Dem Convention Thoughts

[ReadyWithReadyWit]

giving sandra fluke a speaking role is the ultimate in cynicism

sorta par for the course

but it gets worse

just heard she was MOVED INTO PRIMETIME from non primetime

As for this, I dunno... I actually think it was kinda bold and principled on a sensitive topic...

Politically I'm not sure this speech is a net gain for the Democrats...

 

[rareboy]

The Republicans' heads must be about to explode.

It is gratifying though to see a convention built on positivism after the shambles of the RNC last week.

And well done President Clinton.

 

[chance1]

As for this, I dunno... I actually think it was kinda bold and principled on a sensitive topic...

Politically I'm not sure this speech is a net gain for the Democrats...

The base the base the base

Joe Trippi says there's only 90,000 undecideds in the battleground states

So it's about getting out the rabids

Forget that the message is garbage

 

[vulgar_newcomer]

other than Biden and Bubba, are there any white males on the speaking list, or has the campaign given up pandering to that demographic?

Well yeah Thursday night you have John Kerry, Gov. Schweitzer, & Charlie Crist. Do they count?
I think a equal question should be where is the diversity in the GOP other then graying grain beef fed, double chin, white chubby country club clones.

 

[rareboy]

The DNC racial mix of the delegates is way off. It appears they have especially abandoned white males.

The audience at the RNC looked more like America than Charlotte.

As of 2011 the mix in the USA . . .
white are 78.1%
blacks are 13.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native persons 1.2%
Asian persons 5%

Women 50.8%
Men 49.2%

USA QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau

So does this get to the core of it Jack?

Is your and other Republicans' loathing of the Democrats based on you fear of white men being trampled by some brown horde? By being relegated to minority status? Time to take your country back....is that it Jack?

How is it that Democrats have abandoned white males? What do you mean by that Jack?

Please explain how the policies of the Democrats somehow relegate white males to being a sub-class in America today. Are you saying that the Democrats are threatening the civil rights of white males? Particularly straight white males? Did you feel like this because of federally enforced integration in order to make the descendants of the slaves who built the economy of the southern states feel... I don't know...more equal somehow? Is that where your problems started Jack?

Is it that the Democrats went to bat for the rights of women to make the same wage as a man that gutted you Jack? Sometime in the 70's when those bra burning bitches promoting abortion as a more enjoyable method of birth control (as I understand your reasoning)...when women started leaving the dull world of being trophies for their cheating hubbies and asked to be in the boardrooms and not only the bedrooms of the nation? Was that it? Is that when white men were 'abandoned' by the Dems?

Maybe you are afraid that women now emerging as the educated class in the US. That the white boys, spoiled with the notion that their lives should be easy and ready made just aren't performing in school like they used to. Are you afraid that with more and more of them having fewer and fewer qualifications that they are being shut out of all the low wage service industry jobs?

Or was it when those latinos started becoming more noticeable in the low wage sector and took away all those menial tasks that white men were clambering to do? Like working the fields harvesting or taking care of the lawns in their gated communities? Or working for room and board and a few bucks a week being the nannies and housemaids that white men used to be? Is that when you realized that white men had been thrown under the bus?

Have the Democrats' wage policies somehow crushed the hopes of aspiring young white men Jack? Is the support for fair wages and benefits the straw that broke the camel's back and disenfranchised all white men?

Was it the Democrats embracing policies of equal rights for homos Jack? You know. Homosexual, cocksucking, ass fucking queers like me. And you? Is that when white men were cut adrift in the storm Jack?

Or was the final line in the sand having a black president in the white house? Is that when the Democrats asked all the white men to leave the room?

Please.

Enlighten us.

 

[rareboy]

By the way,

I went back and looked at the crowd footage.

Sure were a lot of white male faces in the crowd Jack. Maybe you should check the colour settings on your set.

 

[jackoroe]

The Republicans' heads must be about to explode.

It is gratifying though to see a convention built on positivism after the shambles of the RNC last week.

And well done President Clinton.

Yes, booing the inclusion of God in your platform while demanding that taxpayers pay to dismember and suck the brains out of unborn babies is a very positive message. Run on that!

 

[CowboyBob]

By the way,

I went back and looked at the crowd footage.

Sure were a lot of white male faces in the crowd Jack. Maybe you should check the colour settings on your set.

Can't get over how he's making a big deal about the racial composition.

The convention is in Charlotte. A lot of locals attended like they do at all conventions. Charlotte has a large African American community...35% + 13% Latino. Since Democrats accept all races unlike the republicans who want to be lily white it's natural you'll see more people of color at a Democratic rally.

And I saw a LOT of white faces there too Springer. Put it to rest now. Don't know what your point is with all this racial talk is.

 

[Jack Springer]

You can only stretch the face skin so much. Her age is showing through.

just saw a clip of nancy pelosi

OMG - she has no public speaking skills

or she was just tired - her head/neck from holding up that anchor of pearls

 

[rareboy]

^ Good for you for finding something of substance to respond with.

It is what makes your contributions to this forum as respected as they are.

 

[Jack Springer]

You're not getting my point. Forever the democrat party has said they were representative of the American people. That claim does not show up in what you see on tv -- the racial percentages that the census shows is not what you see on the floor in the convention hall.

Please don't make this about race. I could care less who's black, white, blue, or red. I'm talking about how the dem party portrays itself.

Can't get over how he's making a big deal about the racial composition.

The convention is in Charlotte. A lot of locals attended like they do at all conventions. Charlotte has a large African American community...35% + 13% Latino. Since Democrats accept all races unlike the republicans who want to be lily white it's natural you'll see more people of color at a Democratic rally.

And I saw a LOT of white faces there too Springer. Put it to rest now. Don't know what your point is with all this racial talk is.

 

[Jack Springer]

giving sandra fluke a speaking role is the ultimate in cynicism

sorta par for the course

but it gets worse

just heard she was MOVED INTO PRIMETIME from non primetime

It's like beating a dead horse. Having her in primetime makes the dem party so focused on abortion it's nuts.

 

[CowboyBob]

You're not getting my point. Forever the democrat party has said they were representative of the American people. That claim does not show up in what you see on tv -- the racial percentages that the census shows is not what you see on the floor in the convention hall.

Please don't make this about race. I could care less who's black, white, blue, or red. I'm talking about how the dem party portrays itself.

For someone who claims they don't care about a person's race you sure seem to care a lot about it.

 

[Jack Springer]

Chris Matthews on Clinton's speech . . .

“I always figured that if Bill Clinton landed on Mars. He would know how to do it with them. He would know how to reproduce,” Matthews said. “He would know everything. He would just instinctively know how to talk to people. They would be laughing in about five minutes. The Martians.”

I'm thinking Chris is the real martian. The man says the most stupid stuff.

 

[LuvFindsAndyHardy]

Please don't make this about race. I could care less who's black, white, blue, or red.

There no blue people.

 

[LuvFindsAndyHardy]

Having her in primetime makes the dem party so focused on abortion it's nuts.

The fact that you thought her speech was about abortion is what's nuts.

 

[rareboy]

The fact that you thought her speech was about abortion is what's nuts.

Quoted for truth.

Jack.

I gotta say.

That was just bizarre.

 

[jackoroe]

There no blue people.

Of course there are. I've seen them!

 

[ReadyWithReadyWit]

Yes, booing the inclusion of God in your platform while demanding that taxpayers pay to dismember and suck the brains out of unborn babies is a very positive message. Run on that!

Could it be that the crowd is booing the fact that the platform bowed to political whims and supports the notion of separation of church and state and not that Dems are Godless heathens? Last time I checked, even most Dems still believe in God (for better or worse).

Oh, and I love the incendiary abortion rhetoric, but tell me: is this really how the vast majority of abortions are performed? And, under what circumstances are these third trimester abortions taking place- are women gleefully marching to abortion clinics willy-nilly laughing about how they pulled the wool over the taxpayers' eyes? Or, are you ironically simply demagogging the issue?

 

[Jack Springer]

.. and then there is this . . .

"in the opinion of the chair,two-thirds having voted in the affirmative," was on the teleprompter.

Do you understand now why Obama hasn't done much to get the US out this economic funk we're in -- he a ringmaster who doesn't know his circus acts.

It's really a shame, such an poor choice for an executive in 2008. An embarrassing choice in 2012.

Yes, booing the inclusion of God in your platform while demanding that taxpayers pay to dismember and suck the brains out of unborn babies is a very positive message. Run on that!