DNC Live Blog: Gabby Looks Radiant and Good Bye to Geraldine, Day 3 Part 2
Posted: September 6, 2012 Filed under: 2012 elections, Live Blog | Tags: DNC live blog, Gabby Giffords, Geraldine Ferraro 67 CommentsGabby Giffords Reciting the Pledge of Allegiance moved many to tears.
Also, moving was the salute to Geraldine Ferraro 
We’ve also seen the start of the line up of young women actresses.
The Republicans had Clint Eastwood, 82, and the empty chair. The Democrats are going in the opposite direction with a line of “surprise” celebrity speakers, all female, all under 40.
Eva Longoria, 37, is scheduled to take the stage after Caroline Kennedy. Also rumored to appear are actresses Scarlett Johansson, 27; Natalie Portman, 31; and Kerry Washington, 35.
There’s been a moment of FOO and there will be moments of EW&F and Mary J. Blige.
Charlie Crist didn’t do so well. But, there’s a lot of focus on Veterans tonight. They even played the Obama got Osama card in prime time. Senator John Kerry started the Vet’s salute off. There many Vets in the audience sporting the various garb worn by the band of brothers and sisters. John Kerry nailed Mitt Romney as a flip flopper.
It’s amazing to see the Democrats showing pictures of a war and saluting Veterans while the Republicans were silent last week. The world must be upside down.
So, here we go with Joe Biden as Biden staffers pass out “fired up, ready for Joe” signs. Dr. Biden was introduced by a Angie Flores a student at Miami Dade College in Florida. There are certainly some wonderful young women standing up on the stage this year.
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“People aren’t looking for a handout, they’re just looking for a shot to get back in the game. I think we outta give them that shot” – Biden
I have trouble listening to him. He sounds so schmaltzy.
Yeah … He’s really old school and goofy.
He speaks to middle class white men, that’s what he’s good at
Personally, I thought it was courageous of Charlie Crist to get up on stage at a Democratic pep rally. The crowd has been primed to not look on Republicans kindly throughout these 3 days. I think he managed to bring the crowd around by the end of the speech. He was, IMHO, the best Republican governor in my lifetime – and we’ve had quite a few Republican govs in Florida. While he was governor, our Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission was hell bent on downlisting manatees, which would have resulted in dismantling the protections we’ve worked so hard to win against deep pocketed opposition. Crist shut the process down. Crist championed the reclamation of the Everglades. Just my 2 cents.
I enjoyed his speech. The Repubs are such haters. He took hell from them because he gave Obama a hug. When I saw Gabby gifford. It really made me think about the hate they spew. Charlie is better off without them. He could join the Dems and set his sites on Rubio. He’d be a far better choice. I’m a teacher in Michigan. I know he went gainst his party on tenure.
I was weeping when Gabby came on stage. Her life was changed forever by our horrible gun laws – or lack thereof. It is such a shame for her & all the other victims of gun violence. I wish the Dems would stand up to the NRA.
I liked Charlie Crist’s speech a lot. He came across as very sincere and authentic.
I thought Crist was low-key but very effective.
He’d be better off switching parties, certainly
He hasn’t been a Republican for a few years now. He’s an Independent.
When Rubio, with the backing of the Tea Party, overtook Crist’s big lead in the Senate race, Crist left the Republican Party & ran as an independent. He and Kendrick Meeks split the Dem & Independent/unaffiliated votes that gave Rubio the Senate seat. The talk is that he’ll switch to Dem & run for governor again.
I hate to say this, but tonight isn’t living up to the first two nights of the convention so far.
Agreed. But could anything actually surpass last night? Fluke, Sr. Campbell, Cecile Richards…..oh, and Hillary’s husband wasn’t too bad either.
Finally Biden is getting wound up.
“I’ve got news for Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan. It’s never a good thing to bet against the American people. We have no intention of downsizing the American dream.”
Biden’s always Biden. He’s an old school Democratic pol, not the slick creation of some PR team. There are traces of the Ted Kennedy style when Biden speaks, but of course he lacks the unique Kennedy charisma. His speech was good and did what it needed to do – set the stage for Obama.
I felt that was so Barach will appear to be wonderful in his speech. They don’t want anyone to out shine his speech. Joe is doing well though and Kerry for beings boring guy did well
I think the focus on the veterans tonight has been a good direction to take the convention. One reason in particular is how eager Romney – and even McCain – are to send our troops into even more countries. I’d rather see this than the banging of more war drums.
BTW – i heard James Taylor was going to perform tonight. Have I missed him? I certainly hope not.
Hey, just got back from birthday dinner with the kids. Have I missed anything?
You missed Joe Biden. He was pretty good actually.
Barak up now.
Michelle introduced Obama. Camera showed the girls watching their daddy. They have really grown up fast!
They are quite lovely. Such poise for youngsters.
“Take two tax cuts, roll back some regulations and call us in the morning.”
That was a good one!
That was great, still laughing at that one
LOL! Easily one of the best jokes of the night.
He’s actually giving a great vision. I’m impressed because he’s hitting all the right buttons
Ugh, clean coal – there is no such thing.
Coal is big in Illinois.
I’m with you. That raised my hackles.
We have coal in southwestern Indiana as well.
I recognize that coal is huge for the economies that depend upon it, but let’s not kid ourselves or others. There is no such thing as “Clean Coal”. It’s dirty, it’s environmentally disastrous, and black lung is only one of the offshoot health implications.
Ohio has lots of coal too.
If he’d have some back bone and follow through with it now.
Yeah, there’s that little problem. He failed first time around, or at least, I think he failed.
Obama’s speech is not setting me on fire so far. Seems very ordinary. Maybe I have convention fatigue.
It certainly can’t live up to Bill Clinton’s speech last night.
What could? I don’t think there’s another person on earth who could present the same gravitas,the same charisma as Bill Clinton. He’s one of a kind, sadly.
He’s making an argument against Ayn Randism.
I like his theme of you do that …
OOH, we leave no one behind. Well played.
Thank goodness it’s over. I’m completely beat. I can hardly keep my eyes open.
Sign off and go to bed. I’m about to as well.G’nite and sleep tight, as my mom used to say (that business about the bedbugs biting – forget it).
‘Night, HT. Thanks for all your comments over the past three days!
Not bad for a Canuck eh? I thought you were going to sign off and go to bed. Do it now, lady. Your wit and wisdom depends upon decent sleepy time.
My opinion is he got it done.
It was a good speech. It just wasn’t as good as Bill Clinton’s. But it was a million times better than either Romney’s or Ryan’s.
He should be very glad he’s not running against Bill 🙂
Oh no, Cardinal Dolan up now.
I think you’re right Ralph. At least, I hope so.
It was a solid, upbeat speech. Not soaring, but probably good enough. I would have preferred him to really go after Romney/Ryan but no doubt he will have his attack dogs do that. Voters usually want an optimistic message from a presidential candidate.That’s what Obama gave them tonight.
He hit him on the comment about telling kids to ask their parents for loans to go to college. I did hear that one.
He referred to Romney a few times. I liked that he never said his name though.
I thought Obama seemed much more mature tonight than in his past convention speeches. He has grown as president.
@gov: A new record political moment on Twitter: @barackobama drives 52,757 Tweets per minute. Over 9 million Tweets sent about #DNC2012.
Romney campaign will “carpet bomb” the airwaves starting Friday.
They’ve got a lot of money to spend on those ads but, no matter how you look at it, they’re still trying to polish a turd.
That will hopefully not be easy and surely ads have to hit the saturation point of diminishing returns soon in those swing states. I would be out of my mind if I had to watch those things.
I hate the ads, and I’ll bet I’m not alone. My sister-in-law lives in NH, and they can’t stand them. My tendency would be to get turned off–especially by negative ads like the ones Romney runs. If he has run any positive ones, I haven’t seen them.
Here he goes, got God’s money, and will be pounded his message every second of the day. Oh, I am sure he will a bang on the dollar, and be rewarded in heaven.
Bombard the people with too many ads they’ll get sick of them. Could backfire.
I can only hope so ………….backfire.
OMG, they are playing call ins. The Republican callers are so totally ignorant of the issues and policies – they are parroting all of the RNC rhetoric – they have no idea of what critical thinking entails. I used to think that they were far more intelligent than had been portrayed. I thought that they were not totally entranced by Rush. I was wrongh.
Lots of them are just brainwashed nutjobs now. Kind of dangerous really.
Ben Smith has what I think is an accurate portrait of the race as it stands now.
Obama Leaves Charlotte With A Strong Hand
More people watched Bill’s speech than the football game!?!
Oh, please do!
Wow, that’s impressive. Too bad Bill Clinton can’t run for president again.
OT, but can you imagine this happening in the US?