The Democratic Convention

[Pio1980]

Hope it sticks, but the idiocracy seems irrevocably fact immune.

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[bobabode]

Noted Clinton hater Andrew Sullivan live blog from last night.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...c-night-3.html

Just a sample.

"Readers know how I feel about the Clintons. But this is not about them or me. It’s about an idea of America that is under siege and under attack from a foul, divisive, dangerous demagogue. If you backed Obama, there is no choice in this election but Clinton. This is not a election to seek refuge in a third party or to preen in purist disdain from the messy, often unsatisfying duties of politics. It is an election to keep the America that Obama has helped bring into being, and the core democratic values that have defined this experiment from the very beginning: self-government, not rule by a strongman; pluralism and compassion rather than nativism and fear; an open embrace of the world, and not a terrified flight from it.

But you know what Obama gave us tonight? He gave some of us hope. Again. That’s what he does. And we will never see his like again."

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Noted Clinton hater Andrew Sullivan live blog from last night.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...c-night-3.html

Just a sample.

"Readers know how I feel about the Clintons. But this is not about them or me. It’s about an idea of America that is under siege and under attack from a foul, divisive, dangerous demagogue. If you backed Obama, there is no choice in this election but Clinton. This is not a election to seek refuge in a third party or to preen in purist disdain from the messy, often unsatisfying duties of politics. It is an election to keep the America that Obama has helped bring into being, and the core democratic values that have defined this experiment from the very beginning: self-government, not rule by a strongman; pluralism and compassion rather than nativism and fear; an open embrace of the world, and not a terrified flight from it.

But you know what Obama gave us tonight? He gave some of us hope. Again. That’s what he does. And we will never see his like again."

I've kept up with his blog since the start of the RNC. Some good stuff. Smart guy. I've always liked him.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by finnbow

I've kept up with his blog since the start of the RNC. Some good stuff. Smart guy. I've always liked him.

I must confess, on more than one occasion Patti has had to take away the remote when Andy showed up on Real Time. My next TV will have a sheet of Lexan in front of it.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by bobabode

I must confess, on more than one occasion Patti has had to take away the remote when Andy showed up on Real Time. My next TV will have a sheet of Lexan in front of it.

I'm totally cool listening to and reading smart people with whom I disagree. It's the disingenuous, manipulative ones that bother me. Andrew Sullivan isn't that.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Noted Clinton hater Andrew Sullivan live blog from last night.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...c-night-3.html

Just a sample.

"Readers know how I feel about the Clintons. But this is not about them or me. It’s about an idea of America that is under siege and under attack from a foul, divisive, dangerous demagogue. If you backed Obama, there is no choice in this election but Clinton. This is not a election to seek refuge in a third party or to preen in purist disdain from the messy, often unsatisfying duties of politics. It is an election to keep the America that Obama has helped bring into being, and the core democratic values that have defined this experiment from the very beginning: self-government, not rule by a strongman; pluralism and compassion rather than nativism and fear; an open embrace of the world, and not a terrified flight from it.

But you know what Obama gave us tonight? He gave some of us hope. Again. That’s what he does. And we will never see his like again."

Another "At least she's not Trump" argument. Nobody needs to be convinced of that. That argument will change no minds.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by bobabode

I must confess, on more than one occasion Patti has had to take away the remote when Andy showed up on Real Time. My next TV will have a sheet of Lexan in front of it.

Chicken wire like in front of the stage at honky-tonks.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Another "At least she's not Trump" argument. Nobody needs to be convinced of that. That argument will change no minds.

Actually, it will. I just saw poll results showing that a majority of voters for both candidates this year are voting for their respective candidate for the primary reason of keeping the other out of office. Both candidates are therefore running with their primary stategy being to convince voters that the other is unfit for office.

[donquixote99]

self-government, not rule by a strongman; pluralism and compassion rather than nativism and fear; an open embrace of the world, and not a terrified flight from it

Originally Posted by Boreas

Another "At least she's not Trump" argument. Nobody needs to be convinced of that. That argument will change no minds.

I guess when you read it, all the words shown in red above were invisible?

[finnbow]

PHILADELPHIA (The Borowitz Report)—In an unorthodox departure from tradition, the Democratic National Convention will kick off its prime-time schedule on Monday night with what a D.N.C. spokesman called “three hours straight of booing.”

The booing, which is slated to begin at 8 P.M. and end promptly at eleven, will give those assembled at the D.N.C. an opportunity to “get it out of their system,” the spokesman said.

The decision to schedule three hours of booing came after rancorous negotiations between the Clinton and Sanders camps, with the Clinton side originally offering half an hour of booing and the Sanders side demanding twenty hours.

Reportedly, the Clinton camp also vetoed a demand by the Sanders camp that the definition of booing be expanded to include throwing things.

While the D.N.C. hailed the three-hour booing session as a compromise that was acceptable to both sides, many Sanders delegates reacted angrily to the agreement, arguing that the negotiations had been rigged against them.

“Once again, we’ve been screwed,” Carol Foyler, a Sanders delegate from New Hampshire, said. “Three hours is barely enough time to boo Debbie Wasserman Schultz.”