Why must we fearTeresa and Rev. Al? — Page 2

The fact that Al Sharpton, power broker for the black vote, is able to speak at the Democratic convention says a lot. He has a terrible past history. He was the catalyst which brought about the fire at "Freddy's" a store owned by a white person in Harlem. Sharpton called this person a white interloper and the store was subsequently burned down, killing the many workers who were unable to escape the fire. The Tawana Brawley case wrongly accused a policeman of smearing the girl with dog feces. Al has never held a job. I don't know if any of you remember.

LOL. Relationships, gay or straight -- it's all about compromise. But man I would NEVER trade away the cable.

I've never done netflix but I have friends who swear by it.

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Definitely do not silence him and he is humorous and he's a glib talker.

Updated On: 7/29/04 at 01:24 PM

well, zola, she does know where i keeps the guns...

besides, between the note, and the blogs and the campaign sites, i manage to stay current. plus i get that good feeling of almost having found things myself.

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Many critical points raised here, in particular Shutitdown and Sueleen's. I've had a handful of PMs politely reminding me what's stated by several -- that I should be attacking the messenger, the media, and not the message, the convention proper. No argument, I know that Teresa and Al were at least booked by the powers that be (though no one seems to say it was done with much pride). And the media is a major issue -- Candy Crowley on CNN shoving a mike at Sharpton and saying "you spoke 20 minutes, off the prompter and you were off message!" Candy gets to decide the message? Well, true, she was told by anyone and everyone that it's "positive!" How dare he go on too long, and invoke Bush's name negatively in a "positive" convention!

Maybe it's the underlying timidity at this convention in general that still concerns me. Maybe I'm just ending my own reactionary era, and feeling some old 60s fervor kick in again. Maybe I'd like to see gays, women, and blacks rise up, and say "shove it!" to anyone who tells them to curb their their rights, or their outrage. (Wouldn't a GAY SPEAKER at this convention have been a little bold? At least the Log Cabin Republicans get interviewed. I think being taken for granted is worth noting...) Maybe I feel like Obama, Teresa, Al are the best parts of the convention, the only ones that moved me ... and thus, maybe, darkest thought of all, deep down, I'm just scared to death that Kerry and Edwards don't have enough fire in their bellies. If we end this convention with the dead heat between Bush and Kerry, will this strategy been useful? We'll have to wait and see. And we still have tonight.

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Updated On: 7/29/04 at 02:22 PM

I'm just scared to death that Kerry and Edwards don't have enough fire in their bellies.

If they do, they haven't shown it yet. And who can blame them? You show a little spirit, you're automatically ridiculed or labelled as an extremist. Like the Dean scream that wasn't. Politicians (according to the media) have to be constantly in the middle. Not too lethargic, but not too enthusiastic, either. Because that's scary. What would happen if it wasn't just crazy protesters who felt outrage and the status quo? What if it was the actual people in power who felt that way, too? Brrr. Terrifying.

It's the media's own damn fault if the convention is cautious.

Thats why they need Teresa

lmao

HEY YEA FOR WES

Updated On: 7/29/04 at 08:12 PM

I missed her speech. I am laughing at 'The O'Reilly Factor'.

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they knew they couldn't control diane plus someone had the brilliant idea of making nancy with a y house minority leader. i still can't understand exactly how that happened, can anyone help me here? party hack to 'splain that one please?

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papa, you better be ready for all of us to throw this constant barrage of b!ich!ness your way during the RNC. I have never heard anyone blather on as much as you do in such an attempt to discredit Kerry and other Democrats.

It must take a lot of work in attempting to reduce Kerry to Bush's crap stature. You must be exausted.

We'll be sure to have medics standing by for your breakdown when Kerry is announced President elect on November 2.

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Thanks for the warning, but I'm well used to his GOP typical ways of attempting to discredit the opponent when your arguments have run dry.

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gee, jrb, why is it that you don't feel the need to attack folks from your side of the aisle who are agreeing with my sentiments?

if you're so sensitive that these kinda comments threaten you, you are the one who's going to need the medics. but then when we crown king george to a 2nd term, i know that you'll be nothing but sweetness and light.

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