Credit to HRC. Now if Bill can just be strong.

WOOHOO!

The noise level in here just doubled. People going crazy.

Very exciting rollcall, expertly staged and choreographed.

Extremely gracious move by HRC. Classy doesn’t even begin to describe it.

Hi, Balrog!!! Great to see you. I have no doubt that Hillary will flay him alive if he screws up.

Dave, Balrog and egregious!!! Yes, that was a good move on Hillary’s part. When is Bill’s thing?

It came as a surprise to me, watching on t.v. Was that planned or a Hillary surprise? I mean, California ‘passed’ earlier, so it looked like they were setting up Illinois to “put him over”. But, out of the blue…

What are the wagers that this will be explained away by some body language experts that will declare their hearts weren’t really in it or people got caught up in the drama blah, blah,blah

Classy doesn’t even begin to describe it.

How about quintessentially gracious?

That should read “acclamation” although “acclimation” may describe how Hillary got used to her decision to support Obama.

The Very Important Pundits will explain it all to us, I’m sure, because we’re just to silly to grasp the nuances…

Tom Udall, and now Jeanne Shaheen at the podium. Will we hear from all our Democratic Senate challengers? I hope!

TOO silly… (preview is my friend…)

I have no doubt that Hillary will flay him alive if he screws up.

I dunno Bill might be into that kind of thing.

Likewise as always Marion. Rumor has it your drought has been lessened if not ended by Fay?

Just unbelievable….celebrating the progress for Blacks, the big step. Holy Ground. And there is some way the “king maker” role for Hillary has been perfect. Maybe because she can so deeply appreciate the moment. She has had a momentous part; the heat of the contest has made the accomplishment all the more significant for Obama.

Stupid Hannity calls this convention one of “bitter AMericans.” He should be ashamed; what a sham. Surely he can note the importance of this day. Self correcting that came so slowly.

No one was more critical of Hillary than I was. I salute her dignity.

Blue America Oregon Senate candidate Jeff Merkeley at the podium now!

Evening sir. Anything exciting going on?

What a great moment.

Wasn’t he MC of the Ed Geen Memorial Cookout last year?

Merkley is really singing it. Bush/McCain, Bush/McCain/Smith. Oil prices, affordable health care, an end to the war in Iraq.

“Bush and McCain’s failed policies!”

takes one to know one.

: )

Yes it is!!

Blue America Maine candidate for Senate Tom Allen up now!

Hmm Ted Koppel is on BBC flamming the division thing. meh.

We got a lot of nice, steady rain with just a few downpours. We’re almost even now! How have you been?

I think the whole process was great…all the pundits talking about how the nomination roll-call was a “bad idea”, that Obama’s staff had blown it by conceding it, that there was great potential for division to be accentuated. The tension built.

Then this! Awesome!

And it happened in “Prime Time” in most of the “battle ground” states [though not here on the West Coast…we don’t matter, once again ;-) ]

There goes the phony PUMA argument…the only ones carrying that banner are crypto-Republicans. I wanna see see Limbaugh in a pants suit and mansier!

Hannity? not possible. not in his dna

I thought he had more sense than that…

Really bad music.. Monday started well with music, then faded fast.

I wanna see see Limbaugh in a pants suit and mansier!

Eeeeew…. just EEEEW!

KO, Tweety and Brokaw are emphasizing the incredible importance of this moment.

Very well thanks.

Alert: Per the AP Buy Chicken Now!

Lehrer on the News Hour just now. “Bill Clinton is expected to speak tonight but it is widely reported that he won’t attend tomorrow when Barack Obama gives his concession, er, acceptance speech.”

I guess we only got to see the Schumer-approved Senate nominees, although he did mention Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi and Kansas. Perhaps those Democrats stayed home to campaign.

Wexler up now! Perhaps some red meat or a whiff of impeachment now?

I’m a puddle. It just hit me like a sledge hammer. from slavery to presidential nominee. oh, Dr. King must be smiling and shedding some tears of joy

MSNBC has interviewed two African American women and are now talking with Joh Lewis. If we are going to constantly whine about the MSM we ought to take note when they do the right thing. IMHO

ditto

“On Bush and McCain’s watch….”

they should have asked you to consult. they seriously need some help.

“Under McCain’s perverse logic….”

agreed but can David gregory stop calling it political theater every 5 minutes?

“Barack Obama is the president America needs and the friend Israel deserves…”

Here’s what I am thinking. All those brothers I served with who were screwed into the service by a rigged system that let the “best and the brightest” slide with deferments. None of us ever thought we’d see this.

who is this guy stoking the iran hate?

Just had a thunderstorm with big raindrops! How’s the little one?

beautiful thought. thank you.

In the sense that it was a done deal he is right, to pretend otherwise would be disingenuous.

On camera interview #4, for Cox News. Emergency backup fdl blogger with the sound bites :)

They said it would be on their site later on this evening DNC Behind The Scenes.

I was asked arent there any conservatives here. I said there are a lot of people here that consider themselves conservatives, but this administration has broken their heart. Biggest deficit in history, government intervention in people’s lives at an unprecedented level. The real conservatives are joining us on the other end of the see saw to re-balance things. Then later we can to back to disagreeing about everything.

I’m holding onto my Clinton bumper stickers and pins. Someday they may help in my retirement! My Obama items too.

Balrog, how’s our lil’ rog rog?

people have been asking about wes clark–got an email about it….he’s on his way from munich to denver to==join fellow democrats in unity and hear obama’s acceptance speech.

tried to copy the email, but it’s in an image.tiff format that won’t let me.

Obama is running for President of Israel? Who knew?

damn. it’s wexler. i used to like him.

NANCY:

My contempt knows no bounds.

I was so excited a year and half ago. Now. Not so much.

Women House Democrats on stage now.

I have a Clinton T-shirt from the Inauguration. I actually keep trying to figure out what to do with it…perfect shape.

You have to grade Gregory on a curve. He’ll still score an “F” but at least you gave him a chance.

The last speaker was Wexler.

nancy pelosi is a lousy role model.

beautiful. i had always hope that this would happen in my lifetime but I really never thought it would have happened. I can only imagine how florred you must feel right now

True but he keeps injecting it every few lines.

In 20 years, put it on ebay!

lol I know better than to wach msnbc but it’s been so snippy lately, I was waiting for some fists to fly

I also hope that some of this sentiment/affirmation/justice will sway some of the vote. To be a part of something so important, including worldwide.

Michelle & Barack Obama – never have so many been so happy for a couple…..here, there & everywhere!

digg it

Was there a NATO meeting there?

It depends on what role you have in mind. If you were casting a cave woman, she would be perfect for the part.

A year old and full o’ piss & vinegar.

c-span.

I have no doubt that Hillary will flay him alive if he screws up.

LOL. Even being fair, Gregory is still a witless idiot.

Blue America Congresswoman Hilda Solis speaks now!

My aunt just skyped me from Brasil. She was watching CSPAN on the internet but her english is not that good. LOL but she wanted to be able to tell folks what happened. I wish I could see the peoples faces in the favelas

Hi Loo Hoo. Weerog is fine and attended his first State Fair this weekend. Like Dad, he screamed bloody murder on the little boats that go in a circle. The horror.

You have to grade Gregory on a curve. He’ll still score an “F” but at least you gave him a chance.

Wrong quote. Apologies.

True but in any gathering of idiots, Gregory stands head and shoulders above the rest.

Maxine Waters gets huge applause!

We are flipping back and forth between cspan, bbc and msnbc. msnbc for the possible fistacoffs the other two for info and pundit free coverage

Tweety just rubbed Jon Tester’s buzz cut. Jon should have kicked his ass.

Maxine says John McCain doesn’t understand the foreclosure crisis, maybe because none of his seven homes are in foreclosure!

yep. i posted this a few threads down==

from the post-
“they’re actually having trouble finding delegates who reflect that.”

andrea mitchell explored that last night, had many many comments from delegates, and kept pushing the fact that she couldn’t find anyone who did…was laughing and genuinely talking with people. pointedly.

i had it look twice to make sure it was her. she was definitely enjoying herself talking with them, and kept saying she ‘couldn’t find it here’. that it looked like unity to her. i thought, good thing her job is secure, she might be in a little trouble….made me wonder.

her interview today led tom ridge to completely blow it, he ended with how mccain is a principled man with a principled past……the whole time she was joking with him, but got him to blow it. i dunno. i think she might be steppin’ up to the plate. i know in these two instances, she had the ball(s). no snark.

No, even when they forgot to pay taxes on one for several years they didn’t lose it.

LOVE Maxine. She was out there working for Ned Lamont when the rest of the dems were hiding.

sorry. my bad. i was apparently just talking with myself. just ignore me while i sit over here in the grumpy corner. *g*

After all of the GOP-er pearl clutching over the Greek column motif, the momory hole produces another leader who used the same style columns at his 2004 convention.

G.W. Caligula’s temple.

-G

wooo hooo get em Maxine!!

you are the best kind of political junky.

got a picture of you and her somewhere.

Hope you got pictures! He is now on the pathway to a Naval career or being a lay-about yacht owner.

disingenuous?
Well, I agree, but how many times have we heard protests about Kabuki Here…I gotten say…
I see a lotta people here who are playing the Hillary card today who were part of the grief here during the primary.
So, yeah, call that card, for for all who play.
(so glad to talk to you. :))

Well, I certainly understand that he is not perfect and if he wins there will be things he does I won’t agree with. I guess it’s partly reflecting on how I felt about this country 40 years ago that makes me proud that we have at least moved in a positive direction in some ways.

I’ve got it. With her and I think you or Katherine.

I loath the terms “Kabuki” and “meme”, elitist babble.

i agree with you 100%

What a schmuck! Tweety’s Chicklets™ should be on the pavement…

Tweety: “What’s with the crew-cut out there?”
Jon Tester: “We be stylin’ out there.”

swear to gahd

Don’t forget the 2004 flap over W’s podium design that featured a cross!

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Speakers at this week’s Republican convention make their remarks at a wooden podium that some Jewish groups find offensive because its decorative panels appear to form the shape of a Christian cross.

A cross is even more visible in a waist-high gavel stand adjacent to the podium, leading some to question whether the party is trying to send a subtle message to its base among conservative Christians.

“It is the very height of insensitivity for the Republican Party to feature a cross at the center of the podium of this convention,” Ira Forman, executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council, said in a statement.

“This wooden cross must be at least three feet (one meter) tall, and it sends a signal of exclusivity loudly and clearly.”

Two other Jewish groups interviewed by Reuters expressed similar sentiments.

A convention spokesman declined to comment about the podium flap, telling reporters he did not understand why people were asking questions on the issue.

President Bush’s chief political strategist, Karl Rove, told CNN he did not think the podium’s decorative woodwork looked like a cross.

“My God, where do they come up with this stuff?” he said. “Does it look to you like it’s a cross? I don’t think so.”

The hall at the convention, where Bush on Thursday will accept the Republican nomination to a second White House term, is sparse.

Its three main components are a billowing stretch of red, white and blue to symbolize patriotism and the American flag, a New York skyline devoid of the World Trade Center, destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and the church-like podium.

Beside the podium is the gavel stand constructed of wood panels, with lighter shades in the center in the shape of a cross — the Christian symbol of the crucifixion of Jesus.

oooh, firemen~!

Here goes Pat Buchanan…blah blah blah blah stir the pot…bla blah blah…honesty….noun…verb….adjective (black)…blah blah blah

LMAO Tweety’s Chicklets….i’m dead

Jon Tester!!! I shook his hand and thanked him from all of us firedogpups and Blue America and he said he loved coming to talk with us!

He clearly feels the history being made. Mr. Cranky.

just switch to CSpan already.

It’s the only way to watch this.

Lustful boy!

The return of the Balrog!

Something big must be up.

Oh, and was it Pelosi or Hillary who made the motion for acclamation? I’ve read conflicting reports…

Bob in HI

we can watch the silly pundits during the RNC.

Cool! That was nice of him! Did you ask how his crops are doing this year?

Hillary. Very well staged.

OMG, think there is whining now!

i was there. as i recall, i asked her if she minded if i took her picture (it was in the hotel, so i though i should ask) and she said not at all, but only if i was in the picture too. so i grabbed you from the registration desk.

thought she was very gracious and patient. made a good impression on me.

I loath the terms “Kabuki” and “meme”, elitist babble.

Being elitist I have no problem with either. The real kabuki here is not the nomination process but the atmospherics that obscure the big corporations that are here to buy politicians.

*spew alert* scarborough up on MSNBC

Here goes Pat Buchanan…

What I’m waiting to hear is “There goes Pat Buchanan – for good!”

very gracious was she. It was the morning after the night before. We were all kind of dazed.

Ye-up. Me too.
Meme? What kind of weird-ass word is that.
(Stop, other commenters.. I understand Plural.)

lol we are switching between cspan, msnbc and bbc. I just clicked over to see if Buchanan’s head was going to explode. it didn’t

yep.

I loath the terms “Kabuki”

uh, oh.

what would you prefer i i say?

It’s campus babble.

I think that the pundit babble will be necessary to get through the RNC.

Entertainment.

Here, it’s deadly.

Clyburn just one step up from McSame with the teleprompter skills.

Tax arrears maybe but no mortgages and to think it was all possible thanks to Cindy Lou’s ex-con daddy

Oh, I’m not picking on you at all. It’s a meme around here!

One might regard the reduction of the highly complex nature of ideas (such as religion, politics, war, justice, and science itself) to a putatively one-dimensional series of memes as an abstraction and, as such, a process which does not increase one’s understanding. The highly interconnected, multi-layering of such ideas resists memetic simplification to an atomic or molecular form; as does the fact that each of our lives remains fully enmeshed and involved in such “memes”. One cannot view memes through a microscope in the way one can detect genes. The levelling-off of all such interesting “memes” down to some neutralized molecular “substance” such as “meme-substance” would introduce a bias toward scientism and abandon the very thing that makes ideas interesting, richly available, and worth studying.[20][21]

atmospherics that obscure the big corporations that are here to buy politicians.

and politicians are there to be bought.

jane had an awesome post on this earlier (just in case you or others didn’t see it)

I loath the terms “Kabuki”

uh, oh.

what would you prefer i i say?

Business as usual?

Calling Bob in Hi for an interpretation into plain English.

Citizen Raven:

Hit ‘em again, they’re still breathin’…but “Kabuki” is a useful term for a lotta ‘merikan political behavior…it ain’t respectful of the Japanese culture ta use it ta characterize our political wankin’ though.

What’s happenin’ in Georgia…any surprises in store in Novrember in the Senate race?

I think bullshit is the term that would be more widely accepted.

We were all kind of dazed.

lol. still am. don’t think it’s worn off yet.

I dunno if Martin has a shot against this sleazeball Chambliss. You’ll have to check with Marion on that douchebag Barrow.

I’m depending on you all for the RNC stuff. I don’t think I can stomach pure unadulturated bullshit

((Raven))

i figure i already annoy you enough. hate to do it unnecessarily.

I notice Rockefeller received a tepid response.

Man, if the POW kid nominates Mittens or Leibershits it should be great. . . Kabuki!

nah

Why did we have to see Jello? I could have done without it.

KO has the Muslim on!!!

Citizen Raven:

Now that’s why we love ya Freebird…

well, at least i don’t think i’ve ever used “meme” – probably because i don’t understand what it means. lol.

someone fetch the smelling salts and make ready the fainting couches

Citizen Raven:

Ya keep us honest and that ain’t a bad thing…I worry about how much work and energy it costs ya though.

Thanks, I missed that altogether.

Christy’s upstairs…. ;~D

Me too, that’s why I had to di-di mau for a while and may well again. I keep getting the “Slow Down You Are Posting too Fast” meme. . .o

Raven, Norske-

I voluteered at the get go for the Martin campaign, but was so unimpressed I gave up. Jim Martin seems like a “nice guy”, but no fire in the belly as I see it. His campaign may have gotten better, but it was something out of the ’50s. Money. Few public appearances. etc.

More if you want to know.

Ignore that meme !

Typical Georgia Democrat. It was good to see Jane Kidd do the speaking for our delegation, she’s my home girl.

o

Citizen selise:

“…I don’t think I’ve ever used ‘meme – probably because I don’t know what it means. LOL”

And that is exactly what Citizen Raven is gettin’ at, methinks…and don’t you ever worry about gettin under anyone’s skin around here, dear heart, ‘cuz you are an honest player, we don’t need a satelite locator ta figure out where yer comin from.

that’s what I’m talkin bout

Heah, dahlin’, I believe it’s yo-ah evenin’ to put the powder on…
I’m just funnin’ y’all.
Did anyone else read Geisha?
(((R)))

Typical GA Dem- gawd- that explains it. Seriously. But so sad. I was all fired up to work hard, but the level of ineptitude I saw was damn stunning. Howie even had asked me to do a weekly report on the campaign- on the ground-

I ended up telling Howie there is nothing to report… again and again.

we don’t need a satelite locator ta figure out where yer comin from.

citizen! i am so checking in with you next time i get lost. which seems to happen all the time. lol.

Buchanan victory speech in 1996: “Mount your horses and ride to the sounds of the gun.”

Spoken like a true frustrated night rider.

selise, Norske-

Just got a true laugh out that exchange! And, course, we don’t need a satellite locater to figure out where Norske is coming from either! ((hugs 2u2)))

NPR this morning with a little truthiness about those pundits–

The Volleys Of TV’s Political Analysts, by David Folkenflik.

Bob in HI

Of what? Meme? Kabuki?

“Kabuki” is a metaphor based on a highly stylized form of Japanese theater. I guess here it means a highly stylized form of political theater. The implication is, I think, that the characters are carrying out their assigned part in a script that will end in a manner determined by the script, and hence known to anyone who knows the script.

“Meme” first came into popular use with the publication of Dawkins’ book The Selfish Gene in 1976. If you look it up in the wikipedia, you’ll know as much as I do about it. But I suspect that this word has been misapplied frequently.

Bob in HI