Democratic convention, night three: Aggrieved victim of Obama camp’s racial demagoguery to endorse Obama; Update: Messiah returns to earth, appears in Denver
posted at 8:06 pm on August 27, 2008 by Allahpundit
Harry Reid’s due to speak any minute now, followed a bit later by Evan Bayh and Tom Daschle. Bill Clinton gets his eight-minute quickie around 9 p.m. ET to impart the sort of national security wisdom he gleaned from letting Osama Bin Laden run free during the 1990s, then Biden comes on sometime around 10:15 to beat up on McCain. There had better be major attacks on the GOP tonight because the fightin’ nutroots is already grumbling about the lack of fightiness thus far and surely no one expects Captain Hope during his moment in the agora tomorrow to stoop to anything so mean as actual politics.
Two pieces to pass the time while you wait, the first a vignette from Joe Conason about Obama snubbing Billy Jeff’s invitation to dine and the second the obligatory, ceremonial, 1,000th Hot Air link to Sean Wilentz’s TNR piece from February about how the “post-racial candidate” demagogued Billary to racial oblivion. Consider it an ironic counterpoint to tonight’s piece in Politico about former Clinton lackey turned Obama supporter Rahm Emanuel demagoguing McCain to racial oblivion. Note to B.C.: It’s really nothing personal. Barry O’s cronies do this to everyone.
Update: Ah, I should have guessed. It’ll be Waffles, wearing the veteran badge of Absolute Moral Authority and martyred by the evil Rethuglican Swift Boat attacks, who’ll do the honors in bludgeoning McCain.
Update: Biden’s speech is over and The One is onstage.
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But it was clearly the best written and delivered speech of the convention, and better than any Obama has ever given.
progressoverpeace on August 27, 2008 at 9:31 PM
Best politician of our time, horrible on policy, but compare him to the stuttering fool that we’ll be shuffling through on the first night like they did with Carter and that explains it all. McCain would probably get a bump if we threw tomatoes at the Andover Cowboy.
LevStrauss on August 27, 2008 at 9:31 PM
Bill Clinton.. a place called hope..
Barack Obama.. running on hope.
same old tv dinner.. new package over on top of it..
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 9:31 PM
Ditto
El_Terrible on August 27, 2008 at 9:32 PM
Gee, I am missing this. Glad to say. I did not want to give them one more viewer.
Terrye on August 27, 2008 at 9:32 PM
Bill Clinton loves the poor people. Especially poor women. They’re easier to impress than the rich women.
RBMN on August 27, 2008 at 9:32 PM
Well who better to stick a knife into the back of a fellow veteran… he’s done it before…
Skywise on August 27, 2008 at 9:32 PM
The woman speaking after BJ Clinton.
“I am the proud wife of a Marine.. RAHHHHHAHHH”
can’t even get the HOOORAW.. out right
Beth Robinson ..
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 9:33 PM
Kerry, reporting for duty..
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 9:33 PM
Reporting for dooty!
The Ugly American on August 27, 2008 at 9:33 PM
F’n Kerry.
Dubn8tr on August 27, 2008 at 9:33 PM
change/ drink..
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 9:34 PM
WAFFLES!!
gxpgxp on August 27, 2008 at 9:34 PM
More waffles than Clinton and GHW Bush put together!
fiatboomer on August 27, 2008 at 9:34 PM
Bush voted? In the Senate? Coulda fooled me.
fiatboomer on August 27, 2008 at 9:35 PM
what a Bu-McCain adminastration would look like… there’s a slip…
thanks to the few in the green room he tipped..
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 9:35 PM
MSNBC won’t even show him.
LevStrauss on August 27, 2008 at 9:35 PM
Kerry is losing it. I have no idea what the heck he was just babbling about.
progressoverpeace on August 27, 2008 at 9:35 PM
Maybe Kerry will say that McCain raped and pillaged his way through Viet Nam like Genghis Kahn.
Terrye on August 27, 2008 at 9:35 PM
Wow Kerry is stupider than I remembered
allrsn on August 27, 2008 at 9:35 PM
Someone call Olby. We need to borrow that shovel he keeps talking about.
fiatboomer on August 27, 2008 at 9:35 PM
He got so close in 2004, but he got scratched on the arm three times and had to go home early.
RBMN on August 27, 2008 at 9:35 PM
Surge…….DENIED!
The Ugly American on August 27, 2008 at 9:35 PM
Terrye on August 27, 2008 at 9:35 PM
that jenjis to us little folk
elduende on August 27, 2008 at 9:36 PM
wrong war wrong place wrong time again..
Partisan Politics? McCain shook hands with the Ds more than the Ds ever shook hands with the Rs..
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 9:36 PM
Can we take away their comfy pillows?
RBMN on August 27, 2008 at 9:36 PM
WOW he just admitted we have never, tourted!!!! did not expect that.
allrsn on August 27, 2008 at 9:36 PM
We won’t be mean to terrorists
pappy on August 27, 2008 at 9:37 PM
Then MSNBC cut to about five seconds of his speech and went to commercial.
LevStrauss on August 27, 2008 at 9:37 PM
O – M – G – THIS SPEECH IS TERRIBLE. This is worse than putting A1 on filet mignon.
fiatboomer on August 27, 2008 at 9:37 PM
Not just bombs ‘n guns?
LOL……..
The Ugly American on August 27, 2008 at 9:37 PM
I really don’t like Alan Colmes. Such a tool.
Dubn8tr on August 27, 2008 at 9:37 PM
With friends like John Kerry …
progressoverpeace on August 27, 2008 at 9:37 PM
Trying to protect the party?
allrsn on August 27, 2008 at 9:37 PM
Energy Revolution..
they learned how to power the harness of lies?
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 9:37 PM
Folks in the Navy detest this POS.
elduende on August 27, 2008 at 9:38 PM
JFK is drawing blood now. Too bad the nation is asleep.
Valiant on August 27, 2008 at 9:38 PM
Haaa!!….waffles comparison.
Not bad…not bad.
The Ugly American on August 27, 2008 at 9:38 PM
Ending a tax cut is a tax increase. McCain has a policy against supporting tax increases.
RBMN on August 27, 2008 at 9:38 PM
I’m enjoying the angling on Fox, but I do kinda wanna hear what Kerry is talking about, just curiosity I swear!
Typhonsentra on August 27, 2008 at 9:38 PM
Kerry’s mocking himself now!
progressoverpeace on August 27, 2008 at 9:38 PM
Not the first to say it, but holy crap did we dodge a bullet in 2004. What a complete moron.
fiatboomer on August 27, 2008 at 9:38 PM
Didn’t his buddy, Teddy, stop an energy revolution because it was going to spoil his view?
lorien1973 on August 27, 2008 at 9:38 PM
Dunno if anyone saw the Bill Clinton speech, but….
The funniest damn line in that whole speech was at the very beginning…. “Thank you very much, but we gotta get ‘dis show on the road!”… ROFLMAO!
LibertarianConservative on August 27, 2008 at 9:38 PM
Did John Forbes Kerry tell us he is a Vietnam vet yet?
kanda on August 27, 2008 at 9:39 PM
ROVE!!
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 9:39 PM
No way, there all “independents,” look at Schuster’s voting card.
LevStrauss on August 27, 2008 at 9:39 PM
Hey its Dukaka defending bambi’s experience…
elduende on August 27, 2008 at 9:39 PM
elduende:
Sorry. I am just a clingy God fearing back ass wards gun toting red neck and I can’t talk purty.
Terrye on August 27, 2008 at 9:39 PM
Brabobama. Huh?
fiatboomer on August 27, 2008 at 9:39 PM
Typhonsentra on August 27, 2008 at 9:38 PM
Go to CNN
bridgetown on August 27, 2008 at 9:39 PM
“Barack Obama has listened harder”
- Pearl from John F Kerry
progressoverpeace on August 27, 2008 at 9:40 PM
Why aren’t the networks airing Kerry, he is ripping McCain.. this isn’t the MSM I know
El_Terrible on August 27, 2008 at 9:40 PM
I feel so sorry for Kerry. He’s so Unappealing in every aspect.
bridgetown on August 27, 2008 at 9:40 PM
Keep America safe but screw the Iraq people, eh waffles?
The Ugly American on August 27, 2008 at 9:40 PM
Terrye on August 27, 2008 at 9:39 PM
LOL! Its a cross we must bear…
elduende on August 27, 2008 at 9:40 PM
kanda on August 27, 2008 at 9:39 PM
Not vet, H E R O!!!
allrsn on August 27, 2008 at 9:40 PM
Obama was right.. we’re talking to Iran -Kerry
El_Terrible on August 27, 2008 at 9:41 PM
Dukakis cannot name a specific thing Obama has done. Sean keeps asking him, and Dukakis rebuffs saying “I can go thru his entire resume…” and Sean says “I’m waiting.”
And Dukakis changes the subject to the guy now running McCain’s campaign.
Dubn8tr on August 27, 2008 at 9:41 PM
CNN is showing Kerry’s speech.
bridgetown on August 27, 2008 at 9:41 PM
Now Kerry’s doing his Ghostbusters imitation. This is too funny.
progressoverpeace on August 27, 2008 at 9:41 PM
where is that shovel now?
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 9:41 PM
OMG….is he really trying to sell this sh*t about Obama & Georgia?
Unreal.
The Ugly American on August 27, 2008 at 9:41 PM
Karl Rove didn’t say that Kerry lied about his secret mission to Cambodia. The people who were there said Kerry lied, and they were right about that, and every thing else. That’s the main reason I can’t be a Democrat these days. You have to be a shameless liar. It’s requirement #1.
RBMN on August 27, 2008 at 9:42 PM
Timetables.. Kerry was for cut in run in 2004.. we’re talking about 2011
El_Terrible on August 27, 2008 at 9:42 PM
I feel a Howard Dean moment coming on for Kerry.
progressoverpeace on August 27, 2008 at 9:42 PM
Dukakis 2012!
elduende on August 27, 2008 at 9:42 PM
Scary Kerry.
I question his patriotism!!!!!!!!
bridgetown on August 27, 2008 at 9:42 PM
OK, I can’t take this anymore. I’d rather listen to Bill Clinton on helium.
fiatboomer on August 27, 2008 at 9:43 PM
no one can question Barack Obama’s patriotism..
OR they will be called Racist..
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 9:43 PM
I want to play poker with Michelle Obama. The cutaways during Hillary’s, Bill’s, and Kerry’s speeches are so telling its not funny. During Hill’s speech here lips were pressed so tight together it looked like her head was going to explode, during Bill’s she looked relieved, and during Kerry’s, an ally, it was a full blown smile.
LevStrauss on August 27, 2008 at 9:43 PM
Poor Charlie
bridgetown on August 27, 2008 at 9:43 PM
Wait.. did they get the name of the concentration camp right?
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 9:43 PM
Hallo Jon Carry! We r still stuc in irak?
you POS!
elduende on August 27, 2008 at 9:44 PM
John F’n Kerry is a liar. Baraobama was body surfing in Hawaii when John McCain was being a friend to Georgia.
James on August 27, 2008 at 9:44 PM
OMG “lies of swiftboating”
El_Terrible on August 27, 2008 at 9:44 PM
LevStrauss on August 27, 2008 at 9:43 PM
LoL….she IS easy to read~
bridgetown on August 27, 2008 at 9:44 PM
end swift boating Kerry admitted they will end ‘free speach’
allrsn on August 27, 2008 at 9:44 PM
Seems to me like the people decided, waffles.
The Ugly American on August 27, 2008 at 9:44 PM
Oh, is that the Uncle Charlie from that concentration camp story from the primaries?
Typhonsentra on August 27, 2008 at 9:45 PM
Notice where their flag is.
Out of sight, out of mind.
The Ugly American on August 27, 2008 at 9:45 PM
Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright taught Barack Obama what it means to hate America in the most patriotic way possible way, I’m sure.
RBMN on August 27, 2008 at 9:45 PM
Barack Obama’s closest friends and associates don’t love America.
James on August 27, 2008 at 9:46 PM
I’m only listening to him.. his voice is losing pitch.. like he doesn’t really believe what he’s preaching..
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 9:46 PM
Bill lied……Democrats want you to support a man that will drain your pocket-books, suck up to foreign governments, and weaken this nations defenses.
Rovin on August 27, 2008 at 9:46 PM
Ooops. He just earned his 3rd Purple Heart since morning. Time to bug out.
RBMN on August 27, 2008 at 9:47 PM
Is Biden tonight?
LevStrauss on August 27, 2008 at 9:47 PM
Democrats want you to support a socialist
allrsn on August 27, 2008 at 9:47 PM
betcha they go for power over country every time..
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 9:47 PM
OMG…Tim Daly?
Mr. Creative Coalition is non-partisan Tim Daly?
LOL….
The Ugly American on August 27, 2008 at 9:47 PM
He stands for killing any unborn baby for any reason.
RBMN on August 27, 2008 at 9:48 PM
This is not the gen-jis kahn that I thought I knew.
Huckabye-Romney on August 27, 2008 at 9:48 PM
If she believes what she says, she is there because of military affirmative action and pressure of senators!!
allrsn on August 27, 2008 at 9:48 PM
Every time they say Obama and Commander-in-Chief, the hair on the back of my neck stands up.
The Ugly American on August 27, 2008 at 9:49 PM
Meals on Wheels, Unloaded rifles, White flags handy.
RBMN on August 27, 2008 at 9:49 PM
This speech is pure torture.
The Ugly American on August 27, 2008 at 9:50 PM
Slick Willie (i.e. the black president that paved the way for BHO) deriding the overstretched state of the military? Now THAT’s huevos.
Huckabye-Romney on August 27, 2008 at 9:50 PM
GOOD GAWD is she full of s***
allrsn on August 27, 2008 at 9:50 PM
oh please please please put sharpton on the campaign trail…the loss will be historic!
elduende on August 27, 2008 at 9:50 PM
Wow. Kerry being Kerry, swift-boating himself.
One of the biggest delusions enjoyed by this jackass is the idea that if only he had fought back against the eeeevil swift boaters he would have won the election.
Buy Danish on August 27, 2008 at 9:50 PM
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