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Post by MadamG2U on Aug 20, 2020 2:06:11 GMT
I enjoy it this way much better too. I loved Hilary’s self deprecating humor the role call yesterday and am looking forward to hearing Obama and Kamala tonight. I too enjoy this much better. I am hearing and listening without cheers and applause. |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Aug 20, 2020 2:13:42 GMT
DJ Judd... ”An RNC tells CNN former Covington Catholic Student Nick Sandmann, MO couple Mark & Patricia McCloskey, Parkland father Andrew Pollack, anti-abortion activist Abby Johnson, SD Gov. Kristy Noem, & PA Cong. Candidate Sean Parnell will address the RNC, as first reported by Breitbart.” I wondered who trump would get. I’m assuming this lineup is correct. I believe this could be called scrapping the bottom of the barrel or trump doesn’t want anyone giving a speech at his ego massaging Convention that may outshine him. What? No Kid Rock or Scott Baio? 🤣 |
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Post by amblet on Aug 20, 2020 2:17:23 GMT
Oh yay they will let us hear from a spoiled rich kid that insulted a tribal elder. Can’t wait.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2020 2:25:48 GMT
Kyle Griffin...
”Elizabeth Warren: "We stay in this fight so that when our children and our grandchildren ask what we did during this dark chapter in our nation’s history, we will be able to look them squarely in the eye and say: we organized, we persisted, and we changed America."
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Post by MissBianca on Aug 20, 2020 2:51:36 GMT
Gah, Kamala isn’t even on yet and I’m already in tears!!
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Post by amblet on Aug 20, 2020 2:58:32 GMT
Gah, Kamala isn’t even on yet and I’m already in tears!! Me too! |
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Aug 20, 2020 3:02:06 GMT
Oh yay they will let us hear from a spoiled rich kid that insulted a tribal elder. Can’t wait. I’m guessing his speech will be about how the awful democrats called him racist and treated him so unfairly... I can’t imagine what else most of these people will talk about. |
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Aug 20, 2020 3:06:19 GMT
I just feel so choked up.
President Obama's speech was so powerful, made me miss hearing a true leader. Senator Warren spoke well, and I noticed the "BLM" in letters in the school cubbies. And now Senator Harris is speaking with such energy, conviction, and truth...
It is a political army trying to save America from Trump.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2020 3:09:39 GMT
Kyle Griffin..
“Kamala Harris: "The road ahead will not be not easy. We will stumble. We may fall short. But I pledge to you that we will act boldly and deal with our challenges honestly. We will speak truths. And we will act with the same faith in you that we ask you to place in us."
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Post by andreasmom on Aug 20, 2020 3:17:10 GMT
I just feel so choked up. President Obama's speech was so powerful, made me miss hearing a true leader. Senator Warren spoke well, and I noticed the "BLM" in letters in the school cubbies. And now Senator Harris is speaking with such energy, conviction, and truth... It is a political army trying to save America from Trump. I miss complete sentences in speeches. I miss decency. I miss actual achievements vs tv popularity. I hate the division 45 has created. I hate policy via twitter. I hate followers mansplaining that he didn’t mean what he just said. I hate the hypocrisy of people attacking Biden for “his mental capacity” while choosing to ignore 45’s “mental capacity”. I’m ready for the change. I’m ready to have grown ups back in charge. Can’t wait! |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2020 3:25:05 GMT
David Axelrod...
”.@barackobama has given so many moving, meaningful speeches but perhaps none more than his message tonight.
It will be reported as an assault on his successor.
It will be remembered as a heartfelt and urgent plea for our democracy from a POTUS who palpably loves and values it.”
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2020 3:26:36 GMT
ABC News...
”Barack Obama: “This administration has shown it will tear our democracy down if that’s what it takes for them to win. So we have to get busy building it up … by voting like never before for Joe and Kamala and candidates up and down the ticket.”
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2020 3:29:13 GMT
Daniel Dale....
”I'm listening closely to the Democrats. But there's just, factually, way less to do.
No doubt in part because there's a lot of generalities/biography stuff/subjective opinion. But it's just not even in the same universe as listening to Trump.”
”A common response to Trump's lying is "well, they all lie." I think it's important to note how asymmetrical the lying is.
You have hours of numerous Democrats speaking with no objectively false claims. It's rare to get ten minutes falseness-free from this president.”
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2020 3:33:16 GMT
It seems President Obama and Kamala Harris got to trump because he appears to be having a twitter meltdown using a lot of capital letters.
Poor 👶.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2020 3:35:18 GMT
Michele Norris...
”What we do echoes through generations” - Barack Obama asking us to think about how we order our step in this moment of consequence”
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2020 3:42:06 GMT
PBS Newshour...
“Do not let them take away your power. Do not let them take away your democracy."
- Former President Obama says that the only way to prevent a democracy from withering away is to get involved and vote.“
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2020 3:50:52 GMT
Claire McCaskill....
”Donald Trump has never looked smaller than he does tonight.”
She’s talking about trump’s twitter tantrum.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2020 4:18:19 GMT
ABC News...
”Former Pres. Obama on Pres. Trump: "For close to four years now, he has shown no interest in putting in the work...no interest in treating the presidency as anything but one more reality show that he can use to get the attention he craves."
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Post by chances on Aug 20, 2020 4:43:04 GMT
I just feel so choked up. President Obama's speech was so powerful, made me miss hearing a true leader. Senator Warren spoke well, and I noticed the "BLM" in letters in the school cubbies. And now Senator Harris is speaking with such energy, conviction, and truth... It is a political army trying to save America from Trump. I miss complete sentences in speeches. I miss decency. I miss actual achievements vs tv popularity. I hate the division 45 has created. I hate policy via twitter. I hate followers mansplaining that he didn’t mean what he just said. I hate the hypocrisy of people attacking Biden for “his mental capacity” while choosing to ignore 45’s “mental capacity”. I’m ready for the change. I’m ready to have grown ups back in charge. Can’t wait! Allllll of this. |
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Post by ntsf on Aug 20, 2020 4:43:32 GMT
the speeches of hillary, obama and kamala were very powerful.. I had the privilege of meeting hillary in person and tonight I felt her warmth and humor came through.. qualities you see when you see her in person. (my boss at in 2016 worked for hillary) and kamala was warm and relatable too tonight. Obama's speech was a tour de force...it will be one of the great speeches.. and worth listening to again.
I like a lot of the parts of the virtual convention.
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Post by chances on Aug 20, 2020 4:46:12 GMT
When you're feeling particularly low about this country, watch this, or pieces of this (call starts at 7:30). Remind yourself why you love this country and how NOT ALONE you are!!! There are 35% of this country who are selfish asses who care about little but guns and greed. But there are MANY MORE who are kind, compassionate, strong, clear-thinking, empathetic, loving people! Thanks for posting this! I don’t think I would have watched it otherwise and I’m glad I did. |
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Post by gar on Aug 20, 2020 12:18:13 GMT
I just heard snippets of Pres Obama's speech...it felt like old times  It's like chalk and cheese isn't it! And Senator Harris..I just heard a little of her speech too...so heartfelt and passionate. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2020 16:07:50 GMT
Kaitlan Collins....
”Speaking at the RNC next week: Ric Grenell, Ivanka Trump (who will introduce Trump) & possibly Kushner, though he initially wasn't going to. Trump has been watching the Dem convention closely & calling staff at all hours with ideas. W @kevinliptakcnn”
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2020 16:52:53 GMT
Bill Kristol... Our former president indicted the current one and made urgent the need to put him in the dustbin of history in these 242 words without ever having to say his name. It was truly remarkable." -- @timodc mailchi.mp/thebulwark/3-s…“ linkHe’s talking about this article in The Triad by Tim Miller about the convention & President Obama’s speech. These are the 242 words he’s talking about... “ Some years ago, I sat down with John and the few remaining leaders of the early Civil Rights Movement. One of them told me he never imagined he’d walk into the White House and see a president who looked like his grandson. Then he told me that he’d looked it up, and it turned out that on the very day that I was born, he was marching into a jail cell, trying to end Jim Crow segregation in the South. What we do echoes through the generations.
Whatever our backgrounds, we’re all the children of Americans who fought the good fight. Great grandparents working in firetraps and sweatshops without rights or representation. Farmers losing their dreams to dust. Irish and Italians and Asians and Latinos told to go back where they came from. Jews and Catholics, Muslims and Sikhs, made to feel suspect for the way they worshipped. Black Americans chained and whipped and hanged. Spit on for trying to sit at lunch counters. Beaten for trying to vote.
If anyone had a right to believe that this democracy did not work, and could not work, it was those Americans. Our ancestors. They were on the receiving end of a democracy that had fallen short all their lives. They knew how far the daily reality of America strayed from the myth. And yet, instead of giving up, they joined together and said somehow, some way, we are going to make this work. “ |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2020 17:03:58 GMT
CNN...
”Trump in overdrive to produce a blockbuster RNC that outshines Dems”
”Washington(CNN) Pre-recorded speeches and a few paper streamers? Not on his watch.
President Donald Trump, a television producer at heart, is hoping for a convention next week that looks vastly different from the all-digital event Democrats have staged over the past days -- including an emphasis on live programming and at least some type of audience who can respond to the multiple appearances he is planning.
Calling aides at all hours from Air Force One or the White House residence, Trump has conveyed last-minute ideas on venues or gimmicks and demanded progress reports on the speakers he wants during his nominating extravaganza, which he hopes will provide a boost to his poll numbers.”
Yea, good luck with that.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2020 20:33:33 GMT
SovernNation...
”Breaking: @stephencurry30 and @ayeshacurry endorse #JoeBiden, will appear in a video with their kids on tonight’s #DemConvention to announce “We’re voting for Joe Biden.”
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Post by gypsymama on Aug 20, 2020 21:41:13 GMT
i kinda skimmed thru this thread, but one of my favorite parts was the keynote with the younger new mayors, reps, etc... that was just so uplifting! lots of tears for me! i loved the john mccain video and the segments on the bidens and how they met and their family, and the mamala segment with her niece, sister, etc.
the speeches in empty rooms are a little awkward, but not having to wait for everyone to stop screaming and clapping isn't such a bad thing!
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It's like chalk and cheese isn't it! And Senator Harris..I just heard a little of her speech too...so heartfelt and passionate. 
