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

[Torie]

I wonder which of the five languages Theresa speaks really well at this point.

[Darlin']

Oh, gag. She was 15 minutes into her meanderings about herself before she ever mentioned her second husband's name.

[cyncooper]

Don't miss my 3390

Reports from my living room that delegates are accidentally calling up and rising "star" Obama "Osama".

[Jaded]

If you lust after metrosexuals.

[San Jacinto]

Today, the better angels of our nature are just waiting to be summoned," she said, quoting from Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural speech.

She quoted from Lincoln's inaugural address. You know what happened one month after that, don't you?---Secession and Civil War.

[GeorgiaYankee]

CNN IS POSITIVELY GUSHING OVER THERESA!!!!!!!

International audience. CNN is a global network.

Actually, CNN has a separate network, CNNI, CNN International.
Same field reporters, but different anchors and analysts.

[Big Rocco]

I saw that too. CNN was doing their best to put lipstick on this pig. Halfway through her speech I couldn't tell if she was stoned or if someone had spiked my drink.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

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

It's a special Democrat language called Boringashell. Other prominent speakers of this rare tongue are Al Gore and John Corzine.

[Windcatcher]

The folks at CNN are SCARED. They know darn well that anyone with a brain saw TH-K's speech as whacked-out leftist drivel (or worse, hinting at damaging the US to benefit the world) and they're spinning as quickly as they can before the initial impression can sink in. They've got maybe thirty minutes to minimize the damage and they know it.

[MJY1288]

Andrea Mitchell looks like a Monitor Lizard,...... I swear she does!

[Darkwolf377]

"Your time is up, Mr. Bond."

[Gunder]

Gotta hand it to Chris Matthews. He's not taking all this spin from the panel too well.

[canadiancapitalist]

That was John Harwood of The Wall Street Journal. What a tool.

[MplsSteve]

CNN bent over backwards and frontwards for Bill Clinton during his 8 years as President.

I guess this doesn't surprise me to see them do the same for Theresa Heinz-Kerry.

[nopardons]

Terry Kerry really HATES the recipe she put up,to go head to head with Laura's? ROLTFLOL

[texasbluebell]

I never ever watch cnn, but some need for pain made me turn it on after Terry Kerry's speech.

[STARWISE]

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!! This was a priceless, peerless prime time campaign speech. Me, me, my sons, I, I, their father, I, my mother, ME, my father, I, me, ME, john, Peace Corps, I, ME, Abe, I, ME, environment, I, I, Nelson, john, I, I, morals, johnkerry, WE, ME, I.

[Torie]

Too spaced for that role. The role she would play is some murder mystery where she is killed for her money, and one has a certain ambivalence about wanting the killer caught.

[bray]

And everyone says that Billionaire widows can't connect with ordinary people?? Now she will show us her Tax Returns to see how SAINTS spend their $$! She even got to follow Ronnie's disaster and lays this egg.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[Gunder]

Willie Brown is such a tool.