Basically the same thing. The incumbent party paints an optimistic picture, the opposition party paints a pessimistic picture. One preaches "change" the other talks about how everything is headed the right way.
Virtually every speaker would have made a better candidate, after the alcoholics/drug addicts/illegals segment. I understand what they were going for but that was a bit odd. Props to Sarah Silverman for the shoutout.
Bernie's plan is to make the Hillary Administration actually support the points in the platform. As a cynical old style pol Hillary and her gang are, I believe, assuming the old saw that the platform means nothing and they can wiggle out of supporting it or blame any lack of progress on the GOP. No way does Hillary intend to reverse 20 plus years of her political history of DLC Dems bringing corporate money to the Dem Party and pivot to breaking up the big banks, doing an actual "21 Century" Glass Seagal (unless it means no Glass Seagal) try cutting pharmaceutical profits etc. These and other aspects of the platform that threaten the profits of her funders are not what Hillary wants. Her forces at the platform committee along with her now disgraced bud Wasserman Straus fought to make these platform provisions as innocuous as possible. Sanders' Political Revolution will still need to continue the fight against the corporate Dems and hopefully their new champion President Hillary Clinton. The lying psychopathic narcissist Trump would be a disaster, but if he wins the Political Revolution will have to take him on, too.
I agree with you in practice. I'm totally compartmentalizing and commenting on the convention as it's own sole entity. I'm still not going to vote for Hillary. But just looking at the conventions themselves, The Democratic one trumps the values and what it means to be an American far more than the GOP convention.
I am surprised. Hopefully like me you live in a non swing state. I live in Texas where I doubt Hillary comes within 10 points unless the Latino vote is huge. Like in Gore vs Dubya I am tempted to vote third party, but I do not think that is a smart tactic, so I may still vote Dem. I do wish that my vote could somehow protest old corporate Dem Hillary. Since I am not a contented moderate and am confronted daily by the plight of the poor, a part of me wants to just blow it up, (Trump) but Trump does so remind me of a near psychotic narcissistic business partner I had the misfortune to deal with, so I will never vote for him..
Booker's speech may have been bombastic, but the parallel of it's style with Obama's reminded me immediately of what a corporate schmuck he is. The platitudes ring hollow when listened against actual actions. In terms of the speech itself, it had lot of great themes, but too many. It was also too long, I thought he was gonna wrap it up like 4 times. It felt like a stew with too many different vegetables and on the stove for way too long. It could have been something momentous, but he overdid it and it goes down as a B speech. Bernie's, Michelle's, and Al Franken's were my personal favorites.
Yes, I live in California. I will amend what I said. If California is close come November, I'll vote for Hillary. I don't think that's likely. I remember when Bush Jr. was running, I wasn't worried when he won. I thought it would be hilarious to have someone with no clue as president. I imagined other national leaders patting him on the head and laughing while he pretended he was a cowboy. I was very wrong. It wasn't funny at all. If CA is at all close, I'll hold my nose and vote for Hillary. That being said, I doubt that will happen.
I thought Booker's speech was awesome. On the CNN feed, they split-screened him with Bill Clinton, and Bill seemed in awe, mouth agape, at the speech when Cory talked about MLK pointing to the mountain and JFK pointing to the moon and a few other great references. Michelle and Bernie and Al Franken were also fantastic. Warren was okay but I thought her speech went a few minutes too long. She's never been the most dynamic person. The DNC has a great undercard and a pretty awful main event. The RNC, at least in my opinion, has a good main event and an awful undercard. I really wish Cory Booker had run...
It was. Heart felt. For people with children, that's a great theme against Trump. I hope they continue the theme of how important our leaders are to the mind of children growing up over the next 4-8 years.
Just like Melania, Trump is an admirer of Michelle Obama. No wonder they plagiarize her. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here's how you know Michelle Obama gave a great speech: Trump has blasted Booker, Warren & Sanders on Twitter. Not a peep about FLOTUS.</p>— Jimmy Traina (@JimmyTraina) <a href="https://twitter.com/JimmyTraina/status/757778223598018560">July 26, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
If the best evidence a liberal can come up with against Trump is his wife plagiarizing a speech, they are in trouble.
Michelle Obama also isn't political/polarizing. On the other hand, Warren was flat out lying in her speech.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The speech that almost didn't happen <a href="https://t.co/hbRoMt580y">pic.twitter.com/hbRoMt580y</a></p>— James McDermott (@J_Derm) <a href="https://twitter.com/J_Derm/status/757756637956440064">July 26, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
^ I prefer this edit, lol Spoiler <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">"The speech that almost didn't happen" (with the appropriate soundtrack, video <a href="https://twitter.com/J_Derm">@J_Derm</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/WillHarahan">@WillHarahan</a>) <a href="https://t.co/Ri8tjW6ldW">pic.twitter.com/Ri8tjW6ldW</a></p>— CJ Fogler (@cjzero) <a href="https://twitter.com/cjzero/status/757798402822254593">July 26, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
