rival Sen. John McCain this fall.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080828/NEWS15/808280464

So now that’s young voters are the key, and women voters are the key. Also Black voters are the key, along with Latino voters and new voters. Hmmmm.

A process of ritual ….

1. Michelle Obama speaks passionately above family, love, children, husband, country – closing scenes wrap up the first day with the sound of little children shouting out “daddy I love you” to the Face of Bo smiling down from the big screen

2. Hillary Clinton takes up the second day in the role of mother – calling the family together, articulating the case for unity, putting her own cards on the table, setting the terms – it’s about family, it’s about the path forward, the responsibilities of each and every loyal member of the bretherin

3. Bill Clinton, day three – father figure, speaks of the past, speaks of the present, speaks to the future, and places his blessing on the prodigal son.

Up next – day 4: Al Gore and Barack Obama a mile high.

199 Catrina

A tropical storm to dump on the Republican parade would be poetic justice on a big scale, eh?

Katrina’ Revenge? LOL

“With eyes firmly fixed on the future in the spirit of unity, with the goal of victory, with faith in our party and country, let’s declare together in one voice, right here and right now, that Barack Obama is our candidate and he will be our president,” Mrs. Clinton said.

“I move that Senator Barack Obama of Illinois be selected by this convention by acclamation as the nominee of the Democratic Party for president of the United States,” she said.

NYTimes

…ladies and gentlemen, the fat lady (and her husband) have sung.

Now, on to the election with an invigorated party and a tired looking republican nominee.

Ecky, where’s that popcorn….??

258 Catrina

The Republicans used Katrina for ethnic cleansing and so it would be ironic if another force of nature did the same for their convention.

Don’t you reckon?

Does anyone honestly care who McCain picks for his running mate? Not me!
I think I’m more excited about seeing Al Gore tomorrow!

KR at 260

Don’t you reckon?

I do, I do.
To paraphrase Hillary Clinton ..

The sky will open, the light will come down. Celestial choirs will be singing, and God will take a mighty dump.

Yes – I really have had one glass too many.

😆

I don’t pretend to know too much about voters of USA but I wonder if they really get off on all this hype. It may not be all choreographed but the Hilary thing about election by acclamation was pretty predictable. And I think the Clintons have pulled off a bit of a coup for themselves being seen to be shoring up Obama after a fair bit of pulling him down over many months. They can both play a big role in helping change things but have also been putting themselves up as the alternative to Obama.
At the same time there is no doubt Obama needs to adjust his antenna to the language of struggling voters who don’t seem impressed by Hollywood style values. Not easy when there is plenty of ignorance and prejudice clouding the view.

Democrats aim for a lock on Senate.

The battle for control of the Senate ranks second behind the presidential race in what promises to be a historic, agenda-setting national election. If Democrats don’t strengthen Senate control, a President Obama could find the White House a frustrating home.

“If he doesn’t get more numbers in the Senate, his agenda could be thwarted,” Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said of his party’s 51-49 majority, which hinges on the vote of Connecticut’s independent Sen. Joe Lieberman, a supporter of Republican presidential candidate John McCain.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/connelly/376779_joel28.html

Mornin’ All,

Tim Kaine just endeavoured to demonstrate his ability as a mountain mover. The Rockies failed to respond on cue. Clearly, these are folk of little faith.
Bill Richardson’s up now. C-Span sans blabbermouths and ads is neato-keeno coverage. I’ve toolbarred ’em to get the soundtrack continuously and flash vision as needed to monitor.
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http://www.truthdig.com/cartoon/item/20080828_the_dream/

IT’S THE CONSTITUTION, STUPID !!

“It may bear repeating that the Constitution matters. America was born of a struggle for freedom from tyranny, not lower gas prices………..

It’s not even, as Glenn Greenwald points out today, that if Democrats cannot pillory the GOP with the truth about Bush’s lawlessness, we are even stupider at elections than anyone previously suspected. The real tragedy of the silence from Denver on the Constitution is that it reinforces the most pernicious lie of the past eight years: that the rule of law is a luxury, not a necessity. Time and again when called to explain the decision to allow torture, strip detainees of the right to habeas corpus, or spy on innocent Americans, Bush administration officials have hit us with the great gooey lie that we cannot afford such niceties in dangerous times. It’s a colossal hoax. The Constitution was written for dangerous times. But to hear them speak in Denver, we can’t afford to talk about the Constitution in economic downturns, either………

Barack Obama taught constitutional law……..

The great tragedy of the Bush administration was that it operated for years as though the Constitution was something nobody really cares about. The great crime of Denver may be that Democrats feel the same way.”

http://www.slate.com/id/2198846/

“He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.”
Benjamin Franklin (U.S. Constitution Framer)

Over to you, Baz……….
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Geez Bill Richardson was good. He mentioned torture and Gitmo and spying on Americans. Didn’t hear the word “Constitution” though.

Gore was great! Think how different the last 8 years would have been if he’d been President!
A truly inspirational man!

Great speech, really great. The gloves are off and Obama is really showing he means business now. I thought it was great how Obama went through the typical GOP lines of attack (abortion, patriotism, gay rights, etc., etc.) and knocked them down one by one, displaying a readiness to take up the fight on any issue.

Enough!

HH

He probably did not watch it as he was probably writing on some blog somewhere as to how somebody should nuke half of Europe.

Adam Carr is often so arrogantly wrong, and badly so about the Obama-Hillary contest. He operates on conventional 20th century wisdom that went out of date a few years ago.

But I give him credit for putting his neck out and making a prediction.

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touche

February seems a long time ago, when the chattering elites were telling us how “politics really operates”.

Barry Obama and his database are the new force.

Dr Carr and his acolytes must be weeping.

It’s really easy to tell what a good person Obama is, just look at his two girls. The youngest one was so keen/pleased/happy/eager to take the microphone. As someone whose wife had a baby sitting business, I can say you can tell the good parents/people by their kids.

291 That database and the way they are using the Internet is terrific. When I understood what he is doing, I knew Obama was the man. The way they are using the technology insures that the Internet will be modernised and rapidly expanded in the US and world wide after the election.

AT LAST!! He showed America he has a bit of mongrel.

Obama’s speech was a cracker in both content and delivery. Perfect for the occasion.
Club McGOPper must be feeling crippled inside.
4 days and 4 nights without one serious snafu.
4 Days and four nights of outstanding performances from the principals and many of the bit players.
4 days and 4 nights of record breaking network ratings despite the millions who sucked Demfest down their inter-tubes.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, we have lift off.

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