Official: 2008 Democratic National Convention

[OH10]

Best part of the speech: When Bill brought out the fact that he received te same criticism of 'inexperience' back in '92... when he was two years younger than Barack Obama is now.

Man, that speech got me excited. I'm expecting Biden to knock it out of the park tonite as well.

['BusNative]

FWIW those interested can catch Kerry on CSPAN - he's giving a speech re: national security that is better than anything from his candidacy. Must be the Al Gore Syndrone...

[OSUsushichic]

Originally Posted by 'BusNative

FWIW those interested can catch Kerry on CSPAN - he's giving a speech re: national security that is better than anything from his candidacy. Must be the Al Gore Syndrone...

He has to give a good speech. He's severely in danger of losing his Senate seat up here (to another Dem).

[CookyPuss]

Originally Posted by 'BusNative

FWIW those interested can catch Kerry on CSPAN - he's giving a speech re: national security that is better than anything from his candidacy. Must be the Al Gore Syndrone...

Where was that guy 4 years ago.

[bluechillj]

Gosh, that Kerry speech was great. He even used critiques of himself amusingly to criticize McCain. Where did this come from?

[CookyPuss]

Originally Posted by OSUsushichic

He has to give a good speech. He's severely in danger of losing his Senate seat up here (to another Dem).

It's okay, he'll be Obama's Sec of State.

[OH10]

Originally Posted by OSUsushichic

He has to give a good speech. He's severely in danger of losing his Senate seat up here (to another Dem).

He came through. He turned it around on John McCain - adequately portraying McCain as a man who was brought down by dirty attack politics in 2000, but sees fit to use them now.

['BusNative]

Since I have the benefit of time zone here:

1) the relative (and I do mean relative) silence here tonight reflects a strong showing for the Dems. Many of our (in all due respect) Dem naysayers do not have much to say right now.

2) we are ALL now waiting on Obama to show and prove tomorrow night. Luckily (if you're a Dem), tomorrow's format is designed for Barack Obama.

Objectively, from a purely politilcal standpoint, it is hard to fight the notion that the Dem primary has escalated precisely on cue to this point...

[JXC]

They really went right at McCain today. I enjoyed Joe Biden. I thought he was very powerful. John McCain was wrong and Barack Obama was right. I think that will be used again from time to time.

[jimotis4heisman]

bill gave a nice speech. typical bill, you know what youre going to get with him. his delivery is so good, so smooth. if you really listened to him he had some serious holes but hes so fluid and such a great orator. i really like to watch him speak.

biden also was enjoyable. he must really like his train rides!

im just wondering we are seeing the hope and change plub slowly evolve into the same old same old. lets face it the whining that hillary got the election stolen from her (gore 2000) and the constant complaining. i mean 2002-2006 was a pretty robust economy, maybe as it turns out it was paper tiger. but to me the constant complaining, blame game and all this has begun to turn me off. the dems have had the senate for since 2006 and what have they done, passed a bunch of bills that declare the officialhome of hot dogs and pass the least amount of legislation in modern history. the brewing negativity bothers me. what can you do for my country? the negative ads are one thing, the negative oration is another. im sure ill be saying the same thing next week too.

i also wonder what effect the obama/clinton line ups have had on people. i tend to wonder what else the party has to showcase. no new face? no new washington to show us? why were the prime time speakers two sets of husbands and wives?

this country has a true void of leadership- in business, social systems, politically. i just dont see anyone stepping up

[BayBuck]

Originally Posted by jimotis4heisman

bill gave a nice speech. typical bill, you know what youre going to get with him. his delivery is so good, so smooth. if you really listened to him he had some serious holes but hes so fluid and such a great orator. i really like to watch him speak.

biden also was enjoyable. he must really like his train rides!

im just wondering we are seeing the hope and change plub slowly evolve into the same old same old. lets face it the whining that hillary got the election stolen from her (gore 2000) and the constant complaining. i mean 2002-2006 was a pretty robust economy, maybe as it turns out it was paper tiger. but to me the constant complaining, blame game and all this has begun to turn me off. the dems have had the senate for since 2006 and what have they done, passed a bunch of bills that declare the officialhome of hot dogs and pass the least amount of legislation in modern history. the brewing negativity bothers me. what can you do for my country? the negative ads are one thing, the negative oration is another. im sure ill be saying the same thing next week too.

i also wonder what effect the obama/clinton line ups have had on people. i tend to wonder what else the party has to showcase. no new face? no new washington to show us? why were the prime time speakers two sets of husbands and wives?

this country has a true void of leadership- in business, social systems, politically. i just dont see anyone stepping up

Ah, forget leadership, they're putting together such good speeches here! Michelle and John and Joe and Hillary, everyone's Changed into something New in Denver! And Bill Clinton--remember the 1990s with him? They were so much fun! (And he sure reminded us of that) Speechy-speecha-speech!

[Bucklion]

Originally Posted by MuckFich06

Where was that guy 4 years ago.

Same thing people were saying about Bob Dole when he showed personality, a dry sense of humor, and good delivery right after he lost. Not sure why that happens, but it happens a lot.

[Bucklion]

Originally Posted by 'BusNative

Since I have the benefit of time zone here:

1) the relative (and I do mean relative) silence here tonight reflects a strong showing for the Dems. Many of our (in all due respect) Dem naysayers do not have much to say right now.

2) we are ALL now waiting on Obama to show and prove tomorrow night. Luckily (if you're a Dem), tomorrow's format is designed for Barack Obama.

Objectively, from a purely politilcal standpoint, it is hard to fight the notion that the Dem primary has escalated precisely on cue to this point...

I don't think there's any question that the speeches have been good for what they needed to be. But, with the exception of Reagan, there really hasn't been too many times that the Dems didn't give better speeches than the Repubs did the past 50 years. Nixon was droll and boring, The Bushes couldn't deliver a speech to save ther lives...and they all managed wins, many times 2 of them. Speeches at conventions are lovely, and if they accomplish actually getting people out to vote, then they have been successful. However, there is a lot of time for the average Joe to forget these speeches before November...it's what happens between now and then that counts. The same, of course, goes for the Repubs.

The interesting thing will be to see how the Repubs respond...Clinton won in 1992 in part because that (Repub) was arguably the biggest disaster of a convention since the 1968 Democratic nightmare. One thing this week has done is put quite a bit of pressure on the Republicans...we'll see what happens.

[jimotis4heisman]

Originally Posted by Bucklion

Same thing people were saying about Bob Dole when he showed personality, a dry sense of humor, and good delivery right after he lost. Not sure why that happens, but it happens a lot.

the nothing to lose syndrome. well call it the juice williams syndrome. nothing to lose, everything to gain...

[AKAKBUCK]

Originally Posted by 'BusNative

2) we are ALL now waiting on Obama to show and prove tomorrow night. Luckily (if you're a Dem), tomorrow's format is designed for Barack Obama.

I bet he'll be the best Stadium speech giver since either Lou Gehrig or Hitler.