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

[Grassontop]

Chalk up the definition of another word, in addition to "values" that Dems do not understand.

Values to demodevils means that your daughter can get an abortion without your permission..

[cake_crumb]

"Is that Mary Lou Retton?"

Wow...liberalism sure puts people in EXPANSIVE moods...

[drstevej]

John Kerry awaits his partial birth abortion!

[LisaFab]

LOL.

Sorry guys, got to switch over to Brit Hume. I'll be back.

[OXENinFLA]

JOHN GIBSON, just said this pic on Kerry "HURMAN MUNSTER GOES TO MED SCHOOL"

[snopercod]

I think that rather than watch the convention tonight, I'll watch "The Women of Wal-Mart" on the Playboy channel.

[Boomer Geezer]

Those music clips are almost as irritating and irrelevant as the speakers. I guess they're used to cover up the fact that there is not thunderous applause as the speakers walk to the podium.

[cake_crumb]

HIV advocate Denise Stokes up....talking about Clinton having appointed her to the AIDS advisory council...but how about the guy Clinton appointed HEAD of that council??

Dr. R. Scott Hitt, 45, hass JUST been suspended by the AMA for admitting he sexually molested at least two of his patients. Hitt is gay, claims he has cancer, which is most likely a result of AIDS.

[maica]

1966 + 37 = 2003

That's what happened in a lot of marriages in the 1960s. Children were born!

[MaineVoter2002]

I'm just an average laborer and got a tax cut too. I would assume that as rich as Clinton and the Hollywood elite is, the tax cut would not be missed by them as much as it would by the Average American. Does Clinton not know that the federal government gives everyone the option to return their money to the government? Did he give his return back? Will the GOP offer a rebuttal?

They failed to acknowledge the Clinton Recession.

He failed to acknowledge the fact that since Clinton left the WH it was discovered that they cooked the books of our economy and that most indicators including the employment situation was made out to look at least 30% better then it really was. Will there be a GOP rebuttal?

They continue to ignore our electoral process by claiming that Bush was "selected" (and then they expect world leaders to accept the legitimacy of our President?)

They continue to ignore the lives lost by our friends "Coalition Of The Willing" by claiming the US acted unilaterally. Will there be a GOP rebuttal?

They have admitted masking themselves when they said in newspapers over the weekend that "you will think it is a GOP convention".

It's the Democrat National Reinvention Convention.

One big lie

[maica]

That telepathy must be great. They both looked so glad to see each other!

[BurbankKarl]

John Kerry began paying back Michael Moore for all his efforts on behalf of defeating George W. Bush. First on the list was a thorough cleaning of Michael Moore’s colon. After almost 40 minutes with a high velocity hose and a pair of shears, Kerry exited the rectum and pronounced Moore “polyp and turd free."

[Miss Marple]

I am back for just a second. I have to leave again. PLEASE provide details of the best parts. I will return as soon as the birthday party is over. And I will have beer!

[cake_crumb]

Yawn...guy on now saying he's never seen such excitement..."this convention mirrors the Kerry/Edwards campaign"

FOFLOL! He's right, it does...but HE doesn't mean it that way. I'm gonna need coffee in order to listen to much more of this.

[MaineVoter2002]

Is he in the large of small intestine?

[Kate of Spice Island]

Looks like an overweight Mary Lou to me...

[maica]

How would he know if he gets his news from the lib-dedicated media?

***

So funny. I am listening to ugh Hewitt speaking to a French journalist - who like Howard Dean.

HH: What do you think of John Kerry?

FJ: I really don't know him very well. He needs to introduce himself more.

Me: ROFL!!

[Grassontop]

I wish someone would release about fifty thousand elephants in the convention hall! That would be a blast!

[cake_crumb]

"It's the Democrat National Reinvention Convention."

Yep it is. The GOP did rebut the Dem's phony Clinton economy claims, quite a few times over two years, but quit after the recovery became so apparant an idiot could see it. It's obviosly time to dust those rebuttals off, 'cause the swing voters have forgotten

[Die_Hard Conservative Lady]

Rev Jesse up next.


Ugh. Thank heaven for workplace firewalls...


Ditto on that!