Oh Yes I Can
When I signed up for this thing, nobody mentioned the 7:00 am breakfasts when you don’t get back to the hotel until 2:00 am and you’re too damn old to be doing this stuff.
Okay, so I knew about the too damn old but the 7:00 thing was a shocker. I didn’t even know there was a 7:00 am.
National conventions are busy. Caucuses all day, stunning speeches at night. As the media is telling you, Julian Castro and Michelle Obama owned that stadium. People didn’t move. We didn’t even look at each other because we were too involved with the stage. I saw something historic last night.
Honey, all that and pink pumps!
Lots of people say they saw me and Ole Bubba on tv last night. That is entirely possible. We did have credentials. Here we’re are checking in with our constable, Ruben Davis and his wife Sharon.
And I even got to pose with the Young Democrats officers since I’m president of the Old Silver Democrats. This is me, Trisha Fredericks and State Representative candidate Vy Nguyen.
And The Daily Show’s Samantha Bee interviewed one of the Texas Democrats, Bill Rosenberg. Samantha Bee is gorgeous in person.
I haven’t seen protestors except for some crazy people holding up abortion porn signs and letting their children hold the most offensive signs. And some street preachers with microphones yelling about this is American and they have free speech to talk very loudly about how God hates government. Irony porn.
My favorite SDEC member, Vickie Vogel, took this picture for me because she knew I would love it.
We just heard that President Obama will give his speech at the covered arena. There’s loads of rain here.
One more thing, in case you ladies were wondering, Julian Castro is even better looking in person. Yeah, Honey, he’s a hunka hunka burnin’ love.
This place is Disneyland for political junkies.
You know, if you are going to chase Julian all over Charlotte, it might be safer to go with his single twin brother. Something tells me he is one of those Dem men who has a strong woman watching his back.
Enjoy the convention – I wish I could get my son to peddle his bike 15 miles to school so I could run down there!
1I liked Michelle’s shoes too and was smiling large as I listened to her speech. The truck made me giggle, as does most things the goopers come up with that isn’t totally vile, just sorta crazy.
2Yes, you better stay away from Julian; I don’t think you’d want to tangle with his mama and his wife. Me, I just want to adopt him!
Last night both my eyes were was glued to the teevee machine; it was that exciting, and the reviews are great. This convention is being so well done, it is making the Repug one looked like it was organized by an amoeba.
3Man. You almost make me want to go to a national convention. Long as they don’t have long lines in their restrooms, that is. And SEVEN IN THE MORNING? Is that MANDATORY? Other than eating, what in the world is there to talk about at SEVEN IN THE MORNING? I’m so excited for you. Now I’m gonna find last night’s speeches and watch them. Good thing Bubba is there keeping an eye on you.
4Marge, who gave up on TV a long time ago.
I’m not enough of a political junkie to have planned my day around the convention yesterday, but I just didn’t change the channel.
Ithought Julian was as clever as he was cute (my favorite couple of seconds was when he mentioned health care and had to switch from his theme of “NO!” to “Well, yes first, and then no…”), but Michelle just knocked my socks off.
Now I’m *really* happy you’re there to represent us! (And I wish I had been there last night, too!)
5I knew FLOTUS was going to knock it out of the park and she did, but I had never seen Julian, absolutely terrific and A Star Was Born. The MAN, who blew me out of the water was Deval Patrick. I had only seen him in punditland, last night he had me dancing and shouting – loved “bullied out of office” by RePig obstructionism. Actually, several STARS were born yesterday.
Enjoy all the fun – you can sleep late next week.
6You’re beautiful.
I am happier knowing that you are on the floor representing us little people, even thought I don’t live in Texas!
7Go, girl, go! God bless you and Bubba. You both work in a challenging environment.
8You could feel the difference in the convention audience, even through the numbing filter of TV. No sound engineer could change the fact that their enthusiam level and their optics were just awful.
We are white, yellow, red, brown, black, LGBT, all religions, some combination of the above, and all the other groups that I forgot to mention and we are Americans. All of us. This is why we are a strong country. We are Democrats. We all contribute.
Thank you for making us laugh and smile.
D
JJ – you were up and working before 7. I got an email reply from you at 5:57 am! Hardly worth going to bed, was it! If you sleep on a satin pillow you may not have to “do” your hair. But you would know that, wouldn’t you?
9I was entranced and joyous last night.
Woohoo! Go Dems!
I get goosebumps listening to and watching the Democratic younguns who are positioning themselves to take our country to greater heights. I’m thinking we can safely leave things in their capable hands and offer our votes and support while they “carry the water”. Diversity is SEXY!
10You can count on Democrats to have fun. Sleep next week!
11For coverage I keep forgetting CSPAN. Sometimes it’s disconnecting because it doesn’t add any commentary, no split screens or shots of the crowd but for all coverage it is fantastic. I think today they are re-running last night’s speeches before starting up this afternoon with current coverage.
12Last night gave me hope for the Democratic Party – so many young, attractive speakers.
13Deval Patrick gave a real barn-burner of s speech and Castro is dynamic. Loved them both. I now look forward to 2016.
You could almost hear a collective “OMG, there’s TWO of them?” all across Teabagistan when Julián and Joaquín Castro took the stage.
Best moment of the night? While my little girl and I were watching the First Lady hit 3-point shots (it’s a basketball arena, after all), she turned to me and said “I wanna be just like Michelle Obama when I grow up”…can’t do much better than that, kiddo.
14I’ve never seen a convention where damn near everybody listened to all the speakers. The joy is just palpable. One of the twitter folks I follow wrote “Watching the two conventions makes me understand what it was like when folks got their first color TV.”
Boy that was some lineup with the young mother of the child with a heart defect (we’ve got one of those in our family, too), Tammy Duckworth, Deval Patrick, Our own Julian, and then the closer was that Michelle Obama. There were other good speakers, too.
Thanks for the pictures, you seem to be doing what we sent you to do. Take NoDoz. You can sleep next week.
15When I have a problem with a young black girl at school, I tell them about Michelle Obama and how she’s my hero(ine). “Really?” they sometimes answer back. I need a strong, well-dressed Hispanic woman who started rough and has accomplished much, to tell some of my other favorite girls about.
And what do I tell them? “You need to learn Academic English, in order to rise to the top.” It is truly a foreign language to so many people and should be taught as such.
16This was the first time in my life that I have watched every speech glued to the teevee. I even made the dog wait to go out until someone was walking onto the stage. I have known of Rosie Castro, her work and her boys, for many years. Those kids were awesome as boys and are more so as men. When their history is written, her’s will be as inspiring. Good mom- good sons.
17CHARLOTTE (The Borowitz Report)—The Democratic National Convention today released a dramatically revised schedule for the night of Wednesday, September 5th:
8:00 Call to Order by First Lady Michelle Obama
188:10 National Anthem, performed by Branford Marsalis (saxophone), Michelle Obama (vocals)
8:15 Pledge of Allegiance to Michelle
8:20 Former President Bill Clinton introduces video of Michelle Obama
8:25 Video replay of last night’s speech by Michelle Obama (on loop until 10:58)
10:58—10:59 Remarks by Vice-President Joe Biden
10:59 Benediction by the Reverend Michelle Obama
Oh, my! Ditto to all the comments so far. The buzz around the virtual water cooler at my office this morning was about how pleased, thrilled, excited, motivated we are. There was an “older” white American woman (me), a lady in a wheelchair, a gay Hispanic man, and a black woman with a college age daughter, and we were just giddy repeating our favorite lines. And wasn’t that a marvelous dress?
19If memory serves me correctly (remember that I’m “older”!) on MSNBC, Chris Matthews turned to Michael Steele after a serious exchange of views and asked something like “and how about that dress.” Cracked me up!
While I watched Julian’s speech, they had a shot of a lady with a red hat with the biggest, sparkliest Texas shaped pin!! I hope you get a photo of her. It was the awesomest.
20The dress, the shoes, the nail polish…Michelle looked stunning. And she spoke at 12th grade level too. http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/smartpolitics/2012/09/michelle_obamas_dnc_speech_wri.php
21Mrs. Obama’s speech made me sick to my stomach. You see, I have this sinus problem. So when I cry, it sets off this terrible drainage that ultimately causes stomach upset. Yeah, I cried that much.
22“We are all up close and personal”. Thanks, Susan.
23Up till 2- then back up @ 6? I thought you were from Texas Farm country! What I see on RFDTV, that’s a half day for you Texas women – with time left over for cowboy church and chuck wagon cooking!
24You said he would be a good speaker and he did not disapoint, Julian Castro is the future of the Party and a fine one he is. And Michelle, well what can I say that hasn’t been said? fabulous.
25The Dark Side is saying how terrible it is to bring up Ted and use him for political reason, yep the same people who bring up Ron Regan at every opportunity. I think there is some Convention envy going on, Glad you are there to see it first hand. I did catch a glimpse of you on the tee vee just for a brief second but you were standing there with your mouth wide open, scream yeah I suspect. Good Job!!
You’ll have some good stories after this week which will last you a long, long time.
Forget the porno promoters – look for the No Papers No Fears bus riders who are DEMONSTRATING. 10 were arrested Tuesday for practicing civil disobedience. These are dreamers – people who came here to pursue the American dream. Look for my companeras y companeros and ask them WHY they are risking so much to be there. If I were a delegate, I would be outside with the No Fears people, not inside.
26YES YOU CAN! Hang in there and come back with wonderful stories for us. I, too, was overwhelmed by the First Lady. Ann Romney could never even hope to fill those shoes, and her attempt at “We love women” was a ridiculous lie. (They’re awfully good a that lying thing.) KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON, JJ.
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