SubscribeThe Hive - 1st Night Of Dem Convention
It seems like a good idea to provide a place for us to kvetch retch comment on the first night of the Democrat Convention.
As always, please keep the discourse on a level you would not mind having your sainted mother read.
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August 25th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Testing 123 ….
Testing 123…..
August 25th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Yea A Michigan woman with The Mackinaw Bridge for a hat ;)
August 25th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Watching Fox here–looks like lotsa seats available.
Batting leadoff, swinging from the left, Howard Dean. avg .000
August 25th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
This will leave a mark!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....gspot.com/
August 25th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
If they can make you write bad checks ….
http://tinyurl.com/6muumw
Will the votes be next ?
August 25th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Their convention always reminds me of the bar room scene from Star Wars. A gathering of life’s misfits.
August 25th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
“Their convention always reminds me of the bar room scene from Star Wars. A gathering of life’s misfits.”
Certainly the speaker line-up doesn’t do anything to counter that analogy.
Dean, Pelosi, Carter, Kennedy, Michelle…
Sheesh.
August 25th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
On that subj, why would anyone cheer Jimmy Carter — like they just did?
Is it that they are relieved he is no longer President?
August 25th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Busting out the race card right away, aren’t they?
August 25th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Michelle Malkin is reporting there’s a riot at the Denver City Center.
Please - tell me again why we’re supposed to take these people’s demands for “peace” seriously? They’re the most violent, unhinged people ever. http://michellemalkin.com/2008.....-the-mint/
They also tried - through “magic” to levitate and destroy the US Mint there. Hilarious. A bunch of Harry Potter wannabes attempting to levitate a building.
August 25th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Switching back and forth between CNN and FOX. John Kerry was curiously cool in his remarks about Obama. Teraaaayza looked loaded, as usual.
Caroline Kennedy talking about how great Teddy is was pretty rich. The Kennedys had laws changed to protect their family fortune. They live in protected enclaves and travel in private jets (sorry about that, John-John) and when “Uncle Teddy” felt a little weak, you can bet he was picked up by a private helicopter and taken to the best hospital in the country. It’s just too much to hear her getting all dewy eyed about how great her uncle is for all he’s done for the “little people.”
August 25th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Here is a live web cam shot of the area where the “riot” is supposed to be happening:
http://tinyurl.com/6jgfca
As usual, the action outside the convention if far more interesting than what is going on inside.
August 25th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
“Caroline Kennedy talking about how great Teddy is was pretty rich.”
Not to mention all of the careers/lives that he destroyed with his character assassination — starting with (but far from ending with) Robert Bork.
August 25th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Though it is truly moving to see how Michelle’s father taught their family to “give back” and improve the world.
And then see her brother come out, who is a basketball coach.
August 25th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
That is a great shot sg especially when the helicopter shines the light and the cops saying get out of the street …Crowd is chanting …Stop me I’m having a flash back …and I wasn’t even in Chicago
August 25th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
I’m sick of Michelle already.
August 25th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
I think she’s acting
August 25th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
ALERT:
Mrs Obama: I love this country
who knew?
August 25th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Laura Petrie She’s whinnie cooper She’s everywoman
August 25th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
See, that’s the way she is. See?
And, see, Barack is gonna do the same thing for us that he did for South Chicago — see?
Who wouldn’t want a nation like South Chicago? See?
That’s the way the world should be. See?
August 25th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
When do we hear from his brother living in the hut?
August 25th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Im Verclempt
August 25th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
I think the message we are to take from her “speech” is that the only achievements in history have come from marching and making demands — women’s suffrage and DOCTOR King.
And the only real workers in the world are people like her father, who was paid $57,000 a year in 1970 to stare at a water pump because he was a ward healer/vote harvester for the Daley machine.
Did I miss any other great life lessons?
August 25th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
BO looked just like a black Alfred E. Newman.
Carl Cameron just said “Sweetness & Light”!
August 25th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
I definitely saw the Laura Petrie thing. Laura Petrie hair, dress, slightly excited mannerisms, etc. But now on FOX they’re congratulating her for having mentioned “our men and women in uniform.” I guess they didn’t notice that she only brought them up to say we needed to welcome them home with psychiatric care. As if to say, they must have been crazy to be in the service in the first place.
August 25th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
“Carl Cameron just said “Sweetness & Light”!”
He plugs the site a lot — if only subconsciously.
August 25th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
“Block by block”?
First of all, you don’t walk in those neighborhoods — it’s too dangerous.
So, how many people did he help? Not many. He had a chance to help his half-brother, whom he met on at least two occasions, but he didn’t. Why should he help a bunch of crack addicts on the south side of Chicago?
“Neighborhoods where steel mills shut down”?!
By the time Obama got to Chicago in the early 1990s, there wasn’t much heavy industry on south side. The steel mills, those that didn’t shut down in the period from the late 1960s to early 1980s, were primarily in places like Harvey, Gary, Hammond, etc. There was a Ford stamping plant, but that’s obviously a union shop. Northeast Indiana was much more accommodating to these types of industries for various reasons, i.e. less unionized, fewer regulations, stronger labor pool, etc.
What plagued the south side of Chicago during the early 1990s was the crack epidemic, and Obama had little to do with that, unless we find out he actually dealt cocaine, which isn’t completely out of the question, at least at some point earlier in his young adulthood.
What Michelle didn’t say was that when she met him, he was an aspiring politician on the make — that’s why he didn’t take the big money job out of Harvard. She came across as very insincere.
August 25th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
“What Michelle didn’t say was that when she met him, he was an aspiring politician on the make — that’s why he didn’t take the big money job out of Harvard.”
Specifically, Michelle said that Obama didn’t go work on Wall Street. She hates capitalism, don’t you know.
But why would Wall Street have hired him? Except perhaps as a affirmative action token.
Meanwhile, I’m looking around for someone to “mentor” me so that I can get “empowered,” so that I can “empower” others to “volunteer.”
Apparently that’s where the real money is. What was Michelle making “empowering” people at the U of C hospital — $350K?
That’s the kind of “empowering” I’m looking for — see?
August 26th, 2008 at 12:23 am
Ah, come on, gang. Obama helped Chicago. It would have a lot less run down, boarded up buildings if it wasn’t for Obama and his buddy, Tony Rezko. And think of all that money you would have just wasted if it hadn’t been that the government needed your tax money to fund the failed Chicago Annenburg Council. And beisides, all those crack dealers that the kids in his district had to walk by on their way to school needed somewhere to hang out and deal. What did you expect them to do? Go to his tony Hyde Park neighborhood to earn their living?
And what about all those bills written by Obama that he managed to get passed? Never heard of them? That’s odd. To hear him tell it, he was responsible for campaign finance reform, better benefits for veterans, parting the seas and bring the light down upon us.
Funny, the last time I was in D.C. I didn’t see a sign hanging on the gates of the White House saying “Snake Oil Saleman Wanted”.
August 26th, 2008 at 6:18 am
“ONLY IN AMERICA: the Legend of Barack Obama” delivers A Special Convention Message from President Obama!
Dear Friends
It’s been a great Convention so far, hasn’t it? You bet it has! Did you see Ted Kennedy’s speech? The team in Robotics did a great job on him - the speech and arm movements matched up perfectly, kind of. You’d have almost thought he was human!
Weren’t my kids adorable? Some politicians selfishly exploit their children but as I told the worldwide television audience, I’d never do that. They’re such sweet kids and I really miss spending time with them –they grow up so fast – but as I explained to the girls on the phone Mommy and Daddy are too busy fulfilling their destiny right now so they’ll just have to raise themselves. They were fine with that positive message and of course they can see me on TV anytime, so that’s the kids all taken care of.
We’re off to a great start and they’ll be a shining array of Democratic superstars coming your way over the next couple of days – what a glittering galaxy of talent! Hillary ‘n’ Bill, Al Gore, John Kerry, Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, Jimmy Carter, John Edwards (oops –scratch that last one).
Then it’ll be my turn at Thursday’s torchlight rally. I’ll be sharing my positive message of Hope and Change to American and the world. I’ll be telling the ordinary people, you know, the ones still clinging to their outdated value system and their phallus-substitute guns and worshipping their primitive sky god, that they don’t have anything to fear from me because I’m a different color to the Presidents on the paper money (I’m not green) or because I have a funny-sounding name (did you know that “Barack Hussein Obama” means “George Washington” in Arabic? Neither did I).
I’ll reassure those knuckle-dragging yokels that I’ll be a President for all Americans, not just the smart, good-looking ones who’ve gone to Harvard like me and that I want to spend every day making life better for America.
And I do! I want to tuck America into bed and fluff up America’s pillows, I want to give America a foot rub, I want to tell America it looks nice and that its bum doesn’t look big in that. I want to enfold America and the world in my sinewy arms and give it a great big hug and…hey, guess what? News flash! My media pals just told me that some racist nut job’s been arresting for plotting to kill me. What a coincidence, huh? Gosh - now they’re saying that the Reichstag’s on fire!
I’ll get back to you with more details soon. Until then, have a great Convention Week!
Your pal
President Barack
August 26th, 2008 at 8:50 am
I watched about as much of Michelle’s speech as I could stomach, then turned the channel to something less revolting: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. It was about the same as the ‘rat convention: A bunch of outlaws trying to backstab each other and make money in the process, only the acting was better.
August 26th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Some guy called in to Laura Ingraham and said that a section of Michelle My Belle’s speech was lifted from the movie 300.
I guess this means that Biden is already helping out.
August 26th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Watching the speech this morning, she bites her lower lip as much as Slick used to. The head shaking as she recalls some personal anecdote, entirely without verisimilitude, the pursed lips at the end of a paragraph, the finger wagging introductions to the next thought–obviously she took little direction in her preparation.
I though she was off-putting, in the typical self-absorbed fashion of today. The idea that she left the “big law firm for a job in public service”, that instead of going to Wall Street hubby was more interested in providing “hope for the community” is the same self-serving banality of all these dem pols. Why can’t she just admit the Wall Street crackers wouldn’t give him a job, so he came back to make a name for himself at home? So much for “keeping it real.”
The C-span feed showed a few tears in the audience but really not that many. I wonder how it played for the Hill-bots?
August 26th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
I heard from someone say they saw the Hillbots in the audience - they were stone cold to Michelle. They held up no signs, they sat on their hands.
August 26th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Did anyone notice that the mention of Hillary’s name got louder applause than any of the speakers at the Convention? Tonight should be interesting!
MO’s speech was so dull. If you had any doubt that they are running for President and First Lady of the World………………..
I was expecting MO to break out and start singing “We Are the World, We Are the Chilren”. LOL
August 27th, 2008 at 7:40 am
Ted Kennedy…Ted freakin’ Kennedy…the UK Independent has a front page story and an editorial today (www.independent.co.uk) that are absolutely dripping with hot love juice over Ted’s “electrifying” appearance on the first night of the Convention. Well, it was electrifying in the sense that they probably had to hook him up to a galvanic battery to make him move but otherwise the whole thing made me angry and sick.
Look at him, this bloated, alcoholic lecher, tottering on his hind legs, barely able to stand, let alone walk, barking and howling at us: “The hope rises again! The dream begins anew!” he bawls and the crowd goes wild! They lap it up! The media swoon with pleasure and I sit there wondering what kind of people cheer and applaud this man? What kind of party has him as its elder statesman? Is there some collective amnesia at work and we’re all supposed to forget all the bad, bad things that family has done over the years? Are we supposed to forget that, at the least, he’s guilty of manslaughter? How do the Kopechne family feel when they see Ted braying and swaying and lecturing us about “values”? Do they remember the terrified girl he left gasping for air in an upside down car as the dark, cold water rose around her? Does anyone?
What’s the matter with us? In a sane society that man would be shunned, an object of disgust, someone not fit to mix with decent people. Instead he’s feted and honored –why? He never said sorry, he never admitted anything, he lied and he kept lying and still, for some people, he’s a hero. I watched him and I remembered what the old German Jewish painter Max Liebermann said as he watched the Nazis parade through the streets of Berlin when Hitler took power in 1933: “I couldn’t eat as much as I want to throw up”.
August 27th, 2008 at 7:59 am
-’“Barack stood up that day, and spoke words that have stayed with me ever since. He talked about “The world as it is” and “The world as it should be.’- Hmmm. now doesn’t that sound vaguely familiar?
Try this -’Some people see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not?’- Robert F. Kennedy (George Bernard Shaw orginated it). . .
Biden must be working overtime (and upping the antie to ‘the world’ rather than just America)
I would have prefered anyone in the DNC have used this RFK quote (you know it is the anniversary of his assassination too):
-’The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use — of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public’-