The “Gong Show” is for all those old farts that remember probably the greatest game show ever aired……
The Dem Convention opened up with a really big announcement….Wasserman-Schultz is out but not down…..The Democratic National Convention opened Monday marred by the sudden resignation of its unpopular chairwoman after a series of leaked emails suggested she might have used her office to help Hillary Clinton defeat the insurgent candidacy of Sen. Bernie Sanders.
The night began where I thought it would….trying to neutralize the email fallout….also all speakers up to Cory Booker was all about…blah blah blah…..Hillary good…..blah blah blah….vote for Hillary…..blah….Trump scary…..blah…..the usual Dem heavy hitters….Sanders…..Warren…..
But it got good with the speak by Booker…….good because the media hound that he is…it was his “look at me” speech for the Dems in the next election….
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker had one thing on his mind at Philly’s Wells Fargo Center: love and equality for all. With a rapt Bill Clinton watching in the audience, a hoarse-voiced Booker—who some Twitter users said brought “church” to the convention with his passion—used the city where the Declaration of Independence was signed as the backdrop to declare: “No matter who you are, rich or poor, Asian or white, man or woman, gay or straight, any religion or none at all, you are entitled to the full rights and responsibilities of citizenship.”
Booker directly addressed the “hypocrisy” of Donald Trump in his treatment of women and Muslims, as well as noted how Trump has tried to “get laughs at other people’s expense, tried to incite fear at a time we need to inspire courage, tried to rise in the polls by dragging our national conversation into the gutter.” Becoming increasingly animated, Booker then listed all of the reasons why Hillary Clinton is the candidate who knows “you and I, together, interdependent, [are] interconnected with one single interwoven American destiny.” He also appealed to viewers’ patriotism, noting, “You can’t love your country without loving your countrymen and your countrywomen.”
But as usual the First Lady hit it out of the park…….
Monday night, Michelle took her own place in the spotlight at Philly’s Wells Fargo Center, telling the crowd that Hillary Clinton is the only person she trusts to “have the power to shape our children for the next four or eight years of their lives.” As for Melania’s cribbed speech: no mention from Michelle. She also didn’t mention Donald Trump by name, though her target was clear when she said: “When someone is cruel or acts like a bully, we don’t stoop to their level,” the AP reports. “When they go low, we go high,” she said.
Obama praised Clinton for having the “guts and the grace to keep coming back and putting cracks in that highest and hardest glass ceiling until she finally breaks through.” The Guardian reports that she finished on a note strong enough to spur “Michelle 2020” speculation: “I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves. And I watch my daughters, beautiful, intelligent black young women, playing with their dog on the White House lawn,” Obama said. “And because of Hillary Clinton my daughters and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States. So don’t let anyone ever tell you that this country isn’t great. That somehow we need to make it great again. Because this right now is the greatest country on Earth.”
The winners and loser of the night will come a little later…..
I, at least had respect for Sanders, up until his endorsement of Clinton. Anyone who can swallow their principles that quickly, ugh, and for someone with her previous illegal and treasonous transgressions – it will be a sad day indeed if we are shackled with the Clinton realm for 4 more years!
I agree and Warren is in that category as well.. with me…
Tell me chuq…..re:the ‘bong’ show…
Why is Trump playing the BAD COP & Why is Clinton Playing the GOOD COP?
Or do we have Trump playing the good cop & Clinton playing the bad cop?
OH, IT IS SO CONFUSING….
WHO TO BELIEVE?
REMEDY? LOOK TO THE ‘BONG’
OR EVEN ‘GONG’….
WHAT EVA…IT IS….IT IS A MAJOR SET UP….
I never knew the word ‘impotence’ until now…..
WTF.
🙂
It nis all the theatrics of the day…and who the Hell knows?
*Grin*
I know..
😉
It is what we Americans do best…..DRAMA!
Great comment….
*wink*
gigoid
ps…the losers are us…….
Now where did I place my poisonous dart?
AS always…the “we” in the mash….
An online friend has been ‘blocked’ unless…unless…he gave twitter his phone number…they accepted the 3rd number(correct) but managed to instill ‘fear’ into him…needless to say..he expresses his opinions….
Ah,the watchers…..
god love ’em.
He should tell them to kiss off…
Well,he ain’t bin to war …yet. 🙁
Hmm… Though happy I haven’t bothered to watch any of this farce, perhaps the scariest part was the final words, implying the possibility of yet another dynastic election process to look forward to in 2020. But, then, I don’t suppose it really matters who occupies the office, when the only ones who want it are those who are already corrupt. That includes the oh-so-admired Mr. Sanders, in reference to whom you will remember I mentioned how impossible it is to become a billionaire without suffering corruption of integrity.
I see a hard time coming; so hard, I’m going to forgo my life-long policy, and arm myself in full, including weapons which I swore never to employ, if possible. I can see too much chance of having to resort to such methods, as there is no point in going into battle without the proper tools…. A katana, a cross-bow, a shotgun, and a few surprise entries aren’t out of the question, to add to my current collection, which is not inconsiderable.
My ultimate hope is still to never have to use any of them. I don’t see that hope being fulfilled; there are too many signs of impending trouble for all of us. This entire election process is just another symptom of what has gone wrong with our culture, and bodes no good for anyone… One of the things which indicates how bad things are can be noted by the 4-mile long fence around the DNC, which, while acknowledged in passing, has not caused any particularly raised eyebrows… which it very well should be doing… Inconceivable paranoia is implied by its presence, yet there is little reaction at all…
Gird your grids for a big one, ffolkes; the evidence keeps mounting, and it all says, “WTF!”
gigoid, the dubious
Always be prepared…..LOl chuq
It is impossible for me to stay focused on only a couple of comments here. So, I think I’ll take a pass on ALL of it. Except for one: CANADA is the GREATEST COUNTRY on the planet … bar none!!!