Posted on 08/31/2004 6:15:38 AM PDT by Peach
This is the thread for Day Two of the RNC Convention.
Day Two Convention Schedule:
http://www.2004nycgop.org/schedule/
good morning.
yesterday was terrific - can they top it today?
Tuesday, August 31, 2004 PRE MON [TUE] WED THU
Primetime
"People of
Compassion"
7:00 p.m. to 11:15 p.m. EDT
Call to Order Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (TX)
Deputy Permanent Co-Chair
Presentation of Colors
Veterans of Foreign Wars/American Legion/ Americans Veterans
Pledge of Allegiance
Carmen Bermúdez, Tucson, AZ
National Anthem
Gracie Rosenberger, Nashville, TN
Invocation Greg Laurie Riverside, CA
Princella Smith
Winner, MTV "Stand Up and Holla"
Rolling Roll Call of the States
Senator Norm Colman (MN)
Deputy Permanent Co-Chair
The Honorable Michael Williams
Assistant Secretary of the Convention
Bonnie Garcia
Assistant Secretary of the Convention
Senator Elizabeth Dole (NC)
Representative Anne Northup (KY)
George P. Bush, Dallas, TX
Primetime Continued
Music
Dana Glover
Erika Harold
Miss America 2003
Steven McDonald, New York, NY
Senator Sam Brownback (KS)
Music
Jaci Velasquez
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, M.D. (TN)
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
The Honorable Rod Paige
Biography
Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele (MD)
Deputy Permanent Chairman
Music
Daize Shayne
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (CA)
Biography
Mrs. Laura Bush
Biography
Music
Harlem Boys Choir
Benediction
Rebetzin Esther Jungreis
Founder, Hineni New York, NY
Daily Features
Speech Preparations
Vice President's Arrival
Convention Jockeys
Convention Themes
Delegate Diversity
It will be difficult, imo.
Sorry for the early thread. I just looked at the schedule and it looks like there isn't a daytime schedule and we'll have to wait for evening.
Laura and Arnold are the most interesting tonight speakers.
day two of good bye, does mean forever! bah bye Kerry
yes it was yours to lose and guess what?! You are losing
drip drip drip
Liddy Dole will be speaking tonight.
She said...she's got a suprise for tonight.
She said her speech is going to contrast the values of the two parties.
Great line up. Hope the Bush girls show up. I love to see thoes girls.
Topping last night is a tall order, but we have just the man for it - Ah-Nold.
Yeaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!! The Governator from my home state addresses the country. He's been a long time friend of the Bush family.
That's alright. This gives us place to gloat about yesterday. Rudy was more than awesome.
Have fun tonight!
He certainly was awesome. So was Ron Silver, McCain, the Iraqi woman, the women who lost family in 9/11.
Does anyone know - is there ANYTHING going on with the convention today that will be televised?
Wish you could join us.
Maybe you know - is there any coverage or anything going on with the convention during the daytime today?
The Big Three will be televising the final three nights of the Convention. My advice is to watch C-SPAN or for those of you who don't have cable, tape PBS.
C-Span is definitely the way to go.
I guess I thought C-Span would be covering the convention during the daytime too.
"Sorry for the early thread."
LOL, I didn't see the p.m. and ran over to turn on the tv.
Good morning,
I will not be able to watch much of it this morning. I have a dr's appt. I sure hope he can find out what I did to my knee and leg when I fell.
Last night was wonderful. It showed the differences between the dems and us. We are positive, upbeat, etc. and they are doom and gloom.
See y'all later.
I must admit, the RNC reporters on C-SPAN doing those interviews on the floor is just a bit too hokey for my taste, but that's just me I guess. I guess CSPAN is using the official RNC feed.
Compare the Bush girls to the Kerry dogs. Even Kerry's daughters are pompous patricians who claim to be members of some elite intelligentsia. While they make their stupid films and are otherwise worthless members of society, conservatives will run the country, thank you very much.
Bump for the Grand Old Party!
Well, that is good. I won't have to miss anything! I should have read further before my earlier post.
| California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (news - web sites), center, rehearses on the stage at the Republican National Convention in New York during a sound check, late Monday night, Aug. 30, 2004. Schwarzenegger is scheduled to speak at the convention Tuesday night. (AP Photo/David Karp) |
No roll call session during the day today, someone told me that it was kind of called at the last minute yesterday so if there was a disturbance outside the nominations would all be done and in the hopper.
LOL,me too. They missed the class that taught you don't need to scream when you have a microphone:)
Ping to myself--I wouldn't want myself to miss this.
I saw that earlier.
Pass the popcorn!!!!!!
Gotcha. Thanks.
Rudy was the MAN!!!!!!!!!
I thought the same as you!
Hope you make out ok at the docs today.
At this point, I'd like to state something.
After only the first day, the left is crumbling into the dust.
We have no worries. Sit back, smile and enjoy the week.
Im excited that Jaci Velasquez will be singing tonight, it will definitely be a treat to hear her gospel performance.
"Maybe that's why John Edwards needs two Americas, one where John Kerry to vote against and another where he can vote for the exact same thing."
AMERICANMADE1776...Present!
Great line.
Peach...........you're a Peach!!!
Thanks for starting a new thread!
I may have to go to WalMart to get kleenex if it gets any better than last night! I loved it!
I laughed and screamed and cried and praised the Lord!!!
Tonight will be better............but I don't know how!!!
Day 2!! Yeaahh!
Hey, prairie and everybody.
I don't think we're going to get to see anything until evening. Dang it all!
It was GREAT!!!
The best I've ever seen. Have to go do some "real" housework today so I'm free this evening. Yesterday I just faked it. LOL
I loved that line!
Senator John McCain of Arizona acknowledges the applause from the delegation during the evening session of the Republican National Convention at Madison Square Garden in New York, August 30, 2004. The Arizona senator, who once questioned Bush's qualifications as a presidential candidate, lauded the president's much-criticized foreign policy, including the controversial decision to invade and occupy Iraq. Photo by Mike Segar/Reuters
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani addresses the delegates at the Republican National Convention Monday, Aug.30, 2004, in New York. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Republicans Assail Kerry at Convention
NEW YORK - Republicans belittled Democratic Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) as a shift-in-the-wind campaigner unworthy of the White House on Monday, opening their national convention four miles from Ground Zero of America's worst terrorist attack. "We need George Bush more than ever," said former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
"We need a leader with the experience to make the tough decisions and the resolve to stick with them," added Arizona Sen. John McCain on a night that repeatedly stirred painful memories of the terrorist strike — and the president's response to the defining moment of his term.
Challenging critics of the commander in chief, McCain also called the invasion of Iraq "necessary, achievable and noble."
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, first lady Laura Bush, Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., will be addressing the Republican Convention on Tuesday.
Republicans are turning to conditions at home after saluting President Bush as a wartime president whose leadership is "rock solid." Schwarzenegger gets star billing on the second day of the party's convention as the GOP extends its outreach to moderate Democrats and independents.
Laura Bush said Tuesday she would not attack John Kerry in her speech tonight. In recent days she has criticized the Democratic nominee.
The first lady told ABC's "Good Morning America": "What you're going to hear from me tonight is about George Bush... I'm going to talk about the vantage point that I have being so close to him and what I've seen over the last four years and how important it is to re-elect him and how these times demand somebody with his personality and his resolve and his character."
But as the Republican National Convention headed for Tuesday's session at Madison Square Garden under extremely heavy security, Bush supporters scrambled to explain the president's day-old comments that the war against terror could not be won.
Democrats pounced on those remarks in hopes of stealing some convention-week spotlight from Republicans. Asked by reporters whether the war on terror could be won, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry replied, "Absolutely."
In Monday's opening session, Republicans invoked the memory of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks — the World Trade Center stood about four miles south of the Garden — as a test of Bush's mettle as a strong and decisive leader.
"Since September 11th President Bush has remained rock solid," Giuliani said, likening the president to Winston Churchill and Ronald Reagan. "We need George Bush more than ever."
That prompted Democratic party chief Terry McAuliffe to recall "a certain Churchill quote that, after the last four years, certainly applies to George Bush: `He's a humble man with much to be humble about.'"
Schwarzenegger was sharing billing Tuesday with first lady Laura Bush and Education Secretary Rod Paige. The actor-turned-politician was the latest in a march to the convention podium of moderates and other politicians with broad popular support.
Bush was addressing the American Legion in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday before heading to Iowa to campaign. Kerry was spending most of the day at his beachfront home in Massachusetts, then flying to Nashville to spend the night. He talks to the American Legion on Wednesday.
On Monday, McCain drew enthusiastic cheers — and a standing ovation — when he voiced strong support for his 2000 GOP presidential rival.
McCain heartily endorsed the president's Iraq and anti-terrorism policies, saying the United States had little choice but to invade Iraq.
"Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Not our critics abroad. Not our political opponents. And certainly not a disingenuous filmmaker," McCain said in a clear dig at filmmaker Michael Moore that delighted his audience. Moore, who was sitting in the press section, was roundly booed by the crowd.
Moore's box-office hit, "Fahrenheit 9/11," sharply questions Bush's motives for invading Iraq. McCain said the filmmaker, whom he did not name, "would have us believe that Saddam's Iraq was an oasis of peace when in fact it was a place of indescribable cruelty, torture chambers, mass graves and prisons that destroyed the lives of the small children held inside their walls."
Scores of "We Salute Our Troops" banners waved as McCain spoke.
McCain did not single out Kerry, a good friend, for criticism.
The delegates on Monday began a three-day process to formally nominate Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney to a second term with a roll call full of home-state bragging and lots of praise for their beloved incumbents. Officials tried to keep secret which state would give Bush the 1,255 delegate votes to seal the nomination. That was likely to come Tuesday night, with the roll ending Wednesday.
On the streets outside the convention, at least 10 arrests were made Monday in a clash between police and protesters attempting to push through barricades. A plainclothes detective was knocked off his scooter and taken to the hospital with head injuries that were not said to be life-threatening.
Bush, meanwhile, gave Democrats unexpected ammunition when he suggested in a television interview broadcast Monday that the war on terrorism could not be won, forcing his aides to defend his remarks on a day they had hoped he could bask in convention accolades.
Appearing on NBC's "Today," Bush was asked whether the war on terrorism was winnable. "I don't think you can win it. But I think you can create conditions so that the — those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world," Bush said.
"To suggest that the war on terror can't be won is absolutely unacceptable," said Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and one of a chorus of Democrats denouncing the comments.
White House spokesman Scott McClellan sought to clarify the president's remarks, telling reporters, "He was talking about winning it in the conventional sense ... about how this is a different kind of war and we face an unconventional enemy."
During the convention's second day, speakers were expected to proclaim that the United States is on the right track, with a bright future — a theme expected to be driven home by Schwarzenegger, the first lady and Paige.
Paige rose from segregated Mississippi to become the nation's first black education secretary. However, his term has been a bumpy one since he drew anger from teachers for labeling the National Education Association a "terrorist organization."
Schwarzenegger is popular among both Republicans and Democrats, even though the California governor's moderate stands on a variety of social issues have sown distrust among some GOP conservatives.
Laura Bush is a former public school teacher and librarian who has been active on a variety of education issues. Lately, she has also been an outspoken defender of Bush's efforts to restrict federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
Michael Moqtada Sadr Moore
I thought they would have too. Maybe later in the day CSPAN will be on the case
Ron silver had an impressive speech last night. You could tell he was emotional. I know he's democrat, but anytime someone is willing to jump party lines and vote for the opposition based on what is right, I respect them for it.
The kid must be sleeping in after her wild night in NYC last night. Tried to raise her on the cell phone a few minutes ago and got voice mail. Not sure what she's got planned today but I'm sure it involves getting as close to the center of the action as possible without getting hauled off by security.
Very upbeat and moving convention. A few parts made my eyes water.
A special thank you to the Iraqi woman for her heartfelt and sincere endorsement of Bush and our Troops as well as their families.
Also the widows of 911 spot was very moving, I thank them.
4 MORE YEARS! MORE YEARS! 4 MORE YEARS!
Bush/Cheney 2004
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