Backbenchers in Boston: the Unnoticed Democrats

special to FreeRepublic ^ | 6 August 2004 | John Armor (CongressmanBillybob)

[auboy]

Even though a speaker who was a tree-hugger and a “Green” could be followed by another speaker who wanted more nuclear power plants built, all stuck to the theme of victory over President Bush.

LOL! True. The brain implants were a rousing success.

[Lancey Howard]

Excellent, excellent column.

[NewRomeTacitus]

Excellent work and you have my sympathies for suffering through it.

The part about Corrine Brown being sub-literate was hilarious. You didn't mention her "You people stole the election" tirade in the House a few weeks back nor her plan to have the UN oversee the Florida polls "to insure it never happens again".

One question: did anyone mention 9-11-2001? Anyone at all?

[Congressman Billybob]

I do not have a reference to "9/11" in my notes, but I feel certain that there was at least one reference to that phrase. However, references to the War on Terror in any of its aspects where scarce as hen's teeth compared to references to Vietnam.

Judging from that evidence alone, a Martian attending this Convention would have thought that the Iraq War was forty years ago, but the Vietnam War was being fought right now.

John / Billybob

[John Robinson]

Same as always.

[speekinout]

The first is health care, which speaker after speaker treated as absolutely interchangeable with health insurance. It is not.

I'm another one who absolutely hates the idea that these two are the same. I applaud your efforts to make the distinction. I wish more people would.

[TaxRelief]

Pings are still working, we're just busy getting ready for our big Wilmington FReep on August 14th/15th!

NC *Ping*

Let Constitution Day or Taxrelief know if you want on or off the NCPing list, or if you think you've been accidentally dropped, or ....

Check out Freerepublic.com's and North Carolina's own Congressman Billybob's summary of the DNC convention!

[krb]

What a great essay!

[mykdsmom]

Great job, as always. I also enjoyed the privilege of listening to you on Jerry's show every day last week.

MKM

[4CJ]

No. I’m talking about my assignment, which I willingly accepted last week, to listen to each and every speech, no matter how dreadful or how obscure the speaker, at that Convention.

I can understand watching C-SPAM - it's interesting. But the backbenchers of the convention???? Have you thought about checking into a clinic???? ;o)

Another wonderful column!

[buzzsaw6]

John,

I, too, tried to watch the convention. All I can say is that you are a better man than I. My boots kept filling up, and the stench... whoooo!

Now on to the Republican convention. Should be better, at least more palatable.