The overall feeling by this dog?
A push first for Joe Biden as a ‘regular down to earth guy….
Donald Trump’s absence on the virus….
Andrew Cuomo made a good and strong appearance….
Donald Trump’s trying to take away ur Post Office for his own election…
Bernie Sanders trying to sell his lean to the left…
(This WILL be an attack target for Republicans)
Bernie Sanders telling his people to join him to get rid of Donald Trump….PERIOD…
Giving some air to the people that ran against Joe Biden…
Showing some Republicans that are voting for Biden after voting for Trump…
And?
Michelle Obama as a Black women that has heart and points out Trump doesn’t and doesn’t care…
And Michelle pushing hard for people to come out and VOTE….
Yes this was more of a informational…
But in these times?
It seems pretty darn good…
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Michelle Obama sounded the alarm about threats to the integrity of the vote, saying, “folks who know they cannot win fair and square at the ballot box are doing everything they can to stop us from voting.” In particular, she waded into the dispute over mail-in voting — with President Trump spreading unfounded claims that it leads to widespread fraud — and accused Republicans of “lying about the security of our ballots.”
The former first lady said the response by Democrats should be to show up in massive numbers, and to take precautions to ensure that votes are counted.
She cautioned against protest votes, saying, “This is not the time to withhold our votes in protest or play games with candidates who have no chance of winning.”
“We have got to vote like we did in 2008 and 2012,” she said, referring to Democratic turnout, particularly in the African American community, that swept her husband into office.
Obama implored Democrats to vote early, “in person if we can,” or else to request mail-in ballots well in advance, and then to “follow up to make sure they’re received.” For those going to the polls, she said voters should be prepared to “stand in line all night if we have to.”
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On Monday night, Sanders — a leader of the primaries’ progressive wing and Biden’s foil throughout the campaign — made the case for his longtime colleague.
“To everyone who supported other candidates in the primary and to those who may have voted for Donald Trump in the last election. The future of our democracy is at stake. The future of our economy is at stake. The future of our planet is at stake,” Sanders said. “We must come together, defeat Donald Trump and elect Joe Biden and Kamala D. Harris as our next president and vise president. My friends, the price of failure is just too great to imagine.”
Sanders, who differed with Biden on his vision for health care, the scale of a plan to combat climate change, the feasibility of free college and more, said Biden will begin working to implement necessary change on Day 1. He noted Biden’s support for raising the minimum wage and for paid family leave. He said Biden will make child care and pre-K learning more affordable for all families. And he said Biden’s plan will move the country to 100 percent clean energy for the next 15 years.
As for health care, an issue on which Sanders has been uncompromising in his support for Medicare-for-all, the senator from Vermont admitted that he and Biden disagree on the path to ensuring all American have access to health insurance. But he said Biden’s plan will nevertheless expand access to health care and lower prescription drug prices, and that his platform will lead to progress in the criminal justice system, too.
“Joe Biden will end the hate and division Trump has created,” Sanders said. “He will stop the demonization of immigrants, the coddling of white nationalists, the racist dog-whistling, the religious bigotry and the ugly attacks on women.”
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Sen. Bernie Sanders hailed the success of his “movement” and said it must serve the cause of warding off authoritarianism in the United States.
“We need an unprecedented response — a movement like never before of people who are prepared to stand up and fight for democracy and decency and against greed, oligarchy and bigotry,” the independent from Vermont said. “And we need Joe Biden as our next president.”
Sanders thanked his supporters, in this cycle and four years ago, and said their energy had helped make many of his ideas mainstream. “If Donald Trump is reelected, all of the progress we have made will be in jeopardy,” the senator said…
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Actress Eva Longoria, who is hosting the first night of the Democratic National Convention, is perhaps best known for her role in the ABC dramedy “Desperate Housewives.” But Longoria, the first of four celebrity emcees for this week’s virtual convention, is also a longtime Democratic activist who is hardly a stranger to the campaign trail or the convention stage.
Back in 2012, the Texas-born Mexican American actress was a co-chair of President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign, raising money and endorsing his campaign in a convention speech in Charlotte. Two years later, Longoria, who runs a private foundation aimed at expanding opportunities for Latinas, helped found the Latino Victory Project aimed at expanding Hispanic political participation as well as a related political action committee aimed at boosting Hispanic candidates….
Note…
Michelle Obama’s speech was recorded BEFORE Kamala Harris was announced as Biden’s Vice President pick…
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“My dad was a healthy 65-year-old. His only preexisting condition was trusting Donald Trump, and for that, he paid with his life.”
— Kristen Urquiza, who lost her father to COVID-19, quoted by ABC News.
Meanwhile, the St. Louis couple who pulled guns on the BLM protestors will speak at the GOP convention.
And Kristi Noem, the SD governor who refused to mandate mask wearing and who hosted a super-spreader event in SD will also speak.
Why does today’s GOP continue to surprise me?
Their neighbors will be happy that they are gone for a few days at least.
Everyone who lives around them–including a synogogogue–has had it with their antics over the years.
So iS this just The GOP message that people have the right to bear arms – or is it A signal that is far more sinister than that?
Not responsibly bearing arns. Did you see how Mrs.McCkoskey waved that gun around?
This is just taking advantage of a walking internet meme’s waning popularity.
This checks all the boxes, she was pointing her gun at black people.
I hope she doesn’t wear that shirt with the mustard stain.
Keith, I think they probably had a few drinks at the Racquet Club up the street before deciding to go all Commando on the protesters who were just walking through. True, the street was private property in that it is “owned” by a few dozen families who live on that and an adjacent street.
They’ll be a hit at the Republican Convention.
Republicans revel in “characters.”
Who can forget “Joe the Plumber?”
Jeez! Forgot about Joe the (non) Plumber.
I hear he had a website with some, uh, “interesting” views.
The McCloskeys aren’t ideologues that I know of. They donated to both McCaskill and Eric Greitens I think. They are Just ambulance chasers seeking to milk their 15 minutes of fame.
Ken and Karen are the perfect emblems for the Republicans. Preserve “the culture”, by any means necessary. Someone pointed out, imagine a Black couple doing the same thing to White militia coming down their street.
Interestingly, the perfect emblem for the Democrats is the Gold Star father Khizr Khan who raises the Constitution in his hand instead of a gun.
Miles Taylor, former Chief of Staff to Kirstjen Nielsen at DHS, had an opinion piece yesterday in the Washington Post on how he saw first hand how dangerous Trump is for the U.S. He may be the highest-ranking former Trump official to endorse Biden, which he did on Monday.
Actually RE?
There are about a dozen books out that detail how fucked up Trump is….
There will be more after he’s out of office….
“This format really does distill the modern Convention to its infomercial essence ,instead of going through the symbolic trappings of pretending they still serves the coordination and decision- making functions of the 19th century conventions.”
Matt Glassman,Georgetown University Political Science Professor