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

[Not A Snowbird]

add to that frumpy, quirky, odd ball and stoned.

LOL!

[hispanarepublicana]

"Dont Cry For Me Argentina" is gonna stick and in my opinion, she just sunk John Kerry"" Wallace killed me with that one. I have never seen Chris Wallace so brutal.

I almost CHOKED on the wonderful supper that Mr. HR (the FR Widower) cooked me, when I heard the Evita Peron comment from Chris Wallace. Meeeowww.

[cyborg]

Hehehe yeah have a word or two with the XXXXXX LOL

[StarFan]

Purpose of speech was to humanize her because of bad press, so says Mora Liason (sp?). Utter nonsense.

BTW, this is the first time that the wife of a prospective nominee gave a speech at a convention and yet the alphabet networks DID NOT COVER IT. What does that tell you?

If choice and taste in one's spouse is a barometer, the glaring contrast between GWB and JFK speaks volumes.

[Political Junkie Too]

he sounded like he was drowning - sub sub sub sub burb

He has trouble with words lower than "penthouse" or "palace" or "compound" or "estate".

-PJ

[jwalsh07]

Now I know who leaked the pictures of John "The Sperm" Kerry.

It was Kerry himself in anticipation of tonights mental meltdown by his wife.

He knew she would be incoherent, he lives with her.

Can't trust them lunacrats.

[Petronski]

How many people here remember the DNC in San Francisco, 1984?



It was a slow-motion train wreck and nothing I've seen since 1984 has been anything like it...until now.

[JustaCowgirl]

HAHAHA! Even Chris Wallace says he doesn't get why Theresa spoke tonight.

'And after hearing her, I still don't get it.'

Mara Liasson was trying to defend THK while Brit tried to cut her off and Fred Barnes looked at his watch. Basically all she could say was that nobody was watching anyway. Wow, way to defend, Mara.

[rintense]

International audience. CNN is a global network.

Makes sense... since she wasn't speaking ENGLISH!

[cyncooper]

ALERT:

I changed the channel but husband and daughter (she's hooked on this thing) have just reported:

CSPAN showing attendees commenting.

TWO have referred to Obama as "Osama".

They raced in here to tell me so I could post it. The attendees like Obama, but misspoke. They both did correct themselves after realizing what they'd said. A third just said it!

[Windcatcher]

They've completely wh_red themselves out to the leftist cause. They're the Pravda of the US as far as I'm concerned.

[maggief]

[longtermmemmory]

CNN is in denial spin.

They are trying to paint this stoned ramble as a sucess.

Who needs spin doctors when CNN is bending frontwards for you?

[Darkwolf377]

She speaks six languages? What was that one, Klingon?

[mylife]

Some idiot on cnn just said, you know how John Kerry is the sexiest man in America, I think Terayza Heinz Kerry may be the sexiest spouse in America.


Is there any doubt that their minds are impaired?

[governsleastgovernsbest]

It was John Harwood of the Wall Street Journal who called her the sexiest woman in politics. What a metrosexual.

[mercy]

I know I know.

(but for the lurkers)

[Political Junkie Too]

They're all worshipping at the altar of Obama.

All because of a trumped-up sex scandal with Ryan.

-PJ

[NormsRevenge]

[John Lenin]

They can legislate the little people away from lands THEY own

It's called eliminating the competition just like the old Soviet Union, you have a few giant oligopolys like GE and they hand out just enough to keep the sheeple happy until the crap hits the fan when the books stop balancing .