John / Billybob
Moves for Acclimation and Calls for Vote
unanimous acceptance of Edwards as Veep, his speech yesterday adopted as his acceptance speech
The Honorable Michael Michaud U.S. House of Representatives, Maine third generation mill worker who carried the same lunch bucket to work for 28 years ...
Resolutions
The Honorable Mark Udall U.S. House of Representatives, Colorado
The Honorable Barney Frank U.S. House of Representatives, Massachusetts begin on behalf of the Stonewall Democrats with an apology ... I'm sorry that two women in love who sought to solemize their relationship in Florida caused the Republicans in Congress to try to knock a hole in the Constitution ... we believe we should be able to serve in the military ... be hired for a job on how we do the work, rather than who we are ... and even believe when two people are in love and want to be .... committed, it is a good thing for society ... [OF COURSE he is dead wrong on his crack about the Constitution. It is the supporters of homosexual marriage, not the opponents, who are blosing a hole in the Constitution.] ... first mention of Ralph Nader that he "trivializes our lives" by saying there are no significant differences between the Republicans and Democrats ... Frank is becoming less and less the intellectual, and more and more just a homosexual ...
The Honorable Kweisi Mfume (also former Cong from Md.) President, NAACP oldest and largest civil rights organization ... [IT IS neither, the National Rifle Association is older, and may be larger as well.] ... while the President supports democracy in Iraq, democratically eligible voters in America are being disqualified ... [APPARENTLY he's referring to convicted felons being denied the "right" to vote for the Democrat of their choice ... which some states do, and which the Supreme Court has long since ruled as constitutional.] ... wouldn't it be great if clean air and clean water could be an American birthright, and not merely an option? ... [SO THAT'S what the Minutemen were fighting for. Thanks for explaining it.] ... Regrettably, bigots come in all colors ... [INTERESTING if he means it; is his Chairman, Julian Bond, a black bigot? Just one example would be good.] ... [he is speaking mostly in the heroic measure, in iambic pentameter ... interesting, and it therefore sounds better than most of the speeches.]
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm 7:00 pm Women of the U.S. House of Representatives
The Honorable Louise Slaughter U.S. House of Representatives, New York we women want a responsible, balanced budget ... (YEP, THE Democrats have a fine record of lower taxes, lower spending, and ballanced budgets.] ... we know this to be a fact, when women vote, John Kerry will win ... (TRUTH IS there is no "gender gap" as such. There are marriage and mommy gaps. Women who are married are more likely to vote Republican. Those who have children are even more Republican. It's a responsibility thing.] ...
a video saying that the people in D.C. don't have the right to vote. The Honorable Eleanor Holmes Norton U.S. House of Representatives, District of Columbia
Norton calls for voting rights now, statehood later ... does not recognize that the special status of D.C. is stated in the Constitution and cannot be changed by mere legislation ... [THE EFFORT in D.C. is to sneak around the Constitution.]
The Honorable Mark Warner Governor of Virginia We've seen the first balanced budget become the largest deficit in history ... [OTHER THAN ignoring that we have been dragged into a war, there is also the point that the "balanced budget" claim is a bipartisan fraud. The budget is still using every penny of current social security taxes as income now. There isn't, and THERE NEVER HAS BEEN, a Social Security Trust Fund. There's a vault that contains a stack of government IOUs and two dead moths. That's it.]
The Honorable James Clyburn U.S. House of Representatives, South Carolina
The Honorable Juanita Millender-McDonald U.S. House of Representatives, California to build an America that once again values our children ... [THIS ISN/T a parody; it just sounds that way.]
The Honorable Edward Markey U.S. House of Representatives, Massachusetts
John Sweeney President, AFL-CIO introduces three people behind him ... one lost his job to overseas, one cannot find a fulltime job, one was fired for trying to organize a union ... talks about companies that ignore our laws and trample our values ... [NO MENTION of course of unions ignoring the laws that tell them not to extort dues from workers who do not agree with them] ...
Gavel to Order The Honorable Bill Richardson Governor of New Mexico Permanent Chair, Democratic National Convention
America the Beautiful Mavis Staples
The Honorable Joseph Biden United States Senate, Delaware quotes Robert Yates ... a terrible beauty has been born ... ... [Biden is a taker and borrower, not a thinker. Remember his plagerism problem.] ... we fought in Iraq virtually alone ... responsible for the aftermath, virtually alone ... [DUMMY Biden is probably unaware that we had 7 allies in WW II, but have 29 allies in Iraq. Don't confuse me with facts; my mind's made up.]
General Wesley Clark (Ret.) ... Weaselly asked for a "round of applause for our men and women in uniform" ... [WOW, that's ever so much better than providing equipment and not undrcutting them diplomatically, right"] ... repetition does not translate a lie into the truth ... [WOW, are these people listening to their own speeches?] ...
Satellite feed from Orlando, Florida
The Honorable Joseph Lieberman United States Senate, Connecticut this war, like the wars against the communists and the nazis are about values ... we must defeat the islamicists ... [HOWEVER, we have to talk nice to the friendly ones, whoever they are ...] ... it was Democrats who lead the way in creating the Department of Homeland Security ... [HAS HE forgotten that Max Cleland and other Democrats tried to hold that Department hostage until union work guarantees could be included in it -- in time of way, yet.] ... I've known John Kerry since we met at college ... [HELL, I've known both of them since I met them at college. For three decades I had great respect for Lieberman. But I knew John Kerry was a brass-plated phoney from the first time I encountered him.] ...
The Honorable Nancy Pelosi U.S. House of Representatives, California House Democratic Leader daughter of one crooked Mayor of Baltimore, sister of another crooked Mayor of Baltimore.... She was weaned on power politics, not principles or ideas, every minute of every day when she was growing up (as a neighbor, at times, of me)... [SHE IS not to be trusted at any time and on any issue. ... we can do it ... we can do it ... [THERE'S a song in there, from "The Producers."]
Satellite feed from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Performance by Willie Nelson at this time, is anyone thinking of the star turn that Willie did in the classic movie, "Wag the Dog"?
The Honorable Madeleine Albright Former Secretary of State Here's the cleaning lady who was a hero of the North Korean moratorium (which went right down the toilet as any competent Secretary of State would have foreseen.) She thought (or claimed she thought) that Bill Clinton was an honest man. Her judgment is shot ... "Wanting something is not the smae as doing something." ... [THAT could be the negative motto of this entire Convention and all of its speakers} .... twist intelligence ,,, [INTO THE Bush lied mode which even the 9/11 Commission found unanimously was not so.] ...
Are the damned "We are the fust line of defense in Homeland Security" sisters over yet? I'm not listening again until those overweight, undereducated creatures are OUTTA there. Bet she says they need the gubmint to buy them RADIOS and pay 'em a six figure SALARY, too, and JohnJohn HAS A PLAN to DO THAT.