Clinton-Biden-Obama Electrify Convention
By Art Harris, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
Denver, Colo., Aug. 28–With my laptop back from a crashed hard drive, I can now report what it was like to sit in the cavernous Pepsi Center in Denver last night, with the Democratic all-stars knocking speeches out of the park, from the surrogate war heroes like double amputee and decorated chopper pilot Tammy Duckworth…to ex-Prez Bill Clinton did what I thought impossible.
Amid thundering applause, shouts and flag-waving, Clinton inhaled the adulation like a drowning swimmer coming to life again on dry land, and buried months of bitterness over Hillary’s knock-down fight and ultimate loss to Barack Obama, with a fiery, let’s get on the Barack bandwagon speech. I was watching Michele Obama maybe 30 yards away in a private skybox. She beemed, teared up, and I lost count how many standing ovations she gave Clinton.
She was clearly touched by him, then by Joe Biden’s charismatic son, Beau, who spoke of a single father raising him and his little brother after their mother and sister died in a car wreck, of how he and his brother picked their new Mom, Jill, to be his bride, and the enduring closeness of a family that will surely touch the heartstrings of America.
Then came Sen. John Kerry, who packed more of a wallop than the almost ran in 2004, and finally Sen. Joe Biden, to hit the grand slam out of the Pepsi Center, underscoring how Barack Obama was the right man at the right time, and though he was close personal friends with John McCain, he had backed President Bush’s “failed” policies 95 per cent of the time.
If the best storyteller wins, the Bidens have one heckuva story to tell.
More later.
August 28th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
I think Bill Clinton was right when he said that the choice of Joe Biden was a home run ball out of the ball park.The closeness of these families the Bidens,where they all came together and the Obamas with a video of Senator Obama’s grandmother and his uncle being at the convention with Michell was just great.And di you notice the high fives and knuckele bumbs between people at the convention during the ceramonies before Senator obama gave his acceptance speech. I wathced as tears ran down peoples faces ahen Nancy P said she accepted for senator Obama,Both of the Clintons and Joe Biden gave speeches that were more than great.
August 29th, 2008 at 1:19 am
This should be ‘their’ theme song…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ig-6f0g55c
August 29th, 2008 at 3:53 am
Art,
I was watching Michelle O. and she was absolutely seething except when she knew the camera was on her, then she forced a half smile that never reached her eyes. She only stood because everyone else was standing. I could see the hate in her eyes, especially when Hillary gave her brilliant speech. You seem to miss alot Art, lol.
Hillary has had to do some speeches that had to have hurt so much and she did it all very graciously and always with a smile. That is grace under pressure! That is real class, something the Obama’s don’t even have an ounce of.
While they were vacationing in Hawaii, Hillary was out stumping for Obama. Can you see him doing that for her, lol? He had the audacity tonight to tell all those stupid little sheep that this wasn’t about him, it was about them, lol. OMG, does he really think anyone is going to believe that crap? Well, maybe all those sheep will, after all they had all followed him there. Baa Baa Baa, lmao.
Also you, as well as I, and many others know Hillary didn’t lose. She was railroaded by Dean, Pelosi, Brazile and others in the DNC. From what I’ve been gathering from other sources, this has been planned for the last 3 years. The DNC wanted the Clintons out and Obama was their scapegoat. And he really thinks they all love him, lol. They were using him, but he’s so in love with himself, he can’t see it, lol. I know one thing, and that’s Hillary is one strong lady and one with alot of class.
Arkansas delegates didn’t give Hillary one vote, not one single vote. Now don’t you think that’s a bit strange? I just hope that someone exposes this Chicago thug soon and that he gets put away with his pal, Rezko.
Also a guy in Obama’s campaign supposedly said that they didn’t care about the rest of the states, they were only concerned about 18 of them. People take the time to go out and vote and they then find out that their votes don’t even matter. The people don’t mean anything to Obama.
I’m betting McCain will be bringing out alot of what’s been going on behind the scenes. He already started tonight, at the beginning, and after Obama’s speech, with that ad congratulating Obama and also saying something about, wasn’t that nice that it took place on this historic night. They aren’t the exact words, but close. He was letting Obama’s camp know that he knew about their whole scheme. And everyone thinks he doesn’t know what’s going on or is too old, lol. They are going to have a field day with little BO.
Art, did you notice how angry Obama looked during his speech? Also at the end of it, he looked very troubled and not estactic the way I thought he’d look. Guess he knows his goose is cooked. I guess he had some of his ego deflated a bit, lol. He never even went down to shake hands with anyone afterward, I thought that in itself, was strange, so I kept watching his face closely, and he definately was not exuberant the way he should have been. He isn’t going to be able to handle what the GOP will be dishing out. He’s proven he can’t handle any criticism. If he would become president, he’ll be in for daily doses of it. How’s he going to handle that, let alone the whole country and world.
Another thing I found out is that Obama’s camp supposedly wrote a letter to the the Chicago Sun Times (I think it was) warning them not to print something. I don’t know what it was about or what the outcome of that was. If he gets in the White House, just think, no one will be able to print or say anything about him. That has already been happening. Big media is owned by big business and big business owns Obama. That’s why most of the cable stations are fawning all over him. They aren’t allowed to do otherwise. Seems that MSNBC is having some internal problems.
There is supposedly an FBI investigation into something about Biden. This came from a Los Angeles paper, I think.
I’m so glad that Obama didn’t choose Hillary, because it would have pained me to vote for McCain if she was on the ticket, but that’s what I would have done and am still doing. There are alot of Dems voting for McCain and alot of big Hillary fundraisers that are either now supporting McCain or just keeping their money to themselves.
Also I’ve heard Tony Rezko’s sentencing has been pushed back to sometime in Oct. rather than Sept. Wonder what that means?
August 29th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Did you feel his pain?
Do you have ‘Stars’ in your eyes?
…something to think about…
How many zeros in a billion?
This is too true to be funny.
The next time you hear a politician use the
word ‘billion’ in a casual manner, think about
whether you want the ‘politicians’ spending
YOUR tax money.
A billion is a difficult number to comprehend,
but one advertising agency did a good job of
putting that figure into some perspective in
one of it’s releases.
A.
A billion seconds ago it was
1959.
B.
A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
C.
A billion hours ago our ancestors were
living in the Stone Age.
D.
A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.
E.
A billion dollars ago was only
8 hours and 20 minutes,
at the rate our government
is spending it.
While this thought is still fresh in our brain…
let’s take a look at New Orleans …
It’s amazing what you can learn with some simple division.
Louisiana Senator,
Mary Landrieu (D)
is presently asking Congress for
250 BILLION DOLLARS
to rebuild New Orleans . Interesting number…
what does it mean?
A.
Well… if you are one of the 484,674 residents of New Orleans
(every man, woman, and child)
you each get $516,528.
B.
Or… if you have one of the 188,251 homes in
New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787.
C.
Or… if you are a family of
four…
your family gets $2,066,012.
Washington , D. C
Are all your calculators broken??
Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Tax
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service charge taxes
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax (Truckers)
Sales Taxes
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Fe deral, State and Local Surcharge
Tax
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Tax
Vehicle License R egistration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago..
and our nation was the most prosperous in the world.
We had absolutely no national debt…
We ha d the largest middle class in the world…
and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.
What happened?
Can you spell ‘politicians!’
And I still have to
press ‘1′
for English.
I hope this goes around the
USA
at least 100 times
What the heck happened?????
By the way, are you watching that weather?
August 29th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Gosh, Art, are you having as much fun as I am?
How many women will settle for ‘Vice?’
Or, will they vote for ‘that so-called change,’ what is it ‘pigment?’
I think ‘figment,’ might be a better word.
August 29th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Congratulations again, Art, it was really an interesting convention.
August 29th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
I thought it was fabulous! Joe Biden’s life story told by his son Beau, was so heartfelt to me. My heart just immediately went out to them. I think Joe and Barack are going to get the job done regardless of what some people think. LOL.
August 29th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Lets see some coverage on Sarah Palin.
She is the Bomb!!!!
August 30th, 2008 at 2:06 am
You are the second person I know of that actually crashed their hard drive…the other person’s name just happened to be Art, too.
The ‘other Art.’
You know I kept trying to save it. Guess it was inevitable.
What makes a hard drive crash?
There’s just gotta be more to ‘all this’ than meets the eye!
August 30th, 2008 at 3:42 am
You know a bunch of women are afraid someone may eventually reverse a right they think they were given.
Right is right, and wrong is wrong…and life starts with conception, but ‘being’ starts with breath.
Gosh, I’m so darn disappointed in you of all people, Art…
I want to know ‘The Whole Truth’ even if it hurts.
September 1st, 2008 at 2:35 pm
I watched the live stream from cbs4denver and their was no hatred shown by anyone at that convention.The camera was on her Michelle,many times and she did not even know it..I guess it is how you perceive thigs or you own idea of what someone should be like or be doing that gives someone the Idea that the DNC showed hate.The historic day was not even bought up except by MCCain and he thinks picking a woman for VP will bring the womans vote to him I don’t think so.There are issues I do not agree on like abortion on demand,there are other ways to avoid a pregancy besides abortion but some people think that is even wrong yet complain about how many children people have I believe thatthe Obama Biden ticket gives us the best hope for our country and our children.
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:37 pm
And to think Roe of Roe vs Wade is now PRO-LIFE!!
Joni, you really are remarkable. I tried to tone down my criticism of the convention.
I thought I am the only one that can see the Democratic Party for what it has become - A bunch of professional liars.
Conveniently forgetting all the difficulties of the last 8 years, many of them caused by the INACTION of the Democratic party under Bill Clintion, i.e 9/11.
We started 2000 with a mini recession because of the previous Democratic Administration, the media will NEVER talk about that.
New Orleans was under control of the Democratic Party, if the local government there had done their part, things would have turned out much better. The Mayor and Governor were informed in good time about the hurricane, they turned down the help that was offered and did not prepare.
But well, blame it on Bush, he is suppose to micro-manage.
Freida you are simply beautiful. Obama promises FREE UNIVERSAL EVERYTHING - Guess who will pay for it, not the rich as he is trying to make us believe. WE, the ordinary tax payers will be taxed to death.
Let us all meet again in 2010 to discuss how our personal taxes have increased. That is if Obama should win.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:59 pm
I think Art is afraid to challenge the O’Biden campaign because of the trouble encountered by the ABC producer who ended up in a Denver holding cell for trying to film a meeting of big-money contributors during the convention. Cross the campaign, the strong-arms will mace you and jail you!
Say anything contradictory to the Dem message, you are racist. You won’t find any room for rational and intelligent discourse with these people. It’s the socialist, marxist way or no way at all! We all see where that agenda is leading Europe, with their $20/gal gas and 14% unemployment and months to wait for a physician to see you with that spectacular national health care system!
And you don’t like paying for deadbeats now? Hahaha Read a few foreign papers. Their illegal problem is much worse than the U.S. And the citizens of the U.K and France are actually cited and fined when they are caught saying anything disparaging about the illegals draining their country of resources that should be used for legal residents!
Legitimate and legal citizens of the U.K. are vocally calling for legislation to make English their official language…sound familiar? Why should countries who have drafted their constitutions in their native language have to change for groups of invading illegal immigrants? Because of political correctness?
And all of this ties back to failed socialist policies and how the Democrats of this country think the U.S. would benefit from this destructive form of government! And Obama wants to redistribute the wealth of the country? Money will always end up with the motivated, not with the slackers with their hands held out for freebies! Will he then want to take it all away again and say they didn’t earn it fairly?
September 18th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Kim A, Thank you!!
September 19th, 2008 at 12:01 am
seems to me that the denver convention was well runand organized and the St Paul one was not re all the protesters not allowed to protest peacefully.Doesn’t seem right to me
now i just read where a person was forced out of a town hall meeting because they did not agree with Mccains policies,no wonder obama did not want to do town halls with him!
September 20th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Kim A.,
I also thank you for saying some of the things I’ve been trying to say for a long time now and had been harassed by a couple of the posters and called a racist. Of course we all know Obama is the first one who played the race card and is still doing it. That gets old pretty damned fast and turns people against him instead.
I’m so sick of this racist nonsense I could scream. These people obviously don’t know what constitutes a racist. They need to crawl back in their caves and stay there until they learn the meaning of the word, racist.
We all wish Art would start to tell the real things that are going on with the Obama campaign and about Obama’s past. They sure didn’t waste any time going after Sarah Palin, did they? How about it Art?
These so called journalists on some of these horrible cable news channels, are disgusting. They are so in the tank with Obama it makes me sick. No one else stands a chance. They are nothing but a bunch of pantywaists.
No one should feel afraid to speak out against what is wrong, but I do understand why some of them won’t, but if we buckle under the likes of Obama and his thugs, then we will never be free again. We have to fight these people and never give up. Our freedoms are disappearing little by little, and if Obama gets in, we won’t have any left.
I knew about those holding cells they had for any protesters at the Dem. convention. I also know the protesters were not allowed near the center. Everything was so controlled and no one was allowed any freedoms at all. Things of what’s to come?
He just the other day told his thug supporters to get in people’s faces and sharpen their elbows in order to coerce them into voting for him. Thugs, every last one of them and Obama is the ringleader. Obama has been doing nothing but lying to people from the get go and I still can’t believe how so many people are so dumb to believe in this thug.
Everyone has to be brave and fight this demon and not huddle in a corner and let this stuff happen to us. Everyone is cowering and we will all suffer the consequences, if we aren’t strong and fight him. Is it only we women who are brave enough to tell the truth about Obama?
Art, I do thank you for allowing us to talk about him, even if you won’t. It seems like there are no places to go to have the truth be told. Once, you could turn to the media to uncover the truth about something wrong, but not anymore. We all saw what they did to Howard and are doing to other people. They will always have someone to set up and destroy and this should not be tolerated! This is journalism?
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:49 am
Hi, Joni,
Just dropped by to see what you’re up to, and to my amazement, you’re still at it! LOL, LOL, LOL.
You’re still spewing the s.o.s.
September 22nd, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Joni, Obama telling his supporters to “get in their faces”. I was also shocked, is that presidential talk?
They (Obama Democrats , i like to call them that) intimidated the organizers of the rally against Iran to withdrew the invitation for Sarah to speak. That is how afraid they are of this woman LOL. And an indication of what the years with Obama the dictator will be.
Sarah maybe God’s intervention to shame these fools who trust so much in the arm of man. They thought they could sell America to the highest bidder. They forget, In God We Trust.