Posted on 09/02/2004 9:45:27 AM PDT by Howlin
| Primetime |
"A Safer World,
A More Hopeful America"
7:45 p.m. to 11:15 p.m. EDT
Convention Call to Order
Representative Henry Bonilla (TX)
Deputy Permanent Co-Chair
Presentation of Colors
New York Port Authority
Pledge of Allegiance
Mary Lou Retton and Kerri Strug
Olympic Gold Medalists
National Anthem
Nicole C. Mullen, Nashville, TN
Invocation
Bishop Keith Butler, Southfield, MI
Lynn Swann
NFL Hall of Famer
Dorothy Hamill
Olympic Gold Medalist
The Honorable Michael Williams (TX)
Music
Donnie McClurkin
Music
Michael W. Smith
Governor George Pataki (NY)
Biography
President George W. Bush
Biography
Benediction
Cardinal Egan
If sKerry gets no "rest" in the next month, he'll come even closer to resemble the portrait of Dorian Gray, LOL!
Do you remeber when they had good shows on after speeches. What happened??
Good lord! You're right.
Remember when Gore campaigned for like 100 straight hours without any sleep? Imagine if Kerry goes 16/7 for 8 straight weeks. If he sound like this now, what's he going to sound like THEN?
Pray for W and Our Troops
Sorry you had a rotten,no good,very bad day. Welcome back into the fold....all is now forgiven. :-)
She's despicable and must be trying to drum up ratings for her little bitty radio show. I have to admit, she's finally in the right genre - she's got a face made for radio.
He's standing up for us!
When Noonan is on her game, she can't be beat, and her special talent is picking up on the cadence of her subject. She channeled Fred Thompson and he delivered. It was great.
WOW..........what a GREAT picture. Kerry just can NOT compete with what we saw tonight,of the president.
On "the other site", they are crowing about sKerry's "brilliance" in having this midnight rally. The attendees behind him should have been coached to TRY to look excited or laugh at the canned jokes.
he slapped her!! can't they have more than one Bush supporter on a panel? and why is Mo Rocca there?
Hah!
(Attempt at a Chris Matthews cackle.)
You can see why Ben Stiller dumped her.
Kerry will have many opportunities in the next few weeks to show everybody just how lousy a president he would make.
NO MSNBC focus group tonight? (For once, I was looking forward to hearing from them!)
No.
And none at ALL on CNN.
Finally, a thoughtful response!
I was dismayed by the L--O--N--G list of new and expensive promises that Bush was making.
Sounded way too much like a liberal speech, (vote for me and I promise you even more free goodies from the public treasury) type of thing!
Remember who pays for all the entitlement programs?
Right, the WORKING tax payers.
All of these on top of a trip to Mars and the W.O.T.?
Then he followed that up by breaking into "spanish", that was just too much like pandering to illegals, and left me expecting a reprise of his ill conceived "guest worker" amnesty proposal.
I do not want to become so disgusted that I am forced to vote for a third party candidate in Nov., so I just turned it off.
Exactly! It's so transparent.
PROTEST WARRIOR MAKE LATIMES FRONT PAGE
NEW YORK - The political tensions dividing America boiled over in the streets Thursday, as antiwar demonstrators squared off against pro-Bush administration activists near Madison Square Garden, site of the Republican National Convention.
Both sides hurled insults at each other, and a line of stoic New York police officers stood rigidly between them, preventing the dueling rallies from getting violent.
The confrontation began shortly before President Bush spoke, when members of a large crowd of anti-Bush protesters were startled to hear a smaller group of people shouting "Four more years!" and holding sarcastic signs mocking his opponents.
They were members of Protest Warrior, a nationwide conservative group that has begun making appearance at political demonstrations across the nation. Tempers flared as the two groups moved closer in the street, screaming at each other.
"Bush is a terrorist!" yelled the anti-war protesters, shaking their fists.
"So was Washington!" answered the conservative activists, waving placards. One read: "Saddam Only Killed His Own People. It Was None of Our Business!"
At first, the two groups were mixed together within a barricaded-area created by police to control demonstrations. But as hostilities increased, officers separated the much smaller group of conservative activists and put them in their own enclosure. The antiwar protesters immediately surrounded them, and the war of words escalated.
"You liberals are working on Uncle Sam's plantation!" shouted an African American protester wearing pro-Bush buttons. A black demonstrator holding an antiwar sign screamed back: "Why do you hate yourself? Why are you such a disgrace?"
The invective was unflagging, the volume unchecked.
"These people are pathetic," said Butch Tiner, an anti-Bush protester who had come from Philadelphia to attend the demonstration. "They look like poorly trained puppets who don't know what to say, except maybe to provoke people."
The feeling was mutual on the other side, where Jean Hart, a Brooklyn resident, stood beneath a huge, hand-lettered sign that read: "My son suicide-bombed a bus full of Israelis, and all I got was this lousy teeshirt."
"We have a right to be here, even if those people on the other side don't like it," she said. "There's another point of view tonight, and we're the right point of view."
At times, the two sides taunted each other with similar chants. The Protest Warriors shouted "USA! USA!" and the other side echoed the slogan. The conservatives yelled "Four more years!" and their opponents said "Four more months!"
"I don't know how much longer these guys can keep it up," cracked one policeman, who stood with other officers in a line between the groups. "When does it end?"
Both sides were finally done in by the clock. The rallies ended at 10 p.m., by prior agreement, and both sides - separated by police - drifted south on Eighth Avenue.
"We'll be back!" said one pro-Bush activist, still waving his sign.
"I can't wait," muttered an antiwar protester, shaking his head.
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