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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Another Bush hates the troops story….
RBMN on August 27, 2008 at 9:50 PM
Those two soldiers, who I later spat on……
The Ugly American on August 27, 2008 at 9:51 PM
I saw demote her to private for lieing in public, in uniform, at a poclitical rally!
allrsn on August 27, 2008 at 9:52 PM
Didn’t McCain stick up for Kerry four years ago?
Blake on August 27, 2008 at 9:52 PM
wait.. he came out the closet and now a democrat
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 9:52 PM
Time to raid the fridge before plugs comes on!
The Ugly American on August 27, 2008 at 9:52 PM
I was an evil Republikkkan!
gxpgxp on August 27, 2008 at 9:52 PM
What I don’t get….is that they are all talking about restoring America’s greatness…..But..they don’t want America to be a superpower. They want America to be humbled…or something. Their message is so confusing.
bridgetown on August 27, 2008 at 9:53 PM
I think we should all register as dems then vote GOP and claim we left the dem party!!! LMAO
allrsn on August 27, 2008 at 9:53 PM
Yeeeuup.
dugan on August 27, 2008 at 9:54 PM
was that dig.. the GOP is just.. Old? at McCain?
civil liberties workout again..
incompetence at home.. well, maybe..
Change.. drink
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 9:54 PM
Kirsten Powers is looking good…
Baphomet on August 27, 2008 at 9:55 PM
I’m only part of the way through Bill’s speech (as I had the DVR paused while I made some food earlier), but did anyone else find it odd that a former president, preparing to give a speech (insincerely) endorsing a potential future president, had to come out to a song, which contains the most memorable lyrics “don’t stop thinking about tomorrow” and “yesterday’s gone”. Though I’m sure he had some say in what song he would come out to, doesn’t it seem like they specifically chose a song to tell him he’s yesterday’s news?
RightWinged on August 27, 2008 at 9:56 PM
Change.. drink
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 9:54 PM
LOL, I hope you have a high tolerance…or an ambulance nearby, drinking to ‘change’
lol~
bridgetown on August 27, 2008 at 9:56 PM
stop spending 10 Bill in Iraq..
and spend 100 bill here..
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 9:56 PM
Everything they say they will fix, the broke. They will not drill (for 30 years) they will not update our power grid, they (clinton) killed the military and the cia, they (murtha) called the enemie back to Iraq, and so much more.
allrsn on August 27, 2008 at 9:56 PM
change again..drink.
change.. drink..
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 9:56 PM
RightWinged on August 27, 2008 at 9:56 PM
I think that was Clinton’s song, back in the day, wasn’t it?
bridgetown on August 27, 2008 at 9:56 PM
Chet Edwards is up..
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 9:57 PM
A bill the Pentagon didn’t want.
RBMN on August 27, 2008 at 9:58 PM
keep harpy ‘bring the troops home..’ when finally they finish the job and come home, they will cry out ‘See, look what we did’..
change X2..
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 9:59 PM
change, drink..
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 9:59 PM
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 9:59 PM
Yes they will and already have on everything else they destroyed.
allrsn on August 27, 2008 at 10:00 PM
LOL. Did anyone just see the Brit thing on Fox?
carbon_footprint on August 27, 2008 at 10:00 PM
The size of every entitlement program grows to consume the budget, no matter how high that budget goes. That’s just how it works.
RBMN on August 27, 2008 at 10:01 PM
CNN: McCain has chosen VP. No name.
ganeshpuri89 on August 27, 2008 at 10:01 PM
I hope New Orleans is evacuating ahead of Gustav, so the media will actually cover the Repub convention.
bridgetown on August 27, 2008 at 10:01 PM
McCain wanted the election to be about the issues. Not about what Kerry did while in Vietnam. He was also against the left’s attacks on Bush in regarding the democrats’ bogus AWOL charge.
As a senator, his goal has always been to work at his job and get things done. And he recognized the destructive nature of the politics as usual. Something that Obama now says he’s for, and then lies about McCain. While McCain might want to play nice, the democrats don’t. And they don’t reciprocate when republicans ‘play nice’ with them.
He did not support or campaign for Kerry for 2004. But he was against what he saw as unnecessary and potentially a political stunt that could backfire. And it did.
Some people can understand the difference.
wise_man on August 27, 2008 at 10:02 PM
no…do tell?
bridgetown on August 27, 2008 at 10:02 PM
Yes he did. Quite publicly I might add. In addition he entertained the idea of being his runningmate. This is how Dems pay people back.
TheBigOldDog on August 27, 2008 at 10:02 PM
My theory about why people didn’t evacuate before Katrina?
Waiting on Government checks to pay for gas to leave.
However, most of those people left behind moved to Houston.
carbon_footprint on August 27, 2008 at 10:03 PM
They won’t cover it accuratly anyway.
remember what party the mayor and govenor, who killed all those people, belong to. Dems are ruthless people, nothing is below them.
allrsn on August 27, 2008 at 10:04 PM
Wasn’t a biggie, but they went on air with him unaware and he was talking to someone to his right. It was pretty funny though. I love Brit.
carbon_footprint on August 27, 2008 at 10:04 PM
Tom Hanks talking on the movie..
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 10:05 PM
Prediction: Even though it was a good speech by Bill not enough to help bambi bounce…
elduende on August 27, 2008 at 10:06 PM
He entertained it like you entertain the idea of helping your ex-girlfriend move her furniture across town. It’s never going to happen, but you’re polite. That’s all.
RBMN on August 27, 2008 at 10:06 PM
C-span is playing a military documentary for the dems, I think miky moore made it.
allrsn on August 27, 2008 at 10:07 PM
spielberg made it.
James on August 27, 2008 at 10:08 PM
Very nice film by Speilberg.
The Ugly American on August 27, 2008 at 10:08 PM
Anyone watching Howling Howie being interviewed on Fox?
Yearrha!
carbon_footprint on August 27, 2008 at 10:08 PM
Steven Spielberg..
or was the Micheal Moore thing a joke :)
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 10:08 PM
not much applause for the troops.
James on August 27, 2008 at 10:08 PM
Well maybe the dem party paid for it, but I did not know c-span did ads.
allrsn on August 27, 2008 at 10:09 PM
Howard Dean is an IDIOT
bridgetown on August 27, 2008 at 10:09 PM
Howie on Fox – yes on mute.
tru2tx on August 27, 2008 at 10:09 PM
Trud dat playa.
carbon_footprint on August 27, 2008 at 10:09 PM
No, it looked moorish to me.
allrsn on August 27, 2008 at 10:09 PM
~Bill Clinton
~ Margaret Thatcher to Peggy Noonan as they watched Ronald Reagan’s cortege approach the Capitol from Pennsylvania Avenue.
INC on August 27, 2008 at 10:10 PM
Howie: “the people don’t want four more years of Bush”
Speak for yourself! I would love four more years of Bush.
carbon_footprint on August 27, 2008 at 10:10 PM
allrsn on August 27, 2008 at 10:09 PM
Nope – saw Spielburg and wife rise for accolades. Hanks isn’t there I don’t think.
tru2tx on August 27, 2008 at 10:11 PM
McCain is getting slammed about the vets?
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 10:12 PM
1998, Operation Desert Fox.
2000, Regime change in Iraq becomes official policy.
I am sick and tired of people telling us Iraq was the wrong war.
Al Qaeda thought it was a central front in their war against us, and that is what counts.
James on August 27, 2008 at 10:12 PM
Hanks narrated the movie.
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 10:13 PM
I don’t think Hanks is there….
Guess this convention is turning my brain to mush.
tru2tx on August 27, 2008 at 10:13 PM
So now we have a vet talking claiming she KNOWS BO and exactly what the all mighty will do??? ya right!!
allrsn on August 27, 2008 at 10:13 PM
I wonder how many people are even watching this? It is bedtime, a weeknight. And the Democrats are so predictable. Seen one, seen em all.
Terrye on August 27, 2008 at 10:13 PM
Dean is right about there being divisiveness in Washington. He’s wrong about which party is responsible for it.
backwoods conservative on August 27, 2008 at 10:14 PM
Okay..
this chick is here ONLY because Barack didn’t visit the wounded vets on his ‘I’m okay, Euro okay’ tour..
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 10:14 PM
many “homeless veterans” are dropouts from bootcamp.
James on August 27, 2008 at 10:14 PM
Thanks, I was responding to dave c. who asked whether I was joking about mikey moore.
allrsn on August 27, 2008 at 10:15 PM
Isn’t McCain a veteran.
Isn’t McCain’s son a veteran?
James on August 27, 2008 at 10:15 PM
Mike Murphy, the Republican representative on MSNBC, is getting Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews and the crowd all worked up. They were on the verge of losing it. Olbermann wanted to cut Murphy’s camera time.They can’t take even the slightest opposing view against Obama and the Democrats. I mean Harold Ford Jr. showed more composure and objectivity than the rest of the MSNBC crew and crowd.
Murphy said MSNBC is so in the tank that they should be filming this on a submarine.
He also said the Clintons will quietly vote for McCain in the voting booth.
gumble on August 27, 2008 at 10:17 PM
Yeeeeargh!!!!!
James on August 27, 2008 at 10:18 PM
HA HA HA HA I wish I had seen that, maybe MM or HA will have a vid tomorrow.
allrsn on August 27, 2008 at 10:18 PM
McCain has two sons who are currently in the military. One is in the Navy and one is a Marine, IIRC.
AZCoyote on August 27, 2008 at 10:19 PM
She is bashing McCain up and down with wounded veterans..
internet acting up.. dammit..
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 10:19 PM
Oh GOD. Pelosi.
James on August 27, 2008 at 10:19 PM
the Bolshevik Bitch is on..
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 10:20 PM
he’s finally telling the actual truth instead of the self-delusion he’s been swallowing and secreting for 30+ years?
sulla on August 27, 2008 at 10:20 PM
Joe is clean and articulate.
carbon_footprint on August 27, 2008 at 10:20 PM
“three degrees ” “plagiarism” “I have a higher IQ than you”
James on August 27, 2008 at 10:21 PM
Wow, I didn’t realize Biden was from Scranton, Pennsylvania!
carbon_footprint on August 27, 2008 at 10:21 PM
I am actually in New Orleans right now on business.
People are tense and getting ready to leave.
Jindal has actually said the evacuations could start as early as Fri assuming Louisiana is in the path of the storm.
Not that it will matter if Gustav takes out New Orleans once again, with no loss of life. The MSM will still have a field day.
They will not mention the award “Willie Wonka” Nagin received (among protests) last week a block away from me.
F15Mech on August 27, 2008 at 10:21 PM
That’s storybook, man..
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 10:21 PM
Nobody who spent so much time learning so little.
RBMN on August 27, 2008 at 10:22 PM
ahaha. Pelosi hesitated too long on taking the opposing vote, I heard shouts of NO in the background.
Too funny!
Enoxo on August 27, 2008 at 10:22 PM
sorry the bridgetown and allrsn quotes should be flipped
F15Mech on August 27, 2008 at 10:23 PM
Joe hugs elderly people.
carbon_footprint on August 27, 2008 at 10:23 PM
But he’ll stab the President in the back if it’s a Republican.
RBMN on August 27, 2008 at 10:23 PM
gumble on August 27, 2008 at 10:17 PM
Dang, wish I saw that. Nothing like throwing a little chum out for the sharks to go berserk.
Did their heads explode when he said the Clintons would vote for McCain?
tru2tx on August 27, 2008 at 10:24 PM
Scanton, PA! Drink!
Enoxo on August 27, 2008 at 10:24 PM
Heh.. I was censored…
I mentioned that the Bolshevik B!@#h is up..
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 10:24 PM
Go to Iraq to handle legal cases.
RBMN on August 27, 2008 at 10:24 PM
Did Biden vid just have him saying that the war he voted for… Was unjust… Did Biden just throw himself under the bus…
Y314K on August 27, 2008 at 10:25 PM
Joe tucks his grandchildren in bed.
Joe rides the train.
Joe loves pecan pie.
carbon_footprint on August 27, 2008 at 10:25 PM
more people will die in auto accidents if the dems force us all into lighter vehicles
James on August 27, 2008 at 10:26 PM
Tears!
carbon_footprint on August 27, 2008 at 10:26 PM
New to me.. the story about his first wife and daughter..
that’s sad..
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 10:26 PM
Real tears from Michelle O. She’s human, too.
mikeyboss on August 27, 2008 at 10:26 PM
Was Michelle just crying?
Dubn8tr on August 27, 2008 at 10:26 PM
Jill.. who’s hot..
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 10:27 PM
Scranton!
carbon_footprint on August 27, 2008 at 10:27 PM
Hillary voted for the war too. If only Hillary had known someone with a top level security clearance that could’ve give her the straight scoop on Iraq before she voted… If only she’d known someone who knew a recent President, or something like that….
RBMN on August 27, 2008 at 10:27 PM
Why do these people insist on telling these kinds of stories.
Biden was simply doing what he as supposed to do…..BE A PARENT.
The Ugly American on August 27, 2008 at 10:27 PM
“Hanoi John Kerry” was a POS yesterday, he’s a POS today, and he’ll be a POS tomorrow!
Kerry’s not good enough to tie McCain’s shoes!
byteshredder on August 27, 2008 at 10:28 PM
They updated the android with a leaking system.
Enoxo on August 27, 2008 at 10:28 PM
He was gonna quit being a Senator… But then he threw his boys under the bus… And accepted to be a Senator… And has never looked back…
Y314K on August 27, 2008 at 10:28 PM
BS.. ‘not part of Washington’..
part of the establishment longer than John McCain..
DaveC on August 27, 2008 at 10:28 PM
LOL…..exactly
The Ugly American on August 27, 2008 at 10:28 PM
But if McCain brings up his POW experience he is maligned and made fun of in the liberal blogosphere.
James on August 27, 2008 at 10:28 PM
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