DNC Convention 2024: Day 4 — The Fight for the Future Begins
[NB: check the byline, thanks. /~Rayne]
It’s the final day of Democratic National Committee Convention 2024. Kamala Harris is officially the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee and will close the convention with her keynote acceptance speech.
With the end of the convention, the fight for democracy begins in earnest. There are 75 days left until Election Day.
Speaking of which, are you registered? Have you checked your registration? Have you helped someone get registered which may include getting identification? Do something!
DAY 4 CONVENTION SCHEDULE
Here’s today’s convention schedule (times shown are Central Time):
7 a.m.-9:30 a.m.: Delegation breakfasts
9 a.m.-10a.m.: Morning press briefing
9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.: Women’s Caucus meeting
12 p.m.-1:30 p.m.: Disability Caucus meeting
12 p.m.-1:30 p.m.: Youth Council meeting
12 p.m.-1:30 p.m.: Rural Council meeting
1:45 p.m.-3:15 p.m.: Veterans & Military Families Council meeting
1:45 p.m.-3:15 p.m.: Poverty Council meeting
1:45 p.m.-3:15 p.m.: Interfaith Council meeting
6 p.m.-10 p.m.: Main programming
MAIN PROGRAMMING
Main programming has already begun as this post publishes at 7:30 PM ET/6:30 PM CT
Tonight’s schedule (times shown are Central Time):
5:30 PM
Call to Order
• Minyon Moore, Chair of the 2024 Democratic National Convention CommitteeGavel In
• Rep. Veronica Escobar (TX-16)Invocation
• Everett Kelly, National President of the American Federation of Government Employees
• Imam Muhammad Abdul-Aleem, Masjidullah Mosque, West Oak Lane, PAPresentation of Colors
• Illinois State Police Honor GuardPledge of Allegiance
• Luna Maring, 6th Grader from Oakland, CaliforniaWelcome Remarks
• Rep. Veronica Escobar (TX-16)Joint Remarks
• Becky Pringle, President of the National Education Association
• Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of TeachersRemarks
• Sen. Alex Padilla, California6:00 PM
Remarks
• Marcia L. Fudge, Former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
• Rep. Ted W. Lieu (CA-36)
• Sen. Tammy Baldwin, Wisconsin
• Rep. Katherine Clark (MA-05), U.S. House of Representatives Democratic Whip
• Rep. Joe Neguse (CO-02) U.S. House of Representatives Assistant Democratic Leader
• Mayor Leonardo Williams, Durham, North Carolina
• Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL-08)
• Sen. Bob Casey, Pennsylvania
• Sen. Elizabeth Warren, MassachusettsRemarks: “Project 2025—Chapter Four: Making America Weaker and Less Secure”
• Rep. Jason Crow (CO-06)Remarks
• Rep. Elissa Slotkin (MI-07), U.S. Senate candidate
• Rep. Pat Ryan (NY-18)
• Reverend Al Sharpton, Civil rights leaderJoint Remarks from representatives of “the Central Park Five”
• Dr. Yusef Salaam, Member of the New York City Council
• Korey Wise, Activist
• Raymond Santana, Activist
• Kevin Richardson, Activist7:00 PM
Joint Remarks
• Amy Resner, Former prosecutor and friend of Vice President Harris
• Karrie Delaney, Director of Federal Affairs at the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network
• Lisa Madigan, Former Attorney General of Illinois
• Marc H. Morial, President of the National Urban League
• Nathan Hornes, Former student at Corinthian Colleges
• Tristan Snell, Former New York State Assistant Attorney GeneralRemarks
• Gov. Maura Healey, Massachusetts
• Courtney Baldwin, Youth organizer and human trafficking survivor
• Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior
• John Russell, Content creator
• Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost, Florida
• Rep. Colin Allred (TX-32)Joint Remarks on “A New American Chapter”
• Anya Cook, Florida
• Craig Sicknick, New Jersey
• Gail DeVore, Colorado
• Juanny Romero, Nevada
• Eric, Christian, and Carter Fitts, North Carolina8:00 PM
National Anthem
The ChicksHost Introduction
• Kerry WashingtonJoint Remarks
• Meena Harris
• Ella Emhoff
• Helena HudlinRemarks
• D.L. Hughley
• Sheriff Chris Swanson, Genesee County, MichiganA Conversation on Gun Violence
• Rep. Lucy McBath, GeorgiaJoined by
• Abbey Clements of Newton, Connecticut
• Kim Rubio of Uvalde, Texas
• Melody McFadden of Charleston, South Carolina
• Edgar Vilchez of Chicago, Illinois.Remarks
• Gabrielle Giffords, Former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, ArizonaPerformance
P!NKRemarks
• Sen. Mark Kelly, Arizona
• Leon E. Panetta, Former United States Secretary of Defense
• Rep. Ruben Gallego (AZ-03), U.S. Senate candidate
• Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Michigan9:00 PM
Remarks
• Eva Longoria, American actress and film producer
• Adam Kinzinger, Former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Illinois
• Maya Harris
• Gov. Roy Cooper, North CarolinaRemarks
• Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States, Democratic Party presidential nominee and keynote speakerBenediction
• Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt, Adas Israel Congregation (Washington DC)
• Rev. Amos Brown, pastor, Third Baptist Church (San Franciso CA)Closing remarks and gavel out
• Minyon Moore, Chair of the 2024 Democratic National Convention Committee
Note: this list of speakers and performances is as published by DNC this evening after 6:00 PM ET. It doesn’t match the list Nonilex has in a thread on Mastodon; there may have been/will be changes to the lineup.
HOW TO WATCH
See Monday’s Day 1 post for the best channels on which to catch the majority of this evening’s programming.
DNC at United Center-Chicago will stream a live feed from its own website between 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM ET (6:00 PM to 10:00 PM CT) Tuesday through Thursday.
https://demconvention.com/
USA Today will also live stream Tuesday through Thursday.
https://www.youtube.com/@USATODAY/streams – main page
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d5-wtw4yuQ – tonight’s feed
The DNC’s convention feeds are:
https://www.youtube.com/@DemConvention – main page
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKNW_KHYrbY – tonight’s feed
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The list posted by Nonilex has all the people in alphabetical order. I didn’t check through to see if all the names are the same, but the order is clearly NOT the order in which folks will appear (save for Roy Cooper and Kamala Harris at the end).
I didn’t see Johnson or Jones in the DNC’s list, specifically.
Here in KC, there are a few folks a bit disgruntled that they can’t have a split screen of the DNC and the Chiefs/Bears preseason game because the local feed for the Chiefs has been pushed from the NBC affiliate that ordinarily shows the games to a very minor station with no streaming capability to speak of.
They will, of course, get over it, because tonight at the DNC is going to be epic.
Also, Bears win! But it’s just pre-season, and lots of second and third stringers. I don’t think Caleb Williams is a match for Patrick. Yet.
Tim Walz is proving to be an utterly brilliant choice for VP.
As I listened to his bio, his list of accomplishments just kept growing. It almost started sounding like a string of Chuck Norris jokes but in a good way.
Someone needs to make some memes that position Walz as more of a man than Chuck Norris. Instant virality.
As the kids say, you’re LTP.
https://timwalzfixedyourbicycle.com/ (just click in the center of the page)
Brilliant. Just the right tone.
Needs to be on TikTok, tho… websites are dead ;-)
Nope. Not everything should be on TikTok. Not everything has to be video or a podcast.
Al Sharpton has been waiting a *long* time to give a speech like this.
I am sooo glad he’s still with us to have delivered that the night a Black Asian woman accepted the nomination. Joy in the morning, indeed.
The apparent desire to sweep the I/P issue under the rug is bad politics and bad policy and
will come back to bite the campaign. If Rashida Tlaib or another advocate for sanity in the ME shows up on the stage to speak this evening, I will happily withdraw this comment.
Let me ask you a question: would it be worth the 2-3 minutes it would take for a 1200-word speech knowing the IDF would bomb Gaza in retribution?
I don’t think Americans have paid attention to the timing of IDF attacks. Many of them come on the heels of the Biden administration making an ask for human rights protections. This week there have been intense negotiations for a ceasefire, and the IDF’s bombing appears to sync with pressure for cooperation. In the background Trump has been communicating with Netanyahu — Trump may be one of the other retaliatory triggers.
And I’m not withdrawing this comment.
” … This week there have been intense negotiations for a ceasefire …”
This has been and continues to be a charade on the part of I*****. Why U.S. administrations, especially Democratic ones, allow what is essentially a client state, albeit a nuclear armed one, to use the State Department as a door mat is hard to understand (other than A-I-P-A-C).
Just for old time’s sake, almost 15 years later, Lucy’s football:
Press Statement
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State
Washington, DC
November 25, 2009
Today’s announcement by the Government of Israel helps move forward toward resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We believe that through good-faith negotiations the parties can mutually agree on an outcome which ends the conflict and reconciles the Palestinian goal of an independent and viable state based on the 1967 lines, with agreed swaps, and the Israeli goal of a Jewish state with secure and recognized borders that reflect subsequent developments and meet Israeli security requirements. Let me say to all the people of the region and world: our commitment to achieving a solution with two states living side by side in peace and security is unwavering.
https://2009-2017.state.gov/secretary/20092013clinton/rm/2009a/11/132434.htm
This thread is about the convention. You made your point in your first comment, adequately followed up with the first graf of your second.
Take Michelle Obama’s advice and do something — the bottleneck to stopping weapons isn’t a unitary executive problem but a Congressional problem. Go demand action from the members of Congress who refuse to change the terms of the 10-year memorandum of understanding under which weapons are being shipped. In case you’ve forgotten, a president has been impeached for trying to mess with materiel shipments. You’ve had your say. Do something.
That does make sense.
Yusef Salaam is a black Muslim who was attacked by Donnie. He’s asking us to be merciful toward Donnie as his religion requires.
Bad week for our internet to go out – we are finally back online after 4 days (first world problem).
My apologies if there is discussion of this elsewhere. The treatment of Gus Walz by the usual suspects on the right (I trust not the majority on the right) is despicable. It just confirms these “people’s” lack of humanity. My kids are and will always be my everything – regardless of who they are or the choices they make in living their lives. I can only hope that my kids feel towards me anywhere near what Gus feels towards his dad.
I also hope that the actions of these trolls comes back to bite Trump in his big fat a**.
Just needed to vent…
Politico highlighted Ann Coulter’s comments about Gus. A snip:
*snap*
Well, she ticks the childless box… I wonder if she has cats.
I reserve “harridan” to refer to her. Suits her perfectly.
I understand she deleted that comment.
Exactly what difference does that make? She’s not some teen, she’s old enough to know better (and she’s a public figure to boot).
Bruce Olsen says:
August 22, 2024 at 9:10 pm
Maybe she had a stray good thought that she’s regretting later. (No, she’s not a good person. I’m not sure she’s ever been one.)
Shomari Figures wasn’t on DNC list — wonder if he’s a substitute for Rep. Colin Allred?
ADDER: Nope, apparently Figures was inserted ahead of Allred.
Nope – Here’s Colin.
I hope Texans vote for him and kick that useless meat sack Cruz to the curb. Really hope not to have to write anything about Cruz next year.
Upvote this 1000%!
Kick him to Cancun.
Welp. There’s another item not on DNC’s list — The Pack Drumline.
Video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM2dKJADgmI
“Comma!”
“La!”
“Comma!”
“La!”
Priceless.
It felt like it was needed after former president Clinton’s repeated mispronunciation of her name.
Verklempt…times 1000. Each night seeing “we the people” dancing and crying together, I am feeling my long since gone parents, grandparents and ancestors alongside me with relief hope and determination to bring this dream into realization. We were John Kennedy and then Bobby family – I ran alongside Bobby’s open car and shook his hand 2 days before he was killed. He didn’t let go for a full block and I kept running….So yes, verklempt.
I am feeling this deep well of gratitude for all the visible/known people and invisible ones who helped us come to this moment when we can join hands with our neighbors and make this happen.
I am very relieved. She has just loudly stated her support of the Palestinian people and their self-determination to a huge roar from the crowd. I hope this is enough to satisfy the uncommitted. We need every vote.
75 days
Blinken’s next conversation with his Israeli counterparts will be very interesting. “You can work out a deal now, or you can keep going and then deal with the new administration — and by the looks of things, it’s not going to be led by Donald Trump.”
They’re still whining because no Palestinians got to speak. FFS, there’s a limited amount of time. (And very few elected Palestinians.)
“Whining?… FFS”
Really? What an incredibly flippant attitude to have toward something like this.
There was so much downtime in between speeches over the four days that your argument about “limited time” is ridiculous.
You’ve not organized an event with many highly diverse speakers, performers, and presenters, have you. That’s not even a question because it’s obvious.
There wasn’t much if any downtime because each night ran past 10:00 pm local time, blowing up the prime time slot. It’s impossible to plan for one-minute-long spans of applause like that Elizabeth Warren received as just one example. I suspect something happened with the Central Park Five’s segment because the drumline appeared to be an insertion — but how do you plan for that? You plan for backups which can go on with little notice and feeling little insult if they don’t go on.
Furthermore, the sense of entitlement is irritating. This wasn’t just some Democratic pol nominated last night but the sitting Vice President of the United States. SHE is the one who should make a statement because she’s not only the nominee but currently engaged in executing foreign policy alongside Joe Biden. And she did so.
Lastly, I’m going to point to my earlier comment. Harris made a statement at the very end of the convention which may have prevented planning for more retaliatory bombing.
It’s completely irrelevant what my experience is. What a ridiculous comment from someone who is responding in such a condescending tone. Your point is that I’m not a party planner? No shit, thanks for letting me know?
There was so much downtime in between speeches, you are just wrong. It didn’t have to be the prime time speech, it could easily have been done in an earlier timeslot without losing anything. That speech that was posted on Mother Jones would have lasted no longer than 10 minutes, probably not more than 5.
And again, I will reiterate – accusing Palestinians of whining for wanting a chance to speak about THEIR issues when the Democratic party needs their support is beneath the people who typically comment here. Just an absolutely disgraceful phrase to use in this context. And calling it a “sense of entitlement” is just showing YOUR privilege here. Do you ever consider that word when looking in the mirror or is it exclusively applied to white or other people and can never be applied to you as a result? Check your privilege. You have it in this scenario, without question. Ridiculous.
Reply to Sloth Sloman
August 23, 2024 at 11:44 am
Don’t grasp my point about your lack of experience? Then let me be blunt: your assessment is shallow bordering on thoughtless.
“There was so much downtime in between speeches, you are just wrong.”
Right, like I wasn’t spending hours over the previous four days combing through news reports to narrow down who was scheduled to appear and when, while waiting for the DNC to update the convention website with the lineups. The lineup wasn’t published yesterday until after 6:00 PM ET/5:00 PM CT, and there were differences between the final lineup and the one published BECAUSE SHIT HAPPENS DURING HUGE EVENTS BASED ON HUMAN PERFORMANCES.
You know what would have introduced an enormous amount of variables into this week’s convention? A highly contentious speech.
You know what would have introduced an enormous amount of variables into the ongoing negotiations over hostages and a ceasefire? A highly contentious speech before the sitting Vice President’s acceptance speech.
You know what would have given ammunition to the Trump campaign? A highly contentious speech which would have been used by every right-wing media outlet as fuel to argue Harris was radical and anti-semitic. Is that rational? No, but it can work on undecided voters.
Ugh. Get it through your head this was a huge intra-party campaign event and not a foreign policy event. Nobody’s entitled to demand a foreign policy statement at a campaign event.
I hope Peterr is right. I doubt Harris is willing to put up with that crook Bibi. I hope she sees what I see, another Trump trying to stay out of jail. The real value of transitioning to renewable energy is the end of our need to placate petrostates.
Harris (and her speechwriters) did a pretty good balancing job in expressing both support for Israel and concern about the well-being of the Palestinians. Would it be enough to satisfy the uncommitted? I would assume the people who voted “uncommitted” for the primaries are not a monolithic group. It is easy to vote “uncommitted” when it is free of consequences. It’s different when this is practically a vote for Trump. Many of them would be voting for Harris anyway given the alternative, for some of them, it may be enough to persuade them, and a small but vocal group would still either not vote or vote for a third party candidate such as Cornel West.
Balloon drop. :-)
Harris’ courtroom skills are still intact. Trump is going to debate that lady? Its not likely.
DL Hughley agrees with you:
She’ll use his bones as toothpicks.
I won’t be posting any of Trump’s noise here, but the dozen or so tweets or truths or whatever he calls them he made on his failplatform while she spoke suggest a mix between fear and absolute inability to recognize if he even should be afraid. I worry the debate is going to be such an incoherent mess no one gets anything out of it
It was very courageous for her to make the statement on Palestine, rather than merely include it as an op-ed piece from someone else at another point in the program.
And she sure brings the rizz.
Madam President Kamala Harris!!!
Kamala Harris knocked it out of the park. Just like I’ve known she could since I told my friends in January 2017. When we fight, we win. Thank you, Kamala. Thank you so much.
Yes, here in California, I’d say we saw her gifts early on too. Big Gretch was not the 1st to call Kamala a bad ass! Whoooo – you go girl!!!
She is going to wipe the floor with DJT. I can’t wait.
We need to Do Some Things. We cannot waste this opportunity to give meaning to the democracy we all want to believe in, the democracy she pitched.
I’ve never seen a convention like this one. I’m envious of my friends who were there in person.
In the Meantime
Proud of Harris in the meantime
Proud of Harris, such a pol
Proud of Harris
She’s a winner
And she’s civil
Proud of Harris,
She’s a stunner
She won’t shrivel
Proud of Harris, she’s so cogent
She’s so cogent, she’s so clear
Proud of Harris
Why, oh why, so proud of Harris
Fearless, she perseveres
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caExf8y_GVE
“I Love Paris – Paul Mauriat”
7/6/24; rev. 8/22/24
I felt like Kamala had a low bar to clear. With the momentum she has, just not fouling up would be a win. But she crushed it. She was amazing. I thought the way she threaded the needle on Israel-Palestine was perfect. I loved how she said “Trump” instead of “former president Trump.” I’m daring to hope that the Harris-Walz campaign has figured out how to confront and diminish Trump in a way that really breaks through. Biden was OK at that; Harris-Walz is better. Even my formerly anyone-but-Kamala friends were blown away, to their surprise and delight.
I disagree. The one with the low bar was Trump. Her bar was set higher because of expectations after her spectacular rollout. She not only put it out of the park but into the next state. I have to admit misgivings about holding a rally on Tuesday thinking it would distract, but she/they pulled it off. I don’t know if such a thing happened before, at least not since the television age began. Each day of the rally was even better than the last, all focused on the conclusion with her acceptance speech.
Epic speech from Kamala! Fantastic end to a great convention.
The testimonials expressed from people about our country are so valuable to see. I wish this could happen more often. (Especially when you watch a feed without commentator voice-overs.) It’s great to see a bunch of people and issues that are not as often in the media sharing a stage with the more famous politicians.
A wonderful, tough but compassionate speech by Kamala Harris and a fitting climax to a historically jubilant and love-filled convention! Thanks to Rayne and Marcy, of course, for providing comment space for the faithful. If I were not already a person of faith, I may have been converted by the events of the past 60 days…. It is almost as if a higher power intervened to stop the Orange Menace again in 2024, much like that power intervened in 2020 when COVID-19 struck in January of 2020. Early polls had Trump ahead of all the viable Democratic candidates at that time until COVID happened. I am convinced Trump would have been re-elected (horrifyingly) in 2020, were it not for COVID.
Marginally on topic – GOTV before speculating on who makes the transition team and where things go from there. A satisfying four-day convention is a prelude to winning, not winning itself. Win the election first. Then gloat. In Minn. early voting is from Sept. 20, a Friday, until Monday, Nov. 4, weekdays if voting in person. No excuse for not trying to kick out non-voters to take the ten minutes. Those I know are regular voting Dems. It will be interesting to see who takes lawn/road signs in the exurban/suburban transitioning town in which i live. With Emmer the House Rep it is an uphill push locally. Statewide races have been Dem for several years. GOTV. Trump does seem to be fading. The two September debates, VP first and P after should be important and helpful. Leo Durocher, “Winning isn’t the most important thing. It’s the only thing.”
I have not caught up with everything yet, but thought you all might be interested:
From Brandi Buchman [Yay!]:
https://bsky.app/profile/brandibuchman.bsky.social/post/3l2ex4u7onr22
Aug 23, 2024 at 6:31 AM
Thanks for that update, harpie, what great news!
I almost posted this question prior to the D convention & I’m probably posting this too early but here goes. I don’t own a TV. The internet suffices for me. The ? Will there be, oligarch owned news coverage of the post convention poll boost? I’m 73. Previously, a poll boost after a convention is standard except I don’t remember any such talk after the recent R convention, post or prior. Weird.
So will the oligarch owned news not do regular reporting of an after the D convention poll boost because their trash heap of a candidate didn’t get one after the R convention and the D’s was so successful?
Could just be me but I’m elder and remember some news normalcy when we still had such.
7/24/24 [Wednesday]
– 2:00 PM NETANYAHU speech to Congress
– 8:00 PM BIDEN Oval Office address re: the remainder of his presidency
7/25/24 [Thursday]
1] BIDEN meets with NETANYAHU at White House [1-1/2hr]
2] BIDEN and NETANYAHU meet with family members of Americans held hostage by Hamas [1hr] [This likely includes the parents who spoke at the DNC on 8/21/24]
3] approx. 5:30 PM HARRIS meets with NETANYAHU in Washington [40 minutes]
7/26/24 [Friday] TRUMP meets with NETANYAHU at Mar-a-Lago [12:00 PM – 2:15 PM]
– TRUMP says HARRIS’ 7/25/24 remarks “weren’t very nice.”
– TRUMP criticizes Israel for allowing photos of its Gaza destruction to come out and for the slowness of their efforts [NYT]:
8/15/24 Axios: Netanyahu’s office denies [8/14/24] call with Trump
about the Gaza hostage-ceasefire deal
I don’t trust either Donnie *or* Bibi to be truthful.
8/16/24 Associated Press: Settler rampage in West Bank
https://apnews.com/article/west-bank-israel-palestinians-settler-violence-ffa6e84c39861c224f685e660c53a82d
Added: here’s on of the articles cited above:
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/26/israel-netanyahu-harris-ceasefire-hostage-deal-talks Barak Ravid 7/25/24
And here’s a comment where I was working on this before:
https[:]//www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/22/bidens-timing-undercutting-bibi/#comment-1062425
I think a critically important point in the timeline is the July 31 assassination of Hamas negotiator Ismail Haniyeh. This was authorized directly by Netanyahu and it happened inside Iran.
What does it say when Netanyahu kills a chief negotiator? Now the US is on the hook even more firmly to support Israel against Iran because of our fundamental policy of the right of self defense. Bibi deliberately borks negotiations while poking the bear, and we’re supposed to help fend off the bear?
All of Netanyahu’s choices are cynical and corrupt. If the Biden-Harris administration doesn’t walk a careful line the US could be sucked into a region-wide war and the global economy tanked with it.
Agree…exactly.
Rayne: “Bibi deliberately borks negotiations while poking the bear, and we’re supposed to help fend off the bear?”
Still thinking about this. It’s so infuriating.
And TRUMP/Bolton’s drone assassination of Soleimani on 1/3/20
is part of the same story.
Reply to harpie
August 24, 2024 at 7:12 am
Reading back across Bolton’s history including his political positions, he comes across as a flake who just wants military action for its own sake — a half-cracked hawk. I know he wanted to attack Iran and then he exited the Trump administration before any attack could be launched. Was the Soleimani droning one of “Trump’s drug deals” he mentioned or no? And Bolton in concert with Netanyahu had tanked efforts to open discussions with Iran. What was Bolton’s true aim if diplomacy was off the table?
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-how-bolton-netanyahu-and-pompeo-sabotaged-trump-s-dream-of-talks-with-iran-1.8937077
Biden’s spent nearly four years batting clean up, literally covered Bolton’s ass with a security detail after an Iranian assassination plan came to light. How Harris will maintain continuity with Bolton continuing his fomenting warfare — including rubbing shoulders with militant anti-Muslim pundits — is beyond me. She’ll continue Biden’s efforts and then some, but man, it must be tempting to tell Bolton, You made your bed spouting ideology antithetical to the U.S., now lie in it.
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/08/02/284150/john-bolton-geller-spencer/
None of this fit neatly into the convention this week. We got Podesta instead.
*eye roll*
Raphael Warnock Told the DNC to “Keep the Faith.” He Restored Mine in the Process.
The senator from Georgia made space for hope—and righteous cynicism. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/08/raphael-warnock-dnc-speech/
Jacob Rosenberg 8/24/24 [includes embedded VIDEO pf entire speech]
People Get Ready – Eva Cassidy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzLd2MDAHK8
https[:]//www.azlyrics[.]com/lyrics/impressions/peoplegetready.html