SNoreAD Alert! ;-)
Posted on 07/29/2004 10:32:33 AM PDT by Howlin
Live Convention Video, 7 - 11 p.m. ET
• Sen. John F. Kerry
• Max Cleland
• Kerry's daughters, Alexandra and Vanessa Kerry
• former Green Beret Jim Rassman
• Madeleine Albright
• Sen. Joe Biden (Del.)
• Wesley Clark
• Rep. James Clyburn (S.C.)
• Sen. Joe Lieberman (Conn.)
• Rep. Ed Markey (Mass.)
• Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald (Calif.)
• Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D.C.)
• House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.)
• Rep. Louise Slaughter (N.Y.)
• John Sweeney, President of AFL-CIO
• Gov. Mark Warner (Va.)
LIVE THREAD HERE!!!!!
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WooHooo!
Showtime tonight...
Going up early today due to a LOT of Freepmail from Freepers anxious to get started with the fun!!!
What a boring line-up for their grand finale!!
SNoreAD Alert! ;-)
Isn't this Day Four? I know, they've all sort of melted into this big amorphous goo... :-)
All the better for us, right? :-)
Yes, it's Day 4, but maybe only the 3rd day of FR live threads! ;-)
Yes, it's Day 4, but maybe only the 3rd day of FR live threads! ;-)
Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) does a sound check on the podium at the Democratic National Convention, July 29, 2004. Kerry will officially accept his party's nomination this evening on the fourth and final day of the convention. Photo by Jim Young/Reuters
HOWLIN PING ME ON THIS LIST
Rack ittt
OHHH Great title for Demos LOL!
And hoping you trip going up the podium.
OMG ... Already
I'm still recovering from last last *L*
I got it wrong.......the AM fixed it. AGAIN. *Sigh*
In case you haven't seen it, there is another thread listing words and phrases for the Kerry drinking game. We all truly are going to die.
"AHHHHHH AHHHHHH OWWWWW".
"I'm sorry am I hurting you?"
I'm here. Wine chilling at home for tonight.
Okay.....you're on the list now!
And the title came from cyncooper's very intelligent daughter!
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) tours the stage at the Democratic National Convention. Delivering what has been touted as the most important address of his life, Kerry will close the Convention by accepting the nomination for president.(AFP/Paul Richards)
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· Kerry faces the night of his political career
some FRench perspective ;-)
AFP on Yahoo
Delivering what has been touted as the most important address of his life, Kerry will close the four-day national gathering by accepting the nomination for president -- setting the stage for a bruising three-month election showdown.
Polls say Bush and Kerry are in a virtual dead heat but give the president the edge when it comes to national security, a vital question for the United States in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terror strikes and the war in Iraq (news - web sites).
For the first time since the Cold War, opinion surveys show foreign policy is a vital issue for nearly half of US voters, and Democrats have used the spotlight this week to paint Bush as a misguided, dangerous world leader.
Kerry's vice presidential running-mate John Edwards (news - web sites) on Wednesday denounced Bush's "hateful, negative politics" and promised a different United States that would repair US relations abroad, damaged by the unpopular Iraq war.
But while the lines of attack have been drawn, Kerry on Thursday will still be under pressure to begin defining his own national political stance as something more than just anti-Bush.
Despite two decades of service in the US Senate and his decorated service in the Vietnam war, Kerry has struggled to carve his identity in the minds of voters, with polls showing many still unsure of what he stands for.
"The doubts about Mr. Kerry concern not his courage, but his judgement and conviction," The Wall Street Journal said Thursday, while the New York Times said the senator needed to clarify his "impossibly opaque" policy on Iraq.
Aides say much of Kerry's speech will be devoted to the issue of national security, as the senator seeks to polish his credentials as an effective commander-in-chief.
Warm-up speeches with the same message will be delivered by the likes of retired general and former NATO (news - web sites) supreme commander Wesley Clark (news - web sites), and Jim Rassman, a green beret whose life Kerry saved in Vietnam.
A short documentary, which credits Steven Spielberg as an advisor, will offer a highlights review of his life and career, with stirring testimony from fellow veterans, family and friends.
Party conventions traditionally provide a ratings boost for their candidates, and Kerry will seek to keep the momentum rolling by launching a gruelling 21-state, cross country tour the morning after his speech.
But Friday will also mark return in force of the Republican re-election machine after a week in which Bush retired to his Texas ranch to leave the national spotlight to the Democrats.
Bent on minimising any advantage reaped by Kerry from the Boston event, Bush plans a punishing 48-hour campaign swing through the key battleground states of Missouri, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
Though Democrats had promoted their convention as an opportunity to flesh out their candidate, a large number of speakers instead focused on Bush, slamming him on every issue from education and health to Iraq and the war on terror.
In an electrifying address dripping with sarcasm, Bill Clinton (news - web sites) questioned Bush's wisdom. Jimmy Carter said he had squandered the goodwill of the world after September 11. And Al Gore (news - web sites) said the United States had lost respect.
The anti-Bush invective was picked up by top former generals and fire-breathing preachers, school children and veterans -- and even the son of late Republican icon Ronald Reagan (news - web sites).
The fiery rhetoric may have stirred the party faithful, but it seemed to have fallen short of the stated aim of laying the groundwork for Kerry to finally assert his personality on the election.
The patrician 60-year-old, son of privilege and husband of fortune, has been dogged by his image as a dour and charm-shy figure lacking the common touch so crucial in US politics.
Perhaps his shrewdest move thus far was his choice as running-mate, with the boyish charm and up-from-poverty background of Edwards providing the energy and appeal that Kerry's lacklustre campaign had lacked.
"Hope is on the way!" Edwards exhorted the thousands of delegates on Wednesday evening, after delivering a well-honed populist stump speech blaming the Republicans for the "Two Americas" -- one wealthy and one poor.
"You, the American people, you can reject the tired, old, hateful, negative, politics of the past. Instead you can embrace the politics of hope, the politics of what's possible because this is America," Edwards said.
Thanks Howlin!
Going to vacuum before the fun begins.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., addresses the Health Issues 2004 forum in Boston, Thursday, July 29, 2004, the last day of the Democratic National Convention. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
I propose 2 shots for every time he licks his bottom lip.
Smores on day 4 because these dims are a huge bore
we can chant W-04 and make the elite snore or sniff the white powder, while we smile and adore our Man W, who thank God is no algore.......
GO W.... GO GOP.... lets just sit back and watch them EXPLODE like dean wit their wild silly scream.
KERRY,
HOW ABOUT YOU SHOW US THE MILITARY AND MEDICAL RECORDS YOU HAVE BEEN HIDING?
HOW ABOUT THE FINANCIAL RECORDS.
How about the secret video you made with Breck Girl........on second thought...you just keep hiding that one.
add me to your ping...please..
Democrats Headed for New Low in Convention Viewers
Reuters - Wed Jul 28, 9:42 PM ET
FR thread thx ambrose :-)
It is narrated by Morgan Freeman (another one I won't be giving money to). The narration says "John Kerry was born in a military hospital in 1943, with the world at war."
Now with this narratioin, do we see pictures of the infant Kerry, or his parents, or the army hospital. No!
Accompanying this narration are news shots of the dang D-Day invasion!!!!!
I think there is a possibility that this movie will go completely over the top.
That's about the only "sport" we haven't seen him do, so I won't be surprised!
I'll be glad to, JFC!
You noticed that too, huh? Dry mouth, usually a tell-tale sign when someone is lying. He'll probably be licking his chops all night.
FNC is reporting Terri Kerry yesterday nic named herself Mama T .... LOL
"Morgan Freeman (another one I won't be giving money to)"
Morgan Freemen lost a lot of friends today.
He has had a new injection of Botox....look at that forehead....it rivals Paul Begala's..
Are you trying to kill is all???
BTW ... Kerry looks like a snake when he does that
I have saved SO much money on movies and music! I send it to the Bush campaign, instead.
I can't wait until they play it...
We get to post sound effects.
Boom Boom!!!!
Rat-a-tata.....Incoming take cover.
WOW .. looks like they put to much on the left side of head
BTTT
Thanks for starting the live threads, Howlin! I think they're the only way I can keep my sanity through this whole thing.
"Psychodrama is a method of psychotherapy in which patients enact the relevant events in their lives instead of simply talking about them." (Adam and Allee Blatner, Foundations of Psychodrama, 3rd ed.)
Thanks Howlin. Did anyone else see Kerry on stage at the convention center this morning? He was going through instructions, etc., and then when it came time for him to leave, he stepped down off the podium, and started walking off the stage in the wrong direction. Everybody that he was with, Secret Service, etc. were all on the other side of the stage. As soon as he realized that he was going in the wrong direction, he turned around and headed back over to the other side to leave the building. Duh!!! How do you get lost on a stage?
Are you serious???
Oh Good Grief
Y'all have fun, I'll be back later.
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