But seriously, she knocked that one out of the park.
Also, that Ted Kennedy tribute was something special.
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why didn’t you just posted this in the afternoon. Of course you thought it was great. Everything a Dem does is great. It was a good speech. I thought she should’ve talked a bit more about her college because Princeton and Harvard are impressive and went unmentioned.
Yeah. she definitely shored up the Hillary vote. Good luck with that one, team McCain.
Soon, we Minnesota Republican bloggers will point out how scripted her speech was, will make comments about teleprompters, and will be pointing out the theatrics.
Something tells me I’m 100% correct.
Yes, that was amazing.
Michelle Obama was pitch perfect. Her speech afected me as a Mother, Wife, Sister, Daughter, and Grandmother.
Michelle Obama reaffirmed in me that the Amrican Dream is obtainable with belief in oneself, determination, hard work, and the willigness to struggle. Her indentifying who she and Barack Obama are scored big points. There should be no doubt in the minds of voters that this couple are as grounded as they come.
It also makes me wonder how Cindy McCain will identify herslef as how she had to struggle to become a Beer Industry Heiress, never having to worry where her next meal would have to come from.
“But seriously, she knocked that one out of the park.
Also, that Ted Kennedy tribute was something special.”
Throughout the week, we should expect:
“But seriously, ___ knocked that one out of the park.
Also, that ________________ was something special.”
Just fill in the blanks each night.
DantheMan, I agree 100%,
That may be the most fair and balanced comment tonight.
Great Job!
Amazing speech. Period.
Its the weirdest phenomenon, I’ve noticed, that most “talkbacks” here seem to be dominated by “right-wingers”. Why do you come here? I mean, don’t get me wrong - it’s a “free internet” (unless conservatives have their way) so by all means, feel free! But if the content and opinions expressed here so incense you, why torture yourselves? Bizarre twisted right-wing masochism? It must be similar to all those conservatives who just want to be tied up and spanked by a dominatrix once in a while… repression breeding perversion. Or something.
As a non-directly involved Canadian, I check this site as a longtime Al Franken booster, hoping that we see some electoral sanity from the US this November (Franken + Obama/Biden) that could spill up north to us, curing Canada of the INsanity that crept up here over the last 8 years. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_federal_election,_2006 )
But I digress… go Franken! (…and Obama/Biden!)
Michelle was fantastic! It’s so hard to find anything negative about her speech critics here are reduced to attacks on the quality of blogger comments praising it. The repeated lines about an American story through the night were slightly awkward (especially from C. McCaskill.) It’s sad that planners felt it necessary to focus on this theme.
Fell asleep during Pelosi. Damn.
Got it on Tivo. I understand it was damn good.
It was a decent speech. Well read. Sad that Obama couldn’t allow her to savor her moment and had to step on it at the end in unintelligible remarks. If you thought that solidified Hillary supporters, you’re wrong. We may have to vote for this ticket because it’s the one selected by the party but we don’t have to love this ticket. Michelle Obama is no Hillary Clinton, that’s for sure. Tonight’s speech should be the barn burner this party needs. Only Hillary and Bill have nothing to loose and can really go after the GOP for the mess they’ve made of this country. Obama (both of them) and Biden aren’t in a position to do so. They need to strike the positive tone to lead this country but Hill and Bill can do their best service to the Dems for this fall by taking on the Bushies and McSame.
because it’s the one selected by the party …
If by “the party”, you mean the millions of people who voted for Barack, then you are correct. Hillary lost because her organization wasn’t as good and she fell victim to her own bullshit. She felt she was entitled so she didn’t work as hard as she needed to.
Millions voted for Hillary, too. More than voted for Obama when all of the votes were counted. Funny how Michigan and Florida’s voted didn’t count until Hillary had endorsed Obama. Now that he has the nomination, their full delegations will be seated and their votes count. The party won - not the voters.
While Hillary did carry the popular vote when all states were counted the idea of counting Michigan, where nobody else was on the ballot, should strain credulity for even a Clinton supporter. Not that the idea of honesty of fair play has ever kept the Clintons from doing anything in order to win before.
Any way you slice it the vote is a statistical tie with one or the other ahead by about one half of one percent. A margin to close to be significant given the loose standards for counting votes. Obama won based on his organization and strategy that resulted in winning the most delegates, pledged or otherwise. Much of that due to the support given by Democrat muckety-mucks that don’t want to kiss Clinton ass for another eight years. Kennedy, Pelosi, Reed, Kerry, Dean and others would rather be in a position to give orders than take them. A Clinton on top of the party would make all of those people meaningless as Hillary and Bill only share blame, not power.
While the idea that either party gives a damn about votes or democracy is quaint it doesn’t really appear to be true. If they did they would hold a one day nation wide primary to determine the nominee. That though would make it hard for the party powerful to shape the electoral landscape like the current system.
Hey ladybelle: What the hell is your point?
Let’s see: McCain: anti-choice, anti stem cell research, anti sex education. Pro war, anti-gay.
Obama: Pro choice, pro sex-ed, pro-science, pro-gay, wants to end the iraq war.
Going to watch Michelle’s speech now.
PS. PUMA douche bags give me a headache.
Kathy -
“Michelle Obama reaffirmed in me that the Amrican Dream is obtainable with belief in oneself, determination, hard work, and the willigness to struggle.”
Really?? Willingness to struggle?? Since when do Democrats believe in anything of the sort? They think everybody should get whatever they want whether they’ve earned it or not. Obama’s plan(a.k.a. socialism) is bailouts for people who over-reached on mortgages, hard-working people who earn higher wages will be punished for doing so, and more welfare for people who don’t think they have to work at all.
Belief in oneself?? You’ve got to be kidding me. The Obamas don’t place any worth on the individual, only the greater good of a collective society. They are the antithesis of the American dream. Windfall profits tax, cap and trade, and a lower standard of living in the name of “global warming” can all be expected from an Obama administration.
I’m sorry, but the last thing the Obama’s do is reaffirm confidence in the American Dream.
Let’s see: McCain: anti-choice, anti stem cell research, anti sex education. Pro war, anti-gay.
Wrong.
Anti-Choice: Senate votes prove he bucks his party on the issue
Anti-Stem-Cell-Research: Senate votes prove he bucks his party on the issue
Anti-Sex-Education: OK, I’ll give you this
Pro-War: I like to say anti-terrorism
Anti-Gay: Wrong. McCain would not vote for an ammendment banning gay marriage.
Keep trying. You so want McCain to be viewed as another Bush. He is his own man, and on three of the five issues you outline, has a much more moderate stand than his party platform would like him to.
At the end of the speech when she said, “God bless America” all I could think of was Rev. Wright saying, “No. No. No. No. No. Not God bless America. God damn America!”
Well Chris. America consist of enough factors that they can both be right. People in and the government of this nation have done both amazingly good and profain things throughout history. To think we only deserve either praise or condemnation is not rational.
Minnesota Republican blogger Chris,I agree 100%,
“At the end of the speech when she said, “God bless America” all I could think of was Rev. Wright saying, “No. No. No. No. No. Not God bless America. God damn America!”
You summed up the brilliant thinking of a typical Minnesota Republican blogger PERFECTLY.
Great Job Minnesota Republican blogger Chris
Kerosene Hat,
I’m sorry, but to say that our nation deserves damnation from God is not only insulting it’s irrational. We’ve shed more blood and treasure to help the rest of the world than any nation in history. We’ve freed hundreds of millions of people in the 20th and 21st centuries and asked nothing in return. We’ve spent more money on HIV/AIDS in Africa in the last eight years than in the last four administrations combined. We send our people and our aid to all countries in need - whether friend or foe. We’ve done more to feed the poor and prevent genocide and ethnic cleansing than anyone else too. Have we been perfect? No. But when you look at all of the good we’ve done, it’s a puzzle why people think they have to knock their own country.
“We’ve done more to feed the poor and prevent genocide and ethnic cleansing than anyone else too.”
wow - somebody hasn’t been watching the news for a few decades… (at least, besides FOX)
Seriously though, I’m not trying to bait anyone here, but where did you get that bizarre notion? Preemptive war, non-socialized medicine, poor environmental standards, among the worst education standards; “USA #1” is a pretty dead notion in the world at this point, unless of course you use “fuzzy math” to say you have more medals than anyone else:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/08/24/the-ugly-olympic-american/
There are areas of the US on par with third world living standards. And if you mean internationally, certainly American public policy has done little to promote investment, corporate or otherwise, in helping the many African countries facing some of the world’s most dire humanitarian crises.
And sadly, Canada goes right down the tubes with you. Just with slightly less guns.
My understanding of the phrase “god damn America” as used is a condemnation of the nations past and current sins. Not, as you sem to suggest, some sort of curse for the future. While as I said the people in and the government of our country has achieved remarkable things (though on a per-capita basis our contributions to so of the issues you mentioned are not as great as you make them seems) we have also done much that deserves criticism. Beyond the arguments people give for the hundreds of thousands killed in Iraq,Viet Nam and the dozens of smaller shadow conflicts around the world there are the obvious examples of slavery and state sponsored segregation by race and gender. Hell, my still living grandmother was alive when women still did not have the right to vote. While not my issue many would argue that legal abortion is a mighty condemnable act.
People, all of us, are only good citizens when we are wiling to express and accept criticism of our collective actions. That holds true for all groups from families, to cities to countries and beyond. We are by no means the worst bunch of offenders in the world but neither are we perfect. As such we deserve and need to accept criticism. That is rational people do. The other way represents the beginnings of a sort of Nationalistic lunacy.
Like many women, I was hoping for feminine leadership in 2008. It didn’t happen. What now?
I started thinking about, The book of Ruth, and realized that I couldn’t lay my hair down at the feet of either man. But then I watched Michelle Obama give her speech at the Democratic convention, I watched her on Ellen, and started reading her bio. I like her. Michelle Obama, You have my vote.
(I just can’t see why I should keep playing a researched game of “pin the tail” on the statesman, when the contrived, well-written and marketed blindfold is never going to come off; Even if I stick that Donkey’s tail right in the middle of his eyeball, they’ll tell me I won the game anyway.)
I The position of 1st Lady doesn’t quite carry the same weight as the presidency, but I suppose Nancy Regan would disagree. but why do the powers of the feminine need to be bi-sected from the movement of the feminist? (I could never understand why the ability to grow life in one’s body was deemed a disadvantage.)I beleive that Michelle Obama will be a good thing for my gender and my country.
Like Ruth followed faithfully followed Naomie into the uncertain future, will follow Michelle Obama to Washington. Where she goes…. I will go.
Like many women, I was hoping for feminine leadership in 2008. It didn’t happen. What now? I came from a long line of matriarchs, who had husbands and educations, they raised their babies,and they made their own clothes, they gardened, canned, worked full-time jobs - thet completely controlled their enviroments, yet managed to convince their mates they were still the weaker sex. (You don’t need the title if you control the guy who does.)
I started thinking about, The book of Ruth, and realized that I couldn’t lay my hair down at the feet of either man, even if it might benefit me to do so.
But then I watched Michelle Obama give her speech at the Democratic convention, I watched her on Ellen, and started reading her bio. I like her. Michelle Obama, You have my vote.
(Besides, I can’t see why I should keep playing a researched game of “pin the tail” on the statesman, when the contrived, well-written and marketed blindfold is never going to come off; Even if I stick that Donkey’s tail right in the middle of his eyeball, they’ll tell me I won the game anyway.)
I suppose the position of 1st Lady doesn’t quite carry the same weight as the position of the President, though I think Nancy Regan would have disagreed, it will have to serve as my deciding factor.. for now.
Like Ruth, faithfully following Naomie into the uncertain future, I will follow Michelle Obama to Washington. Where she goes…. I will go.