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  • #1

    Democratic Convention

    Are y'all going to watch any of it?

    The speakers that I'm going to make an effort to watch are Obama, Edwards, Kerry, (Bill) Clinton, Dean, Sharpton, Sweeney, and Richardson.

    I have to wonder, though, if the convention's going to give Kerry any bounce. I mean, how many undecideds or leaners are actually going to watch the convention?

    The Clintons are going to speak tonight (as well as Gore, Carter, and others).

    This'll be the first convention that I'm going to watch a significant portion of.
    "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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    Why? What's interesting about coronation affairs?
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    • #3
      I'm not going to watch it, but these conventions do have some impact.

      If Kerry doesn't get a substantial bump, he should be disappointed. They're spending a fortune on it, after all. And if he can't move anybody with several days of free prime time advertising, then what good are the tens of millions of dollars he has on hand? The race would come down to how much he is spending on get out the vote drives.
      I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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      • #4
        Why? What's interesting about coronation affairs?


        To hear some rising starts in the party that I haven't heard much of before (Obama, Richardson), hear some interesting speeches (Edwards, Clinton, Sharpton), and to hear the agenda for the campaign and the party (Kerry, Dean).

        If Kerry doesn't get a substantial bump, he should be disappointed.


        This is no normal campaign. I'd be suprised if Kerry gets a bounce of more than a few points.
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        • #5
          I want to see Dean and Gore start screaming. Apparently, Gore will rant about the Florida election scandal again. It should be hilarious!
          'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.'"
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          • #6
            "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
            -Bokonon

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            • #7
              This is no normal campaign.
              It's a political campaign like any other. If he only gets a few point bump, after spending tens of millions of dollars and getting hours of free advertising, his candidacy is dead in the water.
              I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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              • #8
                A week of Reagan worship didn't do much. A week of (mostly good) Edwards coverage didn't do much. I'd say that the numbers are going to move five points, max. And even then, I doubt the bounce would be all that permanent.
                "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
                -Bokonon

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                • #9
                  Has anyone caught a glimpse of any of the prostitutes? I saw a quick shot of Ted Kennedy but he's the only one I've seen so far.

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                  • #10
                    THis is just a bunch of Bush Bashers in one place who have no platform, no strategy, and no chance in hell of accomplishing any 'cept making Kerry talk out of both sides of his face...

                    Yeah, I'm gonna watch it. Should be the funniest reality show of the season!!!

                    I hear they wanted to call it Big Caucus... but Kerry couldn't stop laughing, and it made his wife blush.
                    Monkey!!!

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                    • #11
                      Has anyone caught a glimpse of any of the prostitutes? I saw a quick shot of Ted Kennedy but he's the only one I've seen so far.


                      They're all getting ready for the Republican covention.
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Japher
                        but Kerry couldn't stop laughing, and it made his wife blush.
                        Did her face turn the color of Heinz catsup?

                        Okay, that was bad. I admit it.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Japher
                          THis is just a bunch of Bush Bashers in one place who have no platform, no strategy, and no chance in hell of accomplishing any 'cept making Kerry talk out of both sides of his face...

                          I heard quite the opposite. The main theme was to NOT bash Bush, but more of a "getting to know Kerry" convention.

                          Anyway, what time do the Clintons speak?
                          "Perhaps a new spirit is rising among us. If it is, let us trace its movements and pray that our own inner being may be sensitive to its guidance, for we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around us." --MLK Jr.

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                          • #14
                            It's a little odd that a candidate still has to define himself this late in the game.
                            I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
                            For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by DinoDoc
                              It's a little odd that a candidate still has to define himself this late in the game.
                              Kerry's has defined himself so often, he probably has to figure out which definition he wants to actually use.
                              'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.'"
                              G'Kar - from Babylon 5 episode "Z'ha'dum"

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