I know, I know…some folks will be all Watching the convention? That’s hardcore, Laura. I’m more of a vote-on-election-day kind of person. We need those people too, but I’ve gone all in and I have some feelings.
Let’s get this out of the way: yes, the format is weird. Well, probably not any weirder for people who’ve never watched a convention, but it’s definitely different. I don’t mind different, though, plus corona days have scrambled everything else so why should this escape its wrath.
Michelle Obama spoke on Monday night and let me tell you, she was ON FIRE. This woman has some powerful public speaking skills, and you know that’s true when I’ll stay up past eleven on a school night to watch her. She has a way of reaching right through the screen so you feel like she’s sitting on the couch next to you. Michelle Obama’s point that the presidency requires, among other things, “an abiding belief that each of the 330,000,000 lives in this country has meaning and worth” struck me hard. The fact that we have someone sitting in the White House who explicitly expresses the opposite turns my stomach.
Then there’s this quote right here: “So let me be as honest and clear as I possibly can. Donald Trump is the wrong president for our country. He has had more than enough time to prove that he can do the job, but he is clearly in over his head. He cannot meet this moment. He simply cannot be who we need him to be for us. It is what it is.” Preach.
Tuesday boasts the roll call, potentially the most boring procedural part of the convention, but here’s where corona days upped the ante. Instead of a rowdy convention floor filled with people shouting into a mic we got a stream of live shots from the states themselves. There was something about seeing people standing everywhere from cities to beaches to wide open plains casting votes for the candidates that screamed We Are America.
Jill Biden also spoke Tuesday. She did well but the thing that blew me out of the water was a video telling Joe and Jill Biden’s story. It was compelling, loving, and respect filled. It was a testament to powerful relationship between two generous adults and a beautiful introduction to who would be the first couple. It also probably gave Trump’s campaign manager heart palpitations as he realized he’d have to find a way to frame Trump against it.
We’re watching Wednesday night’s coverage as I write this and it’s 100% heavy hitters. Hillary Clinton spoke on what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris would bring to the White House. Elizabeth Warren spoke up, Nancy Pelosi spoke up – it’s been a parade of testimony for going to work on this election. President Obama moved me to tears, making a powerful case that to save our democracy we must refuse to let them take away our votes. Then there’s Kamala Harris – this woman brings passion and the courage of her convictions to the presidential race and all I can think is man, I want her speaking for our country.
Corona days are hard. Trump days have been even harder. But for the first time, in a long time, I’m feeling a little glimmer of that thing I used to call hope. It’s pretty darn nice.
Riddle from the Middle 
“Michelle Obama spoke on Monday night and let me tell you, she was ON FIRE. This woman has some powerful public speaking skills.:\”
Totally disagree. She’s a private individual whose only credentials: she married to one of the most incompetent Presidents in the history of the US. The Obamagate/spygate disgrace by far surpasses the criminal activity made by the disgraced ex-President Nixon.
The general statement: “Michelle Obama’s point that the presidency requires, among other things, “an abiding belief that each of the 330,000,000 lives in this country has meaning and worth” struck me hard. The fact that we have someone sitting in the White House who explicitly expresses the opposite turns my stomach.” … lacks specifics to support its premise. This lack of specifics makes this general premise equal to rhetoric propaganda! Something on par with Hillbillery Clintons: “Basket of deplorables”, a none logic that makes individual attacks on people rather than address issues and problems.
Ad hominem (Latin for ‘to the person’), attacks upon the President so remind me of the crazy ill-logic Democrats used in their attempt to prevent Brett Kavanaugh from becoming a Supreme Court justice based upon a totally unsupported rape declaration made by Christine Blasey Ford. And the willingness of democrats to ignore the sexual assault allegation made by Tara Reade, that Kamala Harris publicly declared – during the democratic debates that she believed!
“Joe and Jill Biden’s story. It was compelling, loving, and respect filled.” This statement totally ignores the adulterous affair that Joe Bidden had with Jill which destroyed the Jill’s previous marriage.
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I like how you clarified Michelle Obama’s strengths and the importance of a healthy, respectful marriage. The documentary of Joe Biden’s life was impressive and a significant contrast to the life of 45.
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Thanks, JoAnna. That was a particularly powerful night and it was hard to argue with her logic although apparently mosckerr disagrees. 😂
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Personalities not problems, this article sums up the brain dead mental stupidity of DemoRATS.
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I found this in one of your blog posts: “Please I have devoted serious time to respond to what you have written, I therefore personally request that you do not delete this comment. I quoted precisely what you wrote and responded to it in a respectful manner. Yes your opinion does not make much logical sense to me. But if you could open a dialogue with me, am prepared to discuss this issue in a civil manner.”
Curious that you would request respect on your blog then come to mine and drop this comment. I encourage open dialogue when it is conducive to an exchange of ideas. This is not. Do it again and you’ll be blocked.
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OK gotcha. You say my opening challenge to your premise does not exchange ideas? Why? I would quote from what you wrote and responded in what appeared to me in a manner that – the shoe on the other foot – I personally would accept.
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So starting over let me quote from Mrs. Obama: “Then there’s this quote right here: “So let me be as honest and clear as I possibly can. Donald Trump is the wrong president for our country. He has had more than enough time to prove that he can do the job, but he is clearly in over his head. He cannot meet this moment. He simply cannot be who we need him to be for us. It is what it is.””
When Bill Clinton proposed a ‘peace plan’ which awarded 99% of Samaria to stateless Arab refugees, Europeans – who in the previous generation murdered 75% of all European Jewry in less than 4 years, clapped and praised the Clinton “deal”, which Arafat rejected. But the Trump ‘deal of the century’ which instrumentally aroused the UAE to become the 3rd Arab country since 1948 to recognize the Jewish state, according to Mrs. Obama this merits no respect. Bunk.
The current President has reduced US troops in Germany and S. Korea, the 1st President since Truman to do so, yet Mrs. Obama disregards this brave policy. WW2 ended back in 1945, the Cold War ended with the fall of the USSR in 1989, just how long must US troops remained stationed/occupy Europe and Japan?
The primary cause behind the French revolution – a huge national debt. How long can US debt ceilings shatter the glass before anarchy destroys our cities? Ooops its happening right now.
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This particular quote from Mrs. Obama followed her perspective on our domestic situation as a country in this moment. I believe her point is that with a covid death toll moving towards 200,000, race relations a mess, U.S. citizens (press) being called enemies of the state, and tear gas/rubber bullets used on peaceful protestors it is clear Donald Trump cannot rise to meet our needs in this moment in history. I agree with her. There are many who do not.
Donald Trump characterized pulling troops from Germany as reprisal for not giving enough of their GDP to NATO so I have difficulty seeing it as an altruistic move for military families. As part of a military family myself I see our troops positioned around the world as an important deterrent — if there’s a crisis then having a smaller presence increases the cost and timeline for redeploying. I was especially troubled that so many members of the House Armed Services Committee advised against the move, including 22 of the 26 Republican members.
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Greetings to you Laura, good health to you, your family, and friend.
The Covid black swan has nothing to do with the President. Medical issues come under the medical community of the US, not the President. The fact of the matter remains, President Trump – who does not have Covid – went out on a leadership limb of the tree, and took hydroxychloroquine. Does this treat Covid, i do not know. But the fact remains a fact, the President personally jumped at testing a drug upon himself in the hope that it might treat Covid-19. Honestly, has any other President ever behaved with such leadership in a health crisis? Contrast the Obama/Biden response to the swine flu in 2009. 60 million Americans got H1N1 in that period of time.
According to some authorities some sixty million Americans got the H1N1 swine flu. Do you remember any press conferences by Obama during that health crisis? I do not. Dr. Anthony Fauci remained a total unknown. The Obama/Biden team opposed nationwide testing. Trump supported nationwide testing.
President Trump, you have accurately stated pulled US troops out of Germany for the latter country not contributing its 2% quota. 2% of what the US expends on NATO. Bravo Mr. President the US should not continue to play the role of patsy. US policy – across the board has nothing to do with altruistic feelings but rather US interests.
Baker, the Secretary of State under Bush, explicitly stated that US interests drive and shape US policy decisions. Next subject. You see the stationing of US troops around the world as a deterrent … the US has military bases – according to Ron Paul – in over 155 countries.
The Truman Administration pretty much set the US Foreign policy following WW2 with the Marshal Plan and the Containment Policy. The latter the US invested in foreign aid in exchange for US military bases on foreign soil. The latter, continues the old 19th century British empire foreign policy called: “maintaining the balance of power”. All US Administrations promoted the 2 State division of Israel. The EU, a chief proponent of this policy, seeks to divide the Israeli Capital into their version of East and West Berlin.
My moving company moved Jews out of Gaza, about 6000 folk all totalled – Olmert forcibly expelled. Personally experienced the near Civil War. Try a forced expulsion of 700,000 Jews out of E. Jerusalem and Samaria. The “Quartet” sponsored 2 state solution would bring Civil War to Israel just as did US and British and French intervention in Iraq, Syria, and Libya brought Civil War to those countries.
Give PEACE a chance … bunk. Peace its a verb not a now in treaties between nation states. Peace between people requires trust. Trust requires explicit terms by which the parties to the peace accord swear to keep and honor. The 2 state solution seeks to negate the Israeli 1967 War victory. If the Quartet imperialist States can negate that Israeli victory who says that these hostile foreign interests with their own alien agenda could not likewise negate the Israeli 1948 victory? Europe condemned themselves with their ‘Final Solution’ in WW2. Neither Europe in general nor their ICC Court in particular possesses any moral mandate by which to judge the Jewish state or any other country across the planet earth.
The US it has a huge national debt — and make no mistake about it — this debt threatens the continued existence of the US government. WW2 ended back in 1945, the USSR collapsed in 1989, the US has absolutely no reason to station troops in Foreign countries anymore. Bring the boys home, all Administrations did just that prior to post WW2.
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Rabin ate a bullet b/c that foolish man did not understand that a person makes peace with their friends and allies NOT with their enemies.
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Yes President Trump refers to the Antifa movement, its promotion of anarchism in both Oregon and California as a terrorist organization/movement. Bravo Mr. President.
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Let’s remember those Republicans Cindy McCain, Kasich, and Powell who alongside a lot of other Republicans said Biden. And send Trump back to Maralago and and his bankrupt golf course. And that is how he will be remembered by history. Donald Trump – see bankrupt.
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They did a wonderful video about Biden and McCain’s friendship over the years. Brought tears to my eyes. I truly believe choosing country over party is what will save us all.
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I watched Monday – did not Tuesday, then regretted it, so I watched bits that I could find. I did watch last night because when an Obama speaks, I will be there – and I like Kamala. I will be tuned in tonight, appreciating the fact that I can do so by streaming since I cut the cord.
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Love that they’ve made it accessible in so many ways. I feel exactly the same about the Obamas. When there’s some semblance of normalcy again (ha!) I would travel anywhere to see them in person.
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Hope is that sparkle we have been missing for a long, long time.
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It’s been a really long 3 1/2 years, hasn’t it? I feel like I’ve aged a decade.
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Seems longer somehow…
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Yes there is hope for you. As long as the whole party realises that Trump won’t lose on his own. The Democrats need to fight him, not fight amongst themselves.
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Agreed. I’m hoping the rumblings will settle down NOW so we can get to work on mobilizing the vote.
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i am watching every minute and last night blew me away
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It was remarkable. Can’t quite get the girl on board with watching (she “hates listening to people talk” 😆😆) — wish she’d seen all those powerful women blowing it out of the water like that.
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it’s all about her age, totally normal
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I was delighted to see a clip on TV of Colin Powell giving Joe Biden his blessing for the Presidency – when respected Republicans prefer to back a true blue statesmanlike politician while seeing red over their own party’s candidate it really says something about how real politicians view Trump.
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That was such a stunning moment of patriotism. I didn’t realize he was speaking and just about fell off my chair when he showed up.
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