It was a pretty raucous crowd tonight as Michelle Obama took the floor, and once again, if there was any disunity in the house, it was damn hard to see it. I’ve got some video, but I haven’t even had a chance to view it, let alone edit some clips.
More in the morning, after I’ve had some time to digest the day’s events.
It was an AMAZING speech. I really doubt that Cindy Hensley McCain could even hope to approach this.
Michelle Obama has more smarts and compassion in her little fingernail than all of America’s Republicans put together.
Republicans don’t care about workers, veterans, students, senior citizens, or the disabled. They only care about themselves. All they want is more opportunity to steal.
It was amazing. This is a pandering/propaganda sort of event in general (and getting moreso with each convention) of course, but when Michelle Obama got into the speech it was clear that it was coming from the heart and there was not a dry eye in the house. Not a better or smarter first lady to be than… well, you-know-who. You have someone that eloquent, brilliant, and earnest and all the teevee press could talk about was how well she looked and how cute her kids are. Whatever.
This was an incredible night! All the packaging and pop music, and despite all that you had Michelle Obama and Ted Kennedy being who they are and they cut right through it all.
Hey Repukes!! Our convention has more balloons than your convention, neener neener!!!
The Republicans won’t be having a convention. The Twin Cities will be hosting the world’s largest outdoor asylum for a few days.
Republicans have controlled the direction of our country for most of the last 28 years. Let’s review their accomplishments:
1. Although America is a richer country than ever before, the standard of living of American workers has actually gone down.
2. Once a beacon of light in a troubled world, America is now considered a bully in most of the world.
3. The rich are getting a larger share of America’s GDP than at any time since the 1890s.
4. Millions of high-paying manufacturing jobs have been replaced by low-paying retail and service jobs, or no jobs at all.
5. Billions of dollars of corporate pension obligations have been dumped on taxpayers.
6. Our food and medicines are less safe than at any time since 1910.
7. You can now get better health care in developing countries than in America.
8. It is now common practice for banks to charge 32% interest on credit cards and $40 for a bounced check.
9. China’s savings rate is 50% of their national income; America’s savings rate is less than zero.
10. Job security is a thing of the past. Defined benefit pensions are almost a thing of the past. Employer-provided health insurance is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
11. Average Americans face more economic uncertainty and a less secure future than at any time since the 1930s.
12. America’s leaders behave like that guy with the Charlie Chaplin mustache did in the 1930s.
Waaaaytagooooo wingfuck traitors!!! America should thank you with a noose!!!*
* Just kidding! We live in a wingnut country, so we may as well enjoy wingnut humor!!!
According to Barron’s, a conservative weekly business publication, 80% of the new jobs since 2001 are actually statistical adjustments that do not represent real people working in real jobs.
Right wing goofus-bird warning: the rotten, vile, putrid, hateful, evil white supremacists who hate Obama only because of his skin are REALLY gonna be scared now.
A black woman with a BRAIN!
The rightwing owned media will make much of every little sign of Democratic disunity while ignoring the substance of the Democrats’ message on America’s faltering economy, faltering foreign policy, and faltering moral fiber. Hey, real democracy is messy! Meanwhile, the GOP convention will be run as efficiently as a Nazi Party rally.
Newsweek reports that “three men are now under arrest in connection with an inquiry into a possible plot to kill Barack Obama.”
The men were arrested after a traffic stop in the Denver area. Guns and drugs were found in the car, and one of the men apparently made comments about Obama.
Newsweek identified one of the arrested men by name as a known white supremacist.
I received an email today from a rightwing acquaintance (I actually have a few of them) lauding Cindy McCain. The spin was remarkable. Somehow, despite Cindy having been handed everything in her life that she could possibly want, was portrayed as having earned everything. The post even said that Cindy McCain had achieved more in her life than had Hillary and Obama together. I have nothing against Cindy McCain. Hell, I’d love to marry a blonde, multimillionaire who owns a beer distributorship. But, comparing her to Michelle Obama? Give me a break. Cindy would be good for a night, but Michelle keeps you interested for a long time.
@11 So typical of Republicans. They equate being born into a rich family with “earning.” Cindy McCain doesn’t know what “work” is. She’s never had to do real work. Bossing people around isn’t work. “Work” is getting bossed around and actually doing the work. Republicans delude themselves by pretending they “work.”
MICHELLE OBAMA NO TITS.AND HER ASS IS HALF WAY UP HER BACK. ILL TAKE THE BLOND.
I HEARD WHEN TEDDY KICKS THE BUCKET THERE GOING TO BURRY HIM AT SEA IN THE CAR HE USED TO KILL MARY JO.
I would have nothing against the rich if they actually competed on a level playing field without government handouts and succeeded by selling a better product at a lower cost. But that describes hardly any American businesses today.
Take, for example, Cabela’s. Dick and Mary Cabela are billionaires. At least, they were until their company’s stock tanked along with the other retailers. Cabela’s is a national sporting goods chain that recently opened a shiny new store in Lacey.
Don’t believe for an instant this store was built with investor money. It wasn’t. Cabela’s selects retail store sites based on the incentive packages offered by local governments in exchange for a couple of hundred low-paying retail jobs.
Typically, Cabela’s won’t build a store unless the incentives exceed the cost of the store. A typical incentive package includes:
Free land
No property taxes
Taxpayers pay for road access
The company keeps all local sales taxes it collects for 20 to 30 years
A generous gift of economic development money
Other tax abatements and concessions
According to the book “Free Lunch” by David Cay Johnston, Cabela’s makes more money from government handouts than it earns in profits from all of its retail sales. In fact, the company wouldn’t make a profit at all if it had to earn its money in the marketplace. Although Wal-Mart and many other large companies also play the freeloading game, Cabela’s is the hands-down master of the retail world at milking taxpayers. It doesn’t make a damn bit of difference whether their stores ever sell anything, as long as they can keep suckering local politicians into deals like this.
And, of course, Cabela’s stores drive local businesses who’ve been paying their own way and collecting taxes for local jurisdictions out of business.
Well, I know a good thing when I see it! After reading about how the Cabela family got rich from government handouts, I bought hundreds of shares of Cabela’s stock! I’m an entrepreneur, too! And I’m not crazy. I’d never put my hard-earned money in a company that had to actually earn a profit in a competitive marketplace. Free enterprise is for losers! If you want to prosper, invest in corporate socialism! That’s what I do. It sure beats working for a living, and I get a big discount on my taxes too!
@13 “I’ll take the blond.”
Tired of your pet goat, are you?
The one thing that Michelle has going for her over that big fat, ugly cow Mrs. GW Bush (Laura) is that Michelle never killed a guy. That CUNT Laura did – and she did it because he wouldn’t fuck her. Can you blame him? She is ONE UGLY BITCH and I am glad we won’t have to look at her fat ass anymore after January.
Michelle was great – much better public speaker than Hillary could ever hope to be. No offense Clinton supporters, just my opinion.
@2 Republicans donate 10 times more money to
charities than democrats. Hell, Dick Cheney
probably gives more than all the Dems in the
Congress combined. But we dont care. Michelle
Obama is pretty sharp with a mike in her hand
but her beliefs are well meaning only they wont
work.
Republicans donate 10 times more money to
charities than democrats.
Yeah, their favorites charities being the RNC and any right wing stink tank who is already funded by rich right wingers.
I can just imagine any wingnut’s mailbox being stuffed with “cries for help” from every wingnut fringy group fighting against “socialism”.
@19 got a link? Didn’t think so.
11 – Cindy McCain is a pretty sad case. She became highly addicted to painkillers and was raiding the pharmacy of a medical charity she ran. She forged phony prescriptions using the names of subordinates working for the charity.
All of this was swept under the carpet.
Very sad. Stuck in a marriage of convenience she has filled the void with drugs and conspicuous consumption.
Apparently becoming a first lady is the last deperate ploy to fulfill an otherwise lackluster life.
Is she proud of America now?
Hey My Goldy Itches, I hear your pet goat died. Something about overuse and syphilis. Hows the penicillin working for you? Did they catch it in time?
Maybe SIN dee will talk about how one month, she had to get by with only $500 k on her Amex instead of the usual $800 k a month she spends. Or she’ll relate to the days when she was poor and only owned one jet. And then Johnboy can mention that when he cheated on his disfigured wife with SIN dee he was poor but married into money since he really was worthless having helped the VC during the Viet Nam war.