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]

If this keeps up, people will have to be reminded kerry is there somewhere.

Honestly, I'm starting to wonder. So far everybody who's spoken has been very full of him/herself and hasn't said much at all about the alleged presumed potential nominee.

[LisaMalia]

Love your tagline. That was actually one of my favorite posts of the night!

[Graymatter]

Predictably, Leno noted the "condom suit" on the Tonight show. Mentioned colonoscopy with regard to same. :)

[longtermmemmory]

Heck with that, men find it offensive if a woman keeps her maden name when married to them. (there may be excuses to keep it but it is still offensive)

In FL during 2002 the Democrat challenger's wife only adopted her husband's name after DNC heavyweights MADE her change her name for the campaign. AFTER her husband lost to Jeb Bush, she has changed it back.

Jerry Springer on fox, is saying that Bush is like the carter presidency. Democrats are not just stoned they are self delusional!

[bootyist-monk]

I triple guarantee you, this is
the best speech ever uttered.
The Republicans are now committing suicide
and God is grilling their bellies in Hell.

[MJY1288]

LOL, from tonight on, all the Democrats are doing is re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic

[bray]

This Convention is augering right through the deck!! Mop head layed an egg tonite and outside of Obama it was a freak show. Looking like they shot their wad last night with BJ, but everything else has been a dud. The DNC can look for Yaaaaawn and Pretty Boy to turn it around.....hehehe!!

Pray for W and Our Awesome Troops

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Teresa Heinz Kerry is totally whacked out! Poor woman also realizes she really loved only her first husband! She gave the most terrible speech I have ever seen at a political convention. Problem is, not many Americans saw this nutcase perform. Viewers last night (Monday) hit a record low of about thirteen million. I imagine tonight's numbers will be about seven or eight million since the alphabet channels had no coverage tonight. Even with a climb in numbers on Wednesday and Thursday, this is a failed ocnvention! I suspect the pubbies will do better, but not by much! Where is all the hoopla the Democrats and the mainstream media has been touting for months now. Is it possible we are being lied to by the MSM and their liberal lock-steppers?

[cake_crumb]

"Some woman on MSNBC said she touches women and Holbrook is trying to convince us that America will love her because she's an immigrant"

She hasn't touched THIS woman, and never will, either. Being an immigrant is no more a qualification for high office than having spent 4 months screwing around on a swift boat while scraping yourself with shrapnel AND destroying entire villiages.

As for the GOP asking that orc to run for the senate on any merit she MIGHT have had at the time, I can betcha every single one who agreed is thanking heaven she married for a New England blueblood for political power and showed her true colors: shades of oily gray. Being the widow of a senator doesn't qualify you for elected office either.

[CaptRon]

Apparently whatever Tuh-RAY-zah was on was given to all of them.

[MJY1288]

ROFLMAO

[ntnychik]

Oh, "fatass" is Michael Moore. I was thinking of the person who introduced "42" last night.

[juzcuz]

That Regan Boy need to see an orthodontist.

He needs his teeth filed. The ones that look vampiric when he opens his mouth looks scaryYou would think with all their money he would do something.. Then again, maybe he uses them for something vampiric. yikes..

[killjoy]

LOL, from tonight on, all the Democrats are doing is re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic

I just sent the picture of Kerry to my friend in Thailand and explained the story. She replied, "NASA has bunny suits?" OMG! I am dying laughing here.

[paulat]

"You're free to express your opinion as long as your registration lasts...

...you're also free to be throttled at the neck like caged veal if you sound like an ass."

What on Earth did I ever do to you to provoke this kind of attack???

[tapatio]

MSNBC has an afterhours show on next,that you can call in on.Anyone watching?Ron Reagan and someone else will be taking the calls.

[longtermmemmory]

It seems every democrat is "what is in it for me" mentality.

There is nothing worth doing for a democrat unless there is personal gain for them.

Where do unemploye democrat party politicians go?

[Petronski]

What attack?

[ntnychik]

Kerry probably wanted to strangle her. But hey, money talks. And she's it.

Ever notice how passive he is around her?

[MplsSteve]

I tend to agree.

However, Edwards is a fairly dynamic speaker...even though his beliefs are rotten.