Nancy Pelosi looks like she spent more time on her appearance and outfit then she has on the investigation into why the hell we went to war and what we need to do about it. Wake up. Impeach these treasonous criminals.

All these questions are about division and Hillary Clinton. Who's feeding these reporters these questions, if anyone? And I can bet that they ask the Republicans about America and the best path for America, while they ask the Democrats about trivial issues that do nothing but divide and spur on controversy. Two different standards. I hope Obama can see that and crush it. Peace.

Just saw you on Washingtonpost.com and now checking out the blog. Looks cool, I will stay tuned.

" Stay Loose, Stay Positive." ~ good advice.

NBC reports, "Daddy Yankee supports McCain!"

Who the F is Daddy Yankee?

Chuck Todd admits that the "angry Hillary supporter" meme is probably overblown...as Hillary basically tells McCain STFU.

Orangutan. @ 4:

All these questions are about division and Hillary Clinton. Who's feeding these reporters these questions, if anyone? And I can bet that they ask the Republicans about America and the best path for America, while they ask the Democrats about trivial issues that do nothing but divide and spur on controversy. Two different standards. I hope Obama can see that and crush it. Peace.

Drudge.

Hillary's going to whup some Republican ass in her speech this week. This should be fun. In the NBC clip, she looked like she meant business.

L.A. Time Website - Today.

"Outside her Bel-Air home, Nancy Reagan stood arm in arm with John McCain and offered a significant -- but less than exuberant -- endorsement.

'Ronnie and I always waited until everything was decided, and then we endorsed,' the Republican matriarch said in March. 'Well, obviously this is the nominee of the party.' They were the only words she would speak during the five-minute photo op."

Just gotta love it. Reagan waited until to see what idiot they picked, then endorsed him. Its that "the party thing". Didn't matter who it was. great bumper sticker "Our candidate, no matter how bad"

Fucking idiots.

Pelosi was a very poor opener, but the size of the place almost defies any control yet.

From the picture, I thought this was the MTV music awards... Does everything have to be sensationalized to the Nth degree?

Nice of the Dems to totally shaft Linux users on the video streams. You could've used Flash, but you had to dick around with Microsoft Silverlight. Thanks, assholes.

Tim @ 16:

From the picture, I thought this was the MTV music awards... Does everything have to be sensationalized to the Nth degree?

watch cspan

baby jesus has a bad feeling about this convention

Ruthless People @ 17:

I kept hoping for one of those big vaudeville canes to reach out from the side of the stage and yank Pelosi from the podium.

I was SURE she would be booed. I would have booed her. She's a disgrace to this country and the Constitution.

And now every person in that Convention Center who cheered her on is too.

An Unconventional Conversation With Crooks And Liars John Amato (VIDEO)

thanks to huffpo

Tim @ 16:

From the picture, I thought this was the MTV music awards... Does everything have to be sensationalized to the Nth degree?

Yes, unfortunately. Dems have brought enough knives to enough gunfights. In the battle for the morons who still can't decide between candidates as wildly different as McCain and Obama, we need all the 'zazz we can get. Everyone halfway intelligent has figured this out one way or the other by now. We've gotta fight for the ones who aren't halfway intelligent.

CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 1:

the pathetic pelosi speaking?
yecchhh!!!!!

Yes. Cover your ears, her dentures whistle and clack into the microphone while she's speaking. Gah.....

Memo to Joe Scarborough:

Shut The Fuck UP. Go back to Florida. REPENT for that dead intern. Dig a hole... jump in... cover yourself up.

5:55 pm (PST):

Stop the crappy music!

classic, timeless and priceless: the media being confronted

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmj6JADOZ-8

and they are worse in 2008

watch it live here

http://gallery1.demconvention.com/#

http://www.c-span.org

Well, I guess since we're not seeing any "demonstrators" outside by the MSM (or CSPAN), perhaps John Amato would give us a little live coverage of what's going on OUTSIDE the convention??

Are those wonderful Denver "free-speech zone jails" beginning to get filled up yet?

Any news from outside folks?!

Rachel Maddow just reported a few minutes ago that the moron Clinton delegate who just made the McCain ad was asked at a news conference today: "You say you are a pro-choice Democrat. How can you then support McCain?"

Doh! It turns out she thought McCain was pro-choice based on a 1999 quote from him.

Hoo-boy... I can see the Obama campaign or at least bloggers getting a lot of mileage out of this. I hope somebody gets that video up.

The MSNBC online feed keeps freezing. I have to refresh the browser and guess what?

It plays yet another ad before returning to the convention.

Forget this.

"There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear." - Ted Turner founder of CNN

And my guess is that the Republican Party is their party of choice because no regulations are good for their shareholders who are the only people these companies are loyal too. Who is representing the American people??

Abbybwood @ 42:

Well, I guess since we're not seeing any "demonstrators" outside by the MSM (or CSPAN), perhaps John Amato would give us a little live coverage of what's going on OUTSIDE the convention??

Are those wonderful Denver "free-speech zone jails" beginning to get filled up yet?

Any news from outside folks?!

watch faux news...they are portraying the "crazies"

Anyone hear about the private party AT&T put on for the Blue Dogs? Press not allowed (gee, I wonder why), and the attendees feigned ignorance and had the police move reporters completely away from the event.

AT&T is heavily subsidizing the full convention by the way. A reward for voting for telecom immunity...

John J @ 45:

Average Joe @ 41:

The media and rethugs would keep on saying "nobody knows who Barack Obama is" until November 4th. I'm so sick of that bullshit.

No one knows McCain

The New Republic, in an editor's note now online, writes that "a refresher lesson" is needed for "our brothers and sisters in political journalism."

While the press has devoted countless stories to dissecting Obama's basketball game, all the cocktail parties he ever graced in Hyde Park, and every vote he cast as a state senator, large tracts of McCain's record have been untouched by reporters. There have been stunningly few stories revisiting the wild vicissitudes of McCain's recent political career. Less than five years ago, McCain was basically spearheading the Democratic agenda in the Senate--from taxes to government reform--and then, in a flash, he abandoned most of these progressive positions when he decided to run for the Republican nomination in 2008. What does that say about the man? Most voters don't know, because most voters haven't read about this period in the newspaper or heard about it on television. And there are plenty of other parts of the McCain record that reporters have skated past on their way to discovering Obama's long-lost half-brother or some other triviality.

How do we get this into the MSM? Ideas? (Serious ones.) We have the stump...this is our week to do it.

Abbybwood @ 42:

Well, I guess since we're not seeing any "demonstrators" outside by the MSM (or CSPAN), perhaps John Amato would give us a little live coverage of what's going on OUTSIDE the convention??

Are those wonderful Denver "free-speech zone jails" beginning to get filled up yet?

Any news from outside folks?!

Yes. I want to know this too. What is the perspective out there. Thanks.

miss_kitty @ 55:

Otay @ 52:

Anyone hear about the private party AT&T put on for the Blue Dogs? Press not allowed (gee, I wonder why), and the attendees feigned ignorance and had the police move reporters completely away from the event.

AT&T is heavily subsidizing the full convention by the way. A reward for voting for telecom immunity...

Well, why I'm voting for Nader. This is as disturbing as the bullshit gets. Before you go off all half-cocked on me-I live in a sure thing Democratic state. No matter who I vote for, Obama will take the electoral votes. And sadly, that's all that counts in this country.

I live in the same type of state (California), so the temptation is there for me. I'm just so disgusted with this crap. But then again perhaps it's only my perspective that needs to change. Maybe "change" to politicians means "spare pocket change".

To much attention on Ted.

Hmmm, the fundy nutcases' prayers for torrential, flooding rain to cancel out the Democratic National Convention seem to have caused it to torrentially rain upon the bible belt. Did their prayers backfire because they don't understand something as elitist as geography, or because they tempted the lord and he smote them with rain?

Who got Best Actor?

gueuzeman @ 57:

From the picture, I thought this was the MTV music awards… Does everything have to be sensationalized to the Nth degree?

Shiny commercial skin and charming digital gizmos.

No. 44 @ 46:

The MSNBC online feed keeps freezing. I have to refresh the browser and guess what?

It plays yet another ad before returning to the convention.

Forget this.

http://www.c-span.org

Choose the RealPlayer feed .. no freezing ..

So THAT's what happened to the set from the Donny and Marie show!

Does anybody for a minute doubt Teddy Kennedy will be on the Senate floor in January? What a speech.

More pseudo democracy.

Read Glenn Greenwald here

I just thought that Edward Kennedy with his illness spoke far better than McSame who isn't unwell

Ruthless People @ 75:

Latest poll Obama leads McNasty 47% - 41% http://news.yahoo.com/story//ap/20080805/ap_on_el_pr/presidential_race_ap_poll

I thought this poll was dated Aug 5.

Iowa's former Republican Congressman Jim Leach's endorsement of Obama was an amazing speech.

Anybody else rather unimpressed with things so far? Nothing so far has communicated the "urgency of now" or seemed to generate any real excitement in the crowd there (or at home). Pick it up, Dems!

I am sorry but tonights convention was lame. People are not going to be passionate about Obama watching a bunch of people dance in the aisles.

The democrats need to be much much more negative and go after Mccain and the last 8 years of the Bush administration.

If they don't aggressively go after the republican's policies they will lose.

oehlberg @ 35:

The DNC is sponsored by AT&T after they gave them immunity in the FISA bill. They even had a special party for the blue dogs, who are the easiest to corrupt.

let the good times roll!

I LOVE Rachel Maddow.

She finally said what needed to be said......McCain using his POW experience to deflect every single question has gotten very old. Keith Olbermann also shut Pat Buchanan up with letting him know that the Repug crap that is supposed to be working is working so well, Obama now leads in a poll McCain had lead in for most of the summer.

And Pat Buchanan........this asshole said it is an Amercian success story to come home, divorce your first wife for another woman, marry into her millions and not know how many houses you have.

Why does MSNBC keep using this idiot?!

Jon @ 84:

I am sorry but tonights convention was lame. People are not going to be passionate about Obama watching a bunch of people dance in the aisles.

Yeah, nothing like the '28 convention when the FIRST NIGHT of the convention featured Cranston P. Thicket on his unicycle. Or the FIRST NIGHT of the '48 convention, with it's "Stilt Walking Uncle Sams for Truman"! Those were some amazing FIRST NIGHTS!

Did I mention that this is the FIRST NIGHT of the convention?

honestly, i wish i could get excited, but i cant

the pick of biden has left me underwhelmed and scratching my head

already, the wingnuts are going back to the 88 campaign when joe acted like a total ass

already they are attacking him as being wrong on foreign policy

i know that they woulda attacked anyone put on the ticket...but this is like shooting ducks in a barrell

as for the hillary supporters...get a frackin grip....your candidate ran a campaign based on everything being over as of super tuesday...when it wasnt, she and the campaign imploded....cant run a campaign, cant run a country

uncle joe mccarthy @ 92:

honestly, i wish i could get excited, but i cant

the pick of biden has left me underwhelmed and scratching my head

already, the wingnuts are going back to the 88 campaign when joe acted like a total ass

already they are attacking him as being wrong on foreign policy

i know that they woulda attacked anyone put on the ticket...but this is like shooting ducks in a barrell

as for the hillary supporters...get a frackin grip....your candidate ran a campaign based on everything being over as of super tuesday...when it wasnt, she and the campaign imploded....cant run a campaign, cant run a country

Biden's gonna be the smiling pit bull, Uncle Joe. And he's a concession to traditional Democratic voters. The talking heads like him more than they like McCain, so maybe the MSM will stop handling McPOW with kid gloves. And Biden doesn't come across as a phony at all- to me at least. I have a reservation or two, but I like the pick.

Otay @ 87:

Rasputin,

thanks.

No worries... I aim to please.

Cripes, this woman can speak. I'm almost ready to vote for Mrs. Obama.

Live Coverage of the Convention. No commercials, few breaks and no corporate slant!
Get on the H.O.R.N.
The Head On Radio Network.

Ted Kicked Ass! Gotta love a legend!

Michelle !!!

StirFry @ 99:

carefulwiththatAXEeugene @ 95:

there's a weird flashing "alert" on faux news

A strong, compassionate, intelligent black woman is speaking right now to America. It's a real emergency to the bitters.

it's a red alert too.

The Obama family. What a bunch of sweethearts.

Andy K Jong Il @ 94:

uncle joe mccarthy @ 92:

honestly, i wish i could get excited, but i cant

the pick of biden has left me underwhelmed and scratching my head

already, the wingnuts are going back to the 88 campaign when joe acted like a total ass

already they are attacking him as being wrong on foreign policy

i know that they woulda attacked anyone put on the ticket...but this is like shooting ducks in a barrell

as for the hillary supporters...get a frackin grip....your candidate ran a campaign based on everything being over as of super tuesday...when it wasnt, she and the campaign imploded....cant run a campaign, cant run a country

Biden's gonna be the smiling pit bull, Uncle Joe. And he's a concession to traditional Democratic voters. The talking heads like him more than they like McCain, so maybe the MSM will stop handling McPOW with kid gloves. And Biden doesn't come across as a phony at all- to me at least. I have a reservation or two, but I like the pick.

ok....wait till they play his tirade from that nh diner back in 88

the one where he fibs about his education

el druggo, hannity, lufa boy and all the fringe nuts will be running it ad infinitum

that and the plagiarism stuff....

i dont care that it was 20 years ago...shoot, even i remember those incidents without being reminded

so he can play pit bull....so could sebilious and/or webb

and look, picking him caused those pumaites to go apeshit...wtf is wrong with those people? dems for mccain??? who is really behind puma...where is the money coming from?

i saw one statement from a black pumaite, where she said, "obama is an african american, i am a black american with slave roots....he doesnt know me"... and some old white woman does???

if this party fucks up for the third time....there is no hope

S R @ 107:

Did I just imagine that, or did Obama screw up which city he was in ("Here in St. Louis") and his own daughter called him out on it? A little embarrassing, but also adorable!

he said kansas city. that's where i'm at so i heard it clearly.

oh god bill kristol is suck an idiot

Nope, I just played it back and he said, "I'm here with the Gerardo family, here in St. Louis". Then, just a minute later, "Daddy, what city are you in?" "I'm in Kansas City".

Obama's daughter FTW! That was hilarious.

Oh it's going to be on like Donkey Kong at the First Lady debates. What? There isn't a first lady debate? Dammit. Now I want one.

I am second in line for a First Lady debate.

Michelle Obama hit it out of the park tonight. And if she does have to deal with Cindy McCain in such a capacity, Cindy's mincemeat.

Robo-Cindy has had too many different types of pharmaceuticals pumped in her veins for too long over the years.

All I could think as I watched the entire Obama family tonight, is that America is at a fork in the road between Obama and McCain. And personally, I don't think I could stand four more years of Republican rule with their plastic, barbie wives sitting eeriely in the background.

Even with that being said, I am still quite saddened that they had to put Pelosi, and both the Clintons on the list to speak. You'd think with the further all three caused within the last couple of years, that they would be asked to step aside and let some others speak. :(

While tonight could be seen as some as sort of tame, it had to happen. Both Obamas have been assaulted for months by the right wingers as exotic and out of touch with the American people. So while tonight seemed kinda softball to us who want the Dems to go after McCain hardcore, it was needed to get across to middle America that the Obamas are regular folks. A real life Cosby show :).

carefulwiththatAXEeugene @ 50:

Abbybwood @ 42:

Well, I guess since we're not seeing any "demonstrators" outside by the MSM (or CSPAN), perhaps John Amato would give us a little live coverage of what's going on OUTSIDE the convention??

Are those wonderful Denver "free-speech zone jails" beginning to get filled up yet?

Any news from outside folks?!

watch faux news...they are portraying the "crazies"

Tell Faux that the Republican convention is NEXT week if they want the crazies.

Michelle's speech.....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/26399100#26398912

Cynics, beware! Even my hubbie teared up at Michelle Obama's speech tonight.

Our country has been through so much over the past 7 years. If nothing else, new people with a really forward-thinking vision deserve a shot at making things better for the future. Otherwise, it's like there's no such thing as taking turns or fair play anymore. More years of the same old despair equals a dictatorship at this point.

tyree @ 86:

oehlberg @ 35:

The DNC is sponsored by AT&T after they gave them immunity in the FISA bill. They even had a special party for the blue dogs, who are the easiest to corrupt.

let the good times roll!

There are over over 150 "parties" planned during the democratic convention sponsored by (gasp) every special interest from corporations to lobbyists to trade associations.

Sunlight Foundation is tracking them for us. Sometimes they get in to check out who's there. Sometimes they get banned.

Wow. The Dems are wallowing in corporate money (ATT gave "millions and millions...FISA thank you $$) and slopping at the Washington lobby's trough just like the old white oligarchs of the evil GOP???

Impossible. Wasn't Obama going to "change the way things are done in Washington"?

Well ok...to be fair, it is Denver.

Psych!

Jon @ 84:

I am sorry but tonights convention was lame. People are not going to be passionate about Obama watching a bunch of people dance in the aisles.

The democrats need to be much much more negative and go after Mccain and the last 8 years of the Bush administration.

If they don't aggressively go after the republican's policies they will lose.

so you have not been paying attention, either. I just want to get an idea when you'll 'switch your vote' to mcKeatingFive. Four. Three......

Otay @ 117:

carefulwiththatAXEeugene @ 112:

oh god bill kristol is suck an idiot

Bill Kristol is sucking an idiot? I didn't think he could reach that low.

nothing is too low for billy fux.

carefulwiththatAXEeugene @ 15:

juan williams is on faux crapping all over michelle obama, saying "you can't believe her, she's going to try and deceive you into thinking she's not an angry black woman"

These bastards make me sick and I pray they suffer under the Republican Crime Syndicate!

Ozymandias @ 113:

Michelle's speech was one of the best speeches I have ever heard. She's going to be an amazing first lady.

I watched the tape-delayed version on PBS. Only David Brooks dissed her speech, saying she didn't give enough personal information about Barack. All three presidential historians--Michael Beschloss and two others who are regularly on--singled that comment (and Brooks) out and said it was one of the best "spouse's" speeches they had ever heard.

As for attacking McCain, come on, folks. They can't do that yet. If they did, the press would be all over them for going negative so quickly. That ain't the family's job, anyway...unless you're the Sopranos. The press has been saying for weeks, "Michelle can't appear angry. She has to be hopeful and connect with 'real Americans.'" (I assume they mean "white" Americans.) "And the Obamas have to be gracious to the Clintons." (Maybe they'll all get together for a pool party and barbecue???)

Michelle Obama was great tonight. She hit every biographical note, every working-class theme, every "give-credit-where-credit's-due" platitude, and she still sounded both gracious and sincere. My mother and wife watched with me, and both thought she connected heavily with women in the arena. As one of the historians on PBS said, "Obama's daughters were worth half a million votes apiece."

Let Biden go after McCain. The first night is always biography.

Average Joe @ 41:

The media and rethugs would keep on saying "nobody knows who Barack Obama is" until November 4th. I'm so sick of that bullshit.

Remember they did the same shit with John Kerry.

"America doesn't know who John Kerry is"

Remember, "Who is the REAL Al Gore" line from the media.

Meanwhile NOBODY knows who the republican is until they bleed America dry!!!!

The Democrats fall for this shit EVERY FOUR YEARS from this traitorous right wing media!

I blame the Democratic leadership and strategists for letting them get away with all this.

bayville @ 125:

zzzzzzzzzzzzz...it's 2004 all over again.
Three more nights like this and its hellllooo President McSame!

I feel you!

The traitorous pundits grilling into the American electorates minds, "Who is Barak Obama"?

They did the same shit with John Kerry.

They even did the same shit with Al Gore after his 8 YEARS of being Vice President.

The media is the ENEMY that takes thier marching orders from the RNC!!!

McCAIN SHALL PREVAIL.
GOD BLESS THE WHITE RACE.

Why do racist dumbfucks ALWAYS USE CAPS?

White Doctor @ 141:

McCAIN SHALL PREVAIL.
GOD BLESS THE WHITE RACE.

Hear! Hear! God bless the clammy pale garden slug.
...and all those deficient in melanin!

asshole. really. how the fuck did you get in here?

Just beautful.

"zzzzzzzzzzzzz…it’s 2004 all over again.
Three more nights like this and its hellllooo President McSame!"

Welcome to the quadrennial "charlie brown's gonna kick the football this time" event.