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

[Mudboy Slim]

Doing fine now after spending much of the evening bailing out my basement from 2-3" of floodwater...hope yer doing weall, too.

FReegards...MUD

[cake_crumb]

OOOOH thank you for the heads up...I didn't think to read the article (getting SLEEEEEEEEEPY) Am now though.

[MJY1288]

I was told that he is even going to dim the lights for a short biography about his decorated Military career. He is even going to have a bunch of Vets in uniform on the front row for him to point at. I just wish someone would hack into the Jumbo Tron's computer and paste the pic of John Kerry's mug in a framed picture hanging on the wall in the Commie Vietnam War museum, where they honor him for his anti-war activism here in the States

[Mudboy Slim]

"Tiger Woods isn't a self serving race baiting oily politician..."

Nope, Tiger's a class act while Obama seems like yer typical run-of-the-mill used-car salesman of a candidate...MUD

[MJY1288]

he is definitely a liberal,

[Boomer Geezer]

Ron Reagan Jr. is giving his post speech interview. Said he wrote his own speech.

Well, he didn't stumble a lot ... I guess the crayola didn't smudge that much.

[MJY1288]

Bummer, I've been there so I feel fer ya

hang in there Mud :-)

[cake_crumb]

WHOA....

"Kerry is classically drawn as How a Senator Should Look: He is 6 feet 4 and slim with a helmet of brownish-silver hair, high and knobby cheekbones and a surgically enhanced chin -- not cosmetic surgery, contrary to speculation. (The operation, says Kerry press secretary David Wade, was to correct "a malocclusion," a bad bite that caused a clicking in his jaw.)"

From an orthadontics site:

"Surgery of the lower jaw (mandible) or upper jaw (maxilla) is often indicated on adults when a bad bite (malocclusion) exist and/or facial changes are desired."

Betcha HE leaned more toward facial changes.

[cake_crumb]

"he is definitely a liberal"

Definitely.

[Mo1]

Did ya catch the part were not all was well between the Kerry daughters and Terri?

I remember reading this article a while back .. but there were a few parts of it I had forgot about

[Christian4Bush]

3000+ post BUMP!!!

[BigSkyFreeper]

Little Ronnie is just dragging the family name through the political muck all for self-gratification while drinking the liberal kool-aid of lies. Heck, Little Ronnie lied that his speech wasn't going to be about Bush bashing or that it was going to be partisan. The world got a taste at how much of a kook fringe whacked out nutburger Little Ronnie is.

[cake_crumb]

Yep. And Teresa : "I'm a really needy person" (uh huh, and a drug addict)

This sounds like one REALLY unhappy group of people trying to act like a family. I've got this page saved to the desktop for rereading tomorrow.

Have to go to bed now, before my eyeballs fall out.

[Tamzee]

Well, well, well... she says used Prozac in the past. She can certainly afford to find psychiatrists willing to prescribe her anything her heart desires nowadays.

I really, really wonder...

[cyncooper]

I've posted a few of her observations as we've gone along. She is hooked on watching. She notices they say things like "John Kerry has a plan" and then never say what the plan is.

On Hillary last night (first time she watched her) she pronounced her "boring, annoying and weird".

She thinks they're mean and she started noticing with the rest of us that there's suspicious little talk about the presumed nominee.

I said tonight to my family there isn't one story about "So then John called me" or "Then John came over and said..." No anecdotes of personal interaction. Oh, we'll get his little "band of brothers" harking back 30 years to their experiences then, but where are the more contemporary stories. It's odd.

I am influencing her, I'm sure, but she agrees this convention is a big zero. But she's got her mother's political interests---she was annoyed with me when I planned our errands today and we missed the very beginning of today's schedule.

[cyncooper]

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

It's just airing here. He preceded that with an observation of the weak wrist displayed in the opening pitch the other night. Some convention week coverage. LOL

[Mo1]

This sounds like one REALLY unhappy group of people trying to act like a family

The Adams Family ...

And John Edwards with his lovely hair is cousin It

[DocRock]

I thought you might like to download this for future reference. Sorry about the poor audio, but I had to crunch down the file size. Listen close to Teresa when she "speaks from her heart". This is priceless. After trying to focus on the tele-prompters, there is "dead air" for a few seconds. Then, her first words are in reference to her late husband, then she speaks French before ever mentioning John's name.

[Mo1]

We need to be careful with this one .. she may not be still on them .. I just thought it was verrrrrrrrrrrry interesting

[longtermmemmory]

We need to be watching for any edwards lawyering tommorrow. Remember while terezah is a practiced wacko given to wacko ramblings, edwards is practiced to speaking before juries. He will be rehearsed and may even be giving a variation of his two americas speech.