LIVE THREAD: DNC Convention - Day 2

6/27/04

[So Cal Rocket]

Tuesday, July 27
A Lifetime of Strength & Service

4:00 pm to 7:00 pm

4:00 pm  Call to Order
The Honorable Bill Richardson
Governor of New Mexico
Permanent Chair, Democratic National Convention

Invocation
The Reverend Ernest "Gunny" Branch
Sermon on the Mount, Baptist Church, Roxbury, Massachusetts

Presentation of Colors

Pledge of Allegiance
Steve Daniels
Carl Junction, Missouri

National Anthem
Jim Garrity
President, Local Firefighters Union 1691
Boston, Massachusetts

Platform Approval
 
Representative Robert Matsui
U.S. House of Representatives, California

Lois Murphy
Candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania

The Honorable Allyson Schwartz
Pennsylvania State Senate
Candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania

Jim Stork
Candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, Florida

Patty Wetterling
Candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, Minnesota

Elizabeth Cavendish
Interim President, NARAL Pro-Choice America

The Honorable John Tanner
 U.S. House of Representatives, Tennessee

The Honorable Linda Sanchez
U.S. House of Representatives, California

The Honorable Nita Lowey
U.S. House of Representatives, New York

The Honorable Diana DeGette
U.S. House of Representatives, Colorado

The Honorable Earl Blumenauer
U.S. House of Representatives, Oregon

The Honorable Jon Corzine
United States Senate, New Jersey

The Honorable Nancy Farmer
Treasurer of Missouri
Candidate for the United States Senate, Missouri

In Memoriam

The Honorable Tom Carper
United States Senate, Delaware

The Honorable Adam Smith
 U.S. House of Representatives, Washington

The Honorable Jesse Jackson, Jr.
U.S. House of Representatives, Illinois

Deb Callahan
President, League of Cbnservation Voters

David Passafaro
President, Boston 2004 Host Committee

The Honorable Douglas Palmer
Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey

James Hoffa
President, International Brotherhood of Teamsters

The Honorable Joe Manchin III
Secretary of State, West Virginia
Candidate for Governor, West Virginia

The Honorable Kathleen Sebelius
Governor of Kansas

Denise Stokes
AIDS Educational Consultant
Ellenwood, Georgia

The Honorable Donald Plusquellic 
Mayor of Akron, Ohio

The Honorable John Baldacci
Governor of Maine

The Honorable Diane Denish
Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico

The Honorable Jeff Bingaman
United States Senator, New Mexico

Performance by Peter, Paul and Mary

Reg Weaver
President, National Education Association

The Honorable John Dingell
U.S. House of Representatives, Michigan

The Honorable Kwame Kilpatrick 
Mayor of Detroit, Michigan

7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

7:00 pm  Gavel In by "Gavel In" Contest Winners
Kristen Turner, age 13, Boston, Massachusetts
Steven Ruperto, age 18, Moon, Pennsylvania

Kids for Kerry
Representatives from Kids for Kerry, Boston chapter
Nubia Smith Whitaker, age 12, will speak on their behalf

Benjamin McKenzie
Actor, "The O.C."

City Youth Dance Ensemble

Tribute to Fannie Lou Hamer
Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee
Actors
 
 The Honorable Bennie Thompson
 U.S. House of Representatives, Mississippi

 Dr. Maya Angelou
 Poet and Activist

 Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Members

 Freedom Singers: "This Little Light of Mine"

The Honorable Mike Honda
U.S. House of Representatives, California

The Reverend Dr. James Forbes
Senior Minister, Riverside Church, New York, New York

Gavel to Order
The Honorable Jeanne Shaheen
Former Governor of New Hampshire

National Anthem via satellite from the Tohono O'odham Nation, Arizona
Michael Enis and Alicia Chiles
The anthem will be sung in the traditional Tohono O'odham language
 

The Honorable Edward Kennedy
United States Senator, Massachusetts
Honorary Chair, Democratic National Committee

Satellite feed from Chicago, Illinois

The Honorable Richard Gephardt
U.S. House of Representatives, Missouri

The Honorable Tom Daschle
United States Senate, South Dakota
Democratic Leader

Satellite feed from Des Moines, Iowa

The Honorable Carol Mosley-Braun
Former United States Senator, Illinois 
 

9:00 pm to 11:00 pm

9:00 pm  The Honorable Howard Dean
Former Governor of Vermont

Satellite from the Tohono O'odham Nation, Arizona

Christie Vilsack
First Lady of Iowa

The Honorable Janet Napolitano
Governor of Arizona

The Honorable Richard Durbin
United States Senator, Illinois

Keynote Speaker
Barack Obama
Candidate for the United States Senate, Illinois

Satellite feed from Chicago, Illinois

The Honorable Jim Langevin
U.S. House of Representatives, Rhode Island

Ron Reagan

Kids for Kerry Founder Ilana Wexler
Age 12
Oakland, California

Performance by Children's Voices of Greater Boston

Chris Heinz

Teresa Heinz Kerry

Finale

Benediction
Imam Yahya Hendi
Muslim Chaplin, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Adjournment

[Mo1]

Somebody watch MSNBC..........Matthews just said he was going to drop a "bomb on this group after the commercial."

I just swtiched over .. nothing yet

[Carolinamom]

Mort Kondrake: "I'll have to say that stacked up against Laura Bush, she's going to be a hard sell." LOLLOL

[Jaded]

They have some. HaHa. Chris Wallace still doesn't understand why Tarayzah got this billing.

That was too funny.

Today my lib supervisor made a comment about the media picking on poor ms Heinz-Kerry. Oh, yeah it was when she saw an addition of the Financial Times. Boo-fricken-hoo.

[Dog]

Mara on Fox looks like she is going to cry....

[afropick]

This is sickening, you would think that the DNC is sending direct payments to the media for their coverage. It's going to be a miracle to see Bush win this election.

[cmsgop]

The Ron Reagan thing with Tom?

[DietCoke]

CNN is talking about Obama. ha.

[Howlin]

Somebody watch MSNBC......I've got some email to get out......Matthews has some "thoughts."

[Political Junkie Too]

he expected her to break into singing "Don't Cry for Me Argentina!" HAHAHAHA!

She'd be better off with "I'm tired. Tired of being admired." (can't you see she's pooped?)

-PJ

[ntnychik]

Tayrayzzzzaaah pretty in Tomato RED!

She pronounced it a way I've never heard before. Tehrezzzzza. My favorite lines: "John Kerry will always be first in the line of fire, and he knows the importance of getting it right." It's on tape.

[carmody]

"The better angels of our nature" was lifted from a Bush speech, wasn't it?

[palmer]

"those who drink from the well of hatred..."

[tndarlin]

Willie Brown just said "She's a real mother...."

A real mother...what? Did he elaborate?

[arasina]

LOL! Even Chris Wallace recognized her Evitaness.

[LadyPilgrim]

Is everyone listening?
An iman is reading from the koran. cspan

[texasbluebell]

I can't believe it.

[Jorge]

Are they singing Shout? What's that about?

I think it's an attempt to restore some spirit to the evening after that hypnotic other-worldly speech by Teresa.

This upbeat mood seems soooo contrived and staged...

Ha! Chris Wallace just said he wondered why they even allowed her to speak. She's an "odd ball". "Off kilter"...I love these comments :)

[Darlin']

Chrs Wallace just said, he had wondered about whytheyhad given her such as prime slot and after hearing her he still doesn't know. He said he about halfway expected he to break into a chorus of Don't Cry For Me Argentina. FOFLOL
>P>The guys at Fox are trying hard to keep from laughing.

[nopardons]

My daughter's good friend's mother went to school.in Mozambique,with Terry's younger sister.Shed has the same accent,is also of Portuguese descent,and then lived in South Africa;BUT,she's a nice woman,unlike the space cadet Terry Kerry.

Terry Kerry is the Dem's 21 rst.century MARTHA MITCHELL!

[Texas Eagle]

Why are only TWO of her sons standing up there with her??
Where is her third son???

Here he is. Photographed as he is leaving the auditorium.