The 2008 Democrat Convention

Sorry, but it was a grand slam. Out of the park. It was fantastic, and I think you will note that this becomes the general consensus amongst the media.

Cycloptichorn

They are already saying she didn't talk about O enough....Like I need someone to tell me that.

Hillary:

Very big cheers.

Proud Senator of NY? How did my fellow New Yorkers ever buy she was a New Yorker? Then again, they bought Bobby Kennedy was too.

Michelle ain't smiling.

Hillary is, at best, a journeyman orator.

"No way, no how, no McCain." Pretty lame.

"You made me laugh, and yes you even made me cry." <Ralppphhh!!!>

"And she greeted me with her bald head..." Brilliant.

Together we made history...and in 2012 we will make more profound history!"

"Money borrowed from the Chinese to pay the Saudis." What? Her husband fostered that cozy relation, and was paid for it.

Michelle still ain't smiling.

"Restore fiscal sanity to Washington!" By taxing the hell out of the evil rich.

Bill is biting his lower lip!

Michelle still ain't smiling.

Not so much about the virtues of Obama.

3 Pro-Obama comments.

"We did it before with with President Clinton......"

Still Michelle ain't smiling.

5 Pro-Obama comments.

NOW Michelle smiles (but shows no teeth).

Biden smiles and shows teeth.

Man, she's juiced!

"Well, John McCain..." but I totally respect him as a colleague.

Bush = McCain

Great to spotlight the stars in the crowd - e.g, Ashley Judd

Women should never have been given the right to vote. We wouldn't have all this silly feminized nonsense to deal with.

"We're Americans, we're not big on quitting!" But we should quit in Iraq!

Maybe 6 Pro-Obama comments so far.

"God bless you!" even though I think a belief in God is the mark of a Rube.,

Hillary still wants to be president and did as much as she had to and as little as you could manage for Obama.

Pumpkin pants suit forever!

Who is saying that? Fox News? She said his name about twenty times.

Cycloptichorn

I know this skips a page or two, but thanks, nimh. Yes, I know about orange re netherlands and northern ireland.. and didn't that happen in the ukraine, or am I misrembering.. but not re all this - to me - new stuff. Thanks for the link re Orange is the new black - in politics.

I'll chase that down.

It solidifies her position as Democrat frontrunner in 2012, cyclops, after McCain's first term, and so she knew she had to deliver.

By the way, whats with the closing prayer, I thought Dems believed in separation of church and state?

NBC...but one of the talking heads disagreed with Couric. It's not about adding his name as a footnote after talking about how great she is..or how great her husband is. The NARRATIVE should have been about O. It's quite simple.

You don't honestly believe that is what is going to happen this election, Okie, and that's the most delicious part of the little comments like that you make

It's amazing, I can almost smell your fear over the internet.

Cycloptichorn

The Democratic Party is not really the State, okie...

<grins>

I think it's pretty obvious that you don't know the target of her speech(though you claim to) and neither does whatever talking head you seem to have based your opinion on.

Let me ask you a question: do you really need to hear an adoring speech about Obama? Do you think any of her supporters needed to hear it? That anyone did? Nope.

Cycloptichorn

Buyers remorse, cyclops, you can see it in the building.

Saying his name is not the same as endorsing his name.

Did she say Obama is ready to lead?

Did she say Obama is ready to be Commander-in-Chief?

That doesn't seem to make sense. She was there to bring her supporters over to Obama. She not there to repeat what Michelle Obama already said yesterday.

I guess the popular consensus is that if you have an even voice, don't flub, and enunciate, you're a good public speaker. Compare her to Jesse Jackson, Jr. When you change up inflection from wooden delivery. .. When you pause for effect---and bring that effect... When you grab the podium or use your body to heighten the crowd's emotion...

That is what I call a good speaker. Plus, in her case, whipping up the crowd for the ticket...instead of herself and her husband and her values...would have been perfect.

More fear. Keep it up.

Cycloptichorn

God you are a partisan sycophant.

Michelle spoke as a wife. Hillary could have praised his ability to lead...his readiness to be president...his work in the Senate...as a colleague. It leaves people thinking she doesn't believe it and has no evidence of it.

She whipped up the crowd for the ticket and not herself?

Really?

"The three-day average poll, taken after the vice presidential announcement Saturday, shows McCain with 46 percent and Obama at 44 percent, within the margin of error. It’s the first time since Obama sealed the nomination in June that McCain has surpassed him in the polls numerically, if not statistically."

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/08/26/mccain-passes-obama-in-gallup-tracking-poll-a-first-since-june

Enjoy the rest of the convention, cyclops, as your man continues to sink.