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

[Shaka]

Terraiza is freaking loon!!! She is a fruit loop to the third degree...my wife looked at ne abd ask what the hell is she saying??? Mystic what?? Angels speaking to John to do what???? Holy cow...no wonder they hide her.

[Boomer Geezer]

Here is an American Family

Yes! And a damn fine looking one, too!

[cyborg]

She looks like she's high on Theresa's perfume.

[CFC__VRWC]

After seeing this, I am flabbeergasted. How they ever allowed that woman on stage is beyond me. I don't want her anywhere national security, helath care, or the Ministry of Poop Scooping.

I expect to see a whole slew of articles and broadcast segments trashing Laura Bush in the coming days. The only way they can even try to make the comparison a fair one is to tear Laura Bush down to Teresa's level.

[Vision Thing]

What's up, oh cranky one.

Why don't you just go to sleep before you become more upset.

Good night now!

[shellylet]

Nah, she has too much money, they'll let her do exactly as she pleases, no matter how bad she makes them look!
I don't know if C-Span will play again, I sure wouldn't want to listen to a repeat of that garbage! :)

[ArmyBratproud]

The denial by libs is breathtaking. They are propping up Kerry big time. It is safe to say Bush and the republicans are going to get no fair shake from the media at their convention""

I don't know if we will need the media. I think the fact that Repub Convention is the Closer to the election and the last one of the year will help.
PLUS, They have a dem speaking in favor of Bush, as well as other heavy hitters.
Plus, all the gushing they have done and will do this week...will come to haunt them. When they attack Republicans at the NY Convention.....It will stick out as Bias to even people who are not well tuned in.

[longtermmemmory]

I believe Estrich was the one responsible for the Dukakis tank moment.

[Not A Snowbird]

The pic wasn't irrelevant... everybody is falling asleep listening to this woman, and the posting of sleeping people (and my sleeping cat) portray that.

Relax.

[Miss Marple]

Kudos to the Fox producer who has made Cici and Greta sit outside in the rain.

[mylife]

Good call.WW

estrogen is claiming men just dont get it.

[pieces of time]

When we were overseas recently we had to switch from CNN to the more "conservative" BBC.
The effete on CNN would think that Heinz-Kerry was brilliant...as they try to figure out what she was talking about.

[cyborg]

Sheesh it was in keeping with the sleeping and bored to death theme during Theresa's speech.

[Darkwolf377]

Susan Estrich has to defend her, Terayza is the only woman in America who wears more makeup to even less effect than she does!

I can almost hear her braying "TA-RAAAAAAAAY-ZA"

[CaptRon]

She's a Dem ho and they are all spinning furiously. A little play on the "nuanced" thing. Guys, you see, just don't "get" Tuh-RAY-zah.

[cake_crumb]

"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."

And the "Oh and vote for john because he has medals" bit tacked onto the very end.

[mass55th]

Have you noticed that the Dems speeches all have one major theme? And that is that the Republicans have divided America. Isn't that the same theme they tried to push in 2000?

[Grenada]

Suzan estrich is trying to spin this as women will get this. So ladies? did she reach you?

I am a woman, and I am what most people consider "odd" and "eccentric", but I certainly did NOT get this and I did NOT like it. I wasn't even entertained by it and I try to give fellow "oddies" a ton of leway. That was just bizzare.

[Torie]

Susan like Kerry. She is finally getting her partisan juices flowing after a long dry spell.

[P-Marlowe]

I am getting tired of folks posting irrelevant stuff in the middle of threads.

And that kid was getting tired of listening to the speech.

If you want to start a "cute baby" thread, then go ahead...leave the rest of us alone....

SHOVE IT!