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Convention highlights:

edited September 2012
1) Malia is so tall! Yeah! Teenagers in the White House!

2) "If you turn away now – if you buy into the cynicism that the change we fought for isn't possible…well, change will not happen. If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void: lobbyists and special interests; the people with the $10 million checks who are trying to buy this election and those who are making it harder for you to vote; Washington politicians who want to decide who you can marry, or control health care choices that women should make for themselves.

"Only you can make sure that doesn't happen. Only you have the power to move us forward."

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  • 3) Description of Bush era as "blustering and blundering"!
  • 4) a convention as diverse as my neighborhood.
  • edited September 2012
    There is no such thing as clean coal.

    Hated the Bin Laden is dead / got justice shee.

    We used to do trials.

    I'm looking forward to voting for a president that wants to bring those back someday.

    Put Paul Ryan out of a job, donate to Rob Zerban, his opponent in Wisconsin.

    Would be nice not to have a Republican House of Representatives.
  • edited September 2012
    It's true, clean coal is bogus, but it's a myth that delivers PA. Ethanol isn't really a thing either but it comes up every year there's an Iowa primary. These things are quirks of a weird system.

    When you grade american presidents, you're always grading on a curve.
  • edited September 2012
    As usual, Chris Hayes has an awesome series of panels on his tv show this morning recapping the realpolitik of the Dem convention.

    Click on one of the talking heads to launch the player. If I had only one piece of political media every week it would be these programs he puts together each Sat and Sunday morning. (Hmm. Maybe that's two pieces of media. Hmm.) Diverse panels socially and ideologically, whipsmart critique and theorizing. Cool stuff.

    Today's session had the effect of making me appreciate the Dems maybe an eensy bit more. Much of the Hayes discussion is about how Dems seem to have finally come out on the offensive in the culture wars after decades of ceding ground.

    Still probably voting for the Green Pres candidate, Jill Stein, to help them continue to draw federal election funds during the presidential cycle. I think alternatives are healthy.
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