Posted on 07/27/2004 11:47:43 AM PDT by 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
Obama pretty much prevented Breck Girl's planned speech about Two Americas. Oh, maybe nobody will notice the glaring contradiction.
Yes, she appeared on some form of tranquilizer. (or just drunk)
Even the talking heads fox were kind by calling her speech "unusual" or "different".
Bill Kristol just called her speech ridiculous.
Chris Mathews said he expected her to start singing "Don't cry for me Argentina."
I hope Rush plays that as the tehreyzahh HEINZkerry theme song.
"A naturalized U.S. citizen who grew up in Mozambique and was formerly married to a wealthy Republican senator from Pennsylvania, Heinz Kerry greeted the audience in Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese, inviting immigrants like herself to participate in the political process.
She spoke of her life under dictatorship in Mozambique and apartheid in South Africa, where she studied and protested.
"I have a very personal feeling about how special America is, and I know how precious freedom is," Heinz Kerry said. "My right to speak my mind, to have a voice, to be what some have called 'opinionated,' is a right I deeply and profoundly cherish. And my only hope is that one day soon, women who have all earned their right to their opinions, instead of being called opinionated, will be called smart and well-informed, just like men."
........"Wearing bright red and facing a sea of red signs that said, "We Love Teresa," Heinz Kerry then extolled her husband of nine years.
"John believes in a bright future," she said. "With John Kerry as president, we can, and we will, protect our nation's security without sacrificing our civil liberties. In short, John believes we can, and we must, lead in the world as America, unique among nations, always should--by showing the face, not of our fears, but of our hopes."
What a lulu!
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Andrea Mitchell appears to have been shedding her skin tonight, I think I saw a few scales on the table top in front of her :-)
Holy cow! Don't the Kerrys EVER tell the truth?
Edwards w/Elizabeth and Larry King are on CNN now checking out the speech site for tomorrow. "He's practicing his smile." (Honest to God remark by Larry.)
Susie's guy (Dukakis) is nowhere to be seen! Where o' where is Tank Dukakis?!? LOL ;D
We have some Fox FReepers and lurkers here. Better than stories about FR though, some FReepers are interviewed on Fox News. Since we have lurkers from other areas of hte media, the news (with screen shots) DOES get out.
ha ha! Vanden Heavel really gives me the willies.
Joe S: He is acting like a dem. Maybe Katrina put a spell on him.
Both parties have offered the seat to the wife when a member of Congress dies suddenly while in office
Yes, it is a scary thought
LOL even down below they know Theresa is a fruitcake...
Renee, is Theresa Heinz Kerry related to Mother Theresa's Curried Beanz, also very lekker?
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RENEE - Been reading bits about her, she is "not to be trusted" in my opinion. Too vocal, maybe !!!! Mind you that is not wrong, just she is worrysome...
The star so far has been Barak Obama, other than that.......................... snore fest!
Yep. Yet, I cannot imagine being associated with that screwball! Jumpin' Jim was bad enough.
I agree
Chris Wallace was spot on when he said... "I was waiting for Heinz-Kerry to sing "Don't cry for me Argentina" at the end"
LOL! Funny you should say that. Here's an excerpt from an interview with Kerry's sister:
"As a big-eyed, big-jawed boy, little John Kerry would round up the family to imagine himself as a mythic hero of arboreal England: a medieval knight, or King Arthur.
Or, sometimes, it was Robin Hood. "He was an adventurous kid, full of imagination, who always used to make up these imaginary games," said Peggy Kerry, the candidate’s older sister, recalling the days back in Millis, Mass., and Brittany, France, when "Johnny" led his three siblings and a brood of first cousins in elaborate re-creations of history and fantasy. "He was always rallying us to re-enact Robin Hood and King Arthur."
Here's the link to the story I posted on FR last night:
cool.
BTW ALL the DNC 2004 platform report is out.
so why does she continue to support organizations that seek to spread anarchy and turn this country into a marxist leninist state?
Alan Colmes once said "Osama" &
never noticed.
I swear!
Exactly!! The same warmed-over message in a shiny new package...there's really nothing to distinguish this guy from Jesse Jackson or Howie Dean. To call him "The Tiger Woods of Politics" is an insult to a very fine golfer.
FReegards...MUD
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