Democratic Convention
You can use this thread/post to place any comments you have about the Democratic National Convention. Here is the full schedule for Day 3. Around 8:45 PM CDT, we will add a "Live Blog" for the big speeches by Bill Clinton, and VP pick Joe Biden. Hope you will join us for that and share your impressions! You can check out the DNC Day 1 "Live-Blog" by going here. The Day 2 "Live-Blog" is here.
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I joked about the hokeyness of last nights "Town Hall" segment at the Democratic National Convention during our Live Blog session and suggested that Billy Mays would be the next guest. Apparently Michael Goldfarb of the McCain campaign agreed.
From Johnmccain.com
Posted at 1:09 PM on 8/26/2008 by Michael Goldfarb
Sherrod Brown vs. Billy Mays
It's unlikely many voters caught this part of the DNC last night, and those who did were probably contractually obligated to do so. Still, there was something familiar about Sherrod Brown's performance as the host of "America's Town Hall," where he took questions from "regular voters" and put them to an all-star panel of Democrats. My favorite moment:
MS. TYSON:...So Senator Obama has a real plan -- get the economy moving again immediately, grow the economy for the future, do it in a fiscally responsible way. Senator McCain: More of the same, Bush-failed policies.SEN. BROWN: Thank you, Laura. She's exactly right. With Barack Obama, it's a strong progressive middle class agenda. With John McCain, it's in essence a third term for George Bush?
MS. TYSON: Third term for George Bush.
SEN. BROWN: All right. Next question.
Careful panelists, the questions only get harder!The video from Day One of the Democratic Infomercial is not to be missed:
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The Washington Post is reporting that the McCain camp is ready to release a new ad called "Passed Over" which is in support of Hillary Clinton voters against Barack Obama.
Update: Here is the video
From WAPO Here is the text of the ad.
McCain Tries to Rile Up Clinton Voters Against Obama
By Michael D. Shear
SEDONA, Ariz. -- A new television ad by Sen. John McCain aims to tap into anger at Sen. Barack Obama among the legions of Hillary Clinton supporters by suggesting that the Democratic nominee dissed his one-time rival. read more »
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From NRO
The Deal [Byron York]
Just in from the Obama and Clinton press offices:
Since June, Senators Obama and Clinton have been working together to ensure a Democratic victory this November. They are both committed to winning back the White House and to to ensuring that the voices of all 35 million people who participated in this historic primary election are respected and heard in Denver. To honor and celebrate these voices and votes, both Senator Obama's and Senator Clinton's names will be placed in nomination.
“I am convinced that honoring Senator Clinton's historic campaign in this way will help us celebrate this defining moment in our history and bring the party together in a strong united fashion,” said Senator Barack Obama.
Senator Obama’s campaign encouraged Senator Clinton's name to be placed in nomination as a show of unity and in recognition of the historic race she ran and the fact that she was the first woman to compete in all of our nation’s primary contests.
“With every voice heard and the Party strongly united, we will elect Senator Obama President of the United States and put our nation on the path to peace and prosperity once again,” said Senator Hillary Clinton.
Senator Obama and Senator Clinton are looking forward to a convention unified behind Barack Obama as the Party’s nominee and to victory this fall for America.
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How many days will it be before we hear Obama describe his courageous arrival in to Iraq for the first time in over 900 days?
I assure you the description will include the words corkscrew landing.
Obama is scheduled to take a trip to Europe and the Middle East during the summer.
The Democratic National Convention starts on August 25th and runs thru the 28th. Obama is running out of time to visit Iraq.
I believe Obama's "surprise" visit will occur during his announced trip to Europe and the Middle East.It's understandable that the Secret Service would not want to telegraph the arrival of a presidential candidate in to a war zone.
Obama should have made the trip over the July 4th weekend so he could clarify his newest postion on Iraq. That would have been a great companion to his week of speeches on patriotism. Some are skeptical about those speeches.
The truth is Obama is saving his trip to Iraq so that he can bloviate about it at the convention. I can hear the soaring rhetoric as I write.
..."I landed in Iraq in a C130. We had to do what they call uhh uhh a corkscrew landing to make it difficult for the enemy to target the plane...etc"
It will culminate in a crescendo of patriotic adjectives about the virtues of our society and the need to make peace in the world. That will be followed by a kumbaya moment with Obama and his Veep.
The crowd will go bonkers,the baloons will drop(along with his poll numbers),the confetti will flutter down,the southerners will look for fried food and Obama will lose the election in a landslide to John McCain. :)
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Obama Surrogates Threaten to Make 2008 Democratic Convention Worse Than 1968 if Hillary Clinton Wins
Barack Obama's surrogates are already setting the stage. The Democrats are now assured of a disastrous situation should Hillary Clinton manage to come back and win the nomination. Threats are now being made to make this year's Democratic Convention even worse that the 1968 Democratic Convention that was roiled with violence and controversy:
Allies of Barack Obama have warned of chaos if unelected "super-delegates" overturn the will of grassroots Democrats when the party chooses its presidential candidate at its national convention in August.
The Illinois senator is leading in the primaries battle for elected delegates but the contest could yet be tipped in Hillary Clinton's favour by nearly 800 party officials - known as super-delegates - who comprise a fifth of the overall 4,049 delegates voting at the convention.
Jim Doyle, the governor of Wisconsin, which holds its state primary tomorrow, said the party would tear itself apart if Mr Obama won the most elected delegates but lost the nomination. "It would be a disaster for the Democratic party to thwart what has happened in the caucuses and primaries," he told Fox News yesterday.
Concern is growing that the party could face a bitter and divisive convention if both candidates stay in the race. Douglas Wilder, the former governor of Virginia and now mayor of Richmond, raised the spectre of the acrimonious 1968 party convention in Chicago, which was marred by clashes between protesters and police as anti-war -Democrats feuded with party moderates.
"There will be chaos at the convention," Mr Wilder predicted, if super-delegates handed the nomination to Mrs Clinton. "If you think '68 was bad - look at 2008 and it will be worse." (Click "Read More" Below) read more »
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Michael Barone, perhaps the smartest political observer in America, has written an outstanding piece that lays out the "super fight" that may be coming within the Democratic Party over the nomination battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. As Barone points out, it is delicious irony that the Dems system of proportionally awarding delegates - designed to keep all their constituencies happy - may be about to produce a disastrous outcome in their nomination race:
It's appropriate that our two major political parties are depicted as different animals. Forty days and forty nights out from the Iowa caucuses, the elephant and the donkey seem very different indeed. The Republicans have been split on attitudinal lines, between varying strains of conservatism and moderation.
And their delegate selection rules, based on their notion of fairness, have produced a clear and unambiguous outcome.
The Democrats, in contrast, have been split on demographic lines, between blacks and Latinos, old and young, upscale and downscale. The delegate selection rules, based on their notion of fairness, are heading the party not to a clear outcome but to a conflict in which the losing side is likely to feel profoundly aggrieved.
Winner-take-all is the Republican idea of fairness. The party seeks unity and uniformity, and doesn't encourage dissent. You know the rules in advance, and if you come out ahead you get the big prize. Thus, few Republicans thought it unfair when John McCain got all 58 delegates from Missouri on Super Tuesday after beating Mike Huckabee there 33 percent to 32 percent. (Click "Read More" Below) read more »
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