Speeches Open Thread! [Update]

Michelle Obama seemed upset during Bill’s speech. Why does Michelle hate Democrats? Why is Michelle so vengeful? Why is she so graceless?

Again with this business about having class… At the risk of going against the grain here, the Clintons were the Roosevelts to me until they crapped out on June 4th and sharted schilling for a corrupt party and petty crook politician. Nobody held a gun to their heads. They were in the perfect position to do the right thing – call for an investigation of voter complaints in the caucuses and dispute the Florida/Michigan raw deal on the floor of the convention. Sen. Clinton had even promised she’d do that.

Now here we have to listen to both of them drone on about Holy Obama…

Remember, we’re the ones that put the Clintons on that stage, not the Obama campaign. Not the DNC. It was our donations. Our blogs. Our volunteer time. And there they both are, helping to cover up an election fraud. Then to reward Obama after flipping her the bird, having Father Pfleger humiliate her with that skit, the misogyny from the surrogates, the criminal media bias, the threats against superdelegates, harassment of supporters, and all other low-life tactics by just handing over the nomination without a fight…

If nothing else, it sets a hell of a precedent for the next woman to run for office. Like that’s ever going to happen.

BIG DAWGGGGGGGGGGGG!

Are you still in the market for a bridge?

Bill’s nose had to grow at least an inch during his speech. I never thought I’d leave the room when he was speaking, but it happened tonight. I’m sorry, but it was too much for me. Hillary at least didn’t praise Obama.

I have been crying off and on for two days – grieving for our loss. I just don’t get it. Maybe they just wanted to get it over with and move on. This was a losing battle and sometimes you have to cut your losses. Still, the repetition of that name over and over… Grrr…

Wonder what the Republicans are going to offer up on Friday morning.

And then he said (paraphrasing) Biden makes up for Obama’s total absence of foreign policy experience and common sense.

He gave the Repubs a gift and told us all what we already know – Obama is not qualified.

I love listening to the Clintons. They are great.

Everyone must remember to read between the lines. It was easy to do with Hillary’s speech. She never once said Obama was qualified or would be a good POTUS.

Bill’s speech takes hard listening to hear what he was really saying. At first I kept expecting him to say “just kidding”.
But then he said Obama is so unqualified he needs Biden (in so many words).
And his comment about the Repubs saying he was too young and inexperienced when he first ran – he himself has said that he had been a governor and Obama has not led anything (again paraphrasing).

And listen to the way both Clintons compliment McCain. They spoke more highly of him as a person than they did of Obama. They did speak of the differences on the issues – but Bill even limited that to two areas of disagreement.

The Clintons did say we need a D(d)emocratic POTUS – but that is because of issues, not because of Obama. I don’t think they think Obama will make it through the vetting to the election.

And that brings me to the Repubs. I have always been disgusted with their dirty tactics. But now is the time to do what they do so well. They have the facts that we tried so hard to get before the nomination. ‘We ain’t seen nothin yet.’

As far as MO’s sourpuss – I’m pretty sure she’s thinking ‘Why can’t my stupid husband give speeches like that and why doesn’t he know any of the stuff they are talking about?’.

Obama’s speech tomorrow, filled with his uhs and ums and lies and empty rhetoric, will sound like a kindergartener’s ‘what I did on my summer vacation’ speech. I apologize to kindergarteners everywhere for that insult.

So trolls, get a clue. The Clintons know Obama is not POTUS material. They are telling that to those who are willing to listen while pulling the wool over your eyes because you only hear what you want to hear.

PUMAs take heart. It will be okay. The Clintons never give up and we won’t give up. There are a lot of people that cherish democracy and this country. They were fooled twice by Bush. They won’t be fooled a third time by the fool the DNC is trying to shove down our throats.

That was a funny one.

Really, everything she wears is just hideous. Hideous.
*****A

But his camp claim his a racist. We should listen to him now? Do we have premission from Obama to lock step? Should I go to Chicago for reprograming?

He’s no Bill!!!

Save your breath!!!

None of you have any interest in the Clintons except for what he can do for your LOSER candidate. Neither Bill nor Hillary can carry his lazy ass across the finish line. And what does he do? Pull a Napoleon in a colliseum! hahahahahahaha The Republicans are going to eat his lunch. This is going to be so sweet!

“Two term Obama”! In your dreams, lil’ bot, in your dreams…

Problem is we’re never going to be ready for him; for his terrorist buddies; for his muslim brotherhood; for his support of Kenyan thugs; for his complete lack of credentials.

Big Bill fulfilled his duty as senior statesman of the true (racist though he is) Democratic Party. He gave a speech as a former President of the US for his party. That’s all.

Notice how animated (comparatively) MEchille was? Even showed teeth while smiling. She’s going to fantasize tonight.

Yup. Now all Barky has to do is sell the rest of the nation on that thought. Somehow, I don’t think cardboard pillars painted off white are going to do it.

Dean, what you republicans on this website have been doing is not vetting in my dogeared Webster’s, it’s called LYING.

Obama/Biden 08

Stop calling Bill a liar, dude.

^ And we all know he lies with such ease.

Same here JP49.

Comment by Obama-Biden08 | 2008-08-27 20:21:55

I think not.

Truer words were never spoken.

They’ll say lots of positive things about Barack’s inspiring biography, that the Democratic party is the best ever even though they always nominate losers, and look! they’re being supportive just like they said.

None of those are convincing reasons to vote for Obama but just preaching cult doctrine. Koolaid’s not to my taste, even if the Clintons are now proud sponsors.

Can we pick a Clinton meme and stay with it?

Are they good now?
Are they only good when they support the guy who knifed her?
Is it not enough that he is the LAST Democratic President we had?
Are we going to hear shit about them because 0bama can’t close the deal? When the polls don’t go up?
Did Bill introduce him to Ayers?
Did Hillary force him to finance with Rezco?

Get a handle. You wanted him. You got him. You get him elected. AND DO IT WITHOUT US. Odonna told us to take a hike. Me? I did. Buh-bye. That’s me voting for my first Republican. Go find two people to replace me.

“Sixteen years ago…they said I was too young and too inexperienced to be commander-in-chief.”
-Bill Clinton.

She looked radiant as did Hillary every time the camera flashed her way.

Obama/Biden 08

I think it backed up into her brain.

Okay, i really don’t like doing this but what the hell…you’d think working at a Hospital she’d know a good plastic surgeon who could botox her right between the eyebrows!…and that dress–Puhleeze!

I think it’s just you.

Yeah, it’s just you.

Michelle Obama is hate personified. She hates democracy, and she hates the Clintons. She also hates white people, which is why she attended Jeremiah Wright’s GOD DAMN AMERICA church.

Karen, I can’t agree more. All day on the MSM, all I heard was that Bill was a liability but tonight he raised the roof. Fuck the MSM. The thinking people know exactly what and who Bill is. The greatest American president in the last 40 years. I adore him more everyday. And Hillary would have been an even better prez.

I’d cut my own hands off first, my vote, I’m just not obligated. My gut says No Obama, and that’s how it is.

In your dreams fool.

I know. He’s so much like Bush. That’s also why we can vote for him.

I am glad that you republican found Obama after the party picked a moderate in McCain. Now go back to your Bushland and stop selling Bushcolne.

A few weeks ago, somebody posted the following message. (It still makes me laugh):

“Nobama is a post turtle. Somebody put him atop a post; he does not know what to do up there. You just wonder what dumbasses put him there to begin with”.

Barack Obama *is* on the right side of history… for now. He is a historical candidate who will lose.

Only reason is b/c Pelosi, Dean and Ted Kennedy with his ailing self trying to create Camelot is pushing this neophyte to live after Bobby Kennedy’s prediction.

It won’t happen. Camelot died after JFK Jr. died in the car crash.

No black muslim and his militant wife will never relive JFK’s shadow and Jackie O’s grace. What a waste to society.

Once again am sitting here and wondering why in the world are we Americans so stupid we have tossed away a great woman that would of been a wonderful president and throw out a most valuable asset her husband Bill.

Now we are stuck with Obama and after listening to all the Bill and Hillary is saying Obama will have to accomplish, so of use know dam well deep inside he is not up to the task.

Basically we blew it folks, and we know it.

Ain’t it the truth?

What a waste.

The “Democratic” party threw away two diamonds for cheap rocks.

I’m so glad I left the party earlier this year.

I see.

The rules have changed.

Just so I’m clear…

Saying every vile, misogynistic thing you want about Michelle Obama = OK.

Pointing out that the freepers used to – and still do – say the same exact things about Hillary Clinton = NOT OK

You must be proud, you must be proud.

Inappropriate content?

Because I find it utterly despicable — not to mention the height of hyopcrisy — that this thread is nothing but a Michelle trash fest, using the SAME TYPE OF ATTACKS USED AGAINST HILLARY FOR 16 YEARS –

That’s inappropriate?

Just trying to learn the rules, Susan…

Is there a list somewhere that I can refer to so in the future, I’ll know when it’s OK to sound like a raving sexist caveman?

I get that it’s OK when used against Michelle… Are there any other exceptions?

Obama will have his teleprompter to deliver us from evil.

Ugh, fire bad.

Yes, I made that connection, too. it’s a shame, too, cuz my kids really like that little guy Bob.

I wonder if BO thought to borrow any other Nickelodeon cartoon songs like maybe: “We can do anything, that we wanna do”

If you still believe in a place called Hope.

I’ll interpert for all you Obots…Bill Clinton was from Hope, Arkansas. 16 years ago, when he ran for President he said he was for change and hope, in fact he even came from there; and thus, he believed in a place called Hope. it was truly symbolic and inspiring and unfortunately BO and his advisors decided to use it for the Great Impostor. He isn’t Camelot, he isn’t Hope and he is definitrly no FDR either. He is a chameleon who changes colors (personas) whenever he needs to.

Bill’s so funny when he’s being ironic.

2 wrongs do not make a right

and the loonies on the left are trying it and failing poorly

neglecting to realize DEMS do NOT lock step!!!!!

If you are NOT willing to convince us or cajole us or “woo” us as some have said then you will LOSE US!!

NOW FORGIVE ME (yes I’m politically incorrect)
but you Obama-bots give the word
RETARD a new meaning

(apologies to the mentally challenged whom I would NEVER call that word)

if they are so high to think this fraud can win more than a half dozen states then they need more help than MOST professionals can give them.

they need SPOCK to faze them back into reality!!! (or someone to faze US OUT cuz if this is the new reality? ha, I’ll take my ticket for another train)

Bill does not need a teleprompter. Remember when he was giving one of his State of the Union speeches and the teleprompter stopped running? He continued on without skipping a beat. He’s a guy who lived and owns his material.

Bill is famous for not keeping to a script and for not relying on a telepromter. He’s a gifted speaker, what can I say?

Michelle Obama believes the convention should focus on MECHELLE. She can only think of herself. She is the most selfish, supercilious human being on the planet. If MECHELLE is not the focus, she is bored.

GOD DAMN MICHELLE OBAMA

Yeah, Obama is the next Clinton for sure. If Clinton had gone through the primaries with the lies and smears Obama got away with, he would not have been a candidate.

WE are all victims of the race card. I for one am disgusted and appalled that this is what all of this finally boils down to. No experience. Country be damned, the DNC is going to make history by propping a biracial man for the highest office in the land. A man who has served a whopping 143 days as a junior senator. Country before party.

It’s too bad Bill Clinton couldn’t run for a third term,by the sound of the applause,and the standing ovation..He’d probable win.imo.

We all know that Dick Morris despises Senator Clinton and was a relentless attack dog against her during the entire campaign, almost as bad in many ways as Maureen Dowd. Yet, on FoxNews one evening, when asked by another commentator whether Bill or Hillary Clinton are racists, Morris said something illuminating. He said something to the effect that, you can accuse the Clintons of a lot of things, but there is not one racist bone in Bill or Hillary Clinton. Playing the race card against these two especially is perhaps the most despicable dirty trick pulled against any politician, and Morris knows a thing or two about dirty tricks. Among all the crap pulled by Obama, his supporters, and the media, their crossing the line with calling the Clintons racist was the last straw for me. I can NEVER forgive Obama and his supporters, NEVER! This the cutting point for me, and presumably for a lot of other people out there. They simply went beyond the pale. There is no kissing and making up.

Her handlers must have told her to smile and applaud more enthusiastically. Last night at one point in the beginning I saw fear on her face when Hillary was talking. Not sure MO is first lady material just like her husband is not presidential material.

Elitist Michelle Obama has a fashion adviser in Chicago. She also has a housekeeper and a gardner. Michelle Obama cannot even make her own decisions. She also cannot run her “own house,” as it is Rezko’s house. And any thought she may have ever had was already uttered by Reverend Jeremiah GOD DAMN AMERIKKKA Wright.

She has had multiple facelifts [REMOVED BECAUSE IT IS RACIST AND REPUGNANT LANGUAGE]

I thought something was up with this second reference to the Constitution he’s made in a matter of a few weeks.

Here’s a url for the same picture. “Siezer”! LMFAO.

http://politicalinquirer.com/2008/08/27/an-ego-for-the-ages-in-a-classical-setting/

And you are an add-on that (you don’t deserve “who”) would have no purpose, if PUMA did not exist, which means you are the least significant of the insignificant.

As far as I am concerned, Hillary and Bill did all they should be expected to do, which is to gracefully hand off the torch to Obama and Biden and hope that those two can hang on to it.

The ball is now squarely in Obambi’s and Joey’s court. They are the ones who must take McCain to task and dismantle his candidacy.

If they fail to leverage the boost they just received from the only 2-term democratic president in my lifetime and from Senator Clinton, then O’Barky does not deserve to win.

Bill did a superb job of lecturing the “neophyte” in the ways of national politics.

Hillary Clinton told you something, as plainly as she could possibly say it. So did Bill. He just told you the same thing.

Apparently you need Sean Hannity, Karl Rove, or Bill Kristol to interpret it for you.

anyone w any intelligence does not give a rats ass what John Kerry has to say. He needs to go back to windsurfing on the Cape.

Jackass? I loved it, and he was enjoying himself so much. He asked Michael Dukakis what he felt were the qualifications of Barack Obama that make him such a competent candidate? Sean can’t help it if Dukakis didn’t have an answer…BTW, he asked the same question of all his guests and no one has been able to cite one thing that would qualify him to be POTUS. No doubt Sean will do the same tomorrow night and there will still be no answers! Plus we will have all borne witness to the Greek arena and the ridiculous spectacle the Democrats have decided to turn the Acceptance Speech into.

I’d prefer Sarah Palin.

I can’t believe the Conservatives will be happy with her.

Where did she come from all of a sudden???? I thought she had problems with her Cabinet post after 9/11 that the 9/11 Commission reported.

I have nothing against her personally and I could live with her but the rest of the Republicans? What’s her standing within the Party?

Anybody know?

I hope he does not pick her.
She is the one that had her memo changed by condolizza rice and stephen hadley about the air quality at ground zero.
People are still getting sick and dying because of that lie.

COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

PUMAS,BUBBAS,THOSE PEOPLE AND HILLARY’S HARRIDANS RULE

I think Mccain having a woman on his ticket,would really tick off the Democratic woman…ONly because 18 million people wanted Clinton,if any other woman was in the nomination,might turn off the many that voted for Hillary..I really think that plan could back fire..I hope Mccain picks someone,that could go up against Biden.

Wasn’t she in charge of the EPA and Bush undercut her at every turn? She left the administration in disgust, if I remember correctly. I believe she wrote a book about taking that Republican Party back from the neo-cons. I believe she’s a moderate. I would be excited about her being on the McCain ticket!

(I may have her confused with someone else though.)

Palin smoked and did inhale, but claims she didn’t like it. *polite cough*

But seriously… She’s pro-life. Since McCain is too, wouldn’t he worry that putting her on the ticket might turn that into too much of an issue with the democrats he’s trying to get to defect?

OK
I could never vote for a ticket with christi todd whitman on it.

COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

PUMAS,BUBBAS,THOSE PEOPLE AND HILLARY’S HARRIDANS RULE

She was ordered by Bush to say the air was okay.

so..the federal government is a for-profit enterprise?
what an idiot.

That is exactly what Bush said that he would run the country like a CEO. Look where that got us.

Indeed, He’s DOA.

yes, rw, i think we as AMERICANS, remember who we are???, need to walk a helluva lot more.

chunky but happy

et all = Hillary and Bill?

I’m not sure what you are referring to. . .under an 1868 law, federal troops are not allowed to get involved in local law enforcement. The federal government could have invoked the Insurrections Act, the so-called Riot Act and sent in troops I guess.

We’d go to the Huffington Post… But we do already.

But then so do you?

Shame you get so drowned out by the moderate voice that nobody hears you! Behold while I cry a thousand crocodile tears for you…

Obama really thinks alot of the Clinton’,imo He doesn’t think the 18 million votes was worth giving Clinton the VP nod,It looks to me like she wasn’t worth it.imo…..Obama going down in November.He has no respect for woman and men in this great country.imo..

He deserves to lose to Mccain,

Mccain is safe,and well known

Noooooo you did it wrong!

You forget to mention how Hillary and Bill gave you super secret signs during their speeches to indicate they supported Obama and not McCain.

Because even though Hillary wanted:

1) Universal health care (or the nearest possible)
2) Equal rights for repressed minorities (be they women, black women, black men, or one legged Hispanic lesbians)
3) Economic focus above terror based warmongering

And Obama presents the best chance of achieving these over McCain… You still want to vote for McCain, please explain why?

I agree with you. If he hadn’t cheated, and gone for compromise instead of confrontation, he’d be the VP nominee, and, assuming eight years of peace and prosperity, win in a walk in 2016. He’d be able to make history–TWICE.

But the audacity of arrogance got in his way.

Oh well. It happens!

And now America has to “make do” with McCain. And that craven legislature on the Hill is going to actually have to WORK for a change.

ziggy, being bi-racial is not an accomplishment and is not the result of anything he did.

A community organizer and civil rights attorney in Chicago–which was surely a strong dose of street-level reality

I’m not at all sure this qualifies him for the presidency. Working at a community level wouldn’t seem to be a good foundation for the complexities of governing the most powerful country in the world. As far as being a civil rights attorney, it was during this period of time he represented a slum landlord.

The ILL State Senate is a part-time job, 55days/yr which would amount to less than two years and his record there is not impressive. His record in the US Senate, which I believe you took from his website is not that impressive and there are misrepresentations.

To this we can add the fact that he obviously possesses a high level of political and motivational skill. His meteoric rise can be interpreted in no other fashion.

I can think of other interpretations of his meteoric rise, but I doubt you would listen. And this one had to have come from his website also:

He’s also a future-oriented optimist, focused on possibilities rather than limitations.

I’m afraid you are the optimist, not a bad thing unless it interfers with your ability to observe reality. He is a politician just as his pastor, Rev. Wright said, and says what he needs to in order to get what he wants.