J. Michael Luttig: Patriot, American hero. I would love to see him in an endorsement ad for Vice President Harris, played all day long on Fox News. It would be powerful wherever it aired.
The embedded video should be broadcast in its entirety all day long on every channel! Especially since the MAGAs are complaining that Harris has changed her opinions on some topics.
What I found so impressive last night was when Kamala's childhood friend, and her friend's mother, took the stage to talk about a bit about Kamala's childhood. Can you imagine the guts it took for those two women to stand on that stage in front of thousands of people in person, and millions on TV, to talk about their friend? It's fun to talk about the politicians who are the great speakers, but it's the regular folk who muster the courage to speak that I find inspiring.
I was 8 in 1972, when McGovern's late-night acceptance speech was televised. I remember, because I was allowed to stay up and watch it on our tiny black and white TV. That's my first political memory. After that, Nixon's resignation, and then the "Don't Blame Me, I Voted for McGovern" buttons.
For me it was the '68DNC convention when I was 13. I'm sure I had seen previous conventions, but that one was unforgettable. When I was a senior in college I got to spend an evening with Sander Vanocur, who was the floor correspondent for NBC. He regaled us students with the true and inside story that never made the telecasts. Let's just say Mayor Daley was pretty much described as Bigus Dickus both inside the convention hall and on the streets. Sander got pretty worked up, but that might have had to do with the alcohol, except I don't think so.
I was 5 in 1952 when I watched Adlai Stevenson's acceptance speech at the DNC in Chicago on a 10-inch TV set. I have been hooked ever since. I have never missed a DNC, even in the years when they became relatively meaningless. In the glory days I stayed up until the hall was cleared and the NBC floor reporters sat around and talked about what they saw. NBC had the best team of floor reporters in the history of broadcast television -- Sander Vanocur, Frank McGee, Tom Petit and John Chancellor.
They got most of the least popular prominent Democrats on stage yesterday like Hillary. Tonight’s throwback of both Obama’s is gonna help the convention and the ticket the same way Bill Clinton’s speech electrified in 2012
Least popular now of the prominent Democrats. Hillary was better than people say now back in 2016. But there hasn't been much of a heartwarming toward her from Democrats since her loss back in 2016. There's a reason they chose to get her speech out of the way at the beginning of the convention.
Whenever Trump rails about something completely out-of-line with reality (I know, there are so many), he is essentially telling you what he is up to or about to do. It is a classic sociopath move because pretending to be the person in the right disorients and distracts the listener and makes it even more confusing when they do that thing that they just said was wrong. While the normal brain is trying to work it all out, the sociopath moves on to his next wily move. I remember when he was going on and on about the danger of mail-in ballots in 2020; it really made me think at the time that the real problem for him was that mail-in ballots were too safe and increased voter turnout.
1. AOC and Jasmine Crockett should be running the entire world when Kamala is finished. Those women are dynamos. Dynamas, maybe.
2. The young woman who was pregnant at twelve should be offered a cage match with Sam Alito.
3. Andy Bashear seems really nice. KY is lucky. I’m glad he’s not the VP pick, though.
4. Watching Hillary honor and endorse the VP (and talk about Geraldine Ferraro) was a balm to us Second Wave feminists. Imagine if she’d been elected in 2016. Trump would have been nothing but a footnote, and America would never know how close it came to self-immolation.
5. Watching a great leader and such a good man say goodbye was wrenching. I hoped he would list his and the VP’s many accomplishments, and he did. I hoped he would talk about his family, and he did. I hoped he would give the VP a moving and full-throated endorsement, and he did.
He gave fifty years of his life in the service of this country. He’s walked through staggering grief and kept on serving. He’d have sat quietly in Rehoboth with his wife, surrounded by his children and his grandchildren, until he saw Charlottesville and understood that he was the person who could save the nation from Donald Trump.
Was that hubris? I guess, but I think hubris is a necessary line item in the job description. And so what? He did save us.
I was with the people weeping during his speech and the lyric at the end, spoken because he “can’t sing worth a damn,” was perfection. He definitely gave America all he had.
6. I turned to the Bulwark postgame wrap up for five minutes, a mistake I will not make again. I’m glad Bill was asleep, because he got to miss it entirely. I felt like I’d eaten cilantro. I hate cilantro.
If you watched Ted Lasso, you’ll know what Britishism I’d apply to the whole lot of them.
The Alito opinion (Dobbs) simply says the issue of abortion should be left up to the democratic process. It doesn't take sides on what the law should be.
This is a fabulous recap! I would love it if you followed this up tomorrow with Notes from Night Two! Then Three & Four!
Like Bill, I couldn't stay up to watch the entire evening, but have it taped for when I get off work tonight. I caught the recap from the Bulwark postgame wrap up and was highly disappointed as well!
Thanks for this. I was going to listen to last night's wrap up today, and won't bother. I need to watch the speeches by Hillary, AOC, Steve Kerr, and the women affected by the abortion bans. I certainly don't have time for grumbly ex-Republicans shitting on a great man.
Of all the speakers, I thought Jamie Radkin caught the new mood best, attacking Trump with humor and what can only be called glee. He looked like a man having fun.
I am waiting for someone in the Democratic Party to admit that inflation has been a real problem for many Americans, then push back on the Republican’s ridiculous assertion that it is all Biden’s/Harris’ fault. While the causes of inflation are many, a major issue was the pandemic and the reaction to it. Both the Trump and Biden administrations poured money into the economy to save us from severe recession, the Fed kept interest rates low, supply chain problems caused price increases due to supply and demand mismatches, wealthy people bought up homes to rent causing low inventory and higher prices, and all of us couldn’t wait to get out and spend money once it seemed that the disease was under control and marketing people noticed - look at the profits. You could go on, but my concern is that Trump will get away with branding Harris as the inflation queen which will be hard to overcome. Her attempts to point out the success of the economy make her seem out of touch with the very people she needs and the solutions being offered seem to me to be peripheral to the core issue. Please stop just accepting responsibility for the issue!
This is an issue that both parties have. They claim that "their economy" created jobs, was the cause of the stock market rise, etc. When they want to lay claim to the good stuff, that means they also get blamed for the bad stuff. If they were honest, they'd say something like "government spending and regulations account for maybe 10-15% of what is happening in the entire American economy and as for the rest of what's happening, we have little to no control over that because it's capitalism, baby." But they won't say that.
That was the biggest issue i had with the biden administration. They found a way to own every problem. Trumps hands were dirty on inflation too, and the fed downplayed the threat when biden was president. Instead of addressing voters economic concerns which would be the normal thing to do for democrats biden just kept playing into the "biden caused inflation, but its getting better" narrative. Same on the afghanistan pull out. Trump negotiates with the taliban and biden gets terrible advice from the pentagon. I call bs that any 2020 trump voters actually gave a f**k about the afghanistan pullout beyond its value as any other ammunition against biden. But none the less biden owned it.
The unicorn and pony perfection requirements of the Dems to ‘get’ so called swing voters in swing states is getting really annoying. I enjoyed last night and my personal joy today is continuing to watch Trump media stocks fall. Fingers crossed the ratings send his Twitter fingers into orbit.
“George McGovern took the stage on the final night of the convention at 2:48 a.m”
Prior to which amongst those nominated was Mao:) Dems letting overrun is still a gigantic improvement over those days:)
I didn't even notice the tan suit--the style or the color. I guess I'm not a fashionista.
J. Michael Luttig: Patriot, American hero. I would love to see him in an endorsement ad for Vice President Harris, played all day long on Fox News. It would be powerful wherever it aired.
Kamala looks good in a tan suit. :)
Obama really didn't pull off the tan suit, but she certainly does.
A bit off topic, but you have GOT TO SEE THIS: https://www.politicususa.com/2024/08/20/backlash-after-the-fact-checkers-gaslight-americans-to-defend-trump.html
The embedded video should be broadcast in its entirety all day long on every channel! Especially since the MAGAs are complaining that Harris has changed her opinions on some topics.
What I found so impressive last night was when Kamala's childhood friend, and her friend's mother, took the stage to talk about a bit about Kamala's childhood. Can you imagine the guts it took for those two women to stand on that stage in front of thousands of people in person, and millions on TV, to talk about their friend? It's fun to talk about the politicians who are the great speakers, but it's the regular folk who muster the courage to speak that I find inspiring.
I was 8 in 1972, when McGovern's late-night acceptance speech was televised. I remember, because I was allowed to stay up and watch it on our tiny black and white TV. That's my first political memory. After that, Nixon's resignation, and then the "Don't Blame Me, I Voted for McGovern" buttons.
For me it was the '68DNC convention when I was 13. I'm sure I had seen previous conventions, but that one was unforgettable. When I was a senior in college I got to spend an evening with Sander Vanocur, who was the floor correspondent for NBC. He regaled us students with the true and inside story that never made the telecasts. Let's just say Mayor Daley was pretty much described as Bigus Dickus both inside the convention hall and on the streets. Sander got pretty worked up, but that might have had to do with the alcohol, except I don't think so.
I remember seeing "Nixon WIns! Nixon Wins!" on the TV when I was 8 years old.
Amazing to think 1972 was when Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate. He has seen it all, hasn't he?
I was 5 in 1952 when I watched Adlai Stevenson's acceptance speech at the DNC in Chicago on a 10-inch TV set. I have been hooked ever since. I have never missed a DNC, even in the years when they became relatively meaningless. In the glory days I stayed up until the hall was cleared and the NBC floor reporters sat around and talked about what they saw. NBC had the best team of floor reporters in the history of broadcast television -- Sander Vanocur, Frank McGee, Tom Petit and John Chancellor.
They got most of the least popular prominent Democrats on stage yesterday like Hillary. Tonight’s throwback of both Obama’s is gonna help the convention and the ticket the same way Bill Clinton’s speech electrified in 2012
Hillary-least popular? I don't think so. And she showed she is a lot sharper mentally than Orange Blowhard.
Least popular now of the prominent Democrats. Hillary was better than people say now back in 2016. But there hasn't been much of a heartwarming toward her from Democrats since her loss back in 2016. There's a reason they chose to get her speech out of the way at the beginning of the convention.
About that tan suit - the Washington Post devoted a whole story to it. Oh, the horrors, the humanity! Tan-suit-gate all over again!
Whenever Trump rails about something completely out-of-line with reality (I know, there are so many), he is essentially telling you what he is up to or about to do. It is a classic sociopath move because pretending to be the person in the right disorients and distracts the listener and makes it even more confusing when they do that thing that they just said was wrong. While the normal brain is trying to work it all out, the sociopath moves on to his next wily move. I remember when he was going on and on about the danger of mail-in ballots in 2020; it really made me think at the time that the real problem for him was that mail-in ballots were too safe and increased voter turnout.
Notes from Night One:
1. AOC and Jasmine Crockett should be running the entire world when Kamala is finished. Those women are dynamos. Dynamas, maybe.
2. The young woman who was pregnant at twelve should be offered a cage match with Sam Alito.
3. Andy Bashear seems really nice. KY is lucky. I’m glad he’s not the VP pick, though.
4. Watching Hillary honor and endorse the VP (and talk about Geraldine Ferraro) was a balm to us Second Wave feminists. Imagine if she’d been elected in 2016. Trump would have been nothing but a footnote, and America would never know how close it came to self-immolation.
5. Watching a great leader and such a good man say goodbye was wrenching. I hoped he would list his and the VP’s many accomplishments, and he did. I hoped he would talk about his family, and he did. I hoped he would give the VP a moving and full-throated endorsement, and he did.
He gave fifty years of his life in the service of this country. He’s walked through staggering grief and kept on serving. He’d have sat quietly in Rehoboth with his wife, surrounded by his children and his grandchildren, until he saw Charlottesville and understood that he was the person who could save the nation from Donald Trump.
Was that hubris? I guess, but I think hubris is a necessary line item in the job description. And so what? He did save us.
I was with the people weeping during his speech and the lyric at the end, spoken because he “can’t sing worth a damn,” was perfection. He definitely gave America all he had.
6. I turned to the Bulwark postgame wrap up for five minutes, a mistake I will not make again. I’m glad Bill was asleep, because he got to miss it entirely. I felt like I’d eaten cilantro. I hate cilantro.
If you watched Ted Lasso, you’ll know what Britishism I’d apply to the whole lot of them.
The Alito opinion (Dobbs) simply says the issue of abortion should be left up to the democratic process. It doesn't take sides on what the law should be.
I think you’ve not read it.
Do you think men's bodily autonomy and access to necessary healthcare in a life-threatening emergency should be matters for voters to decide?
Should inalienable human rights be subject to "the democratic process"? Should the practice of medicine?
This is a fabulous recap! I would love it if you followed this up tomorrow with Notes from Night Two! Then Three & Four!
Like Bill, I couldn't stay up to watch the entire evening, but have it taped for when I get off work tonight. I caught the recap from the Bulwark postgame wrap up and was highly disappointed as well!
Thanks for this. I was going to listen to last night's wrap up today, and won't bother. I need to watch the speeches by Hillary, AOC, Steve Kerr, and the women affected by the abortion bans. I certainly don't have time for grumbly ex-Republicans shitting on a great man.
Please - can someone "anonymous behind the scenes" please leak that the choice of that tan suit was deliberate?
Of all the speakers, I thought Jamie Radkin caught the new mood best, attacking Trump with humor and what can only be called glee. He looked like a man having fun.
I was grateful to see him looking so good after his cancer ordeal.
I am waiting for someone in the Democratic Party to admit that inflation has been a real problem for many Americans, then push back on the Republican’s ridiculous assertion that it is all Biden’s/Harris’ fault. While the causes of inflation are many, a major issue was the pandemic and the reaction to it. Both the Trump and Biden administrations poured money into the economy to save us from severe recession, the Fed kept interest rates low, supply chain problems caused price increases due to supply and demand mismatches, wealthy people bought up homes to rent causing low inventory and higher prices, and all of us couldn’t wait to get out and spend money once it seemed that the disease was under control and marketing people noticed - look at the profits. You could go on, but my concern is that Trump will get away with branding Harris as the inflation queen which will be hard to overcome. Her attempts to point out the success of the economy make her seem out of touch with the very people she needs and the solutions being offered seem to me to be peripheral to the core issue. Please stop just accepting responsibility for the issue!
This is an issue that both parties have. They claim that "their economy" created jobs, was the cause of the stock market rise, etc. When they want to lay claim to the good stuff, that means they also get blamed for the bad stuff. If they were honest, they'd say something like "government spending and regulations account for maybe 10-15% of what is happening in the entire American economy and as for the rest of what's happening, we have little to no control over that because it's capitalism, baby." But they won't say that.
That was the biggest issue i had with the biden administration. They found a way to own every problem. Trumps hands were dirty on inflation too, and the fed downplayed the threat when biden was president. Instead of addressing voters economic concerns which would be the normal thing to do for democrats biden just kept playing into the "biden caused inflation, but its getting better" narrative. Same on the afghanistan pull out. Trump negotiates with the taliban and biden gets terrible advice from the pentagon. I call bs that any 2020 trump voters actually gave a f**k about the afghanistan pullout beyond its value as any other ammunition against biden. But none the less biden owned it.
Bill fell asleep during the DNC. Some could stay he struggled with staying Woke.......
Nice to know that somethings never change. 😁
The unicorn and pony perfection requirements of the Dems to ‘get’ so called swing voters in swing states is getting really annoying. I enjoyed last night and my personal joy today is continuing to watch Trump media stocks fall. Fingers crossed the ratings send his Twitter fingers into orbit.