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

[jwalsh07]

Good one Botman.

[cake_crumb]

I'd like to point out to the idiot DNC lurkers reading this thread that the cattiest commentary on Teresa's incoherant speech about Mandella, suffrage, Life, the Universe and Everything came from WOMEN. Yeah, we "get her". She's a chemically challanged LUNATIC and we're VOICING OUR OPINIONS.

[kabar]

CNNI takes an "international" perspective appealing to a different audience. Many of their correspondents don't understand America and our culture.

[DollyCali]

(that was sarcasm) ,/i.,p. Whew, for a minute I thought you had dipped into Tahraysaaaas stash !

[xzins]

Yep, I just caught that on another post. Thanks.

The problem of using memory. :>)

[Torie]

Oh else, she would chat to the media about what a cold fish her hubby is, and how much she hates it all, and wish her first husband were still alive, etc.

[Congressman Billybob]

Hey, you whippersnapper. I've seen Foster Brooks live. LOL.

John / Billybob

[jennyp]

So ladies? did she reach you?

She tried to reach me, but I jumped out of the way.

[mylife]

Oh we get it too!

Good for you for not buying in

[pulaskibush]

This an irrelevant convention that just had one of the most irrelevant speeches in history. Just sit back and laugh at it all.

[Darlin']

Isn't she though ? Maybe its just me but I can't tell where Christie Vilsak's face stops and where her hair begins. Talk about washed out.

[Petronski]

Cheiftain: Who peed in your macaroni tonight?)

cyborg: Darn that was me.

[petronski faints]

[BurbankKarl]

that cat pic was cool

[isthisnickcool]

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

Estrich is a dried up croaking toad. Ain't nothing "flowing" but the spew from her mouth.

[Joe_October]

What was it that Vilsac's wife said that they are in spin mode about?

[Tarheel]

As a fellow Carolinian woman, I didn't get Terry Kerry tonight either. This woman spins in another universe from the rest of us poor folk.

Don't Cry For Me Argentina--don't you just love it!

[Dolphy]

WHOA, Chris Matthews just tried to paint Tereeeezuh as a woman who represents the working gal!!!!!

That's very funny. No, she represents an aging woman whose most passionate political thought of relevancy happened 40 years or so ago. Despite the liberation of some 20+ million women in Iraq and Afghanistan and despite her own personal fortune she still is concerned that she has been called opinionated.

[afropick]

Thanks. 20 years from now, people are going to look back and be astonished how Bush ever won any election with this media.

[mylife]

Please lets fast forward to the debates.

Yup this stuff is pure emotion and pablum

[longtermmemmory]

It is a trick of the guilty. Accuse your accuser of your own crime.

Since the Democrats are the party of division, they HAVE to accuse the republicans of being dividers.

Democrats could not wait to start nitpicking in the days after 9/11.